// The deliverable

The report you are buying, before you buy one

Name: AMALINA Technologies, Inc.
Address: 13564 E. Imperial Hwy, Unit D, Santa Fe Springs, CA, 90670, US
Telephone: (562) 404-9955

A laboratory sells a document. Below is ours — every field, every characteristic, the limit each one is judged against and the verdict — reproduced on an illustrative sample and then annotated line by line with what the number is and what a failure would mean on the machine it came out of.

No limit below is typed into this page. Every limit, and every verdict beside it, renders from the same specification data as the tables on our AHRI 700 reference page — and each verdict is computed against that limit rather than written down — so nothing in this example can quietly disagree with the standard it is judged against.

01The specimen

An analysis report, end to end

A blend that is inside every contaminant limit and outside one composition window — the result a purity figure cannot see, and the reason this example fails rather than passes.

Illustrative example · not a released result · every identifier, value and name below is fictitious

AMALINA Technologies, Inc.

13564 E. Imperial Hwy, Unit D, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670

(562) 404-9955 · info@amalinatechnologies.com

Issuing laboratory

AHRI Certified^®Refrigerant Testing Laboratory. Listed by name in AHRI’s public directory.

Report header

Customer: EXAMPLE CUSTOMERMechanical contractor, Los Angeles County
Customer P.O.: PO-EXAMPLE-4417
Refrigerant type: R-410A
Sample ID: EX-2026-0143
Date requested: 2026-02-09
Report no. / revision: EX-R-0143 rev. 1
Job description: Charge recovered during air-cooled chiller replacement. Verification of the recovered lot before it is offered for reclaim.
Judged against: 40 CFR 82 subpart F, Appendix AThe federally incorporated text (AHRI 700-2016 basis). This is the binding one for Section 608 work.

Sample

Refrigerant: R-410A
Quantity received: 350 g
Date sampled: 2026-02-11
Laboratory no.: EX-20260211-07
Drawn from: Liquid valve · 400 psi cylinder
Source temp. at sampling: 21.7 °C

System and compressor

Illustrative system and compressor identification recorded with the sample
Asset	Manufacturer	Model	Serial
SystemAir-cooled scroll chiller, 60 ton	EXAMPLE OEM	EX-ACS-060	EX-14-000871
CompressorTandem scroll, circuit 1	EXAMPLE OEM	EX-SCR-30T	EX-19-114552

Composition — R-410A

Illustrative measured composition against the AHRI 700 allowable window for each named component of R-410A
Component	Measured (% wt)	Nominal	Allowable window	Verdict
R-32	48.1	50.0	48.5–50.5	Fail
R-125	51.5	50.0	49.5–51.5	Pass

There is no purity row in this table, because on a blend there is nothing for one to say. Each component has its own two-sided window plus a 0.5%-by-weight cap on anything that is not a named component. A blend can be 99.5% pure and still fail.

Analysis

Illustrative measured value, applicable AHRI 700 limit and verdict for each of the 7 characteristics
Characteristic	Measured	AHRI 700 limit	Verdict
Air and other non-condensables% by volume @ 25.0 °C	0.42	1.5 max	Pass
Waterppm by weight	6.1	10 max	Pass
All other volatile impurities% by weight	0.40	0.5 max	Pass
High boiling residue% by volume or % by weight	0.01	0.01 max	Pass
Particulates and solidspass/fail	Visually clean	Visually clean	Pass
Acidityppm by weight as HCl	< 0.1	1 max	Pass
Chloridepass/fail	No visible turbidity	No visible turbidity	Pass

Conformance

EX-20260211-07Does not conform to AHRI 700

Conformance is all-or-nothing. AHRI 700-2024 §7 is explicit that material which has not met every requirement cannot reference, state or acknowledge conformance to the standard in any written, oral or electronic communication — so this line has two states and no third, and there is no partial credit for the 8 rows that did pass.

Notes and recommendations

R-32 is 0.4 percentage points below the lower bound of its window (48.5–50.5). The lot is not R-410A within the meaning of the standard and cannot be represented as conforming.
All 7 contaminant characteristics are within limits. This is a composition finding, not a contamination finding: the material is a candidate for reprocessing rather than destruction, and it should not be sold, transferred or charged as R-410A in its present state.
A depleted lighter component in a recovered blend is normally fractionation during recovery — vapour drawn from a cylinder that was already partly emptied. Where the same lot is re-sampled after mixing, quote this laboratory number so the two results stay joined.
High boiling residue is reported at the maximum rather than below it. That is a pass. The standard says the value shall not exceed the maximum, so a result exactly at the limit is a pass.

Analyst

Tested by — name, signature, date

Reviewed and released by — name, signature, date

On a released report these lines carry the analyst’s name, signature and the date of issue. This specimen prints none of them: we do not put a member of staff on a demonstration document, and we do not print an issue date here either, because the interval between a sample arriving and a report leaving is a commitment we have not published — an example report is not the place to imply one.

Illustrative example · page 1 of 1 · report EX-R-0143 rev. 1 · a correction is issued as a new revision naming the one it replaces

02Row by row

What each number is, and what a failure tells you

The verdict column answers whether the material conforms. It does not tell you what went wrong or what to do next, and that is usually the question you actually have.

