AIRAH handbook – edition four

AIRAH handbook – edition four

Updates include• Air filters• Energy consumption in office buildings• Thermal properties of building and insulating materials• Cool room product storage• Psychrometric frequency data (removed majority of charts)• Copper pipe — to AS 1432-2004• Water flow rates• Domestic water heater system sizing guide

AIRAH handbook – edition four

New material• Comfort air conditioning• Building planners and designer’s check list for associated services• Infrared emittance values of selected materials• BCA 2007 — Minimum total R-values for each climate zone• Lessons from building occupant studies• Natural ventilation• AS/NZS 3666.1:2002 compliance summary• HVAC system requirements for effective control• Controls for end-users• Commissioning objectives• Designing for maintainability• Effective maintenance records• Maintenance schedules

AIRAH handbook – edition four

New material (continued)• Operational energy saving strategies• Guidelines and standards for typical indoor air contaminants• Common IAQ problems• IP Ratings• Power factor and correction• Environmental Properties of Common Refrigerants• Common Refrigerant Performance Characteristics• An Accepted Method of Estimating the Impact of Global Warming of

Refrigerants• Common refrigerant property pressure enthalpy charts:

– R22, R134a, R404A, R407C, R409A, R410A and R507

• Thermophysical Properties Of Carbon Dioxide• Galvanic series of some commercial metals and alloys in seawater

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New material (continued) - Chapter on Sustainability

• BCA energy efficiency requirements for non residential buildings• National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS)• Green star: Environmental rating system for buildings• Minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) requirements• Poor energy performance of exiting buildings• Improvement to energy performance• Water use in cooling towers — cycles of concentration

AIRAH handbook – edition four

Format:• Searchable PDF on CD (DVD case) with hyperlinks• A4 format – charts and graphs more readable• All images redrawn• Bonus section (additional material)

AIRAH handbook – edition fourAll diagrams/graphs redrawn

AIRAH handbook – edition fourAll diagrams/graphs redrawn

AIRAH handbook – edition fourAll diagrams/graphs redrawn

AIRAH handbook – edition fourAll diagrams/graphs redrawn

AIRAH handbook – edition fourInteractive menus

AIRAH handbook – edition fourInteractive menus

AIRAH handbook – edition fourInteractive menus

AIRAH handbook – edition fourInteractive menus – quick link to contents and index on every page

AIRAH handbook – edition fourInteractive menus – hyperlinked index

AIRAH handbook – edition fourBonus material – interactive links to resource pdfs

AIRAH handbook – edition four

Bonus material

• EcoLibirum® and HVAC&R Nation technical resources

• AIRAH Refrigerant Selection Guide – 2003 • AIRAH DA19 HVAC & R Maintenance

Schedules- 2001• AIRAH Psychrometric Chart• ACR 2006: Assessment, Cleaning and

Restoration of HVAC Systems (NADCA)• Best practice guidelines for cooling towers

(Sydney Water)• Energy Efficiency Provisions for BCA 2006

Volume 1 Information Handbook (ABCB)• Engineering Manual of Automatic Control

(Honeywell)

AIRAH handbook – edition fourBonus material (continued)

• ESD Design Guide - Office and Public Buildings Version 3 (DEWR)

• Green Star Diffusion - Mechanical Engineering (GBCA)

• HVAC system size - Getting it right - Right-sizing HVAC systems in commercial buildings (CRC – CI)

• Principles of Hybrid Ventilation (IEA)• Sustainability Victoria resources

– Case studies and technical sheets

• Water Conservation Solutions Handbook (City West Water)

• Water Efficiency Guide – Office and Public Buildings (DEWR)

AIRAH handbook – edition four

Availability

• Distribution with EcoLibrium (December 2007 issue) – only available to members

• Feedback• This handbook is designed to be a quick and easy reference guide to

the busy industry professional – it has been designed to be as usable as possible – we welcome your feedback on where we can improve.

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