Eight Principal Air Conditioner Parts and the way They Work

By Ian Parker


Here's the selection of 8 major air con parts and clarification of their main operation in every a/c device.

1. air-con or heat pump compressor which compresses reduced pressure refrigerant gas into a very high pressure, high temperature gas. Usually the pump is in the outside piece of an air conditioning or heat pump unit. The air conditioner or heat pump compressor unit is basically a very high pressure pump driven by an electrical motor. The air-con pump motor is usually packaged in the outdoor compressor or condenser element.

2. A condenser or condensing element: commonly a condensing coil contained within which high temperature very high pressure refrigerant gas streams, and over which a fan streams air to chill the refrigerant gas back into a liquid state (thus converting high temperature from the refrigerant gas into the air being exaggerated by the fan). The condenser component is basically a coil of finned tubing and a fan to deliver air along the coil. In most cases the condenser device is contained in the outdoor piece of an air conditioning system, in most cases packaged along with the compressor motor mentioned above

3. A metering appliance which pours liquid refrigerant right into an evaporator coil. The metering appliance might be simply a slim component of tubing or it may be considerably more sophisticated thermostatic expansion valve consisting of a temperature sensing control which can open and close the unit against refrigerant flow.

4. An evaporator coil or chilling coil: generally the cooling coil is a portion of finned tubing (it appears a lot like a car radiator) into which liquid refrigerant is metered and tolerated to evaporate from liquid to gas form contained in the coil. This state change of the refrigerant, from liquid to gas, soaks up heat, cooling the evaporator coil surface and in consequence cooling internal air delivery across the cooling coil. In most cases the cooling coil is placed inside the air handler.

5. An air handler in addition to blower element that provides a fan to blow building air over or through the evaporator coil. The air handler blower fan device delivers building air along the evaporator coil surface in an effort to condition building air by chilling it.

6. A duct system which redirects conditioned air from the air handler in to the bedroom or office space, and which takes air from the living space and returns it onto the cooling device air handler.

7. Heat Pump Equipment make use of the very same elements as noted above, with the addition of a reversing valve that fundamentally lets the system to operate in reverse in winter period. And so in air conditioning mode the heat pump is relocating high temperature from inside the building to outdoor while in warming mode the heat pump is relocating high temperature from outdoor air onto the building inside.

8. Air conditioner controls that include a room thermostat, automatic switches, fuses or electrical circuit breakers, condensate handling part, and air filter systems.




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