[PDF eBook eTextbook]
- 532 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 4th edition (2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0130928726
- ISBN-13: 978-0130928726
Note: Brand New, Printed in black and white pages.
For anyone interested in the fundamentals of air conditioning or air conditioning systems design.
Using a minimum of mathematics, this book explores the fundamental
concepts of air conditioning and their application to systems—explaining
all concepts in a clear, practical manner, and focusing on problems and
examples typically encountered on the job. This book contains the most
recent and industry-wide accepted information on load calculations,
design data, equipment information, and use of the Internet. Specific
chapter topics cover the scope and uses of air conditioning; physical
principles; heating loads; furnaces and boilers; hydronic piping systems
and terminal units; cooling load calculations; psychrometrics; fluid
flow in piping and ducts; piping, valves, ducts, and insulation; fans
and air distribution devices; centrifugal pumps, expansion tanks, and
venting; air conditioning systems and equipment; refrigeration systems
and equipment; automatic controls; energy utilization and conservation;
instrumentation, testing, and balancing; and planning and designing the
HVAC system; and solar heating and cooling systems. For consulting
engineers, mechanical contractors, HVAC engineers, designers, project
managers, and facilities managers.
