PCI' PSM and RMP Digest

In my travels around the country inspecting refrigeration systems, one thing that is consistent is the inconsistency of language. What some plants call a recirculator, others may call a pump package, or suction accumulator, or some other name. I recall one recirculator that the operators called the “pit tank”. When my curiosity could no longer be contained and I asked the operators why the recirculator was called “pit tank”, I was told that long ago the engine room equipment was in a pit inside the engine room. All the equipment had since been replaced with new stuff and the pit was filled with concrete, but the name of the old package stuck. And decades later, it was still called the pit tank, and probably will be forever.

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