Refrigeration and Air Conditioning - C.P.ARORA

Refrigeration and Air Conditioning is a complete reference for undergraduate students in Mechanical, Aerospace or Automobile Engineering streams. The book requires a basic knowledge of Thermodynamics for understanding the subject context. It extensively covers the principles and various parts of refrigerators and air conditioners, dealing with the latest developments. 

Taking environmental friendliness into view, the book covers newer and greener refrigerants such as  tetraflouroethane, propane and isobutane. In addition, there are a large number of examples which illustrate the subject concepts and exercises which test the students' understanding.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Refrigeration Machine and Reversed Carnot Cycle
Chapter 3. Vapour Compression System
Chapter 4. Refrigerants
Chapter 5. Multipressure Systems
Chapter 6. Refrigerant Compressors
Chapter 7. Condensers
Chapter 8. Expansion Devices
Chapter 9. Evaporators
Chapter 10. Complete Vapour Compression System
Chapter 11. Gas Cycle Refrigeration
Chapter 12. Vapour-Absorption System
Chapter 13. Ejector-Compression System
Chapter 14. Properties of Moist Air
Chapter 15. Psychrometry of Air-Conditioning Processes
Chapter 16. Design Conditions
Chapter 17. Solar Radiation
Chapter 18. Heat Transfer through Building Structures
Chapter 19. Load Calculation and Applied Psychometrics
Chapter 20. Design of Air-Conditioning Apparatus
Chapter 21. Transmission and Distribution of Air
Chapter 22. Fans
Chapter 23. Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Control
Chapter 24. Application in Food Refrigeration processing and Chapter Industrial Air Conditioning