
- 400 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
HVAC Fundamentals, Third Edition
About this book
Updated with chapters on ventilating and exhausting systems and HVAC systems, this third edition of a bestseller covers the range of HVAC systems. The coverages is into components and controls for air, water, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning and readers will learn why one component or system may be chosen over another. This master volume covers the full range of HVAC systems used in today's facilities. Comprehensive in scope, the text is intended to provide the reader with a clear understanding of how HVAC systems operate, as well as how to select the right system and system components to achieve optimum performance and efficiency for a particular application. You'll learn the specific ways in which each system, subsystem or component contributes to providing the desired indoor environment, as well as what factors have an impact on energy conservation, indoor air quality and cost. Examined in detail are compressors, water chillers, fans and fan drives, air distribution and variable air volume, pumps and water distribution, controls and their components, heat recovery, and energy conservation strategies. Also covered are heat flow fundamentals, as well as heat flow calculations used in selecting equipment and determining system operating performance and costs.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction To HVAC Systems
- Chapter 2 Heat Flow
- Chapter 3 Psychrometrics
- Chapter 4 Heating and Ventilating Systems
- Chapter 5 Air Conditioning Systems
- Chapter 6 Fans and Pumps, Drives and Motors
- Chapter 7 Air Distribution
- Chapter 8 Water Distribution
- Chapter 9 Variable Volume Systems
- Chapter 10 Controls
- Chapter 11 System Selection and Optimization
- Chapter 12 Lexicon
- Chapter 13 Abbreviations, Acronyms, Symbols
- Chapter 14 Tables
- Chapter 15 HVAC Math
- Index