Introduction

Air conditioner is necessary for dailycomfort especially in extreme climate Malaysias

going through nowadays. Most of us thought that the function of air conditioner is to cool and
heat the air around but it actually works in more complex way than supplying the cool and hot
air. Air-conditioning is a process of maintaining the conditioned space at desired temperature or
humidity. The processes include simple heating, steam humidification, simple humidification,
simple cooling and dehumidification.

Figure 1 : Various air conditioning processes

Cooling is the procees of transferring energy from the space or air where the temperature
between the source and the air is different. Cooling process usually denotes sensible heat transfer
with a decrease in temperature, because the air is circulated at low temperature. For heating
process, it usually take place through direct radiaton and free convection. This process transfer
energy to the air. During humidifying process, the water vapor is transfer from the air. In this
process, air often circulated over a surface at a sufficiently low temperature that is maintained to
cause the condensation of water vapor to occur. During dehumidifying process, water vaporis
transfer to the air.usually, fine droplet is spray to the air that is then evaporated into circulating
air stream.

Sometimes, in some other countries, more than one processes are needed to bring the air
to the desired temperature and humidity. Based on engineers knowledge in thermodynamic
aspects of human body, they designed the system that satisfy humans body needs.