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The Ultimate Refrigerant Monitor

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PR-Account™, the ultimate refrigerant monitor, provides complete accountability and tracking of your plant-wide refrigerant usage—from ordering to delivery, from storage to usage. PR-Account will monitor it all. Each manufacturer is unique, therefore each PR-Account solution is custom designed to meet your refrigerant handling needs. Complete flexibility. Complete accountability.

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or call 901-854-2123.

 

Features:

• Monitor amount of refrigerant charged in finished product by model, line, and/or date

• Monitor complete transfer of purchased refrigerant, tracking from delivery truck to bulk storage tank

• Reports indicate refrigerant usage by line, date, time, shift, product, refrigerant type

• Collected data available to any networked PC running InterLink™ Office software

• Analyze schedule and calculates projected refrigerant usage

• Notify user(s) when refrigerant should be delivered to accommodate production schedule

• Powered by InterLink™ Floor—Microsoft® Visual Basic® application

• Microsoft® SQLServer® database

• Data accessible from any networked PC running InterLink™ Office


 

Major Hardware:

• PC in an industrial enclosure

• Barcode reader

• Refrigerant counters

• Refrigerant supply tank inlet—verifies complete transfer of purchased amount of refrigerant

• Refrigerant supply tank outlet

• Plant reclamation system

• Industrial control cabinet to house I/O components

Data Analysis:

• Monitor amount of refrigerant transferred from delivery truck to storage tank

• Monitor amount of refrigerant delivered to the plant from the delivery system

• Monitor amount of refrigerant used in final product by line, date, shift, model

• Monitor amount of refrigerant transferred to reclamation system


 

Operation:

When your refrigerant supplier delivers refrigerant to your facility, the truck driver (or a designee) is prompted to log into PR-Account’s computer terminal. The driver is prompted to enter the amount of refrigerant to be delivered to the storage system. The entered amount is cross-referenced to the amount purchased. Using a flow meter, the refrigerant is monitored as it is delivered into the storage tank.

Refrigerant use is also monitored throughout the plant by assembly line. Usage for each line is cross-referenced with the amount charged by ECI’s VacuCharge™ machines. If the two amounts are not within a customer-determined range (e.g., 3%), a leak is suspected to exist between that flowmeter and the VacuCharge machine(s). This specified range allows the system to take into account any residual refrigerant that is reclaimed after charging.

By using the date/time recorded for refrigerant charge, PR-Account will determine if the discrepancy is due to manual charging and automatically consider this when making the calculation. If multiple VacuCharge machines are used on one assembly line, PR-Account will automatically calculate the usage for each machine and provide a grand total. This grand total is compared to the amount of refrigerant sent to the assembly line.

A flow meter measures the amount of reclaimed refrigerant that is transferred from the reclamation system back into the delivery system.

Knowing the amount of refrigerant supplied to the storage tank, the amount used per assembly line, and the amount reclaimed allows complete refrigerant accountability.


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