INDEX

Abbreviations, A.9 – A.10 Absolute zero, 2.5 Absorption chiller-heaters, 14.20 – 14.22 actual performance, 14.22 heating cycle, 14.20 – 14.22 Absorption chillers, double-effect, direct-fired, 14.6 – 14.18 absorber and solution pumps, 14.6 – 14.7 air purge unit, 14.8 – 14.9 capacity control and part-load operation, 14.16 – 14.17 coefficient of performance, 14.14 condenser, 14.7 – 14.8 condensing temperature, 14.19 – 14.20 controls, 14.16 – 14.18 cooling water entering temperature, 14.19 cooling water temperature control, 14.17 – 14.18 corrosion control, 14.20 crystallization and controls, 14.17 difference between absorption and centrifugal chillers, 14.18 – 14.19 evaporating temperature, 14.19 evaporator and refrigerant pump, 14.6 flow of solution and refrigerant, 14.9 – 14.11 generators, 14.7 – 14.8 heat exchangers, 14.6 – 14.7 heat removed from absorber and condenser, 14.19 mass flow rate of refrigerant and solution, 14.11 – 14.12 monitoring and diagnostics, 14.18 operating characteristics and design considerations, 4.18 – 4.20 performance of, 14.11 – 14.16 rated conditions, 14.20 safety and interlocking controls, 14.18 series flow, parallel flow, and reverse parallel flow, 14.8 – 14.9 Standard 90.1 – 1999 minimum efficiency requirements, 14.20 system description, 14.6 – 14.8 thermal analysis, 14.12 – 14.14 throttling devices, 14.8

Absorption heat pumps, 14.22 – 14.24 case study: series connected, 14.22 – 14.24 functions of, 14.22 Absorption heat transformer, 14.24 – 14.26 coefficient of performance, 14.26 operating characteristics, 14.24 – 14.25 system description, 14.24 – 14.25 Accuracy, 2.6 Adiabatic process, 2.11 Adiabatic saturation process, ideal, 2.11 Air: atmospheric, 2.1 dry air, 2.1 – 2.2 mass, 3.25 moist air, 2.1 primary, 20.4 process, 1.4 – 1.5 recirculating, 20.4 regenerative, 1.4 – 1.5 secondary, 20.4 transfer, 20.4 ventilation, 4.29 Air cleaner, electronic, 15.69 – 15.70 Air conditioning, 1.1 – 1.2, industry, 1.15 project development, 1.16 – 1.17