{"id":766,"date":"2020-06-15T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2023-03-12T08:52:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T16:52:52","slug":"what-is-hvac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/what-is-hvac\/","title":{"rendered":"What is HVAC ? Types, Parts &#038; Diagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/what-is-hvac\/#What_is_HVAC\" >What is HVAC?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/what-is-hvac\/#The_importance_of_HVAC\" >The importance of HVAC<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/what-is-hvac\/#Different_Kinds_of_HVAC_Models\" >Different Kinds of HVAC Models<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/what-is-hvac\/#HVAC_System_Parts_and_Diagram\" >HVAC System Parts and Diagram<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/what-is-hvac\/#More_on_HVAC_Systems\" >More on HVAC Systems<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"HVAC\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/category\/hvac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>HVAC<\/strong><\/a> is a term that is heard in all kinds of applications, from domestic to industrial. What it means and where it is used are the things that you might not know. In what follows, you will have access to some information about this subject.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/equipment\/470\/hvac-and-refrigeration\">Linquip<\/a><\/strong>, as a reliable supplier of various HVAC products, is providing you with the means of finding the right product to fit your needs.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_HVAC\"><\/span>What is HVAC?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>HVAC is a term stemmed from \u2018Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning\u2019, and it is a system that is aimed to provide comfort for indoor areas. Science contributes to identification of various measures for that comfort and thermal control, and HVAC systems will be engineered based on the desired design points.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of HVAC systems would be those large rooftop boxes (actually compressors) of air conditioners that provide the conditioned air for the interior of the buildings.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_importance_of_HVAC\"><\/span>The importance of HVAC<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As was mentioned earlier, an HVAC system is intended for thermal control of areas as well as comfort for occupants. Temperature is a factor that affects the performance and health status of many systems. Take the case of a server room temperature as an example for which high temperature adversely affects the system\u2019s reliability and operation of the servers is a great source of heat generation; therefore, it is important to have an HVAC system that keeps the temperature at a desired point.<\/p>\n<p>HVAC for temperature control is important for many other applications from domestic and commercial to industrial when it comes to temperature control of unoccupied areas. Now, there is the case with occupied areas for which comfort becomes an important consideration. Comfort is both the temperature and quality of the air in an area where the occupants would comfortably live and work and a good HVAC system is one that provides such comfort.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Different_Kinds_of_HVAC_Models\"><\/span>Different Kinds of HVAC Models<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Some HVAC systems are single-staged, including cooling systems, heating systems, ventilation systems, humidifiers and air purifiers. The systems are usually less expensive than those with an integrated set of features, but might also be less efficient and run at unnecessary capacities.<\/p>\n<p>HVAC systems can also be built for a combination of jobs delivered and can also be modeled as zoned systems that provide a variety of configurations for cooling and heating at different designated areas.<\/p>\n<p>Let us not turn our attention to the most significant usages of HVAC systems: cooling and heating.<\/p>\n<h3>Cooling systems<\/h3>\n<p>Cooling systems range from large air conditioning systems to small portable ones that provide air cooling. These systems come in use for hot climates or spaces. What these systems do is that they pass the air over fluid-cooled surfaces before leading it into the intended area for cooling. The air is exchanges heat with the cooled surface and then is directed to the area delivering its duty.<\/p>\n<p>The cooling fluid could be water or an evaporative fluid. In case of evaporative systems, since the process of evaporation is endothermic, i.e. it absorbs heat, a lot of heat can be absorbed by the evaporator providing high levels of cooling. Of course, such fluids cannot be integrated to all systems due to financial, safety and environmental concerns.<\/p>\n<h3>Heating systems<\/h3>\n<p>Heating can be done more easily and there are more ways for building a heating system. Heating can be done via electric heating, heat pumps (that could also be used for cooling \u2013 more on this in another post), water, steam, and hot gas radiators, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Heating systems could deliver hot air by pushing it passed some hot surface into the intended area for heating, or could be done through thermal radiation from hot surfaces. An efficient way for heating a space would be floor heating through radiation from water or glycol carrying tubes installed below the surface of a floor. Since the hotter air would float above the cooler air and heat source is on the floor, this method would be very efficient.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"HVAC_System_Parts_and_Diagram\"><\/span>HVAC System Parts and Diagram<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-833\" style=\"width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-833 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HVAC-diagram.png\" alt=\"HVAC diagram\" width=\"598\" height=\"365\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HVAC-diagram.png 598w, https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HVAC-diagram-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from 21celcius<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are different parts for a HVAC system based on its application, but one can consider what occurs in a evaporative cooling system as a widely used case throughout the world and get a sense of what is generally happening in the system. The logic for heating is in a way similar and can be deduced from here. Now, the key components for a cooling system include the expansions valve, evaporator, compressor, condenser, and drier.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion valve induces a pressure drop in the fluid that expands its volume. The evaporator is where the refrigerant fluid absorbs heat through the process of evaporation to cool down the stream entering the warm environment. The compressor is what makes the flow of the refrigerant possible. Condenser is what that rejects the heat into the outside air to and return the refrigerant to its initial state. Receiver drier is where the contaminants are removed from the refrigerant to ensure better air quality.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_on_HVAC_Systems\"><\/span>More on HVAC Systems<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To find more details about the fundamentals of how HVAC systems work, you can see this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=klggop60vlM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Buy Equipment or Ask for a Service<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>By using Linquip RFQ Service, you can expect\u00a0to receive quotations from various suppliers across multiple industries and regions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linquip.com\/get-quote?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=content&amp;utm_campaign=product_list&amp;utm_term=product_list&amp;utm_content=rfq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here to Request a Quotation From Suppliers and Service Providers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read More on Linquip<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><a title=\"HVAC System Components Made Easy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/hvac-system-components\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HVAC System Components Made Easy<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><a title=\"A Brief and Easy Introduction to HVAC Maintenance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/hvac-maintenance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Brief and Easy Introduction to HVAC Maintenance<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><a title=\"HVAC Economizer 101: A Basic Introduction\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/hvac-economizer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HVAC Economizer 101: A Basic Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linquip.com\/blog\/what-is-the-difference-between-mep-and-hvac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is the Difference Between MEP and HVAC? 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