REFRIGERATION AND

AIR CONDITIONING
Field Service Note
Liquid Injection Valves type TEAT
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When TEAT valves are used for oil /discharge temperature control on
Screw Compressors they can suer failures caused by back pressure
pulsations.
On plants where the TEAT valve injects liquid refrigerant into the
compressors economiser port, as the compressor loads and unloads,
the economiser port can experience violent back pressure pulses
which can cause the TEAT valve to stick in an open or closed position.
This can cause the compressor to become ooded with liquid, and
the oil charge to be carried through the system or the compressor can
trip out on high discharge /oil temperature fault.
A recent situation where violent back pressure pulsations had caused
the failure of a TEAT valve being used on a Gram Screw compressor
and the correct replacement was not available resulted in a cry for
help from the customer to nd a solution fast as their cold store
temperature was slowly rising due to the inoperable machine.
Our solution was to convert to electronic control using an AKVA valve with an EKC 319A controller and
an AKS21A sensor, this was accepted by the customer.
The TEAT valve is available in many temperature ranges and there are also many dierent orice sizes
available for the valve which can often mean obtaining the correct combination for a particular plant
can prove di cult with increased delivery times.
After modifying the pipe work slightly to change the anges the
AKVA valve was tted.
The EKC 319A controller was then tted into the panel, and the sensor
tted to the same position the TEAT bulb had been previously tted.
The controller parameters were modied to the system requirements,
and the plant started. On the digital display the discharge
temperature could be seen to rise up to the control set point and
then the AKVA valve began to pulse and bring the temperature under
control to within about
+
/- 1C. No oil foaming was seen and the control was very stable.
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Bucks UB9 4LH
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These controls have been installed on York Screws and on J&E HALLSCREWS and the reported
feedback from the commissioning engineers is that the control is better than the TEAT valve , it is
easier to set , it is more stable, with little or no oil foaming, and oil carry over is reduced, due to the
accuracy and small P band that the EKC 319A control can achieve.
The EKC 319A covers the full temperature range of the 3 dierent temperature ranges of the TEAT
valves and the AKV/A valves also cover the range of capacities of the TEAT.
This solution means less spares requirement, and the AKV valve withstands these back pressure
pulsations better than the TEAT valve. Its an all round better control solution.
The EKC 319A Liquid Injection Controller
Code No. 084B7251
Liquid Injection valves for Oil/Discharge/Inter-stage Cooling
TEAT to AKV/A Cross Reference List
Type and Rated Capacity
Rated Capacity in kW at Delta P = 8 Bar
R717 R404A R134A R22
TEAT 20 - 1 AKV/A 10 - 1 3.3 0.6 0.7 0.8
TEAT 20 - 2 AKV/A 10 -2 6.4 1.1 1.2 1.5
TEAT 20 - 3 AKV/A 10 - 3 9.7 1.6 1.7 2.3
TEAT 20 - 5 AKV/A 10 - 4 16.0 2.9 3.0 3.6
TEAT 20 - 8 AKV/A 10 - 5 25.6 4.4 4.6 6.2
TEAT 20 - 12 AKV/A 10 - 6 38.4 6.7 6.9 9.2
TEAT 20 - 20 AKV/A 10 - 7 64.0 12.6 13.1 15.4
TEAT 85 - 33 AKV/A 15 - 1 106.0 18.8 19.5 26.0
TEAT 85 - 55 AKV/A 15 - 2 173.0 30.6 31.8 42.4
TEAT 85 - 55 AKV/A 15 - 3 274.0 48.4 50.3 66.3