Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology: Concepts, Procedures, and Troubleshooting Techniques

The second edition of this text aims to provide comprehensive service and troubleshooting-oriented coverage of all phases of air conditioning, heating and refrigeration. The first three sections provide the background information necessary to establish basic knowledge, with the remaining sections covering commercial refridgeration, electric motors, heating and humidification, cooling, all weather systems, and domestic appliances. Coverage moves in an orderly fashion from the basics to the more complex, so that knowledge is put into practice with a variety of popular systems. This book should be of interest to professionals and students of HVAC.

Now retired from teaching and writing, Bill Whitman has contributed a wealth of academic expertise as well as industry knowledge to this book. Mr. Whitman graduated from Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Education. He received his master's degree in School Administration from St. Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont. After instructing drafting courses for three years, Mr. Whitman became the Director of Vocational Education for the Burlington Public Schools in Burlington, Vermont -- a position he held for eight years. He spent five years as the Associate Director of Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina. Mr. Whitman was the head of the Department of Industry for Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina, for 18 years.

Now retired, Bill Johnson has taught heating, air conditioning and refrigeration for more than two decades in various technical colleges and factory schools. A graduate of Southern Technical Institute, a branch of Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia, he has also served as Service Manager for a major manufacturer for six years. Mr. Johnson owned his own HVAC/R business for 10 years and has been a member of the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society and the American Society of Heating Refrigerating Air Conditioning Engineers. His authoring credits include three major textbooks on the market today as well as their ancillary materials. He also writes a monthly article -- BTU Buddy - that is available online.