Brief history of airconditioning. Principles of psychrometry, psychrometry of airconditioning processes, comfort chart, indoor and outdoor design conditions. Solar time, solar angles, direct beam and diffuse solar radiation, sol-air temperature. Equivalent temperature difference and time lag- decrement factor methods of cooling load calculations and psychrometric applications. Transmission and distribution of air, air-conditioning apparatus and control. |
Text/Reference Books:
- Jones W.P., Air Conditioning, Butterworth Heinemann Publishers.
- Ameen A., Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, PHI.
- Stocker W.F., and Jones J.W., Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
- Arora C.P., Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, McGraw-Hill.
- Rajput R.K., Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, S. K. Kataria & Sons.
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