Montreal Protocol requires that ozone-depleting gases such as clorofluorocarbons (CFC) should no longer be used soon. As an example, automobile air conditioning systems, with over 40-45 millions cars being fitted with air conditioners every year, represent a major source of refrigerant emissions to the environment. Replacing freon with carbon dioxide would be the ideal situation as was done in the early part of this century. This problem represents a unique opportunity to design and develop a new compressor based on Green Engineering. Green Engineering is the encapsulated applied research and design of systems that can impact the ecology at a significant level. Designers have to utilize a vast array of design tools in order to develop a given product. The design team involved in Green Technologies has in addition to the typical design process: layer's of scientific, regulatory, and ethical data to address. Green Technology Designers need a Coupled Component Design System that has an accessible source of information related to their project, and the most current, authoritative, and extensible knowledge base with which to focus the design process. The design, and analysis tool set must be advanced and scaleable in order to disseminate and incorporate each component to its specification within the design. A collaborative exchange of information is extremely necessary for the design team to assure a timely development of design tools admission into the design repository. COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: With over 40-45 million air conditioned cars being made each year, even a small market share will make a significant dent in the emissions to the environment. The long-term market potential for compressors in the automotive industry is over $1.2 billion dollars annually, and this is expected to grow as the demand for cars fitted with air conditioners grows every year. This product is especially attractive in the developed countries due to environmental considerations and in third world countries due to the high cost of HCFC's. Once this process is proved for this application, it can be extended to other applications
