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Refrigeration & Air Conditioning MCQ

What is the purpose of the valves?

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Correct Answer: Transfer and isolation of refrigerant charge

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During what type of work can refrigerant be stored inside a chiller?

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Correct Answer: Servicing

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What percentage of the time does an ICM motor operate at low RPM?

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Correct Answer: 90%

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What percentage of an ICM motor is efficient?

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Correct Answer: More than 90%

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What material slows down the transfer of heat?

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Correct Answer: Insulation

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What does air usually flow into a space through?

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Correct Answer: Walls

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What type of air flow can get into a space through walls?

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Correct Answer: Infiltration

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What type of fan coil is an indoor coil?

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Correct Answer: Refrigerant containing portion

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What kind of tubing make up an indoor coil?

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Correct Answer: Copper

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What is it that you might find inside a unit?

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Correct Answer: Fan, motor, and filtering device

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Humidity is what that makes air feel comfortable?

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Correct Answer: The amount of moisture in the air

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Humidity is a measure of what?

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Correct Answer: Moisture

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How do air conditioners remove moisture?

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Correct Answer: For added comfort

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In what type of device might the term "humidistat" be used?

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Correct Answer: A device designed to regulate humidity input

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What was designed to regulate humidity input?

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Correct Answer: Humidistat

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Humidification is a process that adds what to the air?

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Correct Answer: Moisture

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What is the process of adding moisture to the air within a space?

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Correct Answer: Humidification

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What is the acronym for HVAC?

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Correct Answer: Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning

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What is the term used to describe the processes of heating, ventilation and air conditioning?

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Correct Answer: HVAC

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What kind of furnace is horizontal?

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Correct Answer: A furnace that lies on its side

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What lies on its side?

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Correct Answer: Horizontal Furnace

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What is the name of the seasonally weighted performance factor?

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Correct Answer: Heating Seasonal Performance Factor

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How does the rate at which a specific device can add substantial heat to a substance get expressed?

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Correct Answer: BTUh

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What is used as the heat source during the heating cycle?

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Correct Answer: Air outside the home

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What type of cycle is used to turn heat into energy?

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Correct Answer: Heating

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What is the main goal of a heat pump?

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Correct Answer: Cooling

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How is heat loss measured?

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Correct Answer: BTU's

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What should be the local outdoor design temperature?

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Correct Answer: Winter

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Heat Gain is measured in what?

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Correct Answer: BTU's

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What is the purpose of an oil cooler?

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Correct Answer: Transfer of heat energy

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What is the name of the device used for the transfer of heat energy from the source to the conveying medium?

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Correct Answer: Heat Exchanger

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Water from an underground well is being used as the heat source or what for a heat pump?

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Correct Answer: Heat sink

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What material is used to cool the freon?

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Correct Answer: Glycol

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What is a typical location for the glycol-cooled condenser?

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Correct Answer: Inside the air conditioner

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What type of air conditioning system uses freon as a refrigerant?

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Correct Answer: Glycol-Cooled System

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What is the purpose of the vessel in an absorption cycle?

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Correct Answer: The lithium bromide solution is reconcentrated by boiling off the previously absorbed water

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What is the name of the vessel used to boil off the water from the lithium bromide solution?

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Correct Answer: Generator

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What type of energy is used to run furnaces?

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Correct Answer: Gas, oil, electricity or other fuel

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What part of an environmental system converts gas, oil, electricity or other fuel into heat for distribution within a structure?

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Correct Answer: Furnace

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What are the components of the group of hydrocarbons known as Freon?

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Correct Answer: Fluorine, chlorine or bromine

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What term is used to identify any of the group of partially or completely halogenated simple hydrocarbons containing fluorine, chlorine or bromine?

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Correct Answer: Freon

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What is the heat source or heat sink for a ground-source heat pump?

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Correct Answer: The ground or soil below the frost line

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What are the units installed in the field without if needed?

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Correct Answer: Ducts

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A water cooled or glycol cooled system with an additional coil that provides chilled water cooling when the what is cold?

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Correct Answer: Outdoor ambient

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What type of filter can be used to protect HVAC equipment?

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Correct Answer: Filters

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Filters vary greatly in what?

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Correct Answer: Particle arrestance

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Which scale temperature measurement is most common in the US?

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Correct Answer: Fahrenheit

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What is the purpose of the evaporator coil?

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Correct Answer: Take heat and moisture out of indoor air

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What does a evaporator do?

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Correct Answer: Absorbs heat from the surrounding air or liquid

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What is another name for the evaporator?

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Correct Answer: Cooling coil, blower coil, chilling unit or indoor coil

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What type of coil absorbs heat from the surrounding air and moves it outside the refrigerated area?

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Correct Answer: Evaporator

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What is the name of the test that EER was based on?

