40 Best Books on Refrigeration and Air conditioning

“Refrigeration and Air Conditioning” Book Review: This book presents a basic as well as applied thermodynamic treatment of the subject in a very comprehensive manner. The presentation of the subject follows the classical line of separately treating the topics in refrigeration and air conditioning, the two being linked via the medium of the refrigerant evaporator. Chapters 1 to 13 are devoted to refrigeration and Chapters 14 to 22 to air conditioning. Chapters 23 and 24 deal with motors, controls, applications of refrigeration and air-conditioning process in food preservation. The text and illustrative examples are in SI units throughout the book. Charts and tables have been adapted in SI units. The book is intended to serve as a text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of engineering.

“A Textbook of Refrigeration and Air conditioning” Book Review: This book covers an array of topics in refrigeration and air conditioning. The contents include Air Refrigeration Cycles and Systems, Vapour Compression Refrigeration Systems Refrigerants and Air Conditioning. The chapters consist of various exercises, examples, and multiple illustrations that aid in understanding the subject better. The text includes more than 500 objective and subjective exercise questions at the end of chapters that help the students test their understanding. The book is useful for the students of Mechanical Engineering and anyone with an interest in the subject.

Book Review: The book provides detailed description about mechanical refrigeration cycle, equipment and component design and operation of the system. It provides explanations about how processes are broken into principles thereby resulting in development of analytical skills and troubleshooting. The others topics in the book include food preservation, mechanical refrigeration, ideal refrigeration process, real refrigeration process, and refrigeration system components. This book is very useful for people wanting to make a career in refrigeration field. Basics of thermodynamics, heat transfer, mechanics has been explained with examples.

“Refrigeration and Air Conditioning” Book Review: This book presents a basic as well as applied thermodynamic treatment of the subject in a very comprehensive manner. The presentation of the subject follows the classical line of separately treating the topics in refrigeration and air conditioning, the two being linked via the medium of the refrigerant evaporator. Chapters one to thirteen are devoted to refrigeration and Chapters 14 to 22 to air conditioning. Chapters 23 and 24 deal with motors, controls, applications of refrigeration and air-conditioning process in food preservation. Charts and tables have been adapted in SI units. The book is intended to serve as a text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of engineering.

“Refrigeration and Air Conditioning” Book Review: This book contains several new topics to make the coverage more comprehensive and latest. It highlights the ozone hole problem and related steps to modify the refrigeration systems. The discussion of vapor compression/absorption systems totally recast with a special emphasis on Eco-refrigerants is also included. The book follows an application oriented approach to make the learning more practical. Several real life problems are included to illustrate the practical viability of the systems discussed. This book will benefit undergraduate mechanical engineering students. Postgraduate students and practising engineers would also find it very useful.

“Refrigeration and Air Conditioning” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles and practice of refrigeration. It begins with an introduction to the fundamentals of the technology and then goes on to include in-depth knowledge of the subject matter. It includes the latest developments in refrigerants and lubricants with updated information on compressors and heat exchangers etc. Other topics like efficiency, environmental impact, split systems, retail refrigeration and industrial systems are also explained thoroughly. The book is useful for students and professional HVAC engineers, including those on CPD courses.

“Refrigeration and Air Conditioning” Book Review: This book covers an array of topics on refrigeration and air conditioning. The focus is on technical topics such as refrigeration, air refrigeration systems and vapour compression refrigeration system. Other topics discussed in the book are vapour absorption system, refrigerants, basic psychometrics, air conditioning, heat load calculations and components of refrigeration systems. The book follows an application oriented approach to make the learning more practical. Several real life problems are included to illustrate the practical viability of the systems discussed. This book will benefit undergraduate mechanical engineering students. Postgraduate students and practising engineers would also find it very useful.

“Refrigeration and Air Conditioning” Book Review: This book is useful for undergraduate students in mechanical engineering and acts as a guide for postgraduate students and practicing engineers. The book covers all the latest developments in the field of refrigeration and air conditioning. Good illustrations with problem solving hints are provided in the book. It includes an extensive coverage of RAC applications, recent advances in cryogenics and detailed discussion on RAC controls. It also explains the latest RAC equipment including AHUs. Along with a complete and thorough coverage of all topics, the book also provides a revision of basic thermodynamics and heat transfer. The illustrations and solved examples help in an overall understanding of the topics. This textbook is designed for undergraduate students in mechanical engineering. It will also serve as a reference for postgraduate students and practicing engineers.

