Air conditioning and refrigeration (2nd ed.)

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