How does an air conditioner work?
The window unit one and the Central One.
and How does an air conditioner uses electricity(What part of air conditioner uses electricity?)?
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2007-02-22 15:51:56 · 6 answers · asked by hongwei24 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
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2007-02-22 15:56:17 · answer #1 · answered by dv4unme 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
AC takes advantage of the fact that as pressure is increased, the boiling point of a material increases. Likewise as the pressure is decreased, the boiling point goes down.
An air conditioner is made up of a compressor, run by a motor, and two heat exchange coils, a high pressure coil, and a low pressure coil.
The Compressor compresses low pressure gas up and send it to the high pressure coil. The high pressure coil uses a fan to suck air past the coil cooling the gas and condensing it to a liquid. (Condensing is the opposite of boiling, and it happens at the same temperature as boiling.)
The liquid is then let down in pressure. This drops the temperature of the liquid because some liquid vaporizes to gas. The cool liquid and gas go to the low pressure coil. An air recirculating fan takes air from the house and circulates it through this low pressure coil, causing the liquid to pick up heat and vaporize. This vaporized material is then ready to be compressed back outside to the high pressure coil.
In central air, four items use power:
1) the Compressor
2) the Condensor Fan (outside)
3) the air circulating Fan in the house
4) the controls for the AC System
2007-02-22 16:30:05 · answer #2 · answered by Coach 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An air conditioner is basically a refrigerator without the insulated box. It uses the evaporation of a refrigerant, like Freon, to provide cooling. The mechanics of the Freon evaporation cycle are the same in a refrigerator as in an air conditioner. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online, the term Freon is generically "used for any of various nonflammable fluorocarbons used as refrigerants and as propellants for aerosols." The compressor compresses cool Freon gas, causing it to become hot, high-pressure Freon gas (red in the diagram above).
This hot gas runs through a set of coils so it can dissipate its heat, and it condenses into a liquid.
The Freon liquid runs through an expansion valve, and in the process it evaporates to become cold, low-pressure Freon gas (light blue in the diagram above).
This cold gas runs through a set of coils that allow the gas to absorb heat and cool down the air inside the building.
Mixed in with the Freon is a small amount of a lightweight oil. This oil lubricates the compressor.
Fairly long article...rest can be found at link below
2007-02-23 00:43:48 · answer #3 · answered by Muffett : 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they both work in the same way all though one is bigger than the other. They work by running air (presumably hot) past a cold source. How the source is cooled and what the source is depend on the size andthings like that. Your house AC uses freon to rappidly chill water that then has air pass through a radiator looking thing and *** the air passes through it cools it off.
2007-02-22 16:03:51 · answer #4 · answered by citizen_man 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Plug it up, turn the sucker on , silly.
2007-02-23 10:24:57 · answer #5 · answered by Meow 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by turning it on-- try doin your own research and homework please
2007-02-22 16:13:20 · answer #6 · answered by Master Ang Gi Guong 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