Heating and Cooling of Buildings: Design for Efficiency, Revised Second Edition (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (933 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1439811512 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 863 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kreider is the president of Kreider and Associates, LLC, a renewable energy and energy efficiency consulting firm in Boulder, Colorado. Peter S. He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he was the founding director of the Joint Center for Energy Management. Jan F. He runs an engineering consulting business in Boulder, Colorado.Ari Rabl is a retired senior scientist at th
He runs an engineering consulting business in Boulder, Colorado.Ari Rabl is a retired senior scientist at the Centre Energétique et Procédés de l’Ecole des Mines in Paris, France. About the AuthorJan F. Curtiss is a consulting engineer specializing in energy use simulation and analysis, process control, and distributed generation technologies. Kreider is the president of Kreider and Associates, LLC, a renewable energy and energy efficiency consulting firm in Boulder, Colorado. He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he was the founding director of the Joint Center for Energy Management. Peter S. He continues to work
Along with numerous homework problems, the revised second edition offers a full chapter on economic analysis and optimization, new heating and cooling load procedures and databases, and simplified procedures for ground coupled heat transfer calculations. Ancillary information is available on the book’s website hcbcentral From materials to computers, this edition explores the latest technologies exerting a profound effect on the design and operation of buildings. Emphasizing design optimization and critical thinking, the book continues to be theultimate resource for understanding energy use in buildings.. The accompanying CD-ROM contains an updated version of the Heating and Cooling of Buildings (HCB) software program as well as electronic appendices that include over 1,000 tables in HTML format that can be searched by major categories, a table list, or an index of topics. The art and the science of building systems design evolve continuously as designers, practitioners, and researchers all endeavor to improve the performance of buildings and the comfort
"Poor HVAC book" according to S. Foss. I highly recommend NOT purchasing this book. Unfortunately it was required by one of my classes. My teacher for the HVAC class I was taking was a poor teacher at best (an adjunct professor with no teaching or presentation skills). anyway due to my teachers extremely inconvenient short comings I was forced to turn to the book to learn anything. The book however is also lacking. the text of the book is extremely dull and not always clear and to hard to follow when giving explanations. However my major issue with this book is the example problems they are weak and to simple to use as guides for the homework problems for each chapte. Excellent reference book This is an excellent reference book. Like many other engineering subjects, it's not necessarily something one can teach themselves just by reading it and working example problems. This is partly because there are often several methods for calculating heat loss, heat gain, etc., some of which work better than others in some situations. This book may not stand on its own with respect to teaching the supporting (prerequisite) subjects; heat transfer, thermodynamics, etc. If you buy this book, be sure you get the CDROM that comes with it (mine didn't, and I had to work though getting it separately). The CDROM has "clean" pages of ch. julie chandler said Two Stars. Helpful at times - used more for reference. Too expensive. Content is limited and most concepts are abbreviated.