How To Dispose Of Refrigerant Tanks

Secondly the have to be rendered unusable.

How to dispose of refrigerant tanks. We pride ourselves on providing a simple responsible and convenient process for selling used surplus and recovered refrigerants. Providing the most comprehensive refrigerant program for heating ventilation air conditioning and refrigeration hvacr industries airgas offers both on and off site refrigerant services for every need. Empty refrigerant cylinders must also be disposed according to specific guidelines. With the combined strength and experience that come from more than 60 years of expert refrigerant supply you know you can count on airgas.

You can typically take the noncontaminated refrigerant back to the wholesaler for exchange. Once the valve is removed most recycling companies require the cylinders to be cut in half. The recovery cylinder will have a punch out feature at the top of the cylinder you can knock out with a hammer and screwdriver completing the requirement to render it unusable. Refrigerant finders is a chicago based company with a nationwide refrigerant collection program.

Kung fu maintenance demonstrates how to properly dispose of empty freon refrigerant cans r22 r410a mo99 r134a r438a and other types of tanks. The ubiquitous advisories and legislations against releasing a c refrigerant into the atmosphere are well known if you need to discharge r 134a or r 22 from your a c system have the gas evacuated by a professional. At the reclamation facility they ll separate the refrigerant into the individual component refrigerants or incinerate it in accordance with epa guidelines. To do this the cylinder is placed in a vise and using a special tool with some elbow grease the valve can be removed.

Refrigeration and air conditioning equipment that is typically dismantled on. Disposal of equipment dismantled on site. First they must be empty. Since 2012 our team has done business with over 5 000 individuals in 48 states.

Epa regulations 40 cfr part 82 subpart f under section 608 of the clean air act include requirements for the safe disposal of refrigeration and air conditioning equipment these requirements are designed to minimize refrigerant emissions when these appliances are disposed. When sending popular aluminum cylinders to a recycling company the cylinders must be completely emptied with valves removed.