AIR CONDITIONING
AND REFRIGERATION
MECHANIC
Our qualification is designed to equip you with the expertise to allow progression opportunities.
AIR CONDITIONING
NQF Level
NQF 4
Credits
641
SAQA Nr
103277
Delivery Mode
Full time
Duration
3 YEARS
- 3 months knowledge
- 9 months work placement
- Repeats every year.
Cost Amount
R 49 500 p.a.
Entry Requirements
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NQF Level 1 (Grade 9)
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Mathematics
Our qualification is your gateway to becoming a skilled professional in this dynamic field.and you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring comfort and safety for people across various settings. Meeting Industry and National Standards as an Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Mechanic, you’ll be equipped to install, commission, service, maintain, overhaul, repair, and troubleshoot systems in compliance with customer requirements, industry best practices, and national standards.
What will be included in our costs?
PPE • Standard Toolbox • Trade Test • Workplace Monitoring
What this qualification consists of
Knowledge
modules
- Intro to the refrigeration trade.
- Health and safety requirements.
- Scaffolding, working at heights, fall arrest systems and ladders.
- Trade related and engineering tools and instruments.
- Thermodynamics.
- Components and accessories.
- Refrigeration materials and piping.
- Installation of duct work and components.
- Handling of refrigerants.
- Fundamentals of electricity.
- Evacuation and maintenance of a refrigeration system.
- Maintenance of air filtration systems.
- Refrigerants and lubricants.
- Understanding corrosion and corrosion protection.
- Fixing methods. Engineering drawings. Ventilation.
- Air conditioning systems applicable to vehicles.
- Moving, assembly, de – commission and dismantling of equipment.
- Keyways and locking devices, bearings, drives and couplings.
- Fundamentals of basic psychometrics and elementary air flow measurements and calculations.
- Gas welding brazing and cutting.
- Water reticulation systems.
- Evaporative cooling.
- Charging the refrigeration system.
- Various refrigeration systems and components.
- Controls and safety devices.
- Application of psychometrics, Temperature, humidity, specific volume, specific density, enthalpy, and calculations.
- Mollier diagrams (pressure enthalpy diagram).
- Heat load calculations. Electrical aspects.
- Ducting.
- Types of air conditioning systems.
- Fault finding. Contaminated system.
- Refurbishment of equipment. Manual metal arc (mma), mig and tig welding process.
- Building management systems.
- Advanced evaporative cooling concepts.
- Inspection and evaluation of the conformance of equipment.
Practical skills
modules
- Pressure tests.
- Erect scaffolding, assemble fall prevention systems, the safe use of ladders and erect Aluminium towers.
- Evacuate and charge the system.
- Recover refrigerants from a refrigeration system.
- Braze refrigerant tubing and components.
- Cut, gas weld, and braze refrigeration systems and structures.
- Manufacture a work – piece incidental to the trade.
- Apply corrosion protection methodologies.
- Install a unitary air conditioning system.
- Install a unitary air conditioning system.
- Install, commission, maintain, fault find, repair an evaporative cooling system.
- Identify, select, and use fixing methods for various types of applications used.
- Identify, select, and use electrical tools and instruments.
- Read, interpret, and construct electrical and electronic circuits.
- Install refrigeration materials and pipe work.
- Plan for a project.
- Commission a unitary air conditioning system.
- Install, repair and maintain vehicle / mobile air conditioning.
- Perform work activities on keyways and locking devices, bearings, drives and couplings.
- Install water reticulation equipment and systems.
- Commission a domestic and light commercial refrigeration system.
- Calculate heat load.
- Install ducting.
- Commission commercial air conditioning systems and equipment.
- Move, assemble, and dismantle systems.
- Perform fillet welds using the Shielded Metal Arc, MIG and TIG.
- Welding process for refrigeration applications.
- Construct electrical and electronic circuits.
- Maintain a system.
- Refurbish equipment.
- Commission an industrial air conditioning system.
- Design and select evaporative cooling systems.
- Analyse a system using a Mollier Diagram.
- Inspect and evaluate the conformance of equipment.
Workplace experiences
modules
- Installation of unitary air conditioning system.
- Fall arrest systems and processes.
- Processes and procedures for erecting and dismantling access scaffolding up to 6mm.
- Assembling a unitary air conditioning unit.
- Reading, interpreting, and constructing basic electrical and electronic circuits.
- Cleaning, corrosion protection and appropriate fault responses.
- Processes related to pressure testing.
- Maintenance and repairs processes for unitary air conditioning systems.
- Installing, commissioning, maintaining, fault finding and repairing an evaporative cooling system.
- Installation of a complete commercial air conditioning system.
- Constructing a commercial air conditioning system.
- Installation of air conditioning and ventilation ducting systems.
- Processes relating to install, repair and maintain vehicle / mobile air conditioning system.
- Identification of faults and carrying out minor repairs.
- Maintenance processes.
- Commissioning a complete air conditioning and refrigeration system.
- Testing the assembled air conditioning system.
- Servicing processes related to an air conditioning and refrigeration plant.
- Fault finding and repair processes.
- Maintenance and repairs processes for industrial air conditioning systems.
- Construction of electrical and electronic circuits.
- Designing and selecting evaporative cooling systems.
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