Air and other non-condensables

Pass

0.42 against 1.5 max · % by volume @ 25.0 °C

What the number is: The fraction of the vapour space that will not condense at condenser pressure — overwhelmingly air, with nitrogen left from a pressure test as the other common source. It is the only row measured on a separate vapour draw, because a liquid sample cannot see it, and the only one the standard defines at a fixed reference temperature, which is why the source temperature at the time of sampling is part of the record rather than a nicety.
Method in the standard: Gas chromatography — separate vapour-phase sample
What a failure indicates: Non-condensables occupy condenser surface and add partial pressure that does no work. Head pressure and discharge temperature rise, capacity and efficiency fall, and the hotter discharge accelerates breakdown of both oil and refrigerant. On recovered material the cause is usually the recovery process itself — a cylinder that was not evacuated, or air pulled in through a hose or an open fitting. On a machine still running, look at a low side operating in vacuum or a purge unit that is no longer keeping up.

Water

Pass

6.1 against 10 max · ppm by weight

What the number is: Total water by weight in the liquid phase. It is also the row most sensitive to how the sample was taken — an uncapped hose, a bottle opened to atmosphere, a cylinder that was not evacuated — so a moisture result is read next to the sampling record, not on its own.
Method in the standard: Karl Fischer titration
What a failure indicates: Moisture is the contaminant that manufactures the other ones. In a POE system it hydrolyses the ester to organic acid; with a chlorinated refrigerant it drives hydrolysis toward hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acid, which attacks winding insulation and copper and produces the copper plating found on the journals of a failed compressor. Free water freezes at the metering device and restricts a capillary or a TXV — the fault that clears on a shutdown and comes back on a run. A moisture fail is a drier change and a re-check, not a top-up.

All other volatile impurities

Pass

0.40 against 0.5 max · % by weight

What the number is: Everything present by weight that is not a named component of this refrigerant. This is the row people are reaching for when they quote a 99.5% purity minimum: the standard specifies the impurity maximum, and the purity figure is only its arithmetic complement. There is no purity characteristic in AHRI 700 to fail.
Method in the standard: Gas chromatography
What a failure indicates: On recovered material this is nearly always cross-contamination rather than degradation — another refrigerant left in the recovery machine, the hoses, the manifold or the cylinder. Identify the impurity before deciding what to do with the lot: a few tenths of a percent of a lighter component moves the bubble point, and a mixed lot has no reclaim value at all.

High boiling residue

Pass

0.01 against 0.01 max · % by volume or % by weight

What the number is: The mass that will not boil off — compressor oil, and whatever is dissolved in it. Determined gravimetrically, and the basis used is recorded alongside the value because per cent by volume and per cent by weight are not interchangeable on a residue this small.
Method in the standard: Gravimetric — the basis used must be recorded
What a failure indicates: Oil carryover. Either liquid was drawn from a point where oil is entrained, or a recovery machine flooded and pushed oil down the line. In the receiving system the oil films evaporator tubing and costs heat transfer, and in a reclaim stream it is a distillation load rather than a rejection — which is why the row is reported as a number and not as a comment.

Particulates and solids

Pass

Visually clean · pass/fail

What the number is: A visual determination on the liquid phase. What turns up is metallic fines from a bearing or a burnout, desiccant dust from a collapsed drier core, and scale or filings left from field brazing.
Method in the standard: Visual
What a failure indicates: Solids plug metering devices and drier cores and are abrasive everywhere they circulate. On recovered gas, particulates together with acidity are the burnout signature; particulates on their own usually mean the recovery machine's filter was past due when the lot was pulled.

Acidity

Pass

< 0.1 against 1 max · ppm by weight as HCl

What the number is: Titrated and reported as parts per million by weight of hydrochloric acid, whatever the acid species actually is. Below the detection limit of the method — stated in the method line below, and on the report itself — the value is printed as less than that figure, as it is on the specimen. “Trace” is not a reportable value: there is no number in it to compare with a limit.
Method in the standard: Titration — detection limit 0.1 ppm on a 50–60 g sample
What a failure indicates: A burnout, or a system that ran hot enough to begin decomposing refrigerant and oil. Acid above the limit means the material is not fit to go back into a machine and belongs in a reclaim stream, and it means the system it came out of needs its drier changed and re-checked rather than simply recharged. Read the acidity and moisture rows together: moisture is the mechanism, acid is the evidence it has been running.

Chloride

Pass

No visible turbidity · pass/fail

What the number is: A turbidity screen rather than a quantitation. It answers whether chloride is present at the level where turbidity appears — the method line below carries that level — and not how much of it there is.
Method in the standard: Turbidity — turbidity appears at roughly 3 ppm by weight
What a failure indicates: Visible turbidity indicates chloride in the material — decomposition of a chlorinated refrigerant, or carry-over from processing. Ionic chloride in a running system is corrosive to copper and to motor insulation. A turbid result is worth reading next to the acidity row; the two normally move together, and when they do not, the sampling is the first thing to question.

