Heating and Cooling of Buildings: Design for Efficiency (McGraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering) - Softcover
Book 22 of 56: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series
Synopsis
This book covers technologies, from materials to computers, that are exerting a profound effect on the design and operation of buildings. Many examples are presented and solved to reinforce important concepts and software applications are integrated throughout. This edition has been expanded to include a chapter on economic analysis and optimization, new heating and cooling load procedures, more than 200 new homework problems, and new and simplified procedures for ground coupling heat transfer calculations. Many of the appendices from the first edition have been moved to the accompanying CD-ROM, which amounts to a searchable database of tables, charts and information on building codes. For example, there are more than 1,000 tables in the electronic appendices that can be searched by major categories, a table list, or an index of topics. The CD also directs students to the central web site where several hundred links are maintained to help students find manufacturer and government data, browse in newsgroups and find any corrections or updates to the text and date tables.
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From the Publisher
All art for the book and most of the appendices will be placed on the CD-ROM for instructor use.
About the Author
Jan F. 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. Curtiss is a consulting engineer specializing in energy use simulation and analysis, process control, and distributed generation technologies. 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. He continues to work as a consultant for the government and industry.
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