Air Conditioning and Refrigeration helps you understand today's cooling and climate control systems-so expertly that you can use it as the foundation for a career! Clear instructions-with over 800 photographs and illustrations-offer step-by-step guidance to learning the trade for students, professionals, and homeowners who want to do their own installations or repairs. 602 pp.

LEARN WITH THE PROS

Written by experienced teachers Rex and Mark R. Miller-whose Carpentry & Construction has been a building classic for more than 25 years-Air Conditioning and Refrigeration has all the task-simplifying details you need for any project. In the popular Miller style, this complete and current guide helps:

• New and student technicians. Build on-the-job skills and the knowledge needed to succeed in a fast-growing, lucrative field.
• AC and refrigeration pros. Refine and update skills, with full information on the latest cost-cutting technologies, refrigerants, and tools.
• Do-it-yourselfers and homeowners. Make expert equipment and tool choices and achieve superior results, economically.
• Service personnel, technicians, contractors, engineers, and facility managers. Find up-to-date information on codes, standards, safety tips, and methods.
• Anyone who needs clear, illustrated, step-by-step instructions for efficient, cost-effective, and current methods in choosing, installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, servicing, and repairing today's AC and refrigeration equipment.

Air Conditioning and Refrigeration - Table of Contents:

• Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Tools and Instruments
• Development of Refrigeration
• Voltage, Current, and Resistance
• Solenoids and Valves
• Electric Motors: Selection, Operational Characteristics, and Problems
• Refrigerants: New and Old
• Refrigeration Compressors
• Condensers, Chillers, and Cooling Towers
• Working with Water-Cooling Problems
• Evaporators
• Refrigerant: Flow Control
• Servicing and Safety
• Freezers
• Temperature, Psychometrics, and Air Control
• Comfort Air Conditioning
• Commercial Air-Conditioning Systems
• Various Types of Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps
• Estimating Load and Insulating Pipes
• Installing and Controlling Electrical Power for Air-Conditioning Units
• Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Careers
• Appendix A: Some New Refrigerants
• Appendix B: Electrical and Electronic Symbols Used in Schematics
• Appendix C: Programming Thermostats
• Appendix D: Tools of the Trade (Plus Frequently Asked Questions with Answers)