Natrual gas air conditioner?

Question

I want to get some information about the new generation of domestic air conditioners with use natural gas to make air cool.
Now, who knows where I can find this information?

Answer 1

www.engr.sjsu.edu/ndejong/Absorption Refrigeration.pdf
This site will show some basics.
The technology is 150 years old. Interest in it is making a comeback because of energy considerations.
The earliest domestic refrigerators were the absorption-type.
It has been used extensively in industry for many decades, first as ammonia type and then much more extensively as the "LB" absorbant salt-type.(Lithium Bromide) Major US refrigeration manufacturers of vapor compression systems like Carrier, York, Trane also built absorption units in tonnages up to 1650 (Trane Co.) They were employed particularily where "waste heat" could be utilized and also can be used as power generation steam condensers so that the condensing energy could be used to provide peocess refrigeration and building AC refrigeration instrad of emiting waste heat to the river through surface condensers or the air in cooling towers..
It is adaptable to steam, hot water, natural gas , gas turbine exhaust and solar heat sources.
Some domestic absorption AC units have been available for several years.
Electric power is still needed to drive fans and pumps, but the major energy user, the compressor is replaced by the alternative heat supplies. It is considerably more complex than the vapor-compression system.

Answer 2

The name of the technology is "absorption refrigeration". Try google it with terms like air conditioner and you may find something.

Comparison: conventional A/C and fridge use compression refrigeration. Powered by electricity, and uses a compressor to run the refrigerant.

The "absorption" technology is often powered by natural gas instead of electricity. Burning of gas (in a burner or boiler) of course occurs outside of the room you are trying to cool - it just provides the energy necessary to drive the refrigeration cycle.

Answer 3

so what your saying here is that we will take a chamber of natural gas and put it in your house. then we will light the gas on fire and it will become very hot inside of the chamber. however if we drop chamber into a swimming pool steam will go everywhere so it will be very foggy and moist in your house. yes?