Testing and Balancing HVAC Air and Water Systems

✍ Scribed by Sugarman, Samuel C.

• Publisher: Fairmont Press, Inc.
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides all the information you will need to evaluate and balance the air and water sides of any HVAC system. This new edition includes coverage of pneumatic, electric, electronic, direct digital, proportional, integral and derivative control systems. Every aspect of testing, adjusting and balancing is addressed, including all types of instruments required, and specific methods to adjust constant volume, single zone, dual duct, induction, and variable air volume systems. Complete details are provided for the full scope of system components, including fans, pumps, motors, drives and electricity, as well as for balancing devices and instrument usage.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter
• Introduction
• Table of Contents
•Part I 1. General Balancing Procedure
2. Preliminary Air Balancing Procedures
3. Basic Air Balance Procedures Common to All Systems
4. Proportionally Balancing Constant Volume Low Pressure Systems
5. Balancing Constant Volume Multizone, Dual Duct, and Induction Systems
6. Balancing Variable Air Volume Systems
7. Setting Outside Air and Changing Fan Speeds
8. Balancing Return Air and Toilet Exhaust Systems
9. Fans, Fan Performance Curves, and Duct System Curves
Part II 11. Testing and Balancing Cleanrooms
12. HVAC Commissioning
13. Basic Water Balance Procedures
14. Centrifugal Pumps, Pump Performance Curves, and Pipe System Curves
15. Analog and Digital Automatic Controls
•Part III 16. Fluid Flow, Psychrometric, and Refrigeration Terminology
17. Air Systems: Distribution, Components and Terminology
18. Water Systems: Distribution, Components and Terminology
19. Fan, Pump, Drive, Motor, and Electrical Terminology
20. Instruments and Instrument Terminology
•Part IV 21. Equations
22. Conversion Tables
Index