Track Refrigerant Usage and Streamline Compliance With vx Sustain Enterprise Refrigerant Management System
Avoid fines from refrigeration leaks, monitor usage, and stay compliant. vx Sustain has all your refrigeration management needs covered.
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With fines totaling upwards of $37,500 per day, it’s important to note how new regulatory changes will affect your enterprise refrigerant management compliance.
In 2016, a well-known national grocery store chain violated the Clean Air Act by failing to promptly repair leaks from their refrigeration equipment. In addition to paying a hefty $500,000 fine, this violation resulted in over $2 million of mandatory repairs and upgrades, because of faulty enterprise refrigerant management.
However, this grocery store chain case is not the largest fine the EPA levied for faulty enterprise refrigeration management. One of the largest cases settled was over $4 million in fines with millions of dollars in mandatory upgrades. Previously, the EPA 608 section standards only applied to appliances containing ozone-depleting substances.
Leak rates now must be calculated every time refrigerant is added to the appliance. As a result, if the leak rates exceed the newer lowered thresholds, that appliance must be repaired to bring the leak rate back down.
For appliances that have exceeded the leak rate, periodic leak inspections (moved link) now will be required and conducted by a certified technician.
If the appliance is continuously monitored by an automatic leak detection system, they are not required to adhere to the periodic leak inspections.
If the appliance has been inspected and needs repair, a verification test must be conducted ensuring that the repaired appliance has returned to normal operation conditions. Owner-operators have a 30-day repair period to inspect, repair and verify the appliance.
When components of a repair are not available within the 30-day repair period, a 30-day extension to repair will be available to all commercial refrigeration and comfort cooling appliances instead of just IPRs. For any appliances that need to be retired they have 18 months to retire or replace as opposed to the current standard of one year.
Some organizations are dealing with several variations of refrigerants and appliances, so the room for error and misunderstanding of standards is big, leaving them even more vulnerable to EPA fines. With refrigerant leaks as one of the highest maintenance expenses, adding on a repair and a hefty fine due to non-compliance could have a very significant impact on your organization.
Learn more about how Accruent helps identify problems, track repairs and minimize vulnerabilities in refrigeration management. Contact us today!
Avoid fines from refrigeration leaks, monitor usage, and stay compliant. vx Sustain has all your refrigeration management needs covered.
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