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Scroll Compressor



Scroll Compressor










The air-conditioning compressor compresses the refrigerant with the aid of a scroll compressor instead of the swash plate that is used with conventional air-conditioning compressors.

The scroll compressor consists of two interleaved scrolls, one of which is fixed while the other moves in a circular motion within the fixed scroll. The scrolls almost come into contact with one another many times and form multiple continuously increasing and decreasing chambers within the scrolls. The refrigerant to be compressed passes through these changing pockets until it reaches the center of the compressor. Here, the compressed refrigerant is then discharged and fed to the refrigerant circuit in a pressurized state.







To separate the ND8 oil, an oil separator that functions according to the Venturi principle is used at the high-pressure outlet.
The rest of the air-conditioning system is based on the conventional design.