title: HVAC Simplified
author: American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
description: This text gives an understanding of fundamental HVAC concepts and extends these principles to explain simple design tools for building efficient systems providing comfortable and healthy environments. A wonderful tool for developing HVAC knowledge, its topics include:
zlib_text: Fundamentals of HVAC Systems
  SI Edition
  
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  Fundamentals of HVAC Systems
  SI Edition
  Prepared by
  Robert McDowall, P. Eng.
  Engineering Change Inc.
  American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and
  Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc.
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  First edition 2007
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