Supermarket Refrigeration in India

[Greenref]

I would appreciate if someone could provide good quality inofrmation on three aspects:
1) What is the current size of this market in terms of Tonnage and what kind of growth rate is prevalent ?

2) What si teh perception of the market players on switching over to natural refrigerant based systems (e.g. NH3, CO2, etc.)

3) Should developing countries such as India skip the HFC phase (for its high GWP) and go staright to natural refrigerants from HCFC systems.

Thanks a million for your inputs.

[buddy]

Greenref,
Q1- No idea.

Q2- India is closed off to foreign direct investment (FDI) in the retail trade, so all the major International Supermarket players such as Tesco, Wal-Mart, Carrefour etc are banned from trading in India...so in answer to Q2 their are no major International retail players in India, although India,s Reliance Retail are the most forward thinking as they have Westerners in Senior Management trying to drive through change.

Q3- Indian R22 refrigerant manufacturers are on a money making scam, current estimates are they will continue producing fresh R22 until 2040????
It works like this - Indian refrigerant companies are eligible for hundreds of millions of dollars a year under a relatively obscure United Nations program, the Clean Development Mechanism. Manufacturers receive credits for destroying a rare waste gas, produced while making HCFC-22, that is among the most powerful global-warming gases known.

In many cases, the payments, aimed at encouraging reduction in gases that contribute to climate change, are actually worth considerably more than the cost of the HCFC-22 being produced.

The manufacturer of more modern refrigerants does not qualify for global-warming credits.
So HCFC-22 producers in developing countries have little incentive to switch to making newer refrigerants.

So in effect the Indian producers get paid millions on top of thier own profits to produce R22...Crazy i know!