Refrigerant gas shredding plant installed

Cuba. More than 130 tons of Freón 12 and Freón 22 have collected and stored on the Central American island, which will be eliminated in 2012 thanks to the start-up of a plant where refrigerants that affect the ozone layer can be destroyed. In this way, Cuba becomes the first Caribbean country to have a plant of these characteristics, as announced by the director of the Ozone Technical Office, Nelson Espinosa, who also emphasized that this facility is a pilot project that has the financing of the Unilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol. The plant, which will be located in the Cement Factory of Sibanicú, in the province of Santi Spiritus, is of Japanese technology and will guarantee the real destruction of the refrigerants by disintegrating the molecules at more than 1,200 degrees of temperature. There, gases that adversely affect the environment will be processed by means of high temperatures and a previous and rigorous process of recovery and storage of gases, where optimal safety conditions are guaranteed, especially when it comes to equipment or banks of chlorofluorocarbons. According to the official, the idea is to finish the installation by the second half of next year.