ASHRAE Handbook
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The ASHRAE Handbook is the four-volume flagship publication of the nonprofit technical organization American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE). This Handbook is considered the practical repository of knowledge on the various topics that form the field of heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R). The four volumes are Fundamentals, Refrigeration, HVAC Applications ("Applications"), and HVAC Systems and Equipment ("Systems and Equipment"). Members of ASHRAE receive the current volume, in both print and CD-ROM form, each year as a basic membership benefit. An enhanced electronic version, known as the Handbook CD+ is published each year and contains the four lastest volumes as well as extra content such as the ASHRAE Terminology of HVAC&R book, demonstration videos, and spreadsheets. The various versions of the Handbook are typically available to the public via technical, and other, libraries and bookstores.
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[edit] History
The ASHRAE Handbook has had a variety of titles.[1] It began in 1922 as the ASH&VE Guide. In 1973 it became the ASHRAE Handbook, and in 1985 separate publication of inch-pound (I-P) and international system (SI) units versions of the volumes began. The current Publisher-of-record is W. Stephen Comstock, and the Editor is Mark S. Owen. The Handbook is published by ASHRAE from its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
[edit] Review and Revision
The Handbook's content is created and modified by volunteers via ASHRAE's many Technical Committees (TCs), and then edited and formatted by professional staff at ASHRAE. For example, three chapters, in three different volumes, are maintained by TC 5.3, Room Air Distribution. Each chapter within a particular volume is reviewed and revised in a repeating four-year cycle; one volume is printed each year.[2] In the summer of 2008, the HVAC Systems and Equipment volume is scheduled for release. ASHRAE's Handbook Committee maintains an Authors and Revisers Guide which can be obtained freely via the Handbook portion of the ASHRAE Web site.
While each new or revised chapter manuscript is to be reviewed for technical content by each TC voting and corresponding member before publication, there are often many other pre- and post-publication reviewers. For example, members of the Society's Handbook Committee and the College of Fellows[3] review chapters each year. Reviews, from basic comments to detailed new content, are encouraged from all users of the Handbook and may be submitted through an on-line commenting system.
[edit] Tables of Contents
The ASHRAE Handbook's four volumes' names, chapter groupings, and chapter names follow. Chapter titles do sometimes change with publication of a new version of a volume. Deleted chapters are in previous versions of the Handbook.
[edit] 2007 HVAC Applications Volume
COMFORT APPLICATIONS
1. Residences 2. Retail Facilities 3. Commercial and Public Buildings 4. Places of Assembly 5. Hotels, Motels, and Dormitories 6. Educational Facilities 7. Health Care Facilities 8. Justice Facilities 9. Automobiles and Mass Transit 10. Aircraft 11. Ships
INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
12. Industrial Air Conditioning 13. Enclosed Vehicular Facilities 14. Laboratories 15. Engine Test Facilities 16. Clean Spaces 17. Data Processing and Electronic Office Areas 18. Printing Plants 19. Textile Processing Plants 20. Photographic Materials 21. Museums, Galleries, Archives, and Libraries 22. Environmental Control for Animals and Plants 23. Drying and Storing Selected Farm Crops 24. Air Conditioning of Wood and Paper Product Facilities 25. Power Plants 26. Nuclear Facilities 27. Mine Air Conditioning and Ventilation 28. Industrial Drying Systems 29. Ventilation of the Industrial Environment 30. Industrial Local Exhaust Systems 31. Kitchen Ventilation
ENERGY-RELATED APPLICATIONS
32. Geothermal Energy 33. Solar Energy Use 34. Thermal Storage
BUILDING OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT
35. Energy Use and Management 36. Owning and Operating Costs 37. Testing, Adjusting, and Balancing 38. Operation and Maintenance Management 39. Computer Applications 40. Building Energy Monitoring 41. Supervisory Control Strategies and Optimization 42. HVAC Commissioning
GENERAL APPLICATIONS
43. Building Envelopes 44. Building Air Intake and Exhaust Design 45. Control of Gaseous Indoor Air Contaminants 46. Design and Application of Controls 47. Sound and Vibration Control 48. Water Treatment 49. Service Water Heating 50. Snow Melting and Freeze Protection 51. Evaporative Cooling 52. Fire and Smoke Management 53. Radiant Heating and Cooling 54. Seismic and Wind Restraint Design 55. Electrical Considerations 56. Room Air Distribution 57. Integrated Building Design 58. Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Explosive Incidents 59. Codes and Standards
[edit] 2006 Refrigeration Volume
REFRIGERATION SYSTEM PRACTICES
1. Liquid Overfeed Systems 2. System Practices for Halocargbon Refrigerants 3. System Practices for Ammonia and Carbon Dioxide Refrigerants 4. Secondary Coolants in Refrigeration Systems 5. Refrigerant System Chemistry 6. Control of Moisture and Other Contaminants in Refrigerant Systems 7. Lubricants in Refrigerant Systems 8. Refrigerant Containment, Recovery, Recycling, and Reclamation
