A refrigerant composition includes about 90-92 wt % difluoromethane and about 8-10 wt % pentafluoroethane. The refrigerant composition is formed from all recycled materials, and the refrigerant composition is a zeotrope. A method of preparing the refrigerant composition includes injecting a mixture of recovered refrigerants into the center of a distillation column, the mixture of injected refrigerants being difluoromethane, pentafluoroethane and chlorodifluoromethane, removing from the top of the distillation column a refrigerant composition of about 90-92 wt % difluoromethane and about 8-10 wt % pentafluoroethane, and removing chlorodifluoromethane from a bottom of the distillation column.

Provided are azeotrope-like compositions comprising tetrafluoropropene and hydrofluorocarbons and uses thereof, including use in refrigerant compositions, refrigeration systems, blowing agent compositions, and aerosol propellants.

A test chamber (10) for conditioning air has a test space (12), and a temperature control device (11) for controlling the temperature of the test space and allowing a temperature in a range of 80 C. to +180 C., preferably 100 C. to +200 C., to be established within the test space, the temperature control device having a cooling device (16) with a cooling circuit (17), a heat exchanger (18), a compressor (19), a condenser (20), and an expansion element (21), wherein the refrigerant is a nearly azeotropic and/or zeotropic refrigerant mixture of a mass percentage of carbon dioxide and a mass percentage of at least one of the components ethane, ethene, hexafluoroethane, pentafluoroethane, monofluoroethane, 1,1-difluoroethene, fluoromethane and/or propane and/or xenon, the refrigerant having a relative CO.sub.2 equivalent of <3000, preferably <500, in particular preferably <10, with respect to 20 years.

A notifier notifies a user of a warning when a ratio of first refrigerant is different from a suitable value, the ratio being determined from a first difference between a first temperature and a second temperature and from a second difference between a third temperature and a fourth temperature. The first temperature is a temperature of non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture between first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger. The second temperature is a temperature of the non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture between the second heat exchanger and first expansion valve. The third temperature is a temperature of the non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture between a first decompressor and first connecting point. The fourth temperature is a temperature of the non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture between a second decompressor and the first connecting point.

An embodiment of the present invention relates to a deep freezer. A deep freezer according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a plurality of heat exchangers installed to an inlet pipe and performing a heat exchange of a mixed refrigerant suctioned into a compressor. The mixed refrigerant comprises: a high temperature refrigerant which is one selected from among butane (N-butane), 1-butene, and isobutane; and a low temperature refrigerant consisting of ethylene.

The present invention relates to a filling method for a mixed refrigerant, in which in a case of transferring and filling a mixed refrigerant that contains trifluoroethylene and 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and in which the trifluoroethylene is present in an amount of 10 to 92 mass % in a liquid phase, with respect to a total 100 mass % of the trifluoroethylene and the 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, in a liquid from a feeding container to a target container and equipment, a liquid phase mixing ratio (initial composition) of the trifluoroethylene in the mixed refrigerant in the feeding container immediately before the transferring and filling is set to x+y.sub.P (minimum value) to x % (target upper limit composition).

A binary refrigerating apparatus employs a refrigerant composition that has a small global-warming potential (GWP) and can be used as a refrigerant capable of achieving a low temperature of 80 C. A refrigerant composition used as a low-temperature-side refrigerant is a refrigerant mixture including a non-azeotropic mixture in which 20% by mass or less of carbon dioxide (R744) is mixed to difluoroethylene (R1132a). A refrigerant composition used as a high-temperature-side refrigerant is a combination of: a non-azeotropic mixture comprising the refrigerant group of difluoromethane (R32), pentafluoroethane (R125), 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R134a) and 1,1,3-trifluoro ethane (R143a); and 1,1,1,2,3-pentafluoropentene (HFO-1234ze), having a global-warming potential (GWP) of 1500 or less.

A refrigeration apparatus has a refrigerant. The refrigerant is a non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture containing 50% by weight or more and 80% by weight or less of a high-boiling point refrigerant, 10% by weight or more and less than 50% by weight of a medium-boiling point refrigerant having a boiling point lower than that of the high-boiling point refrigerant, and 20% by weight or less of a low-boiling point refrigerant having a boiling point lower than that of the medium-boiling point refrigerant. The content of the high-boiling point refrigerant is larger than that of the medium-boiling point refrigerant, and the content of the medium-boiling point refrigerant is larger than that of the low-boiling point refrigerant. Piping through which the refrigerant derived from the compressor and flowing into the condenser passes includes a countercurrent flow configurator in which the refrigerant flowing through the piping is countercurrent to the cooling air.

A non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture attains an extremely low temperature of 200 deg. C. through 150 deg. C. in a refrigerating system equipped with a heat exchanger; a non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture which attains a low temperature of 100 deg. C. or lower is a non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture which comprises a base refrigerant and R-14 wherein R-14 is contained in an amount of 5 wt % through 40 wt %, whereas the base refrigerant consists of butane plus propane and R-23 plus R-116 as the low boiling point refrigerant; also, a non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture that attains 120 deg. C. or lower is a non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture which comprises R-50 plus R-740 as well as a base refrigerant and R-14 wherein the base refrigerant/R-14 ratio is 95/5 through 60/40 and R-50 and R-740 are contained respectively in an amount of 1 wt % through 10 wt.

Provided are azeotrope-like compositions comprising tetrafluoropropene and hydrofluorocarbons and uses thereof, including use in refrigerant compositions, refrigeration systems, blowing agent compositions, and aerosol propellants.