Product Details

Manual Q is your one-stop reference book on the low-pressure, low-velocity systems used in small and mid-size commercial buildings. Manual Q gives you time-saving quick fitting loss tables and a complete set of fitting loss tables compiled from the ASHRAE and SMACNA handbooks.

Manual Q is your one-stop reference book on the low-pressure, low-velocity systems used in small and mid-size commercial buildings. Manual Q gives you time-saving quick fitting loss tables and a complete set of fitting loss tables compiled from the ASHRAE and SMACNA handbooks.

Topics include:

• Performance characteristics of fans, duct systems, air-side devices, and duct system materials

• Fan inlet and fan discharge losses

• Duct sizing methods, including a comprehensive treatment of the equal friction duct sizing method

• Examples of how to design constant volume, variable volume, rooftop multi-zone, and VVT duct systems

• Exhaust equipment and exhaust duct systems

• Building pressure control, ventilation, and air balance

• Fittings and hardware for adjustment, test, and balance work

• Duct system efficiency, conduction losses, and duct leakage