There are two types of coils in an AC/refrigeration system–the evaporator and the condenser. They consist of copper or aluminum tubes with aluminum fins or microchannel tubes with fin strips. If these ...

The condenser is the most underrated component in an air conditioning or refrigeration system. Besides being a simple heat exchanger, the condenser has to desuperheat, condense, and subcool ...

The quality of the cooling water intake and the amount of debris in that water affects the operation and performance of the condenser and therefore the thermal performance of the typical steam plant.

No matter how often you clean your fridge, you might be missing an important part—the coils. The condenser coils are responsible for cooling the air inside the fridge. (Pretty crucial, right?) As ...

The condenser is an important part of your refrigerator's sealed refrigerant system, and it is the only part that needs maintenance. Fortunately, all that's required is to clean the condenser's coils ...

I asked my neighbor who hoses off his air conditioner condenser every spring why he does it. “Because my dad always told me I had to,” he said. Conventional wisdom like what my neighbor’s dad imparted ...

If you don't do this essential task after winter, you'll be negatively impacting the efficiency of your A/C, inadvertently ...

You might be in the habit of regularly wiping down your refrigerator’s shelves and exterior door and tossing out its expired contents, but when was the last time you thought about cleaning the coils?

Condensers are one part of the power plant where the technology is well defined and the benefits of keeping a clean condenser are easily determined. Condenser maintenance is a "pay me now or pay me ...