Customer Reviews

Absorption Chillers and Heat Pumps

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This book delivers what it says. The reader needs a basic understanding of thermodynamics, but the early chapters walk you gently through the basic theory of heat engines just in case. The rest of the text is readable and (if you like that sort of thing) interesting. The text is not purely theoretical but digresses into practical considerations and dissects one or two real products. Many different physically-realisable configurations are discussed, and a few others you probably wouldn't bother with.

I was slightly disappointed by the fact that the book does not analyse in more detail the benefits and drawbacks of alternative working fluids. The book focuses mainly on ammonia/water and water/lithium bromide, as used in more-or-less every commercial product, but it would have been nice to see at least an acknowledgement of recent research on more esoteric choices.

I had only 15 minutes time to have a short glimpse on this book ,in a general library in Austin. As I am a chemical engineer and familiar to refrigeration systems , the reason why I was absorbed by this book was colletion of so many details for such a relative small range of engineering . Esmaeil Poornorooz

The book is really good, all the information is helpfull with the absorption systems, but it does not come to the software!!!!!

Great book, but the description is a lie. The book does not come with any software.