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Chapter
6
Design Procedures: Part 4
Fluid-Handling Systems
6.1
Introduction
All air-handling units (AHUs) and many terminal units, if they are
not self-contained, require a source of heating and / or cooling energy.
This source is called a
central plant,
and the means by which thermal
energy is transferred between the central plant and the AHU is usu-
ally a fluid conveyed through a piping system. The fluids used in
HVAC practice are steam, hot or cold water, brine, refrigerant, or a
combination of these. The equipment used to generate the thermal
energy is described in Chap. 7. In this chapter we discuss the trans-
port systems.
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