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Hydrofluorocarbons

2008· article· en· W7013068157 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCovenant University Repository (Covenant University) · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicAtmospheric Ozone and Climate
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMontreal ProtocolGreenhouse gasRefrigerationGlobal warmingOzone layerKyoto ProtocolGreenhouse effect
DOInot available

Abstract

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Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are a group of organic compounds that contain carbon, fluorine, and hydrogen. They are by-products of industrial manufacturing and were introduced as a replacement for chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone depleting substances. However, though HFCs have zero ozone depletion potential (ODP), they have intrinsic and significant global warming potential (GWP), typically in the range of 1,000 to 3,000 times that of CO2. Thus, they are among the six key greenhouse gases listed in the Kyoto Protocol for emission reduction. Other greenhouse gases listed by the protocol are CO2, CH4, N2O, PFCs, SF6, and HFCs. Industry and government are collaborating on research and development, communication, and other activities to find new technologies, designs, and processes to manage these emissions. The emissions management is occurring through non-regulatory means, voluntary measures, and industry-government collaborations. The air-conditioning and commercial refrigeration industry has particularly contributed to the success of the management process. HFCs are generally colourless and odourless gases at environmental temperatures and are mostly chemically unreactive. They are non-flammable, having very low toxicity; they are recyclable, and highly energy efficient. There has been a significant growth in the market for HFCs because they have been identified as important alternative fluids for many end users. They find applications in refrigeration and air-conditioning, foam-blowing, general aerosols, solvent cleaning, firefighting, and metered-dose inhaling. They are preferred due to certain physical and chemical characteristics, especially their low toxicity and low flammability. The main sources of atmospheric HFCs are traceable to their sources of application. Two other major emitters are chemical plants making HCFC 22 (where HFC-23 is emitted as a by-product) and HFCs. There are several points in the lifecycle of HFC-using products at which emissions can occur. A computer model uses four emission factors to characterize the HFC emissions, namely fluid manufacturing, product manufacturing, product life, and disposal loss factors. Examples of HFCs include trifluoromethane (HFC-23), difluoromethane (HFC-32), fluoromethane (HFCHydrofluorocarbons 41), 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (HFC-124), 1,1,2,2,2-pentafluoroethane (HFC-125), 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134), 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134a,), 1,1-difluoroethane (HFC-152a), 1,1,1,2,3,3,3-heptafluoropropane (HFC-227ea).

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.737
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.146
Teacher spread0.134 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it