How Your Air Conditioner Works

How Your AIR CONDITIONER Works The Basics: Air Conditioners use chemicals that can convert from a gas to a liquid and back again. This process is used to cool and transfer warm air from inside your home or vehicle, to outside. Outside air Compressor The refrigerant leaves as a hot, high pressure gas, Hot air flowing into the condenser coils at the back of the ac unit. Start over again Condenser Coils Now that it is a cool, low pressure gas. It then returns to the compressor to begin These dissipate the heat as the liquid travels through them. The liquid the trip all over again. then travels to the front evaporator coils. Cool air Evaporator Coils As the refrigerant liquid enters the coils it expands Evaporator Blower into a gas, which makes Humid Air This fan blows air from the coils feel cold. inside your house over the evaporator coils with the cold refrigerant in them, cooling the air that enters your home. This 1-5 step process happens over and over while the AC unit is on, continually converting the refrigerant from a gas to a liquid and back again. The Science behind cold: When a liquid (in this case refrigerant) evaporates it feels cold. Why? Because Evaporation of a liquid takes away heat. And that's how Your AIR CONDITIONER Works SUPERIOR WATER & AIR