Know how an Air Conditioner Works

Many homes in warm climates use air conditioners. For them, it may not be a luxury, but it is a necessity. There are many benefits of air conditioning like cooling, heating, ventilation and disinfecting your home. But do you know how an air conditioner works? Read through to know how this amazing system works!

Air conditioner at your home transfers heat from inside to outside the home. In this process, air conditioners provide cool air into your home by pulling the heat out of that air. Blowing it over a set of cold pipes called an evaporator coil cools the air. The evaporator coil is filled with a liquid called as ‘refrigerant’. It changes into a gas from a liquid as it absorbs heat from the air. This refrigerant is then pumped to another coil outside the house. There it expels its heat and changes back into liquid form. The coil outside the home is called as condenser as it condenses the refrigerant from a gaseous state back to a fluid. A pump is used to move the refrigerant between the indoor (evaporator) and outdoor coils (condenser). This pump is called a compressor. It also helps to change the pressure of the refrigerant so that the refrigerant evaporates or condenses in the respective coils.