Refrigeration RT/RC Prep Quiz

Topics: All categories in the pool

Quiz Result Settings

1: What does safe access mean?

  • A clear unobstructed path to the equipment and controls
  • Well-lit exit signs
  • Locked doors
  • OSHA approved

2: A halide torch is most useful with a freon compression system

  • to release a sticking valve
  • to detect refrigeration leaks in piping joints
  • to remove from from TXV's and evaporator coils
  • to sweat flanges on the refrigeration piping

3: Doors communicating with outside from a mechanical room must be?

  • Self-closing, approved, fire door
  • Self-closing, wooden, fire door
  • Self-closing, aligned, fire door
  • Steel, approved, weather-stripped

4: What is not a requirement of a Class T machine room?

  • Tight fitting doors
  • Self-closing doors
  • Fire hose connected to the building fire protection system.
  • Automatic ventilation

5: Booster compressors, pump refrigerant into the

  • high side of the secondary compressor
  • heat & plate heat exchanges
  • receiver
  • low side of the primary compressor

6: Each machinery room shall contain

  • a toxicity detector where the presence of ammonia or lithium bromide from a leak will concentrate
  • high and low pressure controls
  • smoke and fire alarms as well as three means of egress and that egress must meet 528 CMR ventilation requirements
  • a refrigerant detector located in an area where the refrigerant from a leak will concentrate

7: A class B1 refrigerant is considered

  • non-toxic and non-flammable
  • toxic and somewhat flammable
  • toxic but non-flammable
  • non-toxic but highly flammable

8: A chilled water pump suction gauge reads 10 psig. Discharge gauge reads 48 psig. The head in feet of the pump is working against

  • 88
  • 108
  • 116
  • 38

9: The rupture disc on a low-pressure chiller typically releases pressure at

  • 0 psig
  • 10 psig
  • 15 psig
  • 5 psig

10: An evaporator coil located near heating coil shall have a pressure-relief device installed within ______ inches of the evaporator.

  • 36
  • 24
  • 18
  • 48

11: An air conditioning system rated for 36,000 BTU's is equivalent to

  • 12,000 tons of cooling
  • three tons of cooling
  • one ton of cooling
  • two tons of cooling

12: A rule of thumb in air conditioning is ____ CFM per ton?

  • 100
  • 400
  • 600
  • 500

13: All serviceable components of a refrigeration system shall be provided with

  • name plates with markings referring to pressure and temperature in accordance with ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code
  • manufactures instructions on start-up procedures
  • safe access
  • service manuals

14: A positive displacement compressor is

  • where the compressor's suction pressure and the compressor;s discharge pressure is more than 50 PSI
  • a compressor in which the increase in pressure is attained by changing the internal volume of the compression chamber
  • is a reciprocating type compressor with 2 or more pistons
  • a compressor in which the increase in pressure is attained by changing the internal pressure of the compression chamber

15: "E" represents _____ in the Watt's law formula.

  • amperage
  • reactance
  • voltage
  • watts

16: How many different groups of refrigerants are there?

  • 7
  • 11
  • 3
  • 15

17: Where are the three places that the discharge from an ammonia relief valve be piped?

  • atmosphere, tank containing water, where the A.H.J. indicates
  • underground, into drain, into mechanical room
  • to chemical neutralizing tank only
  • none of the above

18: Humidity can be sensed with

  • bimetal
  • pressure bellows
  • thermometer
  • human hair

19: If two 500 ohm resistors are connected in series, the resistance will be

  • 1000 ohms
  • 500 ohms
  • 20 ohms
  • 200 ohms

20: What refrigerant has zero ozone depletion

  • HFC
  • CFC
  • HCFC
  • None of the above

21: Laten heat is associated with a change in state of a refrigerant but not temperature

  • True
  • False

22: Ammonia systems use ____ pressure to adjust oil pressure

  • discharge
  • liquid
  • stream
  • air

23: The location of a thermal bulb of a TXV affects

  • subcooling
  • the amount of liquid refrigerant in the evaporator
  • the amount of liquid in the condenser.
  • the amount of liquid returning to the compressor

24: Large Mercantile occupancy is a premise or that portion of a premise where more than ____ persons congregate on levels above or below the street level to purchase personal merchandise.

  • 350
  • 250
  • 100
  • 400

25: A class A3 refrigerant is considered

  • toxic and somewhat flammable
  • non-toxic but highly flammable
  • non-toxic and non-flammable
  • toxic and non-flammable