Achieving Building Comfort by Natural Means explores examples of green building designs and methods that are currently being used around the world to achieve human comfort in buildings. The operation of buildings accounts for more than 40% of total energy use and is a major sour…
Outlook for building heating and cooling loads, and simulation tools -- Conventional building HVAC systems -- Geothermal energy resources -- Ground/soil types and thermo-physical properties -- Determination of ground/soil effective thermal conductivity -- Classifications of grou…
"This book focuses on fundamentals and design principles of vertical and horizontal indirect and direct expansion closed-loop, and ground- and surface water ground-source heat pump systems. It also details the thermodynamic aspects of mechanical and thermo-chemical compression c…
"This book focuses on fundamentals and design principles of vertical and horizontal indirect and direct expansion closed-loop, and ground- and surface water ground-source heat pump systems. It also details the thermodynamic aspects of mechanical and thermo-chemical compression c…
"This book reports thermodynamic investigation, analyses, and options of temperature/humidity control systems and their technologies for agricultural applications including (but not limited to) fruits and vegetable storage, poultry air-conditioning, livestock thermal comfort, an…
This book reports thermodynamic investigation, analyses, and options of temperature/humidity control systems and their technologies for agricultural applications including (but not limited to) fruits and vegetable storage, poultry air-conditioning, livestock thermal comfort, and…
"Traces the history of air conditioning as an environmental technology and its integration into American architecture from the turn of thetwentieth century to the 1970s"--
Introduction : air-conditioning and the historiography of modern architecture -- Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building and mechanical cooling, 1890-1910 -- Industrial air-conditioning from the daylight factory to the windowless factory, 1905-40 -- The architecture of air-conditio…
"Traces the history of air conditioning as an environmental technology and its integration into American architecture from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1970s"--
"Traces the history of air conditioning as an environmental technology and its integration into American architecture from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1970s"--
This textbook provides a concise, systematic treatment of essential theories and practical aspects of refrigeration and air-conditioning systems.