Copyrighted Materials Copyright 2007 industrial Press Retrieved from .knovel. THIS HANDBOOK PROVIDES COMPREHENSIVE TECHNICAL INFORMATION TO HEATING VENTILATING AND AIR CONDITIONING ENGINEERS DESIGNERS AND PRACTITIONERS HVAC: Handbook of Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning for Design and Implementation BY ALI VEDAVARZ PH.D..PE Deputy Director of Engineering.New York City Capital Projects New York Ciry Housing Authority and Industry Professor Polytechnic University Brooklyn NY SUNIL KUMAR PH.D. Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean of Graduate School Polytechnic University Brooklyn NY MUHAMMED IQBAL HUSSAIN PE Mechanical Engineer Department of Citywide Administrative Services New York City NY 2007 INDUSTRIAL PRESS INC. NEW YORK COPYRIGHT 2007 by Industrial Press Inc. New York NY. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vedavarz Ali. HVAC:handbook of heating ventilation and air conditioning Ali Vedavarz.Sunil Kumar.Muhammed Hussain. p.cm. ISBN0-8311-3163-2 ISBN13978-0-8311-3163-0 I.Heating--Handbooks manuals etc.2.Ventilation--Handbooks manuals etc.3.Air conditioning-- Handbooks manuals etc.4.Buildings--Environmental engineering--Handbooks manuals etc.I.Kumar Sunil. IⅡ.Hussain Muhammed Iqbal.IL.Title. TH7011.V462006 697-dc22 2006041837 Cover Photo:Image published with kind permission of CVRD and Bluhm Engineering. INDUSTRIAL PRESS INC. 989 Avenue of the Americas New York.New York 10018-5410 Ist Edition First Printing 10987654321 Printed and bound in the United States of America All rights reserved.This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form without permission of the publishers. Copyrighted Materials Cepyright 2007 industrial Press Retrieved from .knovel. PREFACE ix This Handbook provides prehensive technical information in a modular form to heating venti- lating and air conditioning (HVAC)designers and practitioners namely engineers architects con- tractors and plant ...