Principles of Refrigeration  (English, Paperback, Dossat Roy Joseph)

Classic presentation of the principles, applications, and design of refrigeration systems and equipment. No special background in thermodynamics, physics, or calculus is required, as the essential concepts are reviewed in the first five chapters.

• Pressure, Work, Power, Energy
• Matter, Internal Energy, Heat, Temperature
• Ideal Gas Processes
• Saturated and Superheated Vapors
• Psychrometric Pro perties of Air
• Refrigeration and the Vapor Compression Systems
• 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