The ASHRAE Pocket Guide is packed with practical and useful information and is designed for immediate use. This eighth edition, revised and expanded for 2013, includes properties for new refrigerants, new data on refrigerant safety, ventilation requirements for residential and nonresidential occupancies, occupant thermal comfort, extensive data on sound and vibration control, thermal storage, radiant-panel heating and cooling, air-to-air energy recovery, space air diffusion data, equipment heat load data, combustion turbines, fuel cells, ultraviolet lamp systems, and more. This editions updates include data from the four current volumes of the ASHRAE Handbook series, including the 2013 ASHRAE Handbook-Fundamentals, and from the 2010 and 2013 editions of ASHRAE Standards 15, 34, 55, 62.1, 62.2 and 90.1. Features:
Current, practical guidance and data from ASHRAE Handbook Series and ASHRAE Standards
-Expanded scope covering wide range of topics
-Tabbed sections for easier navigation
-Sources in ASHRAE publications are identified for more in-depth study if needed
Benefit to the Customer:
This compact guide puts the basics of good practice at your fingertips wherever you are
-Quick, authoritative answers in the field
-An affordable window on key ASHRAE Handbooks and Standards
ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is an international organization of some 50,000 persons. ASHRAE fulfills its mission of advancing heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world through research, standards writing, publishing, and continuing education.
The ASHRAE Handbooks are the design standard for control of built environments with volumes on Systems and Equipment, HVAC Applications, Refrigeration and Fundamentals. Each is updated every four years. In addition to publishing design guidance for engineers, architects, and facility managers, we also publish a series of texts for classroom use.
Some of the areas we publish in include:
-Energy Modeling and Auditing
-High Performance Building Design
-Psychrometrics
-Indoor Air Quality and Environmental Quality
-Data Center Energy Efficiency
-Noise & Vibration Control
-Humidity Control
-HVAC for Healthcare Facilities
