Job Description: Compressor Overhaul to a Bluebox Chiller
Issue Identified: Following a call out, the engineer advised that the chiller 2 compressor was in alarm and required an overhaul.
Works carried out:
- Isolated the unit electrically and mechanically.
- Recovered the refrigerant into a dedicated recovery cylinder.
- Checked and confirmed the charge.
- Lifting team attended site and removed the compressor from the chiller bed.
- Compressor engineer attended site and stripped the compressor.
- Checked all parts for wear and clearances.
- Removed the winding from site for testing and repair.
- Renewed all the gaskets and seals.
- Returned to site and started rebuilding the compressor.
- Lifting team reinstated the compressor on chiller bed.
- Pressure tested with OFN (oxygen free nitrogen).
- Repaired the leak by means of brazing.
- Once proved released OFN (oxygen free nitrogen) to atmosphere and evacuated system to a minimum of 2 Torr.
- Re-charged with recovered refrigerant.
- Test ran and re-commissioned.
- Completed waste transfer note and handed to on-site representative.
- Completed F Gas certificate.
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