What are the three paths for handling recovered refrigerant?

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What are the three paths for handling recovered refrigerant?

The idea is that once refrigerant is recovered, it must be handled in one of three ways. It can be recycled, cleaned enough to be reused in equipment while not necessarily meeting virgin-purity standards, or it can be reclaimed, processed to meet the purity of virgin refrigerant so it can be returned to the supply as new. The third option is to vent or dispose it, which isn’t an allowed path for recovered refrigerant under regulatory rules. Storing is only temporary; the end goal is to move the recovered refrigerant into either recycling or reclamation so it can re-enter service.

The idea is that once refrigerant is recovered, it must be handled in one of three ways. It can be recycled, cleaned enough to be reused in equipment while not necessarily meeting virgin-purity standards, or it can be reclaimed, processed to meet the purity of virgin refrigerant so it can be returned to the supply as new. The third option is to vent or dispose it, which isn’t an allowed path for recovered refrigerant under regulatory rules. Storing is only temporary; the end goal is to move the recovered refrigerant into either recycling or reclamation so it can re-enter service.

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