World Envi­ron­ment Day

Jun 5, 2019 | General US

World Envi­ron­ment Day has raised aware­ness on envi­ron­men­tal issues and action for the pro­tec­tion of our envi­ron­ment since 1974. The WED has a new theme and host city each year. This year’s annual theme is “Beat Air Pol­lu­tion”, with Beijing hosting. Oilon has almost six decades of sus­tained effort in devel­op­ing cleaner and more effi­cient com­bus­tion tech­nol­ogy. Our empha­sis during the last few years has been on devel­op­ing clean com­bus­tion tech­nol­ogy for gas, which is going to have a large impact in the future as the most pol­lut­ing fuel, coal, is phased out. Most of con­tem­po­rary energy pro­duc­tion glob­ally is based on burning fossil fuels, and the uti­lized tech­nol­ogy has a central role in the effi­ciency of energy pro­duc­tion and the result­ing emis­sions. Oilon’s latest tech­nol­ogy has been espe­cially sought-​after in China, which requires a high coef­fi­cient of per­for­mance and has the strictest stan­dards for com­bus­tion emis­sions in the world after Cal­i­for­nia. Both regions have seen sig­nif­i­cant improve­ment in air quality due to the strong reg­u­la­tion.  Tight­en­ing emis­sion stan­dards will oblige us to keep on evolv­ing, and that is a chal­lenge Oilon is keen to answer.

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Moving forward, heat pumps are going to have a very central role in heating and cooling. Global climate change and air con­t­a­m­i­na­tion force us to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Energy saving, renew­able fuels and thor­oughly uti­lized renew­able elec­tric­ity will be at the fore­front of energy solu­tions in the future. The new gov­ern­ment pledge strives to make Finland carbon neutral by 2035, and a leading Nordic energy company has esti­mated that heat pumps and renew­able surplus elec­tric­ity will produce most of their dis­trict heating as soon as 2050. Oilon foresaw this trend decades ago, and has almost 40 years of expe­ri­ence in devel­op­ing and uti­liz­ing heat pump tech­nol­ogy for ground heat, com­bined heating and cooling, and various recy­cling appli­ca­tions for waste heat. Tech­no­log­i­cal solu­tions for a more eco­log­i­cal and less carbon-​dependent future exist. We must have the polit­i­cal will to guide our society towards them.