How Does A Dehumidifier Perform?

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What is wrong with high humidity levels at home?

After you switch off the air conditioning, ambient air tends to find its way into your room leading to condensation on the floor, walls, and ceiling. This can lead to slippery floors and fungal growth on walls and ceilings.

High humidity and moisture can inflate your wood and will leave white spots on the surface. If you have elegant home with wooden furnishing, then surely you want to keep it looking new for years to come and also functional.

Furnishings like Curtains, Upholstery on sofas, and Chairs also, tend to absorb moisture and if retained for long will form fuzzy dots i.e. fungus which can be a very unpleasant sight and hard to clean.

Furthermore, after we switch off the air conditioning, the air temperature in our room increases, along with the humidity which settles on circuits on your expensive and sensitive electronic audio-video equipment, leading to corrosion, frequent breakdowns, and maintenance costs.

Similarly, in hill stations where people have second homes, high rainfall leads to a high level of moisture which ...
... enters the house through leakages and damps walls, leading to moisture damage of electronics such as led screens, amplifiers, speakers, and projectors.

And when one arrives in their second home they experience a musty odor and fungal growth on walls which can result in an unhealthy environment leading to allergies.

So How Can a Dehumidifier Help?

Origin dehumidifier works to reduce the excess moisture in the air by transforming moisture in the air into the water which gets collected in a tank or can be drained out through a hose pipe.

Some of our clients use a dehumidifier on a programmable clock timer with the scheduled operation to ensure moisture does not build up in the room and the water is drained out through the hose pipe.

Dehumidifiers are portable, come with small wheels, and can be moved around in different rooms very conveniently.

Here, we will learn about the refrigerant-based dehumidifier working process - these are the most popular styles of dehumidifiers.
The mechanics behind a refrigerant-style dehumidifier operation are actually very simple.

Have you ever noticed how moisture forms on the outside of a cold glass of water on a hot day?

Or

when you remove a water bottle from the refrigerator, the outer part of that bottle immediately turns moist? Noticed that?

That’s condensation, and once you know that, understanding how a dehumidifier works becomes a lot easier.

Origin Dehumidifier Working process:
Warm, moist air is sucked into the dehumidifier by a fan.
The warm moist air then crosses over the cold coils, causing the moisture in the air to turn into water droplets inside the machine.

Why does that happen?

These coils are cold and the air that crosses over them is warm. When warm air with moisture meets with a cold surface, it leads to condensation which is collected into a tank or drained out.

The air after passing over the cold coils also called the evaporator now passes over the warm coil called the condenser, which slightly heats the air again before it is released into the room.

In this way, excess moisture is collected in the form of water by a refrigerant-based dehumidifier and the humidity is regulated.

What happens next?

Dehumidifiers usually have a removable bucket where the water is collected for quick disposal. Some dehumidifiers also have a pump, for continuous drainage.

The dehumidifier will automatically shut off when the drainage bucket is full. Nothing to worry about.

You can set your desired level of humidity on the control panel of the dehumidifier, and it will work accordingly.

To summarize, Origin Dehumidifier operation in 4 Very Simple Steps:

Step 1: The dehumidifier draws moisture-filled air from the surroundings and passes the air through cold refrigerated coils.

Step 2: The water condenses on the cold coils and the condensed water droplets are collected in the dehumidifier water tank.

Step 3: Then the air is passed over a warm condenser coil and reheated.

Step 4: The dehumidified warm air is now released in the room and the process is carried on to meet the desired humidity level.

A dehumidifier absorbs all moisture, collects that water in a tank, and releases dry air back into the room. Visit Origin Dehumidifier website to find out more about how a dehumidifier works.