TY - BOOK AU - Dossat, Roy J. TI - Principles of refrigeration SN - 0137176872 AV - TP 492 .D67 1991 PY - 1991/// CY - New Jersey: PB - Prentice-Hall KW - REFRIGERATION AND REFRIGERATION APPLIANCES N1 - Includes index; Pressure, work, power, energy Matter, internal energy, heat, temperature -- Ideal gas processes -- Saturated and superheated vapors -- Psychometric properties of air -- Refrigeration and the vapor compression system -- Cycle diagrams and the simple saturated cycle -- Actual refrigerating cycles -- Survey of refrigeration applications -- Cooling load calculations -- Evaporators -- Performance of reciprocating compressors -- System equilibrium and cycling controls -- Condensers and cooling towers -- Fluid flow, centrifugal liquid pumps, water and brine piping -- Refrigerants -- Refrigerant flow controls -- Compressor construction and lubrication -- Refrigerant piping and accessories -- Defrost methods--low temperature, multiple temperature, and absorption refrigeration systems N2 - A comprehensive applications-oriented treatment of mechanical refrigeration, this book emphasizes the cyclical nature of the refrigeration system and examines each part of the system in relation to the other parts and to the system as a whole. ER -