Composition, per named component

Fail

R-32 48.1 (48.5–50.5) · R-125 51.5 (49.5–51.5)

What the number is: The measured mass fraction of each named component against its own two-sided window. The windows are not symmetric tolerances and cannot be implemented as nominal plus or minus anything — R-410A and R-507A carry the same nominal split and their windows are skewed in opposite directions.
What a failure indicates: The blend is no longer the blend on the drum. An off-window R-32 fraction shifts the saturation curve and the glide, so pressure–temperature charts and superheat set on the nominal composition stop being right. On recovered material the usual cause is fractionation — vapour drawn off a partly emptied cylinder — which is repairable by reprocessing, and that is precisely why the components are printed individually instead of collapsed into one purity figure that would hide which way the error runs.

03Reading the verdict

Three things people query, answered in advance

Each of these is a place where a reasonable reader and a laboratory can disagree about what a result means. Stating the rule before the result exists is cheaper than arguing about it afterwards.

A result equal to the limit is a pass

The standard says the value shall not exceed the maximum, so a result exactly at the limit is a pass. Two rows of the specimen sit exactly on a bound and both are marked pass: high boiling residue at 0.01 against a maximum of 0.01, and R-125 at 51.5% against a window that ends at 51.5%.

The decision rule behind that is simple acceptance: the measured value is compared with the limit as printed, and measurement uncertainty is not subtracted from the result or added to the limit before the comparison. AHRI 700-2024 §4.4.2 states that uncertainty is already accounted for in the tables. We publish the rule because a boundary result with an unstated rule is the one you end up explaining on the phone.

A blend can be high purity and still fail

Each component has its own two-sided window plus a 0.5%-by-weight cap on anything that is not a named component. A blend can be 99.5% pure and still fail. The specimen is the case in the flesh: only 0.4% by weight of it is anything other than a named component, so by the arithmetic that produces a “purity” figure it is 99.6% pure. It still fails, because the two named components are in the wrong ratio to each other, and no purity number can see that.

The same illustrative lot judged two ways
Judged on purityNot a characteristic in AHRI 700	99.6% vs 99.5% min	Pass
Judged on compositionWhat the standard actually specifies	R-32 48.1 (48.5–50.5) · R-125 51.5 (49.5–51.5)	Fail

Read the two rows in the order a batch moves: a purity line would have released this lot. That is the failure mode, and it runs in both directions — the full set of composition windows is published so you can check ours against your own material before you send anything.

Non-condensables read Not Applicable, never Pass

Refrigerants whose normal boiling point is at or above room temperature are exempt. We report those as Not Applicable, never as a pass and never as blank. Printing a pass against a limit for a determination the standard does not ask for reports a test that was not run; printing a blank invites someone to assume it was missed. The value is stored as absent, not as zero, and it renders as its own third state.

Under the federally incorporated appendix the exempt fluids are R-11, R-113, R-123, R-141b, R-245fa, R-1233zd(E). The list is not the same in every edition — that is one of several reasons the report names the edition it was judged against rather than citing “AHRI 700” and leaving it there.

Illustrative extract · same report format · R-123 recovered from a low-pressure chiller

Illustrative extract of the analysis table for R-123, showing the non-condensables exemption and the water limit that applies to this refrigerant
Characteristic	Measured	Limit for R-123	Verdict
Air and other non-condensables% by volume @ 25.0 °C	Not determined	Determination not required	Not applicable
Waterppm by weight	15.0	20 max	Pass
All other volatile impurities% by weight	0.28	0.5 max	Pass
Acidityppm by weight as HCl	0.4	1 max	Pass

Look at the water row. 15 ppm is a pass on R-123, whose limit is 20 ppm — and the same result read against a single generic 10 ppm column — the limit that applies to most of the table, but not to this fluid — is a fail. On the low-pressure chiller line that mistake turns conforming material into a contamination discount or a disposal fee. R-123 also carries an isomer window the generic column has no row for at all: 0–8 each of R-123a, R-123b.

Why the sample block records a source temperature

The non-condensables measurement is defined at 25.0 °C on a vapour-phase sample, so the source temperature at the time of sampling is part of the record. It cannot be reconstructed once the cylinder has travelled, which is why it is captured on the form at the moment of sampling rather than at the bench.

04Plain statements

What the report is, and what it is not

The laboratory is certified. The report is not.

This is a report from an AHRI Certified^® Refrigerant Testing Laboratory. That is a statement about who issued the document, not about the document — no certificate makes a result correct. What it does mean is that the laboratory behind the number is listed by name in a directory you can open yourself.

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Nothing on this page is a real result

Every customer, purchase order, serial number, laboratory number and measured value above is fabricated to show the format, and we publish no customer’s result, named or otherwise. The limits are not fabricated: each one renders from the same specification data as the reference tables published on this site, and each verdict is computed against it rather than typed, so the example cannot drift from the standard.

Where the result travels

The specimen is a reclaim verification, which is exactly the case where you should know this: Amalina Technologies shares ownership with Chiller Services Refrigerants, a refrigerant reclaimer in the adjacent unit of the same building. A result of ours can be an input to the price they pay for a lot.

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