Heating And Cooling Essentials

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Heating and Cooling Essentials is the ideal introductory text for students entering the HVACR field, providing well-illustrated and simple explanations of complex HVACR topics. The text emphasizes the techniques needed to perform the installation, service, and repair of refrigeration, air conditioning, and heating systems. Students build an understanding of how the many photos and diagrams enhance learning for those new to the study of HVACR. Strong Tips, and review questions aid learning and retention. New careers and soft skill information prepare students for the workplace skills needed to be successful in HVACR careers. In addition to showing students how to excel in the workplace, Heating and Cooling Essentials helps them get the most out of an HVACR education.

Created with a clear-cut vision of necessary knowledge, this groundbreaking text provides comprehensive coverage of heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration. Lauded as a reader-friendly text that delivers fundamental concepts, the most current trends, and practical applications with simple language and skillfully presented concepts, F undamentals of HVACR, 2nd edition boasts carefully selected artwork and the right amount of detail. This book is everything readers need to know to install, service, and maintain HVACR systems.

This text provides a guide to the specification and application of all types of commercial and residential air conditioning equipment. It guides the reader through each step of the process of proper system design, including equipment selection, sizing, placement and installation.

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