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Equip yourself with the knowledge and skills to maintain and troubleshoot today's complex heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems with Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology, Seventh Edition. Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, this time-honored best seller provides the exceptional hands-on guidance, practical applications, latest technology and solid foundation you need to fully understand today's HVAC/R service and repair, its environmental challenges, and their solutions. Focused on sustainable technology in today's HVAC/R industry with an emphasis on new technologies and the latest advancements in the industry, the 7th edition has been updated to include more on green awareness, LEED accreditation and building performances with two new chapters on energy audits and heat gains and losses. This edition covers the all-important soft skills and customer relation issues that impact customer satisfaction and employment success. - Back cover.

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Clifton Park, NY

Table of Contents

Section 1 : Theory of heat.
Introduction
Heat, temperature, and pressure
Matter and energy
Refrigeration and refrigerants
Section 2 : Safety, tools and equipment, and shop practices.
General safety practices
Tools and equipment
Fasteners
Tubing and piping
Leak detection, system evacuation, and system cleanup
Refrigerant and oil chemistry and management : recovery, recycling, reclaiming, and retrofitting
System charging
Calibrating instruments
Section 3 : Basic automatic controls.
Basic electricity and magnetism
Introduction to automatic controls
Automatic control components and applications
Troubleshooting basic controls
Advanced automatic controls : direct digital controls (DDCs) and pneumatics
Section 4 : Electric motors.
Types of electric motors
Application of motors
Motor controls
Troubleshooting electric motors
Section 5 : Commercial refrigeration.
Evaporators and the refrigeration system
Condensers
Compressors
Expansion devices
Special refrigeration system components
Applications of refrigeration systems
Commercial ice machines
Special refrigeration applications
Troubleshooting and typical operating conditions for commercial refrigeration
Section 6 : Air-conditioning (heating and humidification).
Electric heat
Gas heat
Oil heat
Hydronic heat
Indoor air quality
Section 7 : Air-conditioning (cooling).
Comfort and psychrometrics
Refrigeration applied to air conditioning
Air distribution and balance
Installation
Residential energy audit
Typical operating conditions
Troubleshooting
Section 8 : All-weather systems.
Heat gains and heat losses in structures
Air source heat pumps
Geothermal heat pumps
Section 9 : Domestic appliances.
Domestic refrigerators and freezers
Room air conditioners
Section 10 : Commercial air-conditioning and chilled-water systems.
High-pressure, low-pressure, and absorption chilled-water systems
Cooling towers and pumps
Operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of chilled-water air-conditioning systems
Commercial packaged rooftop, variable refrigerant flow and variable air volume systems
Appendix A : Alternative heating (stoves and fireplace inserts)
Appendix B : Temperature conversion chart
Glossary

Edition Notes

"25th anniversary" - cover, t.p.

Copyright Date
2013

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Library of Congress
, TP492 .W6 2013

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xxvii, 1659 p.
Number of pages
1536
Dimensions
29 x x centimeters

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Open Library
OL25423063M
Internet Archive
refrigerationair0000whit_w2p4
ISBN 10
1111644470
ISBN 13
9781111644475
LCCN
2011942385

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