Understanding the Function of Refrigerant in an AC Unit 

· Air Conditioning,Home Improvement

Irrespective of what kind of AC system you have at your home or office, it will work only if an adequate quantity of refrigerant is present and that too, of the highest quality. Yes, most of us are aware that all AC types including reverse cycle air conditioning Hoxton Park run on a refrigerant, but we don’t know what it is. 

Here in this blog post, we will try and dig up a bit related to the science of refrigerants and its importance in our AC systems.

WHAT IS AN AIR CONDITIONER REFRIGERANT & HOW DOES IT WORK?

The refrigerant is mainly the material used in AC units, refrigerators and other cooling devices to cool the content that could be humans, beverages or your vegetables, butter, ice creams and so on. At present, there are 10 different kinds of refrigerants used in our air conditioning Hoxton park, but the most effective as well as the safest is R-32. This way, it can be said that this refrigerant, R-32 is the life, blood and soul of all the AC units and other cooling appliances that we use commercially as well as domestically. 

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It is because of this material that the entire cooling cycle works and in this cycle, there are different stages involved. During the refrigeration cycle, the substance changes from a cool liquid, a vapour, and hot gas, caused by pressure changes.

Here are the further details of an entire cooling cycle that takes place inside the air conditioning Hoxton Park.

The refrigerant enters the compressor as a low-pressure, superheated gas

It gets pumped towards the condenser by the compressor

It cools and condenses and then, turns into vapours

The remaining liquid arrives the metering device and there, is pressure is lowered

The gas enters the compressor, for the cycle to start over

These are some other common types of refrigerant still used today, but as mentioned above R-32 remains the most used across the globe:

  • R-717
  • R-152a
  • R-290 (propane)
  • R-407c
  • R-410a
  • R-744
  • HFO-1234yf
  • R-134a
  • R-454B