I read the wikipedia page and asked my dad – but I am honest: I don’t understand it.
In: Engineering
Rehashing much of what was already said, but…. oh, please correct me if I am wrong anywhere.
The cooling system has three major components, evaporator, condenser, and compressor.
Using a substance that is gaseous at the desired cold temperature and low pressure but liquid at a higher pressure and “room temperature” makes it work.
The high pressure liquid expands through a valve in the evaporator and basically boils into a gas pulling in heat and getting cold. You now have a relatively low temperature low pressure gas.
This now slightly warmer gas (as it pulled in heat) is sent to a compressor that increases the temperature and pressure and sends this now relatively high pressure high temperature gas to a condenser where it dumps heat the the room and cools down to a liquid.
This liquid is now allowed to expand and get cold to repeat the process in the evaporator.
So works on the latent heat of evaporation and condensation. Also look into the gas laws of heat vs pressure.
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