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NC-2009 EAp3:Fundamental Refrigerant Management

custom-made refrigerator for EBOM project

I am working on EBOM for an old office building which includes an employee cafeteria. The food service contractors brought in custom made commercial refrigerators and installed these custom made commercial refrigerators in the kitchen. The property owner staff surveyed these custom made refrigerators and found that all of these refrigerators are charged with non-CFC refrigerant (HFC or R-22). It is hard to tell the refrigerant leakage rate because the cooling unit are assembled by local workshops. The other challenge is the manufacturing year data in the some refrigerators are missing . Reference guide said that standard refrigerators are not considered part of the base building and are exempt. However, these commercial refrigerators are not "standard refrigerators" because they are custom made. I wonder if we shall input refrigerant related data of these refrigerators in template?

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Thu, 10/18/2012 - 13:52

Generally refrigerators are only excluded if they have less than 0.5 lbs of refrigerant., so if an individual refrigerator at your building has more than 0.5 lbs it should be included in the calculation. You should visit the EBOM page for this credit http://www.leeduser.com/credit/EBOM-2009/EAp3 The documentation toolkit includes a refrigerant worksheet which should be helpful for you. Whoever services the equipment should be able to provide information about refrigerant charges.

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