Plate Heat Exchanger
We attended a callout to a chiller in alarm, on arrival we found a system short of refrigerant. We carried out a full pressure test and could not find a leak, even though our test pressure was falling. A re-think was needed, everything pointed to a failed Evaporator Plate Heat Exchanger.
We decided to separate the Condenser and Evaporator Plate Heat Exchanger and recover the refrigerant from the other system. We also isolated the chilled water system around the Evaporator Plate Heat Exchanger. We pressure tested the systems and found a cross leak between System 1 and the Chilled Water circuit. A new Evaporator Plate Heat Exchanger was required.