Principles of refrigeration / Roy J. Dossat.
By: Dossat, Roy J.
Material type: BookPublisher: Upper Saddle River : Prentice-Hall, 1997Edition: 4th ed.Description: xv, 512 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.ISBN: 0132333716 .Subject(s): Refrigeration and refrigerating machineryDDC classification: 621.56Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 621.56 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00122845 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A comprehensive applications-oriented treatment of the mechanical refrigeration cycle and associated equipment. Contains an overview of the fundamental principles of physics and thermodynamics, including an introduction to psychrometrics, that are essential to an understanding of mechanical refrigeration. For anyone interested in HVAC.
Includes indexes.
Pressure, work, power, energy -- Matter, Internal energy, heat, temperature -- Ideal gas processes -- Saturated and superheated vapors -- Psychrometric properties of air -- Refrigeration and the vapor compression system -- Cycle diagrams and the simple saturated cycle -- Actual refrigerating cycles -- Survey of refrigeration applications -- Cooling load calculations -- Evaporators -- Performance of reciprocating compressors -- System equilibrium and cycling controls -- Condensers and cooling towers -- Fluid flow, centrifugal liquid pumps, water and brine piping -- Refrigerants -- Refrigerant flow controls -- Compressor construction and lubrication -- Refrigerant piping and accessories -- Defrost methods - low temperature, multiple temperature and absorption refrigeration systems -- Electric motors and control circuits.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part 1 Introduction to Mechanical Refrigeration and Food Preservation
- Chapter 1 Introduction to Refrigeration (p. 3)
- Chapter 2 Food Preservation (p. 10)
- Chapter 3 Food Preservation and Storage Processes (p. 24)
- Part 2 Introduction to the Thermodynamic Processes of Refrigeration Systems
- Chapter 4 Mass, Motion, Force and Work (p. 35)
- Chapter 5 Internal Properties of Matter (p. 48)
- Chapter 6 Properties of Vapors (p. 61)
- Chapter 7 Gas Laws (p. 76)
- Chapter 8 Ideal Gas Processes (p. 85)
- Part 3 Introduction to the Ideal and Real Refrigeration Processes
- Chapter 9 The Refrigeration Cycle (p. 101)
- Chapter 10 The Theoretical Saturated Vapor-Compression Cycle (p. 118)
- Chapter 11 The Actual Vapor-Compression Cycle (p. 134)
- Part 4 Refrigeration System Components
- Chapter 12 Characteristics of Refrigerants (p. 151)
- Chapter 13 Refrigerants (p. 163)
- Chapter 14 Evaporators (p. 189)
- Chapter 15 Selecting Evaporators (p. 218)
- Chapter 16 Compressor Operating Characteristics (p. 232)
- Chapter 17 Compressor Design (p. 255)
- Chapter 18 Compressor Lubricating Oils (p. 287)
- Chapter 19 Condensers (p. 297)
- Chapter 20 Cooling Towers and Evaporative Condensers (p. 318)
- Chapter 21 Refrigerant Expansion Valves (p. 335)
- Chapter 22 Additional Types of Refrigerant Metering Devices (p. 356)
- Chapter 23 Refrigeration System Piping (p. 366)
- Chapter 24 Secondary System Components (p. 393)
- Chapter 25 System Balancing (p. 412)
- Chapter 26 Staged and Absorption Refrigeration Systems (p. 429)
- Answer Key (p. 443)
- Index (p. 446)