Some Modern Methods of Ventilation: With Special Reference, to Public Buildings, Standards of Ventilation, Design of Ducts, Selection of Fans, ... Schedules for Designers (Classic Reprint)

Gr8k7 FOREWORD The object of the present work is to present, in as simple and concise a form as possible, the general principles and practice of design of modern ventilating plant. No attempt has been made to deal exhaustively with the theoretical principles involved in the treatment of air, the design of fans, air washers, c, bat it is hoped that the information given will enable health authorities, architects, heating, sanitary and electrical engineers, metal plate workers, and others called upon from time to time to deal with ventilating apparatus from the fixing of a twelve-inch fan to the design or specification of a small but complete installation, intelligently to apply, and with greater efficiency than hitherto, the apparatus placed at their disposal by the various manufacturers. The subject is a complex one, and because of its many intricacies cannot be fully dealt with here; but readers may be inclined to pursue their investigations in the more extensive works published on the subject, notably Barker on Heating and Ventilating (C arton Press), Mechanical Equipment of Federal Buildings, by N. S. Thompson (D avid William s Co., U.S.A.), Fan Engineering, by Willis H. Carrier (B uffalo Forge Co., U.S.A.), Power Heating and Ventilating, by C. L. Hubbard, B.S., M.E. (M c Graw and Hill Book Co.,
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