(a) Each refrigeration system must:
- (1) Have enough capacity to maintain the cargo vapor pressure in each cargo tank served by the system below the set pressure of the relief valves under ambient temperatures of 45 °C (113 °F) still air and 32 °C (89.6 °F) still water with the largest unit in the system inoperative; or
- (2) Have a standby unit with a capacity at least equal to the capacity of the largest refrigeration unit in the system.
- (b) For the purpose of this section, a “refrigeration unit” includes a compressor and its motors and controls.
(c) Each refrigeration system must:
- (1) Have a heat exchanger with an excess capacity of 25 percent of the required capacity; or
- (2) A standby heat exchanger.
(d) Where cooling water is used in a refrigeration system:
- (1) The cooling water pump or pumps must be used exclusively for the system;
- (2) Each pump must have suction lines from sea chests on the port and starboard sides of the vessel; and
(3) There must be a standby pump, that may be used for:
- (i) Non-essential purposes on the vessel; or
- (ii) Essential purposes on the vessel, if the pump is sized to simultaneously provide for the capacity requirements for the essential purposes and the refrigeration cooling water.
- (e) Each refrigeration system must use refrigerants that are compatible with the cargo and, for cascade units, with each other.
- (f) The pressure of the heat transfer fluid in each cooling coil in a tank must be greater than the pressure of the cargo.