hydronic heating - book recommendation [RE-wrenches]

[Kurt Albershardt]

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Thanks for the pointers and I'd be very interested in the spreadsheet once you're comfortable with it.


I'm in the early planning stages of a new house (ours!) and starting to sketch out a combined solar DHW/hydronic system (with ground-source cooling as well) so I figured I ought to get familiar with the territory.




--On Tuesday, February 03, 2004 2:12 AM +0000 Brad Bassett <bsbassett at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Kurt,
>
> The new 2nd edition of Siegenthaler is much better than the first
> edition, and probably has just about everything you need to know to
> design a hydronic system except actual experience (which would probably
> count for a lot!). Siegenthaler uses electronic design as a basis for a
> lot of the plumbing circuit design, good for someone with an electrcial
> background. Designing hydronic heating systems makes solar hot water
> systems look easy.  I haven't seen the other book.
>
> I'm just about done putting together a spreadsheet with the formulas for
> calculating system resistance curves and plotting them along with pump
> curves. Then there's the heat transfer formulas, I may not get to those.
> If you are interested in this spreadsheet let me know, it's crude but
> sometimes that's better than "user friendly" and rigid like all the
> distributor programs are.
>
> Brad
> AEE
>
>
> Kurt Albershardt wrote:
>>
>> Any thoughts on these two (or others) as an intro to the subject for an
>> EE (who nearly failed thermo)?
>>
>> "Radiant Heating and Cooling Handbook" by Watson & Chapman
>>
>> "Modern Hydronic Heating for Residential and Light Commercial Buildings"
>> by Siegenthaler
>>
>>
>>
>> --thanks
>
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