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Principles of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning

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This textbook outlines key HVAC fundamentals based on the 2025 ASHRAE Handbook—Fundamentals

Principles of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Tenth Edition, is based on content from all four volumes of the ASHRAE Handbook, pulling heavily from the 2025 ASHRAE Handbook—Fundamentals. It contains the most current ASHRAE procedures and definitive yet easy-to-understand treatment of building HVAC systems, from basic principles through design and operation.

This book is suitable both as a textbook and as a reference book for undergraduate engineering courses in the field of heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning; for similar courses at technical and vocational schools; for continuing education and refresher short courses for engineers; and for adult education courses for professionals other than engineers, especially when combined with the ASHRAE Handbook.

Online materials available with the book include the following:

  • Additional Psychrometric Charts
  • Air-Processing Equipment
  • Cogeneration and Heat Recovery Systems
  • Economic Analyses and Life-Cycle Costs
  • Heat Exchanger Equipment
  • Heating Equipment
  • Panel Heating and Cooling Systems
  • Radiant Times Series (RTS) Method
  • Refrigeration Equipment
  • Systems Design Problems

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PURCHASE

Student Members pay only $64 for this publication. Learn more

University Bookstores wishing to purchase copies in bulk should contact Customer Service at cservice@ashrae.org or by calling 404-636-8400 (or toll-free via 800-527-4723). Bookstore purchase must be prepaid; the books cannot be ordered on consignment.

Attention Educators: Considering this book for your next course on HVAC design and application? Find out how you can get a free desk copy.

A paperback Solutions Manual with worked solutions to the problems at the end of each chapter is also available to instructors. To purchase the Solutions Manual, please email a request on university letterhead to educopies@ashrae.org or fax the same to 678-539-2152.

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