Modern refrigerators don’t use CFC. Instead they use ammonia gas. Ammonia gas turns into a liquid when it is cooled to -27 degrees Fahrenheit (-6.5 degrees Celsius).
A motor and compressor squeezes the ammonia gas. When it is compressed, a gas heats up as it is pressurized. When you pass the compressed gas through the coils on the back or bottom of a modern refrigerator, the hot ammonia gas can lose its heat to the air in the room.
Remember the law of thermodynamics.
As it cools, the ammonia gas can change into ammonia liquid because it is under a high pressure.
The ammonia liquid flows through what’s called an expansion valve, a tiny small hole that the liquid has to squeeze through. Between the valve and the compressor, there is a low-pressure area because the compressor is pulling the ammonia gas out of that side.
When the liquid ammonia hits a low pressure area it boils and changes into a gas. This is called vaporizing.
The coils then go through the freezer and regular part of the refrigerator where the colder ammonia in the coil pulls the heat out of the compartments. This makes the inside of the freezer and entire refrigerator cold.
The compressor sucks up the cold ammonia gas, and the gas goes back through the same process over and over.
How Does the Temperature Stay the Same Inside?
A device called a thermocouple (it’s basically a thermometer) can sense when the temperature in the refrigerator is as cold as you want it to be. When it reaches that temperature, the device shuts off the electricity to the compressor.
But the refrigerator is not completely sealed. There are places, like around the doors and where the pipes go through, that can leak a little bit.
So when the cold from inside the refrigerator starts to leak out and the heat leaks in, the thermocouple turns the compressor back on to cool the refrigerator off again.
That’s why you’ll hear your refrigerator compressor motor coming on, running for a little while and then turning itself off.
Today’s refrigerators, however, are very energy efficient. Ones sold today use about one-tenth the amount of electricity of ones that were built 20 years ago. So, if you have an old, old refrigerator, it’s better to buy a new one because you’ll save money (and energy) over a long period of time.
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