What Happens When Your Condensation Drain is Clogged?
Dear Mr Nayak: If you’ve ever taken a look at the indoor unit of your HVAC system, you’ve probably noticed that there’s a large metal pan sitting beneath it. This is known as your Aircon Evaporator drain pan, and its job is to capture water that drips out of your air conditioner. This is a perfectly normal part of the cooling process—-as water vapor particles come into contact with your freezing cold indoor coil, the water quickly turns from gas form to liquid form, eventually accumulating into drops. Those water droplets drip off the coil and down into your drain pan, where it is collected and carried away via a drain line connected to the bottom of the pan.
You may not think your drain line is all that important—-after all, it only has to carry away a small amount of water that your air conditioner naturally produces as a byproduct. However, when your drain line clogs, the water that your air conditioner produces has nowhere to go; Instead, it simply sits in the line or in your drain pan and slowly evaporates back into the atmosphere, increasing your indoor relative humidity levels. Too much humidity in the air, is already an annoying--enough a problem, as it can result in sticky and uncomfortable feeling air in your home. However, it can also contribute to issues like mold, fungus, mildew and bacterial growth, which cause a lot of health problems on their own.
Corrosion shortens the life of your system and could result in earlier replacements, which is an extremely expensive issue that could be easily avoided. Thus, you really don’t want water/ sludge, slime sitting around in the bottom of your drain pan.
However, there’s another issue that could also come up: when the water can’t drain away, it will simply continue to accumulate as your air conditioner functions. The more water that your system extracts from the air, the more water will drop down into the pan, and the more your pan will fill up. Eventually, a completely blocked drain line will cause the water in your drain pan to overflow, resulting in potentially catastrophic damage to your office, hotel, home, or any conditioned space.
Water that overflows from the pan can cause damage to drywall, including staining your walls, weakening the structure and even damaging your floors, carpeting or furniture. Your electrical system could also be impacted, if water finds its way to an exposed wire or other issues. And like we mentioned previously, this water could also foster mold and mildew growth and even do so faster damage, than water vapor or humidity ever could.
Thus, if you find that water is building up in the drain pan beneath your indoor AHU/FCU HVAC equipment, it’s extremely important that you investigate the issue as soon as possible. More often than not, the issue is simply that a collection of dirt, dust, lint and other common material debris, have accumulated in your drain line, creating a clog which can often be dislodged using the Coil*Tech Samurai Evaporator Coil Condensate Drain Cleaner (CDC), freeing the line and allowing the condensation to drain away with ease.
An Ounce of Prevention, is worth a pound of cure!
BENEFITS:
ü A GREEN, safe product; No harmful chemicals, Biocides.
ü Contains a highly effective surfactant and disinfectant and Dispersant.
ü Prevents H2O Overflows, blockages, bacteria and mold/ fungal growth
ü Prevents/ minimises Formicary corrosion; Formicary corrosion is a type of corrosion caused by organic acids such as formic acids and acetic acids. This corrosion attacks copper and copper alloy tube walls, and is associated with pinholes in the copper tube walls in cooling systems.
100% water soluble, no product casing to discard
ü Self adhering/ Gradually Dissolves in drain pan
ü Lasts up to 6 months on application (depending on Climatic conditions@46C)
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Cost: Rs 1099/ cube (incl 18% GST)
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Coil*Tech
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Gopal Banerjee
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