This fully revised and updated edition of this classic best selling reference provides all the information you will need to evaluate and balance the air and water sides of any HVAC system. The third edition adds new chapters on testing and balancing clean rooms and HVAC system commissioning. Every aspect of testing, adjusting and balancing is addressed, including all types of instruments required, and specific methods to adjust constant volume, single zone, dual duct, induction, and variable air volume systems. Complete details are provided for the full scope of system components, including fans, pumps, motors, drives, and electricity, as well as for balancing devices and instrument usage. All needed equations and a variety of useful conversion tables are included.

Thoroughly revised, this book provides the reader with an understanding of the principles and practices of testing and balancing (TAB) heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) air and water systems. For the novice and the experienced testing and balancing technician, it is a field reference book of procedures, equations, and information tables. Divided into five parts, Part I has general and specific balancing procedures for constant air volume systems, variable air volume systems, return air systems, and fans and fan performance. Part II covers testing and balancing fume hood systems and cleanrooms, commissioning HVAC systems, centrifugal pumps and pump performance, analog and digital controls and water balancing procedures using flow meters, system components, and temperatures. Part III covers fans, pumps, air distribution, water distribution, motors, electrical, fluid flow, psychrometrics, refrigeration, and instrument usage and care. Part IV includes equations and tables. New to this edition, Part V has information and additional test and balance procedures and graphics for chapters 1-7 and 13-14. TAB Data and Test forms are in the new addendum as well. • Provides the readers with revised information about the principles and practices of testing and balancing (TAB) heating • Represents a field reference guide for both the novice and experienced testing and balancing technician • Includes a new section with information and additional test and balance procedures and graphics

This master volume covers the full range of HVAC systems used in today's facilities. Comprehensive in scope, the text is intended to provide the reader with a clear understanding of how HVAC systems operate, as well as how to select the right system and system components to achieve optimum performance and efficiency for a particular application. You'll learn the specific ways in which each system, subsystem or component contributes to providing the desired indoor environment, as well as what factors have an impact on energy conservation, indoor air quality and cost. Examined in detail are compressors, water chillers, fans and fan drives, air distribution and variable air volume, pumps and water distribution, controls and their components, heat recovery, and energy conservation strategies. Also covered are heat flow fundamentals, as well as heat flow calculations used in selecting equipment and determining system operating performance and costs.

Developed over the course of many years of on-the-job projects involving HVAC energy auditing, testing/balancing and cost estimating, and refined through feedback from thousands of engineers and technicians who have used them, the forms contained in this manual are concise, comprehensive, and optimally organized for easy reference. Complete sets of forms are provided for all aspects of testing and balancing, energy auditing, indoor quality diagnosis, and load calculations. The first edition, entitled HVAC Energy Audit & Balancing Forms Manual compiled these time-saving forms for the first time in a single reference. This enhanced second edition adds a new chapter on technical management, providing procedures for achieving thorough, systematic and accurate problem solving, troubleshooting and decision making in building systems management and contracting.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Take Advantage of the Latest Guidance on the Hottest Area in HVAC! As health problems related to poor indoor air quality become increasingly evident, demand for better quality and efficiency in air systems is skyrocketing--making HVAC testing, adjusting, and balancing (TAB) the fatest-growing HVAC discipline. Here is a practical, nuts-and-bolts manual devoted to this specialty, now revised and updated with new information about such vital topics as: Indoor air quality; Energy recovery systems; Fan surge; Duct leakage; System performance; Temperture control verification; And more! You'll also find new chapters on systems balancing, controls, clean rooms, sound vibration, and solutions to TAB problems, as well as a chapter with a model standard for TAB cost-estimating. Sponsored by the National Environmental Balancing Bureau, the book's clear, step-by-step explanations will help you understand and meet requirements for testing, measuring, adjusting, balancing, troubleshooting, and cost-estimating TAB function for tall buildings, restaurants, hospitals, and other institutional settings.