Archive for June, 2009
UCC Search
Monday, June 29th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
A UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) search involves a search of the UCC database of commercial entities, and can be carried out only in those states that have adopted the UCC Code. In the past, it has frequently been difficult to easily and effectively carry out commercial transactions between states due to discrepancies between them in commercial law.
The UCC was formulated to unify commercial law between states that adopted it, and so applies only to those states that have done so, namely 49 states including Georgia. However, the adoption has not been total, since many states have introduced variations to specific aspects of it.
You may carry out a UCC search on any of the databases, and there is a charge made for this. If you have a query on any of the legal aspects of the code, only an attorney is permitted to advise you, and you must follow a specific procedure when carrying out your search. For these and other reasons, you are advised to use a lawyer when carrying out a UCC search.
So what type of information is available to you? You can carry out a debtor search, but you must carry out a certified using a specific paper or online form, and must refer to the individual or organization using the name exactly as contained within the database. Non-certified searches have no such restrictions, and can use wild cards in the search.
If you use the UCC database frequently, it would pay you to use a legal service to carry out your searches because not only would you be more able to control your filing and search costs, but you would also be more capable of using the various UCC facilities to their full advantage.
MLQ Attorney Services offers UCC searches in Atlanta Georgia.
Air Conditioners
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
Air conditioners and refrigerators work the same way. Instead of cooling just the small, insulated space inside of a refrigerator, an air conditioner cools a room, a whole house, or an entire business.
Air conditioners use chemicals that easily convert from a gas to a liquid and back again. This chemical is used to transfer heat from the air inside of a home to the outside air.
The machine has three main parts. They are a compressor, a condenser and an evaporator. The compressor and condenser are usually located on the outside air portion of the air conditioner. The evaporator is located on the inside the house, sometimes as part of a furnace. That’s the part that heats your house.
Air conditioning - how systems works
The working fluid arrives at the compressor as a cool, low-pressure gas. The compressor squeezes the fluid. This packs the molecule of the fluid closer together. The closer the molecules are together, the higher its energy and its temperature.
The working fluid leaves the compressor as a hot, high pressure gas and flows into the condenser. If you looked at the air conditioner part outside a house, look for the part that has metal fins all around. The fins act like a radiator in a car and helps dissipate the heat, more quickly.
When the working fluid leaves the condenser, its temperature is much cooler and it has changed from a gas to a liquid under high pressure. The liquid goes into the evaporator through a very tiny, narrow hole. On the other side, the liquid’s pressure drops. When it does it begins to evaporate into a gas.
As the liquid changes to gas and evaporates, it extracts heat from the air around it. The heat in the air is needed to separate the molecules of the fluid from a liquid to a gas.
The evaporator also has metal fins to help in exchange the thermal energy with the surrounding air.
By the time the working fluid leaves the evaporator, it is a cool, low pressure gas. It then returns to the compressor to begin its trip all over again.
Connected to the evaporator is a fan that circulates the air inside the house to blow across the evaporator fins. Hot air is lighter than cold air, so the hot air in the room rises to the top of a room.
There is a vent there where air is sucked into the air conditioner and goes down ducts. The hot air is used to cool the gas in the evaporator. As the heat is removed from the air, the air is cooled. It is then blown into the house through other ducts usually at the floor level.
This continues over and over and over until the room reaches the temperature you want the room cooled to. The thermostat senses that the temperature has reached the right setting and turns off the air conditioner. As the room warms up, the thermostat turns the air conditioner back on until the room reaches the temperature.
Heat Pump
Imagine that you took an air conditioner and flipped it around so that the hot coils were on the inside and the cold coils were on the outside. Then you would have a heater. It turns out that this heater works extremely well. Rather than burning a fuel, what it is doing is “moving heat.”
A heat pump is an air conditioner that contains a valve that lets it switch between “air conditioner” and “heater.” When the valve is switched one way, the heat pump acts like an air conditioner, and when it is switched the other way it reverses the flow of the liquid inside the heat pump and acts like a heater.