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 | | Modern Hydronic Heating (Heating Ventilation/Air Conditioning) by John Siegenthaler ISBN-10: 0827365950 ISBN-10: 0-8273-6595-0 ISBN-13: 9780827365957 ISBN-13: 978-0-8273-6595-7 Hardcover 1995-03-29 Thomson Delmar Learning Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This innovative book is about state-of-the-art hydronic heating systems for residential and light commercial buildings. It contains extensive product shots from over 60 manufacturers and nearly 300 diagrams of system piping / control schematics. This book condenses powerful, engineering-level design information into design tools that can be used by both technical students and contractors. It includes a complete method for heating load calculations that is simple and accurate, insuring proper design. This volume offers hundreds of powerful design tools to determine how a system will perform before it is installed, which is crucial to real-world situations. ALSO AVAILABLE INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDERText with IBM Disk, ISBN: 0-8273-6816-X | ||
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Excellent Text for anyone with some technical knowledge and practical experience I've found this text to be extremely helpful as I am planning and building a new shop with hydronic heating. It is very well written with excellent photos & illustration, Good technical detail with graphs and equations to enable the reader to create a design with confidence. Definitely a good investment for my library. | ||
To much science, not enough practical information. I am a Master Plumber who was asked to design and install a Hydronic Heating System. I hoped this book would provide a step-by-step engineering process for designing a radiant heating system, but it does not. What it does provide is a somewhat scattered knowledge of Hydronic Heating, at the engineering and scientific levels, but does not bring them together to create anything useful like how to design a system. If you are to use this book to design a system, you are on your own. You must conceptualize the design yourself and choose the applicable engineering from various chapters in the book. I find it very frustrating. I don't care how many BTUs/lb it takes to convert water to ice or vice versa, or the specific heat of steel. I just want to create a Hydronic heating system without being dragged through a lot of unnecessary knowledge. If you new to Hydronic Heating you will need several days to familiarize yourself enough with the math and concepts presented in this book to design a system. Hope you have the time! | ||
Wish I'd had this before building my system This book is quite comprehensive, covering every component of a hydronic heating system in detail, along with exercises and system diagrams of numerous variations. Even simple components such as air purge devices and expansion tanks get sections or even chapters to themselves. There is a very good chapter that lays out about 10 different methods of designing the distribution system. Lots and lots of information and tips on tubing layout, as well as surveys of the different methods of putting the tubing down (thick slab, thin slab, dry on top, under the floor, etc) It's definitely in textbook format, and would probably be the type of book you'd use for a hydronic heating course at your local community college IF you could find such a course. Only a couple of nitpicks. --It's a pricey book. I passed over it until I found a $9 copy on the sale table. --my first edition is still talking about polybutylene tubing and tankless hot water heaters are not mentioned. I don't have a copy of the 2nd edition to compare. --given that PEX has become widespread for this type of application, more information on PEX would be appreciated. | ||
Necessary for Homeowner & Contractor This is one fanatastic book for anyone that plans to own, owns or installs hydronic heating systems, including solar hot water systems. It is practical in that it covers readily avaiable products and various options for installing and operating hydonic systems. There is theory including practical algebraic equations for the technically inclined but are not necessary to benefit from the book. The book includes a comprehensive CD that allows anyone to size and evaluate heating systems. I do think there is any book comparable. Expensive but the knowledge one gains makes it worth it. | ||
Everything you need to know about hydronic heating systems? For someone with no background in hydronic heating systems, this book appears an all-inclusive source of information. The presentation is thorough, with no obvious holes in the material. The flow of the book is also very good, with a hybrid tutorial/reference approach that should serve well the reader wanting to apply this information. More so than any other book I've read, this one gives more time to the calculations required for estimating heat loss and gain in a building structure. This is clearly the most important aspect in sizing a heating system and I'm surprised at how many books gloss over this issue. I purchased this book along with "Solar Water Heating" by Bob Ramlow, and found them to be good companions. | ||