Orange County Home Improvement: How An Air Conditioner Works

Many people use air conditioners at home or in their office but not very many people understand how they work. On a practical level an air conditioner is a lot like a refrigerator but while a refrigerator only has to cool a few cubic feet of space an air conditioner needs to cool a much larger area.

The standard type of air conditioner used in America works on a simple principle, it uses the same chemicals that a refrigerator uses to remove the heat from the air, replacing hot air with cool air. The boiling point of these chemicals can change depending on how much pressure they’re under. If the chemicals are under high pressure, the boiling point goes higher. If the pressure is low the boiling point likewise goes down. When the refrigerating chemicals boil they draw in the surrounding heat. If the surrounding environment is cooler then the chemicals condense and become liquid, rapidly losing heat.

The way that air conditioners use these simple principles is that they pressurize the refrigeration chemicals causing it to heat up into a pressurized gas. The gas is forced through coils to disperse the heat in the air and the chemicals condense into a cold liquid. The liquid is forced through an evaporator coil next where it gets converted into a cold vapor. This absorbs the heat from the air and the cool air is then blown by a fan into the area that you want to cool down.

This process is repeated over and over again, converting the heated air in your home or office into cooler air and keeping you, your friends, family, and coworkers cool even when the temperatures outside soar. Of course, even the most efficient air conditioner can have problems if the air ducts that lead to and from the unit are blocked which is why it’s best to make sure these are checked out by Orange County air duct cleaning professionals in the weeks leading up to summer to make sure that everything is ready.

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