Air Conditioning

The Process applications are the secondary use of air conditioning, when using it as a process, air conditioning aims to provide a suitable environment for a process that is being carried out in regardless of internal heat and humidity and the external weather conditions. The condition of the air is often within the comfort range, but it must be remembered the process determines the condition whereas comfort application is the user who chooses the temperature. Some buildings, such as hospitals need conditioned air to reduce the spread of infection, also the humidity needs to be controlled to ensure the patients dehydration is limited. Some applications such as open heart surgery needs lowered to approximately 18ºC, whereas neonatal needs a relatively high temperature of around 28 ºC.

Comfort air conditioning makes the process of deep plan Buildings feasible (a deep plan building is where the horizontal distance from an external wall is far greater than the floor to floor height, deep plan building is a method that makes more efficient use of the given area.). A building without air conditioning must be built narrower or with light wells so the inner space will receive sufficient outdoor air, otherwise known as natural ventilation. With the use of air conditioning, buildings can be taller as wind speeds increase significantly, making natural ventilation unsafe and impractical for very tall buildings. Comfort applications for various buildings are different and may be categorized as one of the following:

1)      A Low-Rise Residential building, including family houses, duplexes and small apartment buildings.

2)      A High-Rise Residential building, such as dormitories and apartment blocks.

3)      A Commercial building, built for commerce, such as offices, malls, shopping centres and restaurants etc.

4)      An Institutional building, such as hospitals, governmental buildings, academic buildings etc.

5)      Industrial buildings/ spaces where the thermal comfort of workers is desired.

Air conditioning is not only used in buildings, it is also used widely in a variety of transportation such as Vehicles, Ships, Trains, Aircraft and Spacecraft.

Air Conditioning engineers tend to separate air conditioning into 2 applications, either comfort or process.

Comfort applications are aimed to give buildings a building indoor environment that is controllable and can be kept to a consistent temperature within the idyllic temperature for humans to work. The system given here would need to keep the indoor at a constant temperature regardless of the temperature outside.

The preferred temperature for people in a seated office environment is 22ºC, at this temperature, (which can be achieved by air conditioning) it has been proven that optimum workloads are reached, performance has been proven to decrease by 1% for every 1.5ºC change in the room temperature. The optimum temperature in a standing position tends to be at a slightly lower temperature. For shorter people the highest performance level tends to be at a slightly higher temperature.

The Hawthorne effect is described to enhance work productivity with the use of air conditioning (creating a thermal comfort).

Going back to 1906, an American bloke from North Carolina called Stuart W Carmer, was exploring ways of adding moisture in the surrounding air for his textile mill. Cramer used the term “Air Conditioning” as an analogue to the term “Water Conditioning”, which was, at the time, a well known process for making fabrics/ textiles easier to process. Mr Cramer combined the ability to adjust moisture to the ventilating units and adjust the air in his factories, adding the control to not only the temperature of the building to the moisture content too. Willis Carrier adopted the term and instantly incorporated it into the company name. Evaporative cooling is the term used for this function, the evaporation of water into the air to provide a cooling effect.

The very first Air Conditioners and refrigerators used toxic and flammable gasses, such as ammonia, Methyl Chloride and propane, which was very likely to end in fatal accidents if the air conditioning unit leaked. A man named Thomas Midgley Jr. was the creator of the first Chlorofluorocarbon gas otherwise known as Freon, this was founded in 1928. this gas known now as CFC gas is much safer for humans, unfortunately it was found to be very harmful to the ozone layer. CFC gas is to be phased out for the use in new equipment by 2010 and completely discontinued by 2020.

Bringing us right to the future, the majority of our air conditioning are now R-410A otherwise known as puron, this is a safer gas and does not contribute to the depletion of our ozone layer.

The thought of air conditioning moved to a larger, industrial scale as opposed to a personal comfort. 1902 came and modern electrical air conditioning was produced by the inventor “Willis Haviland Carrier”. This product was designed to greatly improve the manufacturing process, the invention also added the ability to not only control the temperature, but also the humidity in the air around. This was designed for use in a printing plant, to ensure the heat was low and the humidity was controllable to ensure the constant paper dimensions and ink alignment was correct at all times. With Carrier able to control the humidity and heat in a workplace, it was very popular to increase the productivity in a given workplace.  Carriers company was called The Carrier Air Conditioning Company of America and this company was formed to ensure he could meet the rising demand for air conditioning. The company formed slowly produced high quality products working more effectively, and eventually created units for both automobiles and homes. The public demand for residential air conditioning grew dramatically in the early 1950’s opening up a much larger market for air conditioning.

The Carrier air conditioning company of America is still around today, otherwise known as the carrier corporation. The company is now the worlds largest manufacturer and distributor of all heating, ventilating and air conditioning products. Currently the Carrier Corporation has 45,000 employees and serves customers in 170 countries in 6 of 7 continents. The air conditioning company is worth over £6 billion.

