AIR CONDITIONERS - Air conditioning is the process of removing heat from the interior of an occupied space, to improve the comfort of occupants. Air conditioning is often used to lower the temperature of the certain area, to achieve more comfortable environment. Air conditioning is not only done to ease temperature for a better environment for humans or animals, but is also done for various other purposes like to cool/dehumidify rooms filled with heat-producing electronic devices, such as computer servers, power amplifiers, and even to display and store artwork.

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Air Conditioners

Working Of an Air Conditioner

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Air conditioners are the devices that perform air conditioning.

Air conditioning is the process of removing heat from the interior of an occupied space, to improve the comfort of occupants.

Air conditioning is often used to lower the temperature of the certain area, to achieve more comfortable environment. air conditioner

It can be used for both commercial and domestic purpose.

Air conditioning is not only done to ease temperature for a better environment for humans or animals, but is also done for various other purposes like to cool/dehumidify rooms filled with heat-producing electronic devices, such as computer servers, power amplifiers, and even to display and store artwork.

Air conditioners often use a fan to distribute the conditioned air to an occupied space such as a building or a car to improve thermal comfort and indoor air quality.

Electric refrigerant-based AC units range from small units that can cool a small bedroom, which can be carried by a single adult, to massive units installed on the roof of office towers that can cool an entire building.

The cooling is typically achieved through a refrigeration cycle, but sometimes evaporation or free cooling is used.

Air conditioning systems can also be made based on desiccants (chemicals which remove moisture from the air) and subterraneous pipes that can distribute the heated refrigerant to the ground for cooling.

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-   The air flows over some chiller pipes through which a coolant fluid is circulating. This part of the machine works just like the chiller cabinet in a refrigerator. It cools down the incoming air and a dehumidifier removes any excess moisture.

-   The air then flows over a heating element (similar to the one in a fan heater). On a cold day, this part of the unit may be turned right up so the HVAC works as a heater.

-   A fan at the top blasts the air back through another grille into the room. If the heating element is turned down, the air re-entering the room is much cooler, so the room gradually cools down.

-   Meanwhile, coolant (a volatile liquid that evaporates easily) flows through the chiller pipes. As it does so, it picks up heat from the air blowing past the pipes and evaporates, turning from a cool liquid into a hotter gas.

It carries this heat from inside the room to the outside of the building, where it gives up its heat to the outside air. How?

Just like in a refrigerator, the coolant flows through a compressor unit and some condensing pipes, which turn it back into a cool liquid ready to cycle around the loop again.

-   What happens to the heat? In the unit outside the building, there are lots of metal plates that dissipate the heat to the atmosphere. An electric fan blows air past them to accelerate the process.

-   Over time, the heat inside the building gradually pumps away into the outside air.

 

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