This text on the design of heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems emphasizes energy efficiency and economic value. Topics include equipment seleetion and spccification, comfort and indoor air quality, building assemblies, heating and cooling loads, electrical and control systems, and design of air distribution and water distribution systems. The author has assembled information from ASHRAE Handbooks, ASHRAE standards, and manufacturers' data and presents diesign procedures commonly used by professional engineers, including an overview of ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2004 mandates for ventilation air system design.
This book includes a CD containing a suite of complementary spreadsheet programs that incorporate design and computation procedures from the text. These programs include psychrometric analysis, equipment selection, heating and cooling load calculation, an electronic "ductulator," piping system design, a ductwork cost calculator, and programs to evaluate building system demand and energy efficiency.The CD is Windows and Mac compatible and is Single User only.
The intended audience for this book includes novice HVAC engineers who did not complete an undergraduate HVAC course, engineers moving into HVAC from other fields, undergraduate engineering students in design-oriented curriculums, and nonengineering professionals with strong building-related experience.
The author, Stephen P. Kavanaugh, PhD, Fellow ASHRAE, is a professor of
mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama where he