Ventilators were invented in medieval Egypt, they were widely used in the majority of houses throughout Cairo during the Middle ages. A man called Abd al-Latif al Baghdadi managed to describe in detail how the ventilators worked in 1200. In his report he announced that almost every house in Cairo had these ventilltors fitted, he also announced that they were costing anywhere from 1 to 500 Dinars depending solely on the size and shape. In 1820 the British inventor and scientist called Michael Faraday discovered that liquefied ammonia, which has been compressed, would chill air if the ammonia was allowed to evaporate. Then in 1842 a Floridian physician called John Gorrie started using compressor technology to create ice. This idea was used as air conditioning in his hospital in Florida. He even hope on eventually building a large scale ice-maker to regulate the temperature of buildings, He even envisioned centralized air conditioning on a huge scale to cool whole cities. Though the prototype leaked and worked intermittently, John Gorrie was granted a patent for his ice-making machine. The Envisions vanished once his Chief Financial backer passed away meaning Gorrie did not get the money needed so desperately to develop his machine. According to the author of his biography, he blamed the “Ice King,” Mr Frederic Tudor, for his failure. He suspected Tudor had launched a campaign against the invention. Unfortunately when Dr. Gorrie died in 1855, the idea of air conditioning died with his for the next 50 year.

Air Conditioning History

Moving heat through a machine to provide air conditioning is still quite modern, however the cooling of buildings has been around for years. Going as far back as the Ancient Romans, they were known to have circulated Aqueduct water through the walls in some houses to cool them. Back in those days the constant flow of water came at a huge expense and was only viable to those of extreme wealth. In those days Air conditioning was a total luxury. In the 2nd century a Chinese inventor called “Ding Huan” of the “Han Dynasty” invented the rotating fan for Air conditioning. The fan had 7 Wheels at a length of 3 meters in diameter and was rotated manually.

There were advances then in 747 when another Chinese inventor called Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty had the Cool Hall built in the well known imperial Palace. The “Tang Yulin” Describes it as having water- powered fan wheels for conditioning air aswell as rising jet streams or water from the fountains.

Medival Persia also had buildings that had cisterns and used wind towers to cool the buildings during the hotter seasons. ( The cisterns back in those days were large open pools in the centre of courtyards and were never underground.)Cisterns were used to collect rain water, also the wind towers had windows in which it could catch the wind and force it down and usually sent over the cistern to cool the air. After travelling over the cistern it would travel through a downwind cooling tower. The water from the cistern evaporated, cooling the air in the building.

Air conditioning refers to cooling and dehumidification of air inside for optimum thermal Comfort. In a larger scope the term Air conditioning can be referred to any form of disinfection, ventilation, cooling, heating and any form of adjusting air. An air conditioner is an appliance, system or mechanism designed to stabilise the air humidity and temperature within an enclosed area. Air conditioning units are used typically within the refrigeration cycle, however sometimes uses evaporation.

The concept of air conditioning is known to have been used right back to Ancient Rome, where water was circulated through the walls of certain houses to cool the enclosed areas. There was similar techniques used in Medieval Persia, this method used cisterns and wind towers to cool the buildings in the hot seasons. The newer, more modern air conditioning came from sudden advances in chemistry during the 19th Century. The first large scale electrically ran air conditioning unit was invented and used in 1902 by a bloke called Willis Haviland Carrier.

With the summer getting nearer and the temperature rising it is becoming more and more important that you have means of cooling your home/ office. With cheap air conditioning and Just-Coolers you can guarentee a bargain! Cheap air conditioning and Just-Coolers are committed to supplying quality goods at the cheapest possible price, we are able to do this by buying straight from the manurfacturer.

Over the years of expertise in Air conditioning we have built up a special relationship with our supplier, and we travel to see them annually, not only do we see the company owners/ directors we also check ourselves that our products still go through rigorous testing and are built to the highest possible specification. By doing this we can ensure the products we supply to you are of the very highest quality.

Year after year companies raise their prices, whereas Cheap Air Conditioning is just that (Cheap) and has recently lowered there prices, ensuring that they are THE CHEAPEST PLACE TO BUY AIR CONDTIONING

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Just Coolers Supply many big companies with Air Conditioning, also we found our units to be a big success in conservatories, with national companies using us to heat and cool their Conservatories as opposed to the bigger companies in the Air conditioning Sector.

Just-Coolers aim to sell lots of quality units, with a minimum profit margin as opposed to selling one or two units and having a huge mark up on the price. Within a year we send out somewhere in the region of 5,000-10,000 units. Our units are very popular, not only in homes but also in offices.

Just Coolers Air Conditioning has a 10 year plan to aim further into the air conditioning market and to forward their units into all of Europe and America. With research to take place this is still a few years away. Not only do we aim to expand our client base, but we also aim to supply Larger Multi-split Units and find a good supplier of ceiling cassettes. with this in mind we will increase our product brochure to the KFR-36GW, KFR-51GW, KFR-71GW, 3 way multi-split, KY-32GW and will add the 5 way multi split and 7 way multi split.

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