Engineering - Refrigeration Equipment - A Servicing and Installation Handbook - (A.C. Bryant) Butterworth Heinemann Elsevier 1997.pdf

Refrigeration Equipment
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Refrigeration Equipment
A servicing and installation handbook
Second edition
A. C. Bryant
Butterworth-Heinemann
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd
A member of the Reed Elsevier group
OXFORD BOSTON JOHANNESBURG
MELBOURNE NEW DELHI SINGAPORE
First published 1991
Reprinted 1993 (twice)
Second edition 1997
 A. C. Bryant 1991, 1997
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British Li rary Cataloguing in Pu lication Data
Bryant, A. C.
Refrigeration equipment: a servicing and installation
handbook 2nd ed.
1. Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery Maintenance
and repair
I. Title

ISBN 0 7506 0007 1
Typeset by Laser Words, Madras, India
Printed and bound in Great Britain by
Biddles Ltd, Guildford and King’s Lynn
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements x
1 Introduction 1
The service engineer 1
Installation procedures 2
pression systems 2
Part One Servicing
2 Service valves and gauges 7
System service valves 7
Service gauge manifold 8
Fitting gauges 11
Removing gauges 13
Other valves 14
3 Refrigerant leak detection 17
Dye systems 17
Test pressures 17
Methods of testing 18
Pressure leak testing 20
Handling refrigerants: safety precautions 21
4 Pump