Recommendations and example scenarios for an effective ammonia refrigeration system evaluation.
The piping in your system covers a large footprint of the equipment that is susceptible to ‘deficiency’.
The safest, most logical testing for ammonia refrigeration provides data for compliance, early failure detection, maintenance, and more.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, mills started using more efficient equipment and processes to produce their pipes, with most major mills employing the “continuous mandrel” method.
I’ve been a mechanical contractor for 30 years, but seldom have I encountered a situation like the one I found recently at a dairy plant in Ohio.
It’s a common misconception that pipes are in pretty good shape unless there is something visual on the pipe exterior that suggests otherwise.
A six foot section of pipe at a beverage plant was perplexing – it had been welded into an older pipe, yet measured as thinner than the original.
After speaking to a group of plant managers at a national beverage company, one of them invited us to his cold storage warehouse in New Jersey.
Mike (System Operator): I manage the industrial refrigeration pipe system at a Midwestern ice cream manufacturer.