{"id":4669,"date":"2026-09-09T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/f-gas-phase-down-refrigerants\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:57:00","slug":"f-gas-phase-down-refrigerants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/ko\/f-gas-phase-down-refrigerants\/","title":{"rendered":"EU F-Gas 2024\/573: Low-GWP Refrigerants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Regulation (EU) 2024\/573<\/h2>\n<p>The EU <strong>F-Gas Regulation 2024\/573<\/strong> entered into force on 11 March 2024, repealing 517\/2014. It drives HFC availability to zero by 2050 through a tightening CO2-equivalent quota schedule, high-GWP refrigerants consume quota faster, pushing the market to low-GWP alternatives.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Placing-on-Market Bans<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Equipment<\/th>\n<th>Ban<\/th>\n<th>Date<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Single splits under 3 kg<\/td>\n<td>GWP 750 or more<\/td>\n<td>1 Jan 2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Self-contained AC or HP up to 12 kW<\/td>\n<td>GWP 150 or more<\/td>\n<td>1 Jan 2027<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Split air-to-water or split AC up to 12 kW<\/td>\n<td>GWP 150 or more<\/td>\n<td>1 Jan 2027<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Split air-to-air AC or HP up to 12 kW<\/td>\n<td>GWP 150 or more<\/td>\n<td>1 Jan 2029<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>All F-gas in self-contained units<\/td>\n<td>Any F-gas (safety exception)<\/td>\n<td>1 Jan 2032<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Low-GWP Alternatives<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>R-290 propane, GWP 3<\/strong> \ubc0f <strong>R-744 CO2, GWP 1<\/strong>, near-zero GWP, with flammable or high-pressure care needed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>R-32, GWP 675, A2L<\/strong> \ubc0f <strong>R-454B, A2L<\/strong>, mildly flammable transitions from R-410A.<\/li>\n<li>HFO blends, note the parallel EU PFAS restriction debate may affect some HFOs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Leak-check duties tighten, 5 t CO2e every 12 months, 50 t every 6 months, 500 t every 3 months with detection. For owners, refrigerant choice directly shapes both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/ko\/net-zero-operational-carbon\/\">operational carbon<\/a> \ubc0f <a href=\"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/ko\/embodied-carbon-hvac-systems\/\">embodied carbon<\/a> of HVAC plant.<\/p>\n<p>For specifiers, the regulation shifts the default toward lower-GWP refrigerants and makes leak management a compliance obligation rather than best practice. Equipment using R-290 or R-744 needs careful charge limits and ventilation design because of flammability or high pressure, so component selection and installation standards matter more than before. The phase-down also affects spare-part availability: as high-GWP charges leave the market, older systems become harder to service, which favors planning replacements on a defined schedule. Heat-recovery and heat-pump loops should be specified with the refrigerant decision made up front, because the exchanger and circuit design depend on the working fluid&#8217;s properties. Owners who track refrigerant inventory against the new leak-check thresholds avoid penalties and keep embodied-carbon reporting accurate.<\/p>\n<h2>\uc790\uc8fc \ubb3b\ub294 \uc9c8\ubb38<\/h2>\n<p><strong>What does EU F-Gas Regulation 2024\/573 change?<\/strong><br \/>It repeals Regulation 517\/2014 and drives HFC availability toward zero by 2050 through a tightening CO2-equivalent quota schedule that penalizes high-GWP refrigerants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which refrigerants are affected by the 2024 bans?<\/strong><br \/>Placing-on-market bans phase out high-GWP equipment such as single splits above GWP 750 from 2025 and many split systems above GWP 150 from 2027 to 2029, pushing R-290, R-744, R-32, and R-454B.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the leak-check duties under the new F-Gas rules?<\/strong><br \/>Leak-check frequency tightens to every 12 months above 5 tonnes CO2e, every 6 months above 50 tonnes, and every 3 months above 500 tonnes, with detection systems required at the highest thresholds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does refrigerant choice affect HVAC carbon accounting?<\/strong><br \/>Because leakage is a high-GWP Scope 3 hotspot, choosing low-GWP charges and disciplined leak-testing materially lowers both operational and embodied carbon reporting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yc-related\">\n<h3>\uad00\ub828 \uae30\uc0ac<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/ko\/marine-corrosion-heat-exchangers\/\" title=\"\ud574\uc591 \ubc0f \ubd80\uc2dd \ud658\uacbd \uc5f4\uad50\ud658\uae30\">\ud574\uc591 \ubc0f \ubd80\uc2dd \ud658\uacbd \uc5f4\uad50\ud658\uae30<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regulation (EU) 2024\/573 The EU F-Gas Regulation 2024\/573 entered into force on 11 March 2024, repealing 517\/2014. It drives HFC availability to zero by 2050 through a tightening CO2-equivalent quota schedule, high-GWP refrigerants consume quota faster, pushing the market to low-GWP alternatives. Key Placing-on-Market Bans Equipment Ban Date Single splits under 3 kg GWP 750 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,241],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-4669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedia","category-standards-codes","tag-standards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5295,"href":"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions\/5295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.26yc.com\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}