COMPRESSOR

A refrigeration compressor, as the name indicates, is a machine used to compress the vapour refrigerant from the evaporator and to raise its pressure so that the corresponding saturation temperature is higher than that of the cooling medium. It also continually circulates the refrigerant throughout the refrigerating system. Since the compression of refrigerant requires some work to be done on it, therefore, a compressor must be driven by some prime mover. A compressor is the Heart part of the refrigeration and Air conditioning cycle because in our human body heart pump blood through the whole body, like that the compressor pump the refrigerant through the whole cycle.