How does an air handler work?

 If you reside in a tropical climate or desert chances are more that you’ll need a central HVAC or heat pump connected to an air handler.

Now you must be thinking, what does an airhandler do? There are many homeowners in the USA, who still don’t know much about this essential HVAC system, that how does it exactly work. So, by understanding how your home’s HVAC appliance work, you can be more comfortable selecting a replacement when the time arrives.

Let’s have a look at what is an air handler?

To be straight air handlers are the heart of your HVAC system, connected with heating or cooling device, they manage the circulation of air while helping you to keep your home cosy and clean in any season. The air handler works with the heating and cooling units to produce controlled climate air across your home. It’s a process that is used locally with your existing heating and cooling system. These units work to manage the temperature of the air condenser to make air hot and cold.

An air handler is basically a metal casing consisting of two major components:

• An evaporator coil that circulates with the refrigerant from inside to outside to condition the air.

• It consists of a blowing fan that moves the infiltrated air across the home through the air duct.

When the air handler is in cooling mode, it draws in the hot air from inside circulates it across the cold evaporator coil to reduce heat and then blows the cool air across the air duct to the home.

For a better understanding take a look at the way in which an air handler works?

One of the main roles of an air handler is to circulate the air in your system and move the components surrounding it and then alter the functions of heating, cooling as well as quality of air.

Components

Air Filter

In order to ensure that the air dragged into the framework is cleaned before being cooled, the filter is located between the consumption vent and the fan.

Blower

Via the ventilation duct system, the blower fan "blows" all the cooled air back into the building.

Coils

What definitely cools the wind in your residence is the coils. This tends to happen when the coolant located in the external unit is injected into the inside air handling unit as a high-temperature, high-pressure gas. There, this gas coolant is converted by an actuator to a low-temperature, low-pressure gas poured into the tubes. Then, the wind that is carried over the coils and into the ductwork cools these coils.

The way it works!

The air handler pulls in hot air from the residence when in cooling system, blows it through the cold exhaust pipe to remove the heat, and then pulls the cooled air all throughout pipework in the residence. The heat collected travels to the exterior compressor where it is then subsided, and for another process, the cold coolant returns to the evaporator coil. The airhandler works the other way in the heating mode, behaving as a heat pump. It pulls colder air from the house, blows it through hot evaporator coil, and then pulls the hot air all over the house. The cooled coolant travels to the exterior heat pump, which utilizes exterior heat to heat things up again.

Concluding thoughts

We hope that this blog will help you to understand the working of the air cooler. If you are not sure which cooler to buy for your home, get in touch with us and we will help you.