University of Illinois Receives Grant for Project

WARRENDALE, PA--The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has selected the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct a series of automotive air conditioning system performance tests. Twenty-three companies and organizations are funding the $600,000 research project.

The research will assist the engineering community in finding a refrigerant that provides comparable performance for automotive systems with less energy consumption than current HFC-134a systems. Although HFC-134a is used in most automotive air conditioning systems, it is included on the Kyoto Protocol list of global warming gases.

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Austin has been senior editor for ASSEMBLY Magazine since September 1999. He has more than 21 years of b-to-b publishing experience and has written about a wide variety of manufacturing and engineering topics. Austin is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

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