The HVAC/R Professional's Field Guide to Alternative Refrigerants
Unique Guide Details Procedures and Problems Associated with Retrofitting Systems with Alternative Refrigerants

This 1,000 page plus unique field guide discusses both the procedures and problems contractors and service technicians face when retrofitting a system with an alternative refrigerant. Renowned author Richard Jazwin sorts through the confusion and misinformation regarding the alternative refrigerants and provides the facts every service technicians must know to successfully perform service.

Alternative Refrigerants is divided into two parts.

Part One details the new alternative from creation to retrofit, and provides needed information on blends / mixtures, oils, retrofit, safety, and much more.

Part Two contains information on alternative refrigerants from the manufactures Copeland Corporation, Dupont Fluoroproducts, ICI Klea, Elf Autochem NA, and Honeywell (Allied Signal Gentron).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: The World, Ozone, and Refrigerants - The service world has changed. A view of the new world and why the new alternatives exist.

Chapter 2: Refrigerant Fundamentals - Refrigerants have undergone and will continue to undergo tremendous changes. Blends, drop in replacements, and singe use compounds are covered.

Chapter 3: Blends / Mixtures - A discussion of azeotropes, zeotropes, and NARMS, including what they are and the differences between them.

Chapter 4: Single Compound Refrigerants - Single compound refrigerants new and old.

Chapter 5: Oils - Technical and operational considerations for oils.

Chapter 6: Retrofit - A view of the steps involved in retrofitting to an alternative refrigerant.

Chapter 7: Safety - Safety for the new and old refrigerants.

Chapter 8: - SNAP - SNAP defined EPA's new alternative refrigerant measuring systems. EPA's alternative listing for approved replacement.

Chapter 9: Moving to Alternative Refrigerants - Reprint of EPA's cause studies for alternative retrofits.

Part Two: Manufacturer's Date - Copeland Corporation, DuPont Fluoroproducts, ICI Klea, Elf Atochem North America, Inc., Honeywell Chemical's

About the Author

Richard Jazwin is the Director of Curriculum at Universal Technical Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Jazwin is an active member of the following societies: The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society, the Society for Technical Communications, the Author's Guild, and the National Society for Performance of Instruction. Mr. Jazwin is the author of; "Troubleshooting and Servicing Heat Pumps Systems", "Medium & High Efficiency Gas Furnaces", "The HVAC/R Professional's Field Guide to Alternative Refrigerants", " The Four R's", and several other publications.

ISBN: 1-885863-12-8

more HVAC/R Related