F Gas Category 1:
Five Day
City & Guilds 2079
Note this qualification does NOT have an expiry date!
Who will benefit?
The aim of this course is to introduce, train, assess & qualify where appropriate experienced and non-experienced candidates who need to obtain the minimum legal qualification to install, commission, service, maintain, recover & leak check all refrigeration, air conditioning & heat pump systems in accordance with the F Gas Regulation EC842/2006. All engineers will have to obtain this qualification by 4th July 2011.
What will be gained?
Sufficient skills, knowledge and techniques to:
- Fabricate & fit mechanical and brazed joints
- Pressure test and evacuate to BSEN378
- Charge a blended refrigerant
- Analyse system performance to ensure efficiency (using pressure, temperature, refrigerant state and rule of thumb)
- Leak test to EC1516/2007
- Maintain ‘F Gas’ log books and records
- Handle refrigerant safely & dispose of legally
- Ensure systems are tight, efficient in their use of energy and meet the F Gas legal requirements
How will it be tested?
By both comprehensive practical and forty question on-line assessment
The fee includes:
Course materials, lunch and refreshments.
Dave Parsons
Dunham-Bush Limited
The course was conducted in a friendly and relaxed environment. I found the theory side of the course to be refreshing with regards to the rules and regulations and on certain... Read more
Steve Glasby
Many thanks to you and all your staff for helping me pass the F Gas course last week, it was good fun and also good personal achievement too. Once again many thanks to the Ellis... Read more
Joe Collins
Associated Cooling Services Ltd
Many thanks to you and all the Ellis Training team for making the F Gas City & Guilds 2079 course so enjoyable and informative. I attended the course ahead of our employees to try... Read more
Del French
Selex Galileo
A big thank you to all of the staff at Ellis Traning Works for taking me from being a complete novice on refrigeration to being a holder of the FGas Category 1 (C & G 2079... Read more
Kevin Bright
Eton Associates
I thought I must drop you a quick email thanking you for such a well run course. The enthusiasm expressed by all the lectures for the subject was great, and this made the course... Read more
Rick Baxter
Natural AC LTD
With regards to the recent F Gas course that I attended recently. I was very impressed with the standard that Ellis Training provided. I feel that all elements are covered, such... Read more
Dennis Gwynne
Andrews Sykes Group PLC
Just a quick note of thanks and appreciation for the excellent City & Guilds 2079 F Gas Qualification course your company are running. To date 3 of the 10 engineers we have booked... Read more
Mark Hines
LM Plumbing and Heating
Firstly I would like to thank you, I recently attended the F Gas, Split air conditioning installation and commissioning and Service and maintenance courses and found the courses... Read more
Lawrence Workman
Herts Cooling Ltd
We have sent our engineers to Ellis Training Works since its inception and found the level of training to be far superior to that experienced at other training organisations. We... Read more
