Wat is the difference between Air cooler(AC) and air conditioner(AC)??

Answer 1

Aircoolers work on evaporative cooling principle( adiabatic cooling) that is dry air is passed through a wet medium and the air picks up water thereby cooling it. This system would normally work at high efficiency in hot and dry areas.

In air conditioning we are dehumdifying the air by passing it through coilds carrying referegent to achieve the cooling. This system can be used in all types of places

Answer 2

Air Cooler: A fan is installed on one face of a box facing the room to be cooled. The other three sides are open but covered with fibres which can obsorb water. There will be a channel on top of the three sides with holes at regular intervals, installed just above the fibre plane.

There is a small water tank at the bottom of the cooler housing the fan. A pump keeps circulating the water thru the channels having holes. When the cooler pump is on, water start flowing down thru the holes of the channel and wets the fibres, which absorbs water and gets a bit swollen.

Now switch on the fan, it will start sucking the hot air from outside thru the wet fibres. The hot air is cooled immediately by the wet fibres plus free water flowing down from the three sides and sucked by the fan and thrown in to the room. That's how the cool air cools the room.

The air coolers are used in hot ambient conditions, where the moisture in air is low like Delhi, Bhopal, Punjab, Bihar, Nagpur etc.,. If used in coastel areas, it will wet the room due to the excess water in the ambient.

Air Conditioner: This uses a compressible coolent, a compressor, a radiator. The compressed gas is liquified and is circulated thru the enclosure which is to be cooled, like a refrigerator. The hot/warm ambient inside the fridge will be cooled by this refrigerant and evaporates. The radiator at the back of the fridge will drop the temperature by natural convection and finally the gas enters the compressor, which will again continue to compress the gas and liquify and circulate. This is a continuous process.

Such applications are used mostly in refrigerators, room air conditioners.

Answer 3

Air Cooler :

Needs a motor to pump water in the side panels
Needs a big fan which will throw air
Needs filling of the water in the tray as and when it is empty
Economical power consumption - actually for pump and fan.

Air Conditioner :
Has a compressor
Regulates the room temperature
No need to fill water
High Power consumption

Answer 4

air cooler basically dropped the temperature of the room by blowing cool air using a fan and stored ice/water..

air conditioners are far more complex than the coolers coz they have different mechanisms and uses coolants (freon, etc) for cooling purposes and you can control the temperature to your desired settings..some conditioners also have that feature of not only cooling air but reversing the process, thus heating the air for cold weathers..

Answer 5

as the name suggests aircooler only cools the air by sprying wanter in the air/air gets cooled by passing over water.
but air conditioner maintains a particular temparature of the air in the room ,by taking away heat by a freezing chemical ,like feon/some other coolent.

Answer 6

air conditioning runs air through a condenser filled with liquid coolant and runs the evaporated water off through a tube...

a cooler is just a big fan that you FILL with water (usually in the bottom) and a fan uses the water to cool the room, by blowing over it, so it evaporates.

Answer 7

Air conditioning usually refers to both temperature and humidity control. Air cooling only affects temperature.

Answer 8

in basic terms as you enter a premises and go out. an same way the breath that you're taking in is inhaled air and what you're taking out is exhaled air. Inhaled air brings purity contained in the gadget while the exhaled one takes out the impurity pollution (if any)