Thermal Environmental Engineering / Edition 3

by Thomas Kuehn, James Ramsey, James Threlkeld

Overview

Appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses in HVAC in Departments of Mechanical Engineering.

This text presents a comprehensive introduction to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning that begins with the basic principles of engineering science and leads to the latest HVAC design practice. Its engineering approach emphasizes both fundamentals and realistic applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780139172205
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	01/28/1998
Edition description:	Subsequent
Pages:	808
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION.

1. Introduction to Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration.

2. Review of Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat Transfer.

II. REFRIGERATION.

3. Mechanical Vapor-Compression Refrigeration Cycles.

4. Mechanical Vapor-Compression Refrigeration Components and Systems.

5. Absorption Refrigeration.

6. Ultralow-Temperature Refrigeration: Cryogenics.

III. PSYCHROMETRICS.

7. Thermodynamic Properties of Moist Air.

8. Psychometric Processes and Applications.

9. The Psychrometer and Humidity Measurement.

IV. HEAT- AND MASS-TRANSFER PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS.

10. Direct-Contact Transfer Processes Between Moist Air and Water.

11. Heating and Cooling of Moist Air by Extended Surface Coils.

12. Human Thermal Comfort and Indoor Air Quality.

13. Solar Radiation.

V. HEATING- AND COOLING-LOAD CALCULATIONS IN BUILDINGS.

14. Winter Design Heat Loss.

15. Instantaneous Heat Gain.

16. Instantaneous Cooling Load.

17. Energy-Estimation Methods.

VI. AIR AND WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM DESIGN.

18. Air-Distribution System and Duct Design.

19. Hydronic System Operation and Design.

Appendix A. Thermodynamic and Thermophysical Property Tables.

Appendix B. Weather Data.

Appendix C. Refrigerant, Cryogenic, and Psychrometric Charts.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

A textbook for a course of about two semesters for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in mechanical engineering who have a background in basic engineering thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. Introduces the theory and analysis of refrigeration, psychometrics, solar radiation, heating and cooling loads in buildings, and designing duct and piping systems. Emphasizes basic principles, includes design guidelines currently practiced in the US, and often provides a choice of methods to apply to a particular problem. Updated from Jame L. Threlkeld's 1970 second edition (he is now listed as the third author). Includes a battery of fold-out graphs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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