Abstract: A multiple cooling medium recovery apparatus comprising, a refrigerating circuit which circulates a refrigerant through a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, a heat exchanger with an evaporation path and a compressor, and a plurality of recovery routes separated from one another to which a plurality of kinds of cooling mediums to be recovered are supplied, respectively. A plurality of condensation paths are formed in the heat exchanger separaately from one another. Each recovery route defines a condensation path separately from the other recovery routes. A plurality of independent recovery routes are formed in a single recovery apparatus. A plurality of kinds of cooling mediums can be recovered simultaneously, or without cleaning the apparatus before each recovery.

Abstract: For use in processing an object refrigerant produced from an original refrigerant, a refrigerant processing system comprises a separating unit (18, 20, and 22) for separating the original refrigerant into a gaseous phase refrigerant component and a liquid phase refrigerant component. A first supplying pipe (12a) supplies the gaseous phase refrigerant component as the object refrigerant to a liquefying unit (24a and 24b), which liquefies the object refrigerant into a liquefied object refrigerant by the use of evaporation of a liquid refrigerant. A second supplying pipe (12b) supplies the liquid phase refrigerant component to the liquefying unit as the liquid refrigerant. The separating unit comprises a receiving unit (18) for receiving the original refrigerant as a received refrigerant, a condensing unit (20) for condensing the received refrigerant into a condensed refrigerant, and a separation vessel (22) comprising upper and bottom parts defining upper and bottom spaces, respectively.