HOT GAS DEFROST PROCESS

摘要

A hot gas defrost process is disclosed for defrosting an evaporator of a refrigeration system. In an exemplary embodiment, the hot gas defrost process includes the step of flooding at least one evaporator to be defrosted with liquid refrigerant prior to supplying a hot refrigerant vapor to the liquid flooded evaporator. In an exemplary embodiment, the hot gas process includes the step of suctioning down the refrigeration pressure within the evaporator upon termination of the supplying of the hot refrigerant vapor to the evaporator being defrosted.