Heating Services in Buildings (PDF)

Preface xvii 1 Introduction to Heating Services 1 2 Wet Heating Systems 5 3 Materials 55 4 Heat and Heat Transfer 97 5 Heat Emitters 108 6 Underfl oor Heating 140 7 Heat Requirements of Buildings 165 8 Heat Emitter Selection and Sizing 194 9 Pipe Sizing 206 10 Electricity 226 11 Controls, Components and Control Systems 242 12 Oil Firing 278 13 Natural Gas Firing 316 14 Liquefi ed Petroleum Gas Firing (LPG) 345 15 Alternative Fuels and Energy 356 16 Combustion, Flues and Chimneys 383 17 Combustion Effi ciency Testing 442 18 Circulating Pumps 454 19 Domestic Hot Water 482 20 Solar Energy for Water Heating 513 21 Water Treatment 542 22 District Heating 559 23 Expansion of Pipework 571 24 Regulations, Standards, Codes and Guides 591 25 Testing and System Commissioning 608 26 Operating Costs and Whole Life Costing 622 Appendices 631 Appendix 1 Comparative table of sheet metal gauges 632 Appendix 2 Temperature comparison at atmospheric pressure 634 Appendix 3 Mesh/micron rating 635 Appendix 4 Copper tube BS EN1057 (introduced 15/8/96, Formerly BS2871) 636 Appendix 5 Dimensional tolerances of low carbon mild steel tube conforming to BS EN10255, 2004. Formerly BS1387 637 Appendix 6 Hydrostatic data 638 Appendix 7 Composition of copper alloys (common) 639 Appendix 8 Composition of soft solders 640 Appendix 9 SI prefi xes 641 Appendix 10 Light gauge stainless steel tube austenitic type 304 or 316 (BS EN10312) 641 Appendix 11 Elements and chemical symbols 642 Appendix 12 Beaufort wind scale 643 Appendix 13 Comparison of BSP and NPT threads 643 Appendix 14 Properties of water 644 Appendix 15 Temperature conversions 645 Appendix 16 Metric conversion factors 646 Appendix 17 Pressure conversion 648 Appendix 18 Heat fl ow conversion 648 Appendix 19 Approximate viscosity conversion 649 Appendix 20 Viscosity-temperature relationship 650 Appendix 21 Altitude and pressure corrections 651 Index 653

David E. Watkins IEng, FCIPHE, FSoPHE, MASHRAE, AffCIBSE, MIfL RP, is a highly experienced public health engineer with extensive knowledge of both UK and overseas public health and mechanical pipework services engineering. He has worked on numerous projects in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas, including a period of secondment to BAA's design team for Heathrow Terminal 5. David is currently working as an independent consulting engineer and lectures on engineering services at various colleges and institutions.

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