HVAC simplified + CD-ROM.

Author(s) : ASHRAE, KAVANAUGH S. P.

Type of monograph: Book

Summary

This book provides an understanding of fundamental HVAC concepts and how to extend these principles to the explanation of simple design tools used to create building systems that are efficient and provide comfortable and healthy environments. Extract from the table of contents: introduction to HVAC; HVAC fundamentals of refrigeration, heat transfer, and psychrometrics; HVAC equipment, systems, and selection; comfort, air quality, and climatic data; heat and moisture flow in buildings; cooling load and heating loss calculations and analysis; air and water distribution system designs; motors, lighting, and controls; energy, costs, and economics. In the appendices: units and conversions; refrigerant pressure-enthalpy charts and sea level psychrometric chart; floor plans; developing engineering tools with computer spreadsheets; nomenclature, HVAC terms, and abbreviations. The accompanying CD contains a suite of complementary spreadsheet programmes that incorporate design and computation procedures from the text.

Details

  • Original title: HVAC simplified + CD-ROM.
  • Record ID : 2007-0906
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Regulation
  • Publication: ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) - United states/United states
  • Publication date: 2006
  • ISBN: 1931862974
  • Source: Source: 248 p. (21.5 x 27.8); fig.; tabl.; ref.; index; append.; USD 79.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.