A Complete, Up-to-Date Guide to AC and Refrigeration
Fully revisited to cover the latest techniques, tools, refrigerants, and equipment, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, Second Edition, provides a thorough introduction to the basic principles and practices of the AC and refrigeration industry. Step-by-step instructions, along with more than 800 photographs and illustrations, demonstrate efficient, cost-effective, and current methods for choosing, installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, servicing, and repairing today's cooling and climate control systems. Whether you're a do-it-yourselfer, a professional technician, or a student, you'll find the task-simplifying details you need for any project. Learn all about:
- Tools, instruments, and specialized equipment
- Development of refrigeration
- Voltage, current, and resistance
- Solenoids and valves
- Electric motors
- Refrigerants
- Refrigeration compressors
- Condensers, chillers, and cooling towers
- Water-cooling problems
- Evaporators
- Refrigerant flow control
- Servicing and safety
- Freezers
- Temperature, psychrometrics, and air control
- Comfort air conditioning
- Commercial air-conditioning systems
- Various types of air conditioners and heat pumps
- Estimating load and insulating pipes
- Electrical power for air conditioners
- Air-conditioning and refrigeration careers
- New refrigerants
- Electrical and electronic symbols used in schematics