Aquarium air pumps,pump base plate,Air Compressors-Technologue: Cool Pump (February 1, 2010)

The idea of a heat pump is tough to wrap your mind around: A machine grabs heat from the wintry Aquarium air pumps outdoors and moves it into a warm house. pump base plate If the thermodynamic principles behind home heat Portable Air Compressors pumps seem like black magic, the chemistry behind a new automotive air conditioner being developed in the U.K. by the University of Warwick and Sorption Energy LTD may sound like witchcraft (or complete BS). It promises to cool your car's interior without harnessing any horsepower from the crankshaft.

Skeptics may be surprised to learn that this technology was first described in 1824 by electromagnetism pioneer Michael Faraday. Mike noticed that certain gases (like ammonia) would stick to certain materials (like silver-chloride) at low temperatures, and then unstick themselves at higher temperatures. This phenomenon was later leveraged for "adsorptive cooling," which works just like your current car air conditioner (a refrigerant is pressurized, runs through a condenser, then to an evaporator to cool the conditioned air), except that instead of a mechanical compressor doing the work, a pair of "sorption generators" filled with refrigerant-sticky material is used. One generator is cooled to ambient temperature, which causes the gaseous refrigerant flowing out of the evaporator to stick to the special material. When the stuff has adsorbed all the refrigerant it can, valves are switched and this generator is then heated (and the one previously being heated is cooled). Heat drives the refrigerant off and sends it to the condenser.

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