Section 8.0 — Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration System Components

Scope
Technical Committee 8.1 is concerned with the design, performance, features, operating characteristics, and standards of all types of compressors for use with refrigerants.

TC Website:
https://tc0801.ashraetcs.org/

Scope
Technical Committee 8.2 is concerned with cooling and heat pump chillers that involves centrifugal or positive displacement compressors, including those with heat exchangers, drivers, controls, split evaporators and condensers, and other accessories 

TC Website:
"https://tc0802.ashraetcs.org/.

Scope
Technical Committee 8.3 is concerned with the design, performance and application of equipment energized by a heat source and using a thermodynamic cycle to provide an air-conditioning, refrigerating or heating function; with the properties of absorbent solutions or special working fluids used in these cycles; and with components of the cycle requiring specific design characteristics.

TC Website:
https://tc0803.ashraetcs.org/

Scope
Technical Committee 8.4 is concerned with design, performance, and application of heat transfer equipment in which a refrigerant, including water or brine, is used to remove heat from air. The processes of concern to the committee include both sensible heat transfer and combined sensible and latent heat transfer.

TC Website:
https://tc0804.ashraetcs.org/

Scope
Technical Committee 8.5 is concerned with devices for accomplishing heat transfer between refrigerants (including secondary refrigerants) and liquids such as water or liquid cooled condensers, or evaporators for cooling water or other liquids.

TC Website:
https://tc0805.ashraetcs.org/

Scope
Technical Committee TC 8.6 is concerned with open and closed circuit cooling towers, evaporative condensers, adiabatic condensers and fluid coolers, spray ponds, and other types of contact type liquid-to-air heat rejection equipment along with their application and impact on complete HVAC, Industrial, and Refrigeration systems, including the associated energy and water usage as well as water treatment requirements.

TC Website:
https://tc0806.ashraetcs.org/.

Scope:
TC8.7 is concerned with the design, performance, and application of variable refrigerant flow systems into commercial HVAC systems.

TC Website:
https://tc0807.ashraetcs.org/

Scope
Technical Committee 8.8 is concerned with refrigerant flow controls and other refrigerant control devices, including relief devices, check valves, condenser water regulators and oil separators.

TC Website:
https://tc0808.ashraetcs.org/

Scope
Technical Committee 8.10 is principally concerned with mechanical and solid/liquid desiccant dehumidification equipment and heat pipes and their design performance, applications engineering, related load calculations, commissioning, operation, and maintenance. The committee is also concerned with the integration of desiccant equipment and components into other systems and with fundamental abstracts of heat and mass-transfer as they relate to desiccant materials and compounds.

TC Website:
https://tc0810.ashraetcs.org/

Scope
Technical Committee 8.11 is concerned with products for use in comfort cooling and/or heating systems. These factory-engineered vapor compression systems include: (1) unitary equipment which generally require the field engineering of the product mounting and ducting, piping and electrical connections, (2) room air conditioners such as window mounted units and ductless split systems and (3) packaged terminal equipment. Specifically excluded are unitary combustion engine driven systems.

TC Website:
https://tc0811.ashraetcs.org/

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ASHRAE Technical Committee 8.1
Positive Displacement Compressors

ASHRAE Technical Committee 8.2
Centrifugal Machines

ASHRAE Technical Committee 8.3
Absorption and Heat Operated Machines

ASHRAE Technical Committee 8.4
Air-to-Refrigerant Heat Transfer Equipment

ASHRAE Technical Committee 8.5
Liquid-to-Refrigerant Heat Exchangers

ASHRAE Technical Committee 8.6
Cooling Towers and Evaporative Condensers

ASHRAE Technical Committee 8.7
Variable Refrigerant Flow

ASHRAE Technical Committee 8.8
Refrigerant System Controls and Accessories

ASHRAE Technical Committee 8.9
Residential Refrigerators and Food Freezers

ASHRAE Technical Committee 8.10
Mechanical and Desiccant Dehumidification Equipment, Heat Pipes and Components

ASHRAE Technical Committee 8.11
Unitary and Room Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps (orig. TC 7.6)

ASHRAE Technical Committee 8.12
Desiccant Dehumidification Equipment & Components