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Recovery, Re-use and Recycling

The Regulation 842/2006 on certain fluorinated greenhouse gases obliges operators of a number of installations to put in place arrangements for the proper recovery of F-gases by certified personnel; this is to ensure adequate recycling, reclamation or destruction of these gases.

In order to fulfil these obligation some definitions have to be clarifed first.

• Recovery means removal, collection and storage of gas or fluids from equipment into a closed vessel.
• Recycling means reuse of a recovered gas or fluid in the same system after having performed a basic cleaning process.
• Reclamation means cleaning or reprocessing of gas or fluid to meet official specifications and to be used like virgin material.
• Destruction means transformation or decomposition of gas or fluid in one or more substances which are not fluorinated greenhouse gases anymore.