Industrial Ammonia Refrigeration Level I

Name: Industrial Ammonia Refrigeration Level I
Start: 2026-07-20T07:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-07-23T17:30:00-04:00
Location: Ammonia Refrigeration Program - Lanier Technical College

Schedule

Mon, 20 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 am to Thu, 23 Jul, 2026 at 05:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Ammonia Refrigeration Program - Lanier Technical College | Gainesville, GA

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7:00 am - 5:30 pm
LTC – Deal Hall
2535 Lanier Tech Drive
Gainesville, Georgia, 30507
Class Price: $ 1,450.00

This class is designed to provide the Industrial Ammonia Refrigeration Operator with the theory and practical knowledge required to successfully operate today’s more sophisticated and demanding systems. Class material and training is based on Refrigeration Engineers and Technicians Associations, (RETA) material. The class consists of two sections, a 20 hour, classroom session followed by a 20-hour hands-on laboratory session, for a total of 40 hours. At the conclusion of the course the RETA Operator 1 test is administered. Upon completion of the course and passing the test, credit for this class is 36 professional development hours and 3.6 continuing education units. All texts and material needed for the class are included with the purchase of the class.
Lanier Technical College is also an approved RETA testing site where the CARO, CIRO, CRES, or CRST can be administered on Thursday afternoon at 3pm at the conclusion of the course. (CARO, CIRO, CRES, and CRST testing are an additional cost paid through RETA)
Topics covered in this course include:
Safety and regulatory overview of ammonia
Refrigeration fundamentals, and the refrigeration cycle
Heat load calculations
Properties of refrigerants
Refrigerant P/T charts and their function
Saturation, subcooling, and superheat
Compressors, compressor types, their function and compressor operation
Single stage, and two stage refrigeration systems
Oil draining
Operation and maintenance of industrial refrigeration systems
Oil, filtration and its function within a refrigeration system
Evaporators, evaporator types and their function
Condensers, condenser types and their function
Hot gas defrost
Non-Condensable gases
Purging
The course is taught 7am – 5:30pm Monday – Thursday.
A working lunch will be provided Wednesday and Thursday while in the lab.