{"id":6255,"date":"2020-03-25T10:45:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T10:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trabajoingenieroinstalaciones.com\/?p=6255"},"modified":"2020-10-26T10:43:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T09:43:51","slug":"4-way-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/blog-ingenieros\/valvula-de-4-vias\/","title":{"rendered":"4 way valve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>4 way valve<\/strong> It is a differentiating element of a <strong>heat pump <\/strong>reversible and allows mechanical compression equipment to operate in <strong>heating<\/strong> or in mode <strong>refrigeration<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Your mission is <strong>reverse coolant circulation<\/strong> inside the refrigeration circuit, in such a way that the battery that worked as a condenser starts working as an evaporator and the battery that worked as an evaporator starts working as a condenser. In the following photograph you can see this refrigeration device with each of its paths identified.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6256\" src=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-15_CF4_EDIF.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\r\n<figcaption><strong>Photography. <\/strong>4 way valve<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Each valve path must be connected to a specific element of the circuit, taking the previous photograph as a reference:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>Path A:<\/strong> connected to the compressor discharge.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Path B:<\/strong> connected to the compressor suction.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Path C:<\/strong> connected to battery I.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Path D:<\/strong> connected to battery II.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>To understand the operation of the 4-way valve we will go to the specific example of a domestic machine with an indoor battery installed in the home and an outdoor battery installed on the terrace. When the internal battery works as an evaporator we are operating in <strong>cooling mode<\/strong> (we steal heat from the environment) and when it functions as a condenser we are operating in <strong>heating mode<\/strong> (we give off heat to the environment).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The <strong>4 way valve<\/strong> It allows us to select which battery to discharge the compressor as shown in the following figures:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Cooling mode:<\/strong> We take the discharge from the compressor to the external battery.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>External battery: Works as a capacitor.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Indoor battery: Works as an evaporator.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6259\" src=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-15_cf4a_EDIF.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\r\n<figcaption><strong>Figure. <\/strong>Cooling mode<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Heating mode<\/strong>: We take the discharge from the compressor to the external battery.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Outdoor coil: Works as an evaporator.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Internal battery: Works as a capacitor.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6260\" src=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-15_cf4b_EDIF.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\r\n<figcaption><strong>Figure. <\/strong>Heating mode<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4-way valve&#039;s mission is to reverse the circulation of the refrigerant within the refrigeration circuit. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":6273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-ingenieros"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}