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Correct Answer: ARI-specified test conditions

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The EER is the ratio of the cooling capacity of the air conditioner in what unit, to the total electrical input in watts under ARI-specified test conditions?

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Correct Answer: British Thermal Units

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What kind of contaminants does an electronic air cleaner filter out?

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Correct Answer: Large particles and contaminants

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What is the name of the device that filters out large particles and contaminants?

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Correct Answer: Electronic Air Cleaner

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What are another name for channels or pipes?

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Correct Answer: Ductwork

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What are Ductwork used to carry?

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Correct Answer: Air

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What are channels or ductwork that carry air throughout a building?

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Correct Answer: Pipes or channels that carry air throughout a building

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What type of material is used to construct duct?

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Correct Answer: Sheet metal, fiberglass board, or other suitable material

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What is an air handling unit?

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Correct Answer: Duct

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Which type of furnace does the return air come from the top of?

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Correct Answer: Downflow Furnace

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What does a downflow furnace do at the bottom?

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Correct Answer: Expels warm air

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Downflow air conditioning systems discharge air downward, directly beneath what?

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Correct Answer: A raised floor

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What does a furnace "vent"?

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Correct Answer: Combustion gases directly outside

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What type of air does a furnace pull into the combustion process?

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Correct Answer: Outside

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How many types of cooling media are there?

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Correct Answer: Two

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What is used to cool a direct expansion system?

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Correct Answer: Freon

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What is the other type of basic cooling media?

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Correct Answer: Chilled water

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What does dehumidification reduce the water vapor in air by?

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Correct Answer: Cooling the air

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What is the reduction of water vapor in air by cooling the air below the dew point?

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Correct Answer: Dehumidification

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What does the term freeze cycle mean?

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Correct Answer: The process of removing ice or frost buildup from the outdoor coil during the heating season

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What season is it that the outdoor coil is refrozen?

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Correct Answer: Heating

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What does a damper do?

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Correct Answer: Opens and closes to control airflow

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What is a term for movable plate that controls airflow?

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Correct Answer: Damper

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What are used in zoning to regulate airflow?

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Correct Answer: Dampers

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What is the cooling load?

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Correct Answer: Heat which flows into a space

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What can flow into a space from outdoors and/or indoors?

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Correct Answer: Heat

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What is the name of the process that causes heat to flow into a space?

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Correct Answer: Cooling Load

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What is the measure of how much heat a unit can remove from an enclosed space?

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Correct Answer: Cooling Capacity

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What does COP stand for?

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Correct Answer: Coefficient of Performance

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What type of unit is a condensing unit?

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Correct Answer: Part of a refrigerating mechanism

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What part of a split system air conditioner contains the compressor?

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Correct Answer: Outdoor

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What does the term "condenser coil" refer to?

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Correct Answer: A series or network of tubes filled with refrigerant

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What is the name of the equipment that removes heat from the gas?

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Correct Answer: Condenser Coil

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What material is used to fill the tubes in a Condenser Coil?

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Correct Answer: Refrigerant

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What are the three types of condensers?

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Correct Answer: Air-cooled condensers, water-cooled condensers, and evaporative condensers

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What do condensers use to transfer heat?

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Correct Answer: Air

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What type of condenser uses a combination of air and water?

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Correct Answer: Evaporative condensers

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What does the word "condensation" mean?

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Correct Answer: The process by which a gas is changed into a liquid at constant temperature by heat removal

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What is the process by which a gas is changed into a liquid at constant temperature by heat removal?

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Correct Answer: Condensation

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What is the compressor often called?

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Correct Answer: The heart of the system

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What is the name of the pump that moves the refrigerant from the indoor evaporator to the outdoor condenser and back to the evaporator again?

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Correct Answer: Compressor

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Comfort air systems aren't designed for what?

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Correct Answer: Protection of computer-based electrical systems

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What is the major component of a chilled water system?

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Correct Answer: Chiller

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What is contained in a chiller?

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Correct Answer: Refrigerant

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What is a charge?

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Correct Answer: Amount of refrigerant in a system

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What is another term for "CFM"?

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Correct Answer: Cubic feet per minute

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What is the name of the type of compressor used in vapor compression refrigeration cycles?

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Correct Answer: Centrifugal Compressor

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What type of system is not affected by geography?

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Correct Answer: Central Air Conditioner System

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What does burning any fuel produce?

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Correct Answer: Carbon Monoxide

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What is CO produced by?

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Correct Answer: Burning any fuel

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How does the amount of space a system is able to heat or cool is usually expressed?

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Correct Answer: BTU's

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What is the capacity of a ton?

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Correct Answer: The ability of a heating or cooling system to heat or cool a given amount of space

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What is the units for capacity for cooling?

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Correct Answer: Tons

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