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2. The best portable air conditioners - AOL

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   How portable air conditioning units work. When you hear the word “air conditioning unit,” you probably think of a window AC, which is typically situated in your window for a few months every ...

3. Air conditioning - Wikipedia

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   Air conditioning can be achieved using a mechanical 'air conditioner' or by other methods, including passive cooling and ventilative cooling. [2][3] Air conditioning is a member of a family of systems and techniques that provide heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC). [4] Heat pumps are similar in many ways to air conditioners, but ...

4. Packaged terminal air conditioner - Wikipedia

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   A packaged terminal air conditioner (PTAC) is a type of self-contained heating and air conditioning system intended to be mounted through a wall. [1] The first practical semi-portable air conditioning unit invented by engineers at Chrysler Motors. It entered the market in 1935, and was designed to fit under a window like many modern PTACs. [2]

5. Frederick McKinley Jones - Wikipedia

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   Jones designed the portable air-cooling unit for trucks carrying perishable food to prevent spoilage. [11] [14] The Model A refrigeration equipment was attached to undercarriages of trucks. Chilled air was transported to the inside of the trailer via refrigerant tubing. [17] Because Model A was too heavy, Jones later developed the Model B.

6. Friedrich Air Conditioning - Wikipedia

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   Portable/Power Miser: Introduced in 1965 and produced until the early 1990s, this was the first room air conditioner advertised as a portable unit by Friedrich. In 1974, the name Power Miser appeared along with a major engineering change, which saw a less efficient and light duty Tecumseh AH/AJ reciprocating compressor replace the high ...

7. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning - Wikipedia

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   Central, "all-air" air-conditioning systems (or package systems) with a combined outdoor condenser/evaporator unit are often installed in North American residences, offices, and public buildings, but are difficult to retrofit (install in a building that was not designed to receive it) because of the bulky air ducts required. [29] (Minisplit ...