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REFRIGERANT CHARGE [4 records]

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Record 1 2011-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Closing Devices and Nozzles (Mechanical Components)
CONT

The thermostatic charge is the constituents used in the sensing bulb. A ’cross charge’ indicates the ’bulb charge’ P-T curve crosses the P-T curve of the refrigerant used in the system. As a result, a ’cross charge’ doesn’t use the same refrigerant used in the system the valve is being applied.

OBS

Thermomostatic Expansion Valves ... Charges: Power elements may be system charged (charged with the same refrigerant used in the system) or cross charged (refrigerant different from that used in the system).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Obturateurs et buses (Composants mécaniques)
DEF

Charge du train thermostatique d'un détendeur constituée d'un fluide différent du frigorigène employé dans l'installation frigorifique.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Closing Devices and Nozzles (Mechanical Components)
DEF

A valve used to charge or add refrigerant to the system or add oil to the compressor crankcase.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Obturateurs et buses (Composants mécaniques)
DEF

Robinet au moyen duquel le fluide frigorigène est introduit dans le circuit frigorifique ou l'huile dans le carter du compresseur.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Conditioning and Heating
  • Refrigeration Engineering
DEF

A water cooled condenser comprising a shell the bottom of which, below the heat exchanging elements, forms a receiver, in principle designed to hold the entire refrigerant charge of the installation.

OBS

condenser-receiver: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

Key term(s)
  • condenser receiver

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conditionnement de l'air et chauffage
  • Techniques du froid
DEF

Condenseur à eau comprenant à la partie inférieure d'une calandre, au dessous de la surface d'échange, un volume libre suffisant pour former réservoir (pouvant contenir, en principe, toute la charge de frigorigène de l'installation).

OBS

condenseur-bouteille; condenseur-réservoir : termes uniformisés par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Key term(s)
  • condenseur bouteille
  • condenseur réservoir

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Conditioning and Heating
  • Refrigerating Machines and Appliances
DEF

Quantity of refrigerant in a system.

DEF

Amount of refrigerant in a refrigerant system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conditionnement de l'air et chauffage
  • Machines frigorifiques
DEF

Quantité de fluide frigorigène contenue dans un circuit frigorifique.

CONT

En conditionnement d'air, il est surtout question [...] de la charge soit de fluide frigorigène, soit d'huile incongelable [...], l'opération même de ces "charges" [...] consistant dans l'introduction de fluide frigorigène (ou d'huile) dans un système frigorifique.

Key term(s)
  • charge de fluide

Spanish

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