“Basic Refrigeration and Air Conditioning” Book Review: This book describes the fundamental aspects of refrigeration and air conditioning. The main chapters included are refrigeration, the refrigeration cycle, pressure-temperature relation, superheat and subcooling. Other topics included are the refrigerant cycle, refrigerant diagram – moller charts, lubrication, brines, throttling devices and evaporation. It includes both practical and theoretical content. It consists of 39 chapters with experiments. It includes a large number of case studies and review questions at the end of the book. This book can be used by students studying mechanical and automobile engineering. The book also highlights the principles of refrigeration. It also explains how these are applied in the field of air conditioning. The examples given throughout the book focus on an application based understanding of the subject matter. The pictures and well labelled diagrams help to comprehend the topics in a better way. It also includes several multiple choice questions and subjective questions at the end of each chapter to aid the students in testing their knowledge of the concepts. This book is meant for students as well as young engineers and servicemen in the field of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. The book is also useful for those who wish to appear in competition exams.

“Modern Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (Modern Refrigeration and Air Conditioning)” Book Review: This book explains the main topics of refrigeration and air conditioning. Main chapters included are professional development, basic services, motor and electric control systems and refrigeration system components. Other topics covered are indoor air fundamentals, heating systems, commercial refrigeration systems, designing commercial refrigeration systems, energy management and conservation. About 63 animations are provided in this book for better understanding. A fully coloured lab manual with 35 experiments is also provided. This book is suitable for mechanical engineering and diploma students.

“Basic Refrigeration: Principles, Practice, Operation” Book Review: This book discusses the basic principles of refrigeration. Main chapters included in this book are refrigerants, design, operation, servicing of the apparatus, servicing the system and safety. It guides readers on how to perform installation, operation, adjustment and repairing of refrigeration systems. This book is meant for any beginner technician.

“Basic Refrigeration” Book Review: This book explains the basics of refrigeration systems. The topics mentioned are refrigeration cycle, refrigeration services, systems and maintenance. Every chapter is discussed in depth with images and sufficient data. This book is useful for mechanical engineering and diploma students.

“Refrigeration Systems and Applications” Book Review: This book provides a solid foundation in the fundamental principles and the practical applications of refrigeration technologies. The book covers all the aspects of refrigeration systems and its applications. The chapters mentioned are general aspects of thermodynamics, refrigerants, refrigerant system components, refrigeration cycles and heat pipes. Other topics covered are food freezing, food refrigeration, conversion factors, thermophysical properties and food refrigeration data. At the end of every chapter problems with solutions are also added for student’s practice. Various techniques and experiments have been mentioned in this book. This book is suitable for mechanical engineering students and beginner technicians.

“Textbook of Refrigeration and Air-conditioning (M.E.)” Book Review: This book contains the complete overview of refrigeration and air conditioning. The main topics included are air refrigeration cycles, air refrigeration systems, simple vapour compression, compound vapour compression, multiple evaporator and compressor systems. Other chapters such as condensers, evaporators, cooling load estimation, ducts, fans and applications are also discussed. This book contains about 800 illustrations, tables, figures and picture descriptions which makes it easier to understand. More than 500 objective type and review questions are added in this book. This book can be used by mechanical and automotive engineering and diploma students.

“Refrigeration and Airconditioning” Book Review: This book describes the core principles of refrigeration and air conditioning. Important chapters such as review of thermodynamics, introduction to heat transfer, reversed carnot cycle, gas cycle refrigeration and simple vapour compression are discussed in length. Other chapters such as properties of common refrigerants, compound vapour compression systems, expansion devices and evaporators are also added. Total of 32 chapters are included in this book. This book consists of a large number of images and solved problems which makes the concept clear. This book is suitable for mechanical, automobile and industrial engineering students.

“Refrigeration Tables with Chart” Book Review: This book includes detailed charts and tables on refrigeration. The chapters included are dry saturated steam, saturated trichloromonofluoromethane, saturated dichlorodifluoromethane, saturated monochlorodifluoromethane and saturated tetrafluoro-ethane. Other chapters included are psychometric properties of air, mollier diagram, chart for monochlorodifluoromethane and psychrometric chart. All the units are in S.I. unit form. This book is useful for mechanical, automobile and industrial engineering and diploma students.

