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A cooling coil allows contents to cool as they move through it. Cooling coils are used in manufacturing to control temperatures and in HVAC systems where space is limited. The cooling coil is where indoor air cooling occurs as refrigerant changes from liquid to gas, absorbing heat and cooling air blown across the coil. A vapor-liquid separator uses gravity or centrifugal force to separate gas and liquid mixtures, with gas exiting through the top and liquid exiting the bottom. They are widely used in industries like oil refining, power plants, and manufacturing to prevent damaging liquids from entering gas compressor systems.

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A cooling coil allows contents to cool as they move through it. Cooling coils are used in manufacturing to control temperatures and in HVAC systems where space is limited. The cooling coil is where indoor air cooling occurs as refrigerant changes from liquid to gas, absorbing heat and cooling air blown across the coil. A vapor-liquid separator uses gravity or centrifugal force to separate gas and liquid mixtures, with gas exiting through the top and liquid exiting the bottom. They are widely used in industries like oil refining, power plants, and manufacturing to prevent damaging liquids from entering gas compressor systems.

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COOLING COIL

A cooling coil is a device intended to allow the contents of the coil to cool as they
move through it. Cooling coils can be used in materials processing to control the
temperatures of various components, and they are also employed in heating and
cooling systems where space is at a premium and other cooling arrangements are
not feasible. This cooling mechanism is relatively simple and can usually be
implemented at reasonably low cost.

The cooling coil or evaporator coil is where building indoor air cooling actually takes
place.

The liquid air conditioning refrigerant entering the cooling coil through the metering
device (a capillary tube or THERMOSTATIC EXPANSION VALVE) is increasingly
changed to gas form as it "boils" or evaporates as the liquid refrigerant flows
through the cooling or "evaporator" coil, so that at the end of the cooling coil the
refrigerant is totally in gaseous form.

This state change (liquid to gas refrigerant) absorbs energy, cooling the tubing and
fins of the cooling coil and thus indirectly, cooling and dehumidifying indoor air that
is blown across the coil.

A cooling coil which is blocked by debris or ice and frost, or which is damaged can
obstruct air flow and reduce air conditioning system output. The air conditioning
system evaporator coil and problems include ice and frost build-up, dirt or debris
blocking air flow through the coil, and damaged or leaky cooling coils.
VAPOR LIQUID SEPARATOR

A vapor–liquid separator is a device used in several industrial applications to


separate a vapor–liquid mixture.
A vapor–liquid separator may also be referred to as a flash drum, breakpot, knock-
out drum or knock-out pot, compressor suction drum or compressor inlet drum.
When used to remove suspended water droplets from streams of air, it is often
called a demister.
For the common variety, gravity is utilized in a vertical vessel to cause the liquid to
settle to the bottom of the vessel, where it is withdrawn.
In low gravity environments such as a space station, a common liquid separator will
not function because gravity is not usable as a separation mechanism. In this
case, centrifugal force needs to be utilised in a spinning centrifugal separator to
drive liquid towards the outer edge of the chamber for removal. Gaseous
components migrate towards the center.
For both varieties of separator, the gas outlet may itself be surrounded by a
spinning mesh screen or grating, so that any liquid that does approach the outlet
strikes the grating, is accelerated, and thrown away from the outlet.
The vapor travels through the gas outlet at a design velocity which minimises
the entrainment of any liquid droplets in the vapor as it exits the vessel.
The feed to a vapor–liquid separator may also be a liquid that is being partially or
totally flashed into a vapor and liquid as it enters the separator.
The separator is only effective as long as there is an air space inside the chamber.
The separator can fail if either the mixed inlet is overwhelmed with supply material,
or the liquid drain is unable to handle the volume of liquid being collected. The
separator may therefore be combined with some other liquid level sensing
mechanism such as a sight glass or float sensor. In this manner, both the supply
and drain flow can be regulated to prevent the separator from becoming
overloaded.
Vapor–liquid separators are very widely used in a great many industries and
applications, such as:
 Oil refineries
 Natural-gas processing plants (NGL)
 Petrochemical and chemical plants
 Refrigeration systems
 Air conditioning
 Compressor systems
 Gas pipelines
 Steam condensate flash drums
 Geothermal power plants
 Combined cycle power plants
 Flare stacks
 Soil vapor extraction
 Paper mills
In refrigeration systems, it is common for the system to contain a mixture of liquid
and gas, but for the mechanical gas compressor to be intolerant of liquid.
Some compressor types such as the scroll compressor use a continuously shrinking
compression volume. Once liquid completely fills this volume the pump may either
stall and overload, or the pump chamber may be warped or otherwise damaged by
the fluid that can not fit into a smaller space.

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