Air conditioning in its simplest form is the cooling of indoor air for thermal comfort. Most people think that air conditioners lower the temperature in their homes by pumping cool air in. What’s really happening is the warm air from your house is being removed and cycled back in as cooler air. This cycle continues until your thermostat reaches the desired temperature.
In a broader sense, the term can refer to any form of cooling, heating, ventilation, or disinfection that modifies the condition of air. Air Conditioning systems are installed usually due to a requirement to create comfortable living or working conditions. The Air Conditioning industry has never been large in the UK in comparison with warmer countries elsewhere in the world. The onset of global warming however seems likely to completely transform the market for air conditioning in the UK.
However, modern technology allows many inverter units to be run off a single compressor and this is an alternative method of providing air conditioning to commercial premises. Technological advances allow long refrigerant pipe runs of up to 170m and the small diameter pipes which are now used result in less volume of refrigerant gas.
Similar techniques in medieval Persia involved the use of cisterns and wind towers to cool buildings during the summer season. The air conditioning we see today is based on these ancient principles, however advances in the use of chemistry during the 19th century led to the first large scale modern type of air conditioning unit being ‚invented‘ and used in 1902.
If inverter units are used in commercial buildings, these are often ceiling cassettes which come in a variety of specifications (1, 2 and 4 way cassettes). Perimeter areas and corridor areas often use air conditioning console units.
Process applications aim to provide a suitable environment for a process being carried out, regardless of internal heat and humidity loads and external weather conditions. Although often in the comfort range, it is the needs of the process that determine conditions, not human preference.
Along with the associated benefits of air conditioning, there are also several disadvantages; one disadvantage is the environmental cost. The costs to the environment is due to the amount of electricity required to run an air conditioning unit when some people argue that the same cooling effect can be seen by simply opening up a window.
However measures are in place to oversee the development of greener air conditioners, where a difference of up to 200% can be seen when compared to traditional units.
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