Service technicians will often experience frost on a suction line or on the compressor in some refrigeration applications. Thinking that liquid refrigerant must be present because there is frost is a ...

Liquid refrigerant flooding back to a compressor’s crankcase and mixing with the oil is a compressor’s worst nightmare. Floodback will dilute the compressor’s oil with liquid refrigerant and cause ...

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