Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning

Faye C. McQuiston is professor emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. He is an active member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), recently completing a term as vice president. He has served on the Board of Directors and the Technology, Education, Member, and Publishing Councils, and he is past member of the Research and Technical, Education, and Standards Committees. Dr. McQuiston is a registered professional engineer and a consultant to several system design and equipment manufacturing firms. He is active in research related to the design of heating and air-conditioning systems, particularly heat-exchanger design and simulation and load calculations. He has written extensively on heating and air conditioning and is the coauthor of a basic fluid mechanics and heat transfer text. Jerald D. Parker is a professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at Oklahoma Christian University after serving 33 years on the mechanical engineering faculty at Oklahoma State University. During his tenure at Oklahoma State, he spent one year on leave with the engineering department of Du Pont in Newark, Delaware. He has been active at both the local and national level in ASME, where he is a fellow. In ASHRAE he has served as chairman of the Technical Committee on Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, chairman of a standards project committee, and a member of the Continuing Education Committee. He is a registered professional engineer Jeffrey D. Spitler is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. He is an active member of ASHRAE and has served on several technical committees, a standards committee, and the Student Activities Committee. He also serves on the board of directors of the International Building Performance Simulation Association. He is a registered professional engineer and has consulted on a number of different projects.

Preface xi

About the Authors xiii

Symbols xv

1. Introduction 1

2. Air-Conditioning Systems 22

3. Moist Air Properties and Conditioning Processes 49

4. Comfort and Health--Indoor Environmental Quality 85

5. Heat Transmission in Building Structures 119

6. Space Heating Load 158

7. Solar Radiation 181

8. The Cooling Load 216

9. Energy Calculations and Building Simulation 279

10. Flow, Pumps, and Piping Design 299

11. Space Air Diffusion 366

12. Fans and Building Air Distribution 394

13. Direct Contact Heat and Mass Transfer 461

14. Extended Surface Heat Exchangers 482

15. Refrigeration 529

Appendix A. Thermophysical Properties 583

Appendix B. Weather Data 596

Appendix C. Pipe and Tube Data 605

Appendix D. Useful Data 608

Appendix E: Charts 611

Index 615