I WANT TO USE NATURAL GAS TO RUN MY SPLIT UNITS, AND WINDOW BASED AIR CONTIONER?
2007-03-02 00:17:28 · 7 answers · asked by talaat49 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
Air conditioners that use gas heat to create compression are called absorption units. There is a company called Robur that manufactures these units for residential use.
Its not possible to modify an existing air conditioner (split, indoor, package, or otherwise) to run on natural gas.
Although it is true that it takes several pumps to make this system work their efficiency can still be greater than traditional AC systems.
2007-03-02 00:36:27 · answer #1 · answered by johntindale 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Robur Natural Gas Air Conditioning
2016-12-31 14:20:16 · answer #2 · answered by efird 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gas Ac Unit
2016-11-08 06:15:34 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Air conditioner systems that ran on natural gas have not been manufactured for many many years. They were extremely large and installed on the exterior of homes.
You cannot convert a split unit or window unit from electric to natural gas.
2007-03-02 00:27:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Natural gas units use Amonia as a the fluid instead of Freon. How this works is the amonia is heated which causes a gasificatin of the amonia, then it is passed thur a cooling coil where air is blown across it, in there it is liquified and sent onto the expansion coil where it expands and cools. The new units actually use a lot of electicity as fans are used to cool the coils and two amonia pumps are used to push the liquid around in the system. To that is tied a second ethylene glycol system which then circulates thru your home, the amonia only circulating outside.
2007-03-02 03:27:46 · answer #5 · answered by James M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can not modify your existing units to run on natural gas. York made some units a while ago called Triathalon units which utilized Briggs and Stratton gas engines converted to run on propane.
I was involved in a project with these units and will say it was a neat idea. Very noisy, but neat.
Newt.
2007-03-02 05:24:06 · answer #6 · answered by Newtgadget www.T-C-Pro.com 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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No because natural gas has to very, very (-260 F) cold to liquify. You could compress natural gas with an air compressor but only with limits. The biggest problem is the problem of possible fires or explosions.
2016-04-05 02:47:32 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the gas burns a flame under a coil full of ammonia. As the ammonia boils it is sent through the coils above where it begins to condense and there is where the cooling effect comes from. The condensed ammonia drips back to the base to be boiled again.
2007-03-02 05:46:34 · answer #8 · answered by Kevin H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