$GDGI Heat is often loosely referred to as therm
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$GDGI Heat is often loosely referred to as thermal energy. However, the scientific definition of heat requires that energy be actually in the process of movement from one object to another. While this may seem like a quibble over details, the particular point of interest in the Tulane study is heat flux – or the rate in which heat travels.
Thermodynamics (the study heat energy) is the underlying reason why HVAC works the way it does. To truly understand the work that is going on behind the condenser coils of your air conditioner, there are several laws of thermodynamics to consider. One is the fact that the energy of an isolated object is “conserved” and may remain constant. Another law observes that heat transfer occurs only in the direction of the colder object. For most air conditioning systems, that 'colder object' is the air that surrounds the outside condenser coils. If we want to get rid of the heat that collects in the refrigerant in the coils, we want to promote heat transfer – or heat flux.
Promoting heat flux means allowing spontaneous flows of energy from one object of a high temperature (e.g., refrigerant inside the coils) to one that has a lower temperature (e.g., the outside air). Therefore, the lower the outside air temperature (ambient air temperature), the faster heat can move (the greater the heat flux). By extrapolation, this leads us to the potential energy-efficiencies gained by Cool-n-Save. By spraying micro water mist into the air around the HVAC unit, we ensure that the heat ratio between the coolant and the fins is as large as possible. Ambient air temperature has a direct correlation on efficient heat transfer from the refrigerant in AC systems. The cooler the air, the faster heat moves out of the system. Cool-n-Save pre-cool AC mist immediately decreases air temperature by about 30% which means greater efficiency in overall HVAC performance.