• Modern coverage of important topics: Access the only source of the most current information

• The most recent approaches to energy calculations: Find the state-of-the-art collected in one place

• Detailed examination of electrical systems: Get more in-depth coverage than in any other HVAC book

• Utilities, central and distributed: Learn about the electrical industry in its current period of uncertain supplies

• Solar energy systems: Discover which systems are feasible and which are not

Over the past 20 years, energy conservation imperatives, the use of computer based design aids, and major advances in intelligent management systems for buildings have transformed the design and operation of comfort systems for buildings. The "rules of thumb" used by designers in the1970s are no longer viable. Today, building systems engineers must have a strong analytical basis for design synthesis processes.

But how can you develop this basis? Do you have on your shelf a reference that describes all the latest methods? Does it cover everything from the fundamentals to state-of-the art, intelligent systems? Does it do so in practical way that you can easily access and use when you need to?

The Handbook of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning does. It combines practice and theory, systems and control, and the latest methods and technologies to provide, in one volume, all of the modern design and operation information needed by HVAC engineers.

Contents

1. Introduction to the Buildings Sector Fundamentals
   • Thermodynamic and Heat Transfer Basics
   • Psychrometrics and Comfort

2. Economic Aspects of Buildings
   • Central and Distributed Utilities
   • Economics & Costing of HVAC Systems

3. HVAC Equipment and Systems
   • Heating Systems
   • Air conditioning Systems
   • Ventilation and Air Handling Systems
   • Electrical Systems

4. Controls
   • Controls Fundamentals
   • Intelligent Buildings

5. HVAC Design Calculations
   • Energy Calculations - Building Loads
   • Simulation and Modeling - Building Energy Consumption
   • Energy Conservation in Buildings
   • Solar Energy System Analysis and Design

6. Operation and Maintenance
   • HVAC System Commissioning
   • Building System Diagnostics and Preventive Maintenance

Appendices:
Properties of Gases and Vapors
Properties of Liquids
Properties of Solids
Gases and Vapors
Composition and Heating Values of Common Fuels

Index

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