Selection of a suction line accumulator should be made on the basis of the following three capabilities: 1. The accumulator should have an adequate liquid-holding capacity that can vary with the ...

However, if flooding or migration problems are severe, suction line accumulators have been known to flood with compressor damage still occurring. This is why the only 100 percent safe accumulator is ...

“Furthermore, to keep costs low and to make the technology easy to install in current and new systems, the OCR sensor was integrated with a suction line accumulator,” said Parveen Dhillon, a Ph.D.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University engineers have developed a second-generation smart accumulator with oil circulation ratio (OCR) sensing capabilities for heating, ventilation, air conditioning ...