{"id":1476,"date":"2021-07-09T22:01:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T16:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2021-07-09T22:01:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T16:31:48","slug":"how-does-a-propane-refrigerator-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/how-does-a-propane-refrigerator-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does a Propane Refrigerator Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A propane refrigerator is useful for <a href=\"https:\/\/minifreezershop.com\/camping-fridge\/\">camping<\/a> and in places where there is a scarcity of electricity. It can work for many days in a remote place with a single propane cylinder. The working of a propane refrigerator is different from the <a href=\"https:\/\/minifreezershop.com\/how-does-a-refrigerator-work\/\">working of a household refrigerator<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The propane refrigerator works by heating water and ammonia in the boiler, ammonia moves in gaseous form and changes into liquid in the condenser, and combines with hydrogen gas in the evaporator which results in evaporation and rapid cooling which absorbs the heat from inside the refrigerator.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to properly understand the working of a propane refrigerator, you should first know about the important parts of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_69_1 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-673f029202b1a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #000000;color:#000000\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #000000;color:#000000\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-673f029202b1a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/how-does-a-propane-refrigerator-work\/#Main_Components_of_a_Propane_Refrigerator\" title=\"Main Components of a Propane Refrigerator\">Main Components of a Propane Refrigerator<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/how-does-a-propane-refrigerator-work\/#Working_of_a_Propane_Refrigerator\" title=\"Working of a Propane Refrigerator\">Working of a Propane Refrigerator<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Main_Components_of_a_Propane_Refrigerator\"><\/span><strong>Main Components of a Propane Refrigerator<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Boiler\/Generator<\/strong>&#8211; It heats ammonia, water, hydrogen and sodium chromate<\/li><li><strong>Separator<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; separates the ammonia gas from water<\/li><li><strong>Condensor<\/strong>&#8211; It changes ammonia gas into liquid ammonia<\/li><li><strong>Evaporator<\/strong>&#8211; Here ammonia combines with hydrogen and evaporates to produce rapid cooling. Ammonia is converted again into gas.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Working_of_a_Propane_Refrigerator\"><\/span><strong>Working of a Propane Refrigerator<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> It starts with heating ammonia, water, hydrogen gas and sodium chromate in the boiler with the help of propane gas. All are boiled under pressure in the generator or boiler.<\/li><li>Water and ammonia moves up and enter the seperator. Inside it water is seperated from ammonia.<\/li><li>Ammonia enters the condenser and looses heat. It dissipates it heat and return to its liquid form.<\/li><li>The liquid ammonia trickles down into evaporator. It combines with hydrogen gas. This chemical mixing causes very vigorous evaporation. It results in rapid cooling and heat is absorbed from the unit. This occurs in the freezer unit of the refrigerator.<\/li><li>As a result of rapid evaporation, the liquid ammonia again changes into gas. It then enters the second evaporator in the refrigerator unit and absorbs more heat.<\/li><li>Finally the gas enters the return pipe and rejoins the water which came out of the seperator. Both again reaches the boiler and whole process continues again.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cy1W-uWvR9U?start=28\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Next: <a href=\"https:\/\/minifreezershop.com\/outdoor-refrigerator\/\">Best Outdoor Refrigerator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A propane refrigerator is useful for camping and in places where there is a scarcity of electricity. It can work for many days in a remote place with a single propane cylinder. The working of a propane refrigerator is different from the working of a household refrigerator. The propane refrigerator works by heating water and &#8230; <a title=\"How Does a Propane Refrigerator Work\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/how-does-a-propane-refrigerator-work\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How Does a Propane Refrigerator Work\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guide","tag-how-does-a-propane-refrigerator-work"],"modified_by":"CHANDRAMANI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minifreezershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}