“A Textbook of Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning” Book Review: This book provides the complete outline on refrigeration and air conditioning. The major topics covered are fundamentals of refrigeration, air-refrigeration systems and cycles, steam jet refrigeration system, defrosting methods and lubricants. Other topics mentioned are psychometrics, human comfort, air-conditioning systems, duct, fans and thermal insulation. This book provides the latest questions asked in university exams which helps students in preparing for examinations. Objective type questions are also added at the end. Charts and tables for refrigeration and air conditioning are also provided. This book is suitable for mechanical, automotive, industrial engineering and diploma students.

“Two-Phase Flow in Refrigeration Systems” Book Review: This book presents recent developments from the authors’ extensive research programs on two-phase flow in refrigeration systems. This book covers advanced mass and heat transfer and vapor compression refrigeration systems and shows how the performance of an automotive air-conditioning system is affected through results obtained experimentally and theoretically, specifically with consideration of two-phase flow and oil concentration. The book is ideal for university postgraduate students as a textbook, researchers and professors as an academic reference book, and by engineers and designers as a handbook.

“Troubleshooting and Servicing Modern Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Systems” Book Review: This book details a variety of topics and troubleshooting procedures, including the following: Refrigerant pressures, states, and conditions, Subcooling and superheat, Compression systems, Metering devices, System charge, Diagnosing air conditioning systems, Systematic troubleshooting, Alternative refrigerants, Refrigerant blends an oils, Leak detection – evacuation and clean up procedures, Ozone depletion and global warming. Troubleshooting and Servicing Modern Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Systems discusses the changes affecting the refrigeration and air conditioning industries with an emphasis on the phaseout of CFC and HCFC refrigerants. Detailed sections on the most current leak detection and evacuation methods are included, as well as a section on alternative refrigerants and retrofit guidelines. The book also includes refrigerant changeover guidelines.

“Refrigeration Systems, Design Technologies and Developments (Manufacturing Technology Research)” Book Review: This book examines the design technologies and developments in refrigeration systems. Topics discussed include sorption refrigeration systems; improving the performance of heat pumps in air-conditioning plants by using membrane contactor dehumidification/regeneration systems; the correct size of the condenser as one of the significant issues for the optimal performance of refrigerating and air conditioning systems; prototyping and experimental evaluation of an air filtration system; and irreversible estimation possibilities of an absorption refrigeration cycle.

“Handbook of Research on Advances and Applications in Refrigeration Systems and Technologies: 2 (Advances in Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering)” Book Review: This book gathers state-of-the-art research related to thermal performance and energy-efficiency. Covering a diverse array of subjects―from the challenges of surface-area frost-formation on evaporators to the carbon footprint of refrigerant chemicals―this publication provides a broad insight into the optimization of cold-supply chains and serves as an essential reference text for undergraduate students, practicing engineers, researchers, educators, and policymakers. The vast range of topics discussed in this book are Cold-Supply Chains, Commercial vs. Domestic Refrigeration, Ejector Refrigeration, Evaporator Design, Exergetic Analysis, Refrigeration Systems, Renewable Energy and Food Storage, Thermal Performance and Transcritical Refrigeration Cycles.

“Air Conditioning and Refrigeration System Evaluation Guide” Book Review: This book discusses standard air conditioning and refrigeration systems and also reciprocating chilled water systems with TXV. The standard a/c and refrigeration systems chapter covers such topics as introduction to the cycle diagram, superheat, and subcooling; normally running a/c and refrigeration system characteristics; cap tube or orifice systems; TXV systems; tips about evaporator characteristics; tips about condenser characteristics; and compressor tips. The reciprocating chilled water systems chapter includes an introduction to chiller system operating characteristics; evaporator (cooler) readings; suction line and chilled water readings; condenser readings; what the condenser readings may be indicating; pumps, water flow, discharge superheat, and unit capacity; chiller water air handler and cooling tower tips; and chiller water air handler capacity checks.

“Cascade and Secondary Coolant Supermarket Refrigeration Systems” Book Review: This book presents numerical models for cascade and secondary coolant systems and new correlations for frost property. These models showed that energy savings from 17500 to 170000kWh per annum could potentially be achieved from a typical supermarket store. These systems also avoid the use of environmentally damaging refrigerants thereby attracting supermarket owners. Finally, a step-by-step exercise of the application of the secondary coolant model has been presented to completely design, select, evaluate and install such systems or retrofit the existing traditional refrigeration systems in supermarkets.

