Air conditioners don’t make cold air; they remove heat from the air. The process of removing heat involves a compressor, a condenser, an evaporator, and a refrigerant. The refrigerant moves through the closed system changing from liquid to gas and gas to liquid and releasing or absorbing heat in the process. It looks something like this:
When the refrigerant reaches the compressor, it’s a gas. The compressor compresses the gas, which increases the pressure on the gas, and the temperature rises accordingly.
The high-pressure, hot gas moves to the condenser. The condenser is a series of coils, usually copper, plus a fan and fins. The fan and fins cool the gas as it passes through. As the gas cools, it changes back into a liquid.
The cooled liquid now goes to the evaporator via a small hole that increases the pressure. Inside the evaporator, the liquid refrigerant absorbs the heat from around the evaporator coils and turns back into a gas. What’s left in the evaporator is super-chilled air that’s had all the heat removed from it. That cold air is pumped into the space by a fan.
The gas refrigerant now travels back to the compressor, where the process begins again. Refrigerant doesn’t dissipate; it can repeat this over and over and over again.
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