FOOD STORAGE AND EQUIPMENT
9. Thermal Properties of Foods 10. Cooling and Freezing Times of Foods 11. Commodity Storage Requirements 12. Food Microbiology and Refrigeration 13. Refrigeration Load 14. Refrigerated Facility Design 15. Methods of Precooling Fruits, Vegetables, and Cut Flowers
FOOD REFRIGERATION
16. Industrial Food Freezing Systems 17. Meat Products 18. Poultry Products 19. Fishery Products 20. Dairy Products 21. Eggs and Egg Products 22. Deciduous Tree and Vine Fruit 23. Citrus Fruit, Bananas, and Subtropical Fruit 24. Vegetables 25. Fruit Juice Concentrates and Chilled Juice Products 26. Beverages 27. Processed, Precooked, and Prepared Foods 28. Bakery Products 29. Chocolates, Candies, Nuts, Dried Fruits, and Dried Vegetables
DISTRIBUTION OF CHILLED AND FROZEN FOOD
30. Cargo Containers, Rail Cars, Trailers, and Trucks 31. Marine Refrigeration 32. Air Transport
INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
33. Insulation Systems for Refrigerant Piping 34. Ice Manufacture 35. Ice Rinks 36. Concrete Dams and Subsurface Soils 37. Refrigeration in the Chemical Industry
LOW-TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS
38. Cryogenics 39. Ultralow-Temperature Refrigeration 40. Biomedical Applications of Cryogenic Refrigeration
REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT
41. Absorption Cooling, Heating, and Refrigeration Equipment 42. Forced-Circulation Air Coolers 43. Component Balancing in Refrigeration Systems 44. Refrigerant-Control Devices 45. Factory Dehydrating, Charging, and Testing
UNITARY REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT
46. Retail Food Store Refrigeration and Equipment 47. Food Service and General Commercial Refrigeration Equipment 48. Household Refrigerators and Freezers
GENERAL
49. Codes and Standards
[edit] 2005 Fundamentals Volume
THEORY
1. Thermodynamics and Refrigeration Cycles 2. Fluid Flow 3. Heat Transfer 4. Two-Phase Flow 5. Mass Transfer 6. Psychrometrics 7. Sound and Vibration
GENERAL ENGINEERING INFORMATION
8. Thermal Comfort 9. Indoor Environmental Health 10. Environmental Control for Animals and Plants 11. Physiological Factors in Drying and Storing Farm Crops 12. Air Contaminants 13. Odors 14. Measurement and Instruments 15. Fundamentals of Control 16. Airflow Around Buildings
BASIC MATERIALS
17. Energy Resources 18. Combustion and Fuels 19. Refrigerants 20. Thermophysical Properties of Refrigerants 21. Physical Properties of Secondary Coolants (Brines) 22. Sorbents and Desiccants 23. Thermal and Moisture Control in Insulated Assemblies—Fundamentals 24. Thermal and Moisture Control in Insulated Assemblies—Applications 25. Thermal and Water Vapor Transmission Data 26. Insulation for Mechanical Systems
LOAD AND ENERGY CALCULATIONS
27. Ventilation and Infiltration 28. Climatic Design Information 29. Residential Cooling and Heating Load Calculations 30. Nonresidential Cooling and Heating Load Calculations 31. Fenestration 32. Energy Estimating and Modeling Methods
DUCT AND PIPE DESIGN
33. Space Air Diffusion 34. Indoor Environmental Modeling 35. Duct Design 36. Pipe Sizing
GENERAL
37. Abbreviations and Symbols 38. Units and Conversions 39. Physical Properties of Materials 40. Codes and Standards
[edit] 2004 HVAC Systems and Equipment Volume
AIR-CONDITIONING AND HEATING SYSTEMS
1. HVAC System Analysis and Selection 2. Building Air Distribution 3. In-Room Terminal Systems 4. Central Cooling and Heating 5. Decentralized Cooling and Heating 6. Panel Heating and Cooling 7. Cogeneration Systems and Engine and Turbine Drives 8. Applied Heat Pump and Heat Recovery Systems 9. Design of Small Forced-Air Heating and Cooling Systems 10. Steam Systems 11. District Heating and Cooling 12. Hydronic Heating and Cooling System Design 13. Condenser Water Systems 14. Medium- and High-Temperature Water Heating Systems 15. Infrared Radiant Heating
AIR-HANDLING EQUIPMENT
16. Duct Construction 17. Room Air Distribution Equipment 18. Fans 19. Evaporative Air-Cooling Equipment 20. Humidifiers 21. Air-Cooling and Dehumidifying Coils 22. Desiccant Dehumidification and Pressure Drying Equipment 23. Air-Heating Coils 24. Air Cleaners for Particulate Contaminants 25. Industrial Gas Cleaning and Air Pollution Control
HEATING EQUIPMENT
26. Automatic Fuel-Burning Equipment 27. Boilers 28. Furnaces 29. Residential In-Space Heating Equipment 30. Chimney, Gas Vent, and Fireplace Systems 31. Unit Ventilators, Unit Heaters, and Makeup Air Units 32. Hydronic Heat-Distributing Units and Radiators 33. Solar Energy Equipment
GENERAL COMPONENTS
34. Compressors 35. Condensers 36. Cooling Towers 37. Liquid Coolers 38. Liquid-Chilling Systems 39. Centrifugal Pumps 40. Motors, Motor Controls, and Variable-Speed Drives 41. Pipes, Tubes, and Fittings 42. Valves 43. Heat Exchangers 44. Air-to-Air Energy Recovery
UNITARY EQUIPMENT
45. Unitary Air Conditioners and Unitary Heat Pumps 46. Room Air Conditioners and Packaged Terminal Air Conditioners 47. Mechanical Dehumidifiers and Heat Pipes 48. Codes and Standards
[edit] References
- ^ "The ASHRAE Centennial: 100 Years of Progress", ASHRAE Historical Committee, 1994
- ^ "ASHRAE Handbook Authors and Revisers Guide", ASHRAE Inc., August 2007
- ^ http://www.ashraecof.org/Handbook/HandbookReport2008.htm , accessed May 21, 2008
