Product Details
Manual Q is your one-stop reference book on the low-pressure, low-velocity systems used in small and mid-size commercial buildings. Manual Q gives you time-saving quick fitting loss tables and a complete set of fitting loss tables compiled from the ASHRAE and SMACNA handbooks.
Manual Q is your one-stop reference book on the low-pressure, low-velocity systems used in small and mid-size commercial buildings. Manual Q gives you time-saving quick fitting loss tables and a complete set of fitting loss tables compiled from the ASHRAE and SMACNA handbooks.
Topics include:
- Performance characteristics of fans, duct systems, air-side devices, and duct system materials
- Fan inlet and fan discharge losses
- Duct sizing methods, including a comprehensive treatment of the equal friction duct sizing method
- Examples of how to design constant volume, variable volume, rooftop multi-zone, and VVT duct systems
- Exhaust equipment and exhaust duct systems
- Building pressure control, ventilation, and air balance
- Fittings and hardware for adjustment, test, and balance work
- Duct system efficiency, conduction losses, and duct leakage