Air Conditioning: How it Works
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An automotive air conditioning system can be split into two parts, a high-pressure side and a low-pressure side. The engine-driven compressor compresses the gas, sends it through the condenser where it gives off heat, condensing and changing state to a liquid, gets filtered through the drier, then passes through the expansion valve which atomizes the refrigerant and turns it into a stream of cool, low-pressure droplets. This vapor travels through a heat exchanger in the passenger compartment of the car and sucks the heat out of the air, then is sent back to the compressor again. View Related Article
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