How do natural gas air conditioners work?
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 at
11:48 am
I understand how electric ones work. An A/C powered motor moves the refrigerant through the coils and exchanger, and another motor blows the inside air throught the part inside the house where the "freon" expands. But I don’t understand how something like this can be powered by natural gas.
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why not? replace the electric motors with natural gas powered combustion motors and pipe the exhaust to the outdoors side of the air conditioner (obviously away from the air intake, too!). any kind of motor can be used to drive the compressor and fans.
also there are "heat pump" type air conditioners .. to explain how they work i refer you to the diagram and description about 1/3 of the way down on this page:
http://world.honda.com/news/1998/p980312.html
enjoy!
Any electric motor can be replaced with a gas engine. They both spin. Some gas engines run on gasoline, some run on natural gas.
On the other hand, there are systems called "absorption chillers". There is a mixture of ammonia and water. That mixture is heated by burning natural gas. As the water is boiled off, it is cooled back to its liquid state and sprayed onto pure ammonia. The ammonia sucks up the water very quickly causing a vacuum effect. That vacuum effect causes a cooling effect which is then used to cool whatever you want. The water/ammonia mixture is brought back to another chamber where the cycle starts again.