IMI Level 3 Automotive Refrigerant Handling or as we call it F-Gas

Successful learners will achieve an IMI Level 3 Award in Automotive Refrigerant Handling (EC842-2006) This Award is a qualification for life so there will be no need to be reassessed periodically.

F Gas Course Outcomes: Understand the operation of air conditioning systems in motor vehicles from the refrigerant cycle, to latent heat and the operation of variable swash plate compressors.
Learn about the use and properties of the fluorinated greenhouse gases used as refrigerants in air conditioning systems in motor vehicles and the impact of the emissions of these gases on the environment.

*Understand the relevant European directives and regulations.
*Know the correct procedures for recovering fluorinated greenhouse gases.
*Be able to demonstrate how to handle a refrigerant cylinder, including filling, transportation and storage.
*Be able to connect and disconnect a recovery set to and from the high and low pressure service ports of a motor vehicle air conditioning system containing fluorinated refrigerants.
*Be able to operate an air conditioning recycling machine.
*Learn how to diagnose and rectify faults in mobile AC systems.