AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM

• Is a method of providing buildings and vehicles with cool dry air.

• is the process of altering the properties of air (primarily temperature and humidity) to more
comfortable conditions, typically with the aim of distributing the conditioned air to an occupied space
to improve thermal comfort and indoor air quality.
• a device that lowers the air temperature
• can refer to any form of technology that modifies the condition of air (heating, cooling,(de-
humidification, cleaning, ventilation, or air movement)

PARTS OF AN AIRCON
• Refrigerant
• Compressor
• Condenser
• Expansion valve
• Evaporator COIL

REFRIGERANT

• the "blood" pumping through the air conditioner's system

• It changes state from gas vapor to liquid as it collects heat from your house and rejects that heat to the
outside. It is special in that it has a very low boiling point meaning that it changes from a liquid to a
vapor at low temperatures.

COMPRESSOR

• "heart" of the system pumping the refrigerant though all the refrigeration components in a big loop
• Refrigerant enters the compressor as a low pressure warm vapor and leaves it as a high pressure hot
vapor.
• a large electric pump that pressurizes the refrigerant gas as part of the process of turning it back into a
liquid.

CONDENSER COIL

• Facilitates heat transfer

• a series of piping with a fan that draws outside air across the coil. As the refrigerant passes through the
condenser coil and the cooler outside air passes across the coil, the air absorbs heat from the
 refrigerant which causes the refrigerant to condense from a gas to a liquid state. The high-pressure,
high-temperature liquid then reaches the expansion valve.

EXPANSION VALVE

• The expansion valve is really what does the work

• As the hot liquid refrigerant passes through a tiny opening at high pressure in the valve on one side, it
emerges as a cool low pressure mist on the other side because as a gas expands, it cools. So now we
have a low pressure cold liquid mist that moves onto the evaporator coil.
• regulates refrigerant flow into the evaporator

EVAPORATION COIL

• Receives the liquid refrigerant

• a series of piping connected to a furnace or air handler that blows indoor air across it, causing the coil
to absorb heat from the air. The cooled air is then delivered to the house through ducting. The
refrigerant then flows back to the compressor where the cycle starts over again.

BASIC OPERATION
• An air conditioner is able to cool a building because it removes heat from the indoor air and transfers it
outdoors. A chemical refrigerant in the system absorbs the unwanted heat and pumps it through a
system of piping to the outside coil. The fan, located in the outside unit, blows outside air over the hot
coil, transferring heat from the refrigerant to the outdoor air.

• Most central air conditioning units operate by means of a split system. It consist of a ‘hot’ side, or the
condensing unit (including the condensing coil, the compressor and the fan locates outside your home,
and a ‘cold’ side that is located inside your home. The cold side consists of an expansion valve and a
cold coil, and it is usually part of your furnace or some type of air handler. The furnace blows air
through an evaporator coil, which cools the air. Then this cool air is routed throughout your home by
means of a series of air ducts.

• A window unit operates on the same principal, the only difference being that both the hot side and the
cold side are located within the same housing unit.
DIAGRAM

Refrigeration Cycle

A simple stylized diagram of the refrigeration cycle: 1) condensing coil 2) expansion

valve 3) Evaporation coil 4) Compressor

PARTS OF AN AIRCON