HVAC: Books/eBooks

Featuring more than 800 accurate practice questions and answers, HVAC Licensing Study Guide, Third Edition , provides everything you need to prepare for and pass the major HVAC licensing exams.

This book provides a wealth of HVAC design information encompassing all types of facilities--from offices and hospitals to commercial spaces and computer rooms. Written in an outline format for ease of use, this practical reference offers hundreds of field-tested equations and rules of thumb and features all-new coverage of the latest building components and materials

This new edition of Load Calculation Applications Manual presents two methods for calculating design cooling loads—the heat balance method (HBM) and the radiant time series method (RTSM)—in a thorough, applications-oriented approach that includes extensive step-by-step examples for the RTSM.

This essential up-to-date revision of ASHRAE's Fundamentals of Refrigeration addresses the three major areas of refrigeration: comfort cooling (air conditioning), commercial refrigeration, and industrial refrigeration. Each of twelve chapters builds stepwise in a logical progression from an understanding of basic principles to a consideration of practical details to their implications in commercial applications

This authoritative new resource provides a comprehensive review of the current approaches to the design and construction of sustainable buildings. This hand-on guide features global case studies with practical examples of both successful and unsuccessful designs.

'Internet of things (IOT) encompasses a wide range of objects and technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID), near field communication (NFC) and wireless sensor and actuators networks (WSANs). Moreover, IoT encompasses different communication standards, protocols, and data formats so that the IoT environment is heterogeneous, decentralized and complex. The definition of standards and architectures in different levels of abstraction is an essential need of the IoT environments