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Applications of HVAC Water Chillers and Cooling Towers: A System-Selection Reference to Plant Configuration, Lifecycle Performance, and Commissioning for Mechanical Engineers - Softcover

Petrie, Roger T.

 
9798163625673: Applications of HVAC Water Chillers and Cooling Towers: A System-Selection Reference to Plant Configuration, Lifecycle Performance, and Commissioning for Mechanical Engineers

Synopsis

Select the whole plant—not just the machine.

Applications of HVAC Water Chillers and Cooling Towers is a professional reference for mechanical engineers, HVAC designers, commissioning providers, facility engineers, and experienced technicians who must turn a cooling duty into a reliable central plant. It closes the gap between catalog performance and field application by connecting load shape, climate, temperature, hydraulics, heat rejection, controls, water, access, safety, and lifecycle economics. The Application-Fit Decision Matrix carries every major choice through duty, boundary conditions, evidence, coordination, and consequence.

The book progresses from application thinking and corrected performance through chiller technology, modular sizing, chilled-water configurations, pumps, piping, condenser-water systems, tower selection, controls, resource economics, special modes, specialized facilities, water management, commissioning, troubleshooting, and retrofit. Calculations remain tied to physical meaning, while chapter matrices preserve the assumptions and acceptance criteria that procurement and commissioning teams need.

Inside, You Will Find

Load-profile methods for capacity, module, turndown, and redundancy decisions

Application guidance for air-cooled, water-cooled, centrifugal, screw, scroll, magnetic-bearing, and absorption machines

Hydraulic analysis for primary-secondary, variable-primary, district, pumping, pressurization, valve, and low-delta-T decisions

Cooling-tower selection using range, approach, wet-bulb, cell arrangement, siting, acoustics, drift, plume, and freeze exposure

Whole-plant sequences with proofs, delays, staging, reset, optimization, fallback states, and alarms

Lifecycle methods spanning energy, water, treatment, sewer, maintenance, replacement, downtime, and measurement

Heat-recovery, waterside-economizer, thermal-storage, data-center, healthcare, process, campus, and climate-specific applications

Narrated worked examples, native engineering equations, technical figure briefs, and the indexed Application-Fit Matrix Compendium

Keep this reference beside the basis of design, equipment selections, controls narrative, and commissioning plan whenever a central cooling plant decision must survive real operating conditions.

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