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Glossary

 

The terms and definitions included in this glossary were taken from "ASHRAE Terminology of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration".
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Term Definition
oil removal


removal of oil or oil vapor from a refrigerant vapor.

 

 
oil return


migration of oil from the evaporator to the crankcase of the compressor. See compressor oil return 

 
oil separator


device for separating oil and oil vapor from the refrigerant, usually installed in the compressor discharge line 

 
oil still


device to separate oil from refrigerant by a distillation process 

 
oil trap


device for separating and collecting oil at a given point in a refrigerating circuit 

 
oil-distribution system (central)


system of piping through which oil is supplied from remote central supply tank(s) to one or more buildings, mobile homes, recreational vehicles, or other structures
 
Olympic rink


ice rink of standardized size (56 m by 26 m)
 
open-loop control system


control system that controls outputs by inputs only and the actual system output is not considere 

 
operating life


expected useful life of a device, usually expressed in number of operations or years, months, hours of typical operation 

 
operating load


point actual system operating capacity at the time of taking an instrument reading 

 




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