Air Conditioning Systems - The Important Features

Air conditioning for most people means cooling the rooms when the weather is hot. But, in reality, it involves a lot of other things. A good air conditioner is one which is able to control the internal environment of the room in which it is working. The environment of the room has to be healthy for the people who are present in the room and it must be comfortable as well. So, it must be able to not only cool the room but also regulate the heating, control the moisture level, movement of the air inside the room, control pollution, micro-organism as well as dust.

Every place, whether it is a house, factory, school, office building or hospital, has particular requirements that must be met by the air conditioning services. It must be designed in a manner so as to make the people inside these places feel absolutely comfortable. This can be achieved only when the metabolic heat produced by the body which is a result of all the activities going on inside the body is balanced with the temperature of the room. In this way, they will neither feel too cool nor too warm.

Two things that must be considered while selecting an air conditioner for an enclosed place are relative humidity and the air temperature. Another factor that is important is the stress load that the air conditioner can take while maintaining a comfortable environment. It must be able to work efficiently after taking that amount of load.

There are basically two types of loads that have to be handled by the air conditioners. These are cooling and heating. The heating load occurs when the heat that is leaving a space is higher than heat which is entering that particular space irrespective of the source. The cooling load results when the heat that is entering the place is more than the heat that is leaving the place.

When a higher amount of moisture is coming in as compared to the amount of moisture going out, a certain kind of load is created. The air conditioner has to remove the excess air for maintaining the comfort level in the room. We all know that high humidity level creates a lot of discomfort even at low temperatures. The air conditioner keeps the air dry even at high temperatures without compromising on the comfort level.

An air conditioner is of no use if it does not facilitate good distribution of air. Even the window ACs have a fan which distributes the air all across the room. This air circulation facilitates the mixing of the existing air in the room and that which is given out by the AC.

So, buy an air conditioner which meets all the above mentioned requirements.