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Air conditioning boosts man's efficiency no less than his comfort. Air-conditioned homes, offices, and factories unmistakably raise human productivity and reduce absenteeism, turnover, mistakes, accidents and grievances, especially in summer. Accordingly, many employers every year cool workrooms and offices to raise summer profits. Employees in turn find cool homes enhancing not only comfort and prestige but also personal efficiency and income. With such economic impetus, low-cost summer cooling must irresistibly spread to all kinds of occupied buildings. Refrigeration provides our best cooling, serving well where people are closely spaced in well-constructed, shaded, and insulated structures. However, its first and operating costs bar it from our hottest commercial, industrial, and residential buildings. Fortunately, evaporative cooling is an economical substitute in many regions. First used in Southwest homes and businesses and in textile mills, it soon invaded other fields and climates. In 1946, six firms produced 200,000 evaporative coolers; in 1958, 25 firms produced 1,250,000, despite the phenomenal sale of refrigerating window air conditioners. Though clearly secondary to refrigeration, evaporative cooling is 60 to 80 percent is economical for moderate income groups and cheaper to buy and operate. Thus, it climates where summers are short. Moreover, it cheaply cools hot, thinly constructed mills, factories, workshops, foundries, powerhouses, farm buildings, canneries, etc., where refrigerated cooling is prohibitively expensive.
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This book explains in detail how to achieve savings of 50-75% with evaporative cooling systems.This exceptionally thorough book covers every consideration in evaporative cooling, including cost, technology, equipment, applications, and operational and performance considerations. All-new coverage shows how to integrate evaporative cooling systems into large-scale HVAC systems. The book covers cooling tower and finned coil indirect cooling, wet bulb economizers, precooling condensed air, makeup air and return air; as well as humidity control. Sample calculations and engineering data are also presented.For all design engineers and contractors.
About the Author:
John Reid Watt, P.E. taught both economics and mechanical engineering and serves on the Chancellor's Council at the University of Texas at Austin.
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- PublisherSpringer
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0412011514
- ISBN 13 9780412011511
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages456
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