Advantages and Disadvantages of Air cooled condensers

Advantages and Disadvantages of Air cooled condensers:

Advantages of air-cooled condensers:

• Air cooled condensers are simple in operation.
• They are smaller in size.
• Required maintenance of air cooled condensers is low.
• Cleaning process is easy.
• Installation cost is comparatively less.
• Design of air cooled condensers are less complex.
• This type of condensers is more flexible to use.

Disadvantages of air cooled condensers:

• Air cooled condensers required more power to run.
• It is not suitable for long duration period.
• The cooling effect is not so high.
• It does not supply the required cooling in a short time.