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How
Air Conditioning Works
Air Conditioning works in a different
way to which many may think. Most people believe that air
conditioning units work by filling the room with cold air
but the main way it cools you is by removing the hot air that
is already in the room.
Explained simply - air conditioning includes both the cooling
and heating of air. It also includes cleaning. The purpose
of air conditioning is to make our homes / workplaces more
comfortable and healthier places to be in.
The Very Basics
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principle of air conditioning always comes down to the
same: |
| absorb
energy in one place and release it in another place |
The
process requires an indoor unit, an outdoor unit and copper
piping to connect both. Through the piping the refrigerant
flows from one unit to another. It is the refrigerant
that absorbs the energy in one unit and releases it in
the other.
Cooling
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1. Indoor
unit
A fan blows the hot indoor air over a heat exchanging coil through
which cold refrigerant flows. The cold refrigerant absorbs the
heat from the air and cooled air is blown into the room.
2.
Copper piping
The refrigerant circulates through the units and the piping
and takes the heat from the indoor unit to the outdoor unit. |
3.
Outdoor unit
Through compression, the refrigerant gas is heated and its boiling
point increases. In the outdoor unit the obtained heat through
compression is released to the outdoor air by means of a fan
which blows the outdoor air over a heat exchanging coil. |
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