HANDBOOK OF HVAC WATER CHILLERS AND COOLING TOWERS: Design, Selection, Operation, and Energy Optimization for Central Plant Engineers - Couverture souple

Stanton, Michael R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798160043746

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

A central cooling plant can meet its design load and still waste energy.

Efficient performance depends on more than the chiller or cooling tower alone. It depends on how chillers, towers, pumps, piping, controls, and water treatment work together across the plant’s operating range.

Handbook of HVAC Water Chillers and Cooling Towers connects these components in one engineering reference. It develops the physical principles behind plant performance and applies them to equipment selection, system design, operation, commissioning, troubleshooting, and energy optimization.

Inside, you will learn how to:

• Use cooling-load profiles to determine chiller capacity, quantity, and plant configuration.
• Compare positive-displacement, centrifugal, and absorption chillers using rated and part-load performance.
• Evaluate cooling towers through psychrometrics, wet-bulb temperature, approach, range, and thermal rating.
• Analyze condenser water piping, pump head, variable-speed operation, and hydronic arrangements.
• Compare primary-only, primary-secondary, and variable primary flow systems.
• Develop chiller staging, temperature reset, and control strategies that account for whole-plant energy use.
• Investigate low temperature differential, fouling, scaling, corrosion, and other causes of poor performance.
• Assess commissioning results, annual energy consumption, and life-cycle costs.

Engineering principles carried through to practical calculations

Sixteen chapters connect refrigeration thermodynamics and cooling-load estimation with chiller technology, heat rejection, plant controls, water treatment, and operating economics. Worked examples show the calculation process, while practice problems with answers support independent study. Figures, tables, a glossary, and appendices provide reference material for recurring engineering tasks.

The book uses SI units with inch-pound equivalents. It is written for mechanical, HVAC, building-services, facility, commissioning, and energy engineers, as well as upper-level engineering students. Familiarity with introductory thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer is assumed.

Build a clearer understanding of the whole plant, and a stronger basis for every design and operating decision.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798160043746
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 459
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg