First off all I don't like it that lots of people here build cascades without high pressure cut off's. Now I see autocascades becoming more popular and I'm afraid people won't use high pressure cut offs on them as well while the need for it on an autocascade is larger by far.
Suppose you get an autocascade working well, what will happen when you put a load on the evap bigger then what you tuned it for? The HX also gets more load and might not be able to handle this. What will happen is the temperature will go up and the high pressure gas isn't able to condens anymore and pressures will rise very very quickly. This is a very dangerous but likely scenario. When an autocascade doesn't work fully this change is even greater.
The same will happen when the low pressure gas expansion device (cappilair, TXV etc) gets clogged with debris or will freeze shut because of water remains in the system or when more stages are used oil that gets trough the oil sep. Also very possible to happen.
Offcourse these things can also happen with cascades but since the autocascades we build are less reliable in their workings, the chance of failure is higher so I wanted to point this out once more.
take this serious and always use at least high pressure cut off valves!!!!!
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