In our units a heat pump is used in which the device uses energy to transfer heat from a cooler to a hotter location. In a standard air conditioner an unidirectional heat pump which moves heat only form a cool interior into a hotter exterior. Air conditioning units can reverse the refrigeration cycle, from removing cool air from the exterior and moving into the interior, it will remove the heat from the cooler exterior and re-produce it in the warmer interior, therefore heating the room in a ... Read Full Story

Hose systems are vented to the outside via air ducts. The “Monoblock” version collects the water in a bucket or a tray, the pump will stop once full. The air to air version re-evaporates the water and discharges it through the duct hose, this can then run continuously.A single-duct unit draws air out of the room to cool its condenser; it will then vent it out of the room. This air is reimbursed by hot air from outside or alternate rooms. Thus reducing the efficiency of the air con... Read Full Story

Portable air conditioners are one complete unit, on wheels to ensure it can easily be moved around the home or office. The portable units available are vast, ranging from 6,000 to 60,000 BTU, some will even come with heaters built in. Portable A/C units are commonly found in 2 forms, split and hose. Evaporative coolers are also available in a portable form. Air Cooled portable air conditioners are compressor based, using compressed refrigerant to exchange heat, in the same way a car and typic... Read Full Story

In 1990 Aimed to reduce consumer energy bills by approximately 25 billion pounds in 10 years. As of the millennium, the standards reduced the American carbon emissions from fossil fuel consumption by almost two percent. To keep the emissions down, prices have increased slightly; the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory research indicated the benefit energy savings are over three times the cost on a net-present value basis. In 2000, the standards reduced the peak generating needs by approxima... Read Full Story

Air Conditioning units are operated by electricity as standard. Any input of energy into the system that will be used to maintain a set temperature, will require the energy rate from the air conditioner to increase. This increase has the effect that for each energy input the air conditioner has to remove it. In order for the air conditioner to do that the air conditioner must increase its consumption by the reverse of its efficiency. As an example, presume a closed system had a 100 watt light... Read Full Story

With air conditioning units there are little maintenance that needs to be done to the machine to ensure it is working at optimum temperature. To ensure your unit is clean and is producing filtered air you need to clean the filters (simply pull out and wash in warm water) and ensure the inside of the unit is clean. If your unit is not cleaned and maintained regularly bacteria builds up and promotes the growth of germs, in poor circumstances Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria responsible for ... Read Full Story

The Refrigeration Cycle Refrigeration cycles are the model used in refrigerators and air conditioning units and heat pumps. The man differences between the two is, heat pumps change from cooling to heating and refrigerators will cool only. Technically in the heat pump cycle it incorporates the refrigerator cycle. To put it in another way, a heat pump chooses which side of the system rejects the heat that was accepted by the evaporator to give the user the required temperature. A heat pump rem... Read Full Story

Air is passed over the condenser coil, re-warming the dehumidified air. The terms condenser coil and evaporator coil do not refer to the behaviour of water in the air as it passes through each coil, instead it refers to the phases in the refrigeration cycle. Having the condenser coil in the main air path rather than in a separate outdoor air path ( just like a regular air conditioner) tends to result in two different consequences; the output air is warm as opposed to cold, and the unit is the... Read Full Story

Comfort air conditioning is specially designed to create a 40%-60% humidity rating in the given space. In food retailers large open chiller cabinets are used as highly effective air dehumidifying units. A specific type of air conditioner that is only used to take humidity out of the air, this is called a dehumidifier. Dehumidifiers are different from regular air conditioning units, whereas both the condenser and evaporator coils are placed in the same air path, the entire units are placed in ... Read Full Story

Cleanrooms also use them for the production of integrated circuits, pharmaceuticals etc, in which very high levels of air cleanliness and humidity control is needed to successfully complete the process. There are many other areas that use process air conditioning, for example, Breeding laboratories, aircraft air conditioning, data processing centres, Textile factories, physical testing facilities, plant nurseries, nuclear facilities, laboratories, mines and food processing areas. In all of th... Read Full Story