“Optimal Amount of Refrigerant in a Refrigeration System” Book Review: Determination of the optimal amount of refrigerant in field assembled refrigeration systems by use of a sight glass installed in a liquid line is often misleading and unreliable. This is attributed to interferences to laminar flow of the refrigerant in the sight glass by ice formation in the expansion valve, vaporization of the liquid in pipes and foreign particles. Due to these interferences refrigeration systems may be overcharged or undercharged with the refrigerant. Measurement of temperatures and pressures at the inlet and exit of an evaporator may provide an accurate and reliable criterion of establishing the optimal amount of refrigerant in a refrigeration system. Using Rayleigh’s method of dimensional analysis, a mathematical model that expresses the evaporator cooling rate for field assembled refrigeration systems in terms of physical properties of the evaporator and the thermodynamic properties of refrigerant R134 a was developed. The model expresses the optimal amount of refrigerant in a refrigeration system corresponding to the maximum cooling rate.

“Investigating Control Strategies in Supermarket Refrigeration Systems” Book Review: This book emphasizes the control strategies of supermarket systems which exist in Sweden supermarkets. Anyone who really wants to investigate the control system of supermarket refrigeration systems, hopefully this paper gives you an idea on them. Improvement of energy efficiency and environmental impact is one of the main objectives for supermarket refrigeration systems. To make such improvement, there is no question to implement control strategies for them.

“Systemes de Refrigeration Magnetique” Book Review: The work carried out within the framework of this thesis is a contribution to the study and thermal and electromagnetic modeling of magnetic refrigeration systems. It already clearly shows that the design and optimization of these systems must call on specific numerical simulation tools, because the difficulties related to thermal behavior, magnetic behavior, mechanical stresses and especially user needs are often many. In this work, we have also created, modeled, optimized 3 devices dedicated to magnetic refrigeration. In addition, we participated in the realization of a magnetic refrigeration prototype. In this work we have laid the groundwork for magnetic refrigeration systems which will allow subsequent research to deepen one or more of the proposed systems or even to be inspired by them to design and realize new systems.

“Low-Capacity Cryogenic Refrigeration (Monographs on Cryogenics)” Book Review: Low-capacity Cryogenic Refrigeration provides an elementary yet comprehensive introduction to the subject, with diverse applications in scientific, medical, educational, military, and civil systems. It is complementary to the earlier two-volume work, but covers a wider field and has a wealth of information about the new developments in the last fifteen years. In addition to descriptions of all the principal methods to achieve low-capacity cryogenic refrigeration, this new volume contains a valuable guide to the literature sources and references more advanced works.

“Thermoelectric Refrigeration (The International Cryogenics Monograph Series)” Book Review: Thermoelectric refrigeration is the process of pumping heat energy out of an insulated chamber in order to reduce the temperature of the chamber below that of the surrounding air. Thermoelectric refrigeration uses a principle called the “PELTIER” effect to pump heat electronically. The Peltier effect is named after a French scientist who discovered it in 1834. Thermoelectric modules are constructed from a series of tiny metal cubes of dissimilar exotic metals which are physically bonded together and connected electrically. When electrical current passes through the cube junctions, heat is transferred from one metal to the other. Solid-state thermoelectric modules are capable of transferring large quantities of heat when connected to a heat absorbing device on one side and a heat dissipating device on the other. This book tries to throw limelight on the overall concept of Thermoelectric Refrigeration.

“Low Temperature and Cryogenic Refrigeration (Nato Science Series II:)” Book Review: This book contains chapters on basic refrigeration systems, non-compression refrigeration and cooling, and topics related to global environmental issues, alternative refrigerants, optimum refrigerant selection, cost-quality optimization of refrigerants, advanced thermodynamics of reverse-cycle machines, applications in medicine, cryogenics, heat pipes, gas-solid absorption refrigeration, multisalt resorption heat pumps, cryocoolers, thermoacoustic refrigeration, cryogenic heat transfer and enhancement and other topics covering theory, design, and applications, such as pulse tube refrigeration, which is the most efficient of all cryocoolers and can be used in space missions.

“Heat and Mass Transfer in Refrigeration and Cryogenics” Book Review: This book comprises a number of selected papers from the International Symposium on Heat and Mass Transfer in Refrigeration and Cryogenics, held in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia from September 1-5, 1986, organized by the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer. They cover a wide range of problems in the fields of thermal insulation, heat transfer in refrigeration, heat transfer in mixtures, thermodynamic and thermophysical properties and freezing and melting.

