Course Overview
This course will cover the principles of a typical refrigeration cycle, and develop student skills and knowledge to safely operate and maintain a shipboard Refrigeration and Air conditioning plant. Troubleshooting, fault analysis, and safe handling, identification, and storage of refrigerant to comply with environmental and regulatory requirements will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s)
- Successful completion of Term 3.
Credits
2.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Sketch and describe a typical shipboard refrigeration plant.
- Sketch and describe the various components of a shipboard refrigeration plant.
- Operate and perform refrigeration system maintenance on the “Refrigeration Trainer”.
- Sketch and describe a shipboard refrigeration plant using secondary (Brine) refrigerants.
- Apply standards and regulations governing refrigerants, and document and track all refrigerant on board.
- Sketch and describe a typical shipboard air conditioning system.
- Use psychometric charts and plot the relationship between temperature, relative humidity, moisture content, and specific volume of air-vapour mixture on it.
Effective as of Fall 2017
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