When servicing refrigeration or air conditioning systems that incorporate reciprocating or piston-type compressors, worn compressor rings and/or leaky compressor suction or discharge valves can cause ...

Many servicemen experience service calls where the compressor has both a low head pressure and a high suction pressure. Often, the refrigeration equipment is still running, but the product temperature ...

Manually operated drain valves were installed on all Big A/B suction bottles and on the discharge bottles of cylinder Nos. 1 and 2 during the April 2007 rebuild of Big A. Liquids are currently drained ...

This is the second of three articles that describes BP’s experience with reciprocating compressor damage from liquids intrusion at two facilities, in Oklahoma and Alaska. Part 1 of the series (OGJ, ...