| The entire process of refrigeration has a whole lot to | | | | valve inside the refrigerator. |
| do with the freezer compressor. If the compressor | | | | -Throughout this mechanism of changing of the state |
| goes wrong the refrigerator will lose its freezing | | | | of the refrigerant starting from the freezer |
| capacity. The basic mechanism behind the cooling | | | | compressor, one thing can be interestingly noted. Initially |
| process is very simple. It is actually evaporation of a | | | | the color of the refrigerant gas in the freezer |
| liquid substance that in turn helps in absorbing the | | | | compressor is orange. This is exactly when the |
| heated air. The entire process begins in the freezer | | | | compression begins. After that as it transforms into |
| compressor. | | | | liquid from the compressor to the expansion valve, the |
| Precisely the refrigerator is made up of the freezer | | | | color also changes to purple. The third change takes |
| compressor, the pipes as heat exchanging unit both | | | | place in the final process of evaporation. |
| from inside and outside, the refrigerant and the | | | | -The route followed by the refrigerant from the |
| expansion valve. If you ought to understand the | | | | compressor begins at a high pressure region. But |
| working mechanism of the freezer compressor, you | | | | ultimately down the line it reaches to a low pressure |
| need to know about the refrigerant first. The | | | | area in the liquid purple state. This is exactly behind the |
| refrigerant is primarily the liquid which undergoes | | | | door of the refrigerator where the low pressure allows |
| evaporation for cooling the temperature inside the | | | | the liquid refrigerant to evaporate. The process starts |
| refrigerator. Pure ammonia is one form of refrigerant | | | | with the expansion of the liquid and ends in |
| which needs just 32 degrees Celsius to evaporate. | | | | evaporation. |
| What exactly happens inside the freezer compressor | | | | -With the evaporation of the refrigerant liquid, the |
| to initiate and sustain the process of refrigeration? | | | | gaSEOus state now becomes light blue in color very |
| -Initially the refrigerant is in the gaSEOus state and the | | | | unlikely from the freezer compressor's state of gas. |
| compressor exerts pressure on it. Simultaneously the | | | | This light blue color refrigerant absorbs the inside heat |
| pressure of the refrigerant gas increases along with its | | | | and through its cooling effect fills up the vacuum |
| temperature. Now it is the turn of the heat exchanging | | | | created. |
| pipe attached in the outside position that helps in the | | | | -The inner heat exchange pipes or coils allow the |
| transmission of heat under the pressurized condition of | | | | heated gas to pass out. The refrigerator thus gets |
| the refrigerant. | | | | cool from inside. As this mechanism repeats over time |
| -Once the first level of the transfer of heat is | | | | starting from the action of the freezer compressor, the |
| complete the refrigerant gas condenses to liquid. The | | | | refrigerator remains cold till it is on. |
| refrigerant liquid makes its path through the expansion | | | | |