“Advances in Cryogenic Engineering: Transactions of the Cryogenic Engineering Conference – CEC Volume 53A/B (AIP Conference Proceedings)” Book Review: This book covers various aspects of cryogenic engineering including refrigeration, superconductivity, cryocoolers, air liquefaction, heat and mass transfer, insulation systems, cryostat design and space cryogenics. All papers have been peer-reviewed. This conference is the principal North American Conference on cryogenic engineering. It is attended by scientists and engineers from all over the world. The papers published here have been fully refereed and cover all aspects of cryogenic engineering including: refrigeration, superconductivity, cryocoolers, air liquefaction, heat and mass transfer, insulation systems, cryostat design and space cryogenics.

“Refrigeration and Air Conditioning ” Book Review: This book offers theoretical principles and practical aspects of refrigeration and air conditioning systems. This book acts as a guide for undergraduate education in mechanical engineering programmes and postgraduate education in thermosciences. This book covers the three principles like thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics. The first part includes principles, applications and designs of refrigeration and components like compressors, condensers, evaporators and expansion devices. The second part discusses the subject of psychrometrics and design, implementation of air conditioning processes and systems. It also covers the design practices for cooling and heating load calculations. Different worked out examples are included at the end of each chapter. This book also consists of 160 practice problems which tests the knowledge of students. This book can be referred to by mechanical and automobile engineering students.

“Comprehensive HVAC System Design: A Handbook on Practical Approach to Air Conditioning, Heating and Ventilation” Book Review: This book focuses on designing an effective system for heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and evaporative cooling. Equipment selection, building application and practical system design data are present in this book. The book serves as a practical guide in designing HVAC systems. Both professionals and designers can be benefitted from this book. The book has four parts. The first two parts cover basic information on refrigerants, refrigerant cycle, psychrometrics of air behaviour and interlinks with civil structure. It also contains various HVAC equipment, building management systems and building security aspects such as fire detection, access control, CCTV. Even it provides specific inputs and illustrates charts, tables, and graphs on ambient temperature conditions. Ventilation design, piping design and electrical design with BMS are mentioned in the book. This part is much more advanced and is beneficial for practicing engineers.

“Modern Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (Modern Refrigeration and Air Conditioning)” Book Review: The principles of air conditioning and refrigeration are mentioned in the book. This book contains EPA rules with a standard coding scheme. This book acts as a guide for students and experienced technicians. Refrigeration and its machinery are included in the book.

“Handbook of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (Handbook Series for Mechanical Engineering)” Book Review: This book discusses the latest methods for design systems and covers everything from the fundamentals of state art to intelligent systems. This book covers practice and theory, systems and control. Even the latest methods and technologies for modern design is also shown in this book. It is quite useful for HVAC engineers. The computer based design aids and energy conservation imperatives are mentioned in the book.

“Heating Ventilation Refrigeration and Air Conditioning” Book Review: This book is beneficial for the students and professionals in the field of refrigeration and air conditioning. It focuses on the types of equipment. The book contains a chapter on refrigerants due to environmental factors. There have been recent new developments. The book also covers servicing and maintenance of refrigeration equipment. There has been an efficient reduction in energy issues. Different changes in packaged air conditioning equipment are also mentioned in the book. This book also provides worked examples of many practicals.

“Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Library: Oil, Gas: Oil, Gas and Coal Burners, Controls Ducts, Piping, Valves” Book Review: This book describes the principles, operation, troubleshooting and repair of furnace and boilers. Repair of water heaters and air conditioning units are included in this book. It also acts as a reference for workers in the field.

“Control Systems for Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning” Book Review: This book contains hardware control systems and modern control technology. It mentions the psychrometric processes with heating and air conditioning. This part will help the engineering students to learn various control schemes. This book acts as a guide for maintenance technicians to describe control hardware and strategies. Even the designers of new systems will find this text very much useful. This book explains new digital technologies and energy management systems. It also helps in modern building HVAC system designs.

“Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology” Book Review: This book focuses on complex heating, air conditioning and refrigeration systems. Some of the advances in technology, procedures and equipment are mentioned in this book. There are more than 250 images present in the book to focus on practical applications. This book highlights the environmental problems and their solutions. Different theories, diagnostics and repair procedures for HVAC-R education are illustrated in this book. This book presents the certification training for technicians.