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IoR updates best practice guidelines

UK: The BRA and IoR have revised Part 2 of the Guide to Good Commercial Refrigeration Practice series. 

Guide to Good Commercial Refrigeration Practice, Part 2: System Design and Component Selection, 2nd edition is part of the series of nine documents produced to ensure good practice guidelines are available to the refrigeration, heat pump and air conditioning industry.

Part 2 focuses on the complex area of system design in conjunction with safety and environmental considerations. It comprises chapters on: compressors, chilled and frozen cabinets, condensers, refrigerant pipework, design considerations, plant room design and more. This latest edition includes an extensively revised chapter on evaporators. 

The other eight parts are currently under revision and are expected to be published over the next 12 months.

This update is available free to BRA and IOR members, or £20.00+VAT to non-members.

BRA: https://www.feta.co.uk/associations/bra/publications
IOR: https://ior.org.uk/buy-documents

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