Manual Q Commercial Low Pressure Low Velocity Duct System Design - Softcover

Hank Rutkowski; Rutkowski, Hank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1892765020 ISBN 13: 9781892765024

Publisher: Air Conditioning Contractors of America, 1990

Synopsis

Manual Q is your one-stop refer­ence book on the low-pressure, low-velocity systems used in small and mid-size commercial buildings. Manual Q gives you time-saving quick fitting loss tables and a complete set of fitting loss tables compiled from the ASHRAE and SMACNA handbooks. (316 pages) Topics include: Performance characteristics of fans, duct systems, air-side devices, and duct system materials Fan inlet and fan discharge losses Duct sizing methods, including a comprehensive treat­ment of the equal friction duct sizing method Examples of how to design constant volume, variable volume, rooftop multi-zone, and VVT duct systems Exhaust equipment and exhaust duct systems Building pressure control, ventilation, and air balance Fittings and hardware for adjustment, test, & balance work Duct system efficiency, conduction losses, & duct leakage

About this title

About the Author:

Hank Rutkowski, the principal of HTR Engineering, is an HVACR consultant. Over the past three decades he authored HVAC design manuals, papers and articles and developed expert system models for HVAC design procedures and computer models. Rutkowski is the principal author of ACCA s industry-adopted, residential and commercial series HVAC design manuals (J, N, D, Q, RS, CS, S, H, T, P, SPS etc.). Additionally, he has authored numerous technical bulletins and trade magazine articles and served on numerous industry committees. Hank received his BSME at Purdue University in 1966 and completed MSME course work from Akron University in 1971. Earlier in his career, Hank has worked as an engineer for the manufacturing industry as well as serving as a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kent State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Air Conditioning Contractors of America
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1892765020
• ISBN 13: 9781892765024
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316