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The Price Engineer's HVAC Handbook Edition 2 Is Here!

Posted by Price Industries on November 14, 2023 at 9:24 AM

Your Complete Guide to Fundamental Industry Knowledge

The original intention of the Price Engineer’s HVAC Handbook was to create a “polished compilation” of existing design guides and examples from the Price Catalog. In typical Price fashion, we dedicated more than 20,000 internal hours over the course of two years to create an industry-first reference guide on air distribution – complete with 1,350 pages and more than 3,000 illustrations.

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Topics: System Efficiency, Heat Transfer, Psychrometrics, Thermal Comfort, HVAC Fundamentals, HVAC, Engineering, Design Engineering, Handbook

What Are Sensible and Latent Heat?

Posted by Daniel Russell on September 13, 2022 at 9:41 AM

Defining Sensible and Latent Heating and Their Importance in HVAC Applications

In the HVAC industry, it is common to hear about having to handle sensible and latent loads to condition a space. Since we tend to associate heating or cooling with a change in temperature, confusion can arise when multiple forms of heating are mentioned. In this post, we’re going to clarify the difference between sensible and latent heating and why the distinction is important in HVAC systems.

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Topics: Fan Coils, Heat Transfer, Cooling Coil, Condensate, HVAC Fundamentals, HVAC, Engineering, Design Engineering

Leveraging CFD Simulation for Optimal Design

Posted by Mike Koupriyanov on April 6, 2021 at 12:13 PM

How CFD Optimized Cooling in a Battery Energy Storage System

One of the most frequent questions that customer and reps ask us is “Can you model this?” Even though the answer is always a resounding yes – we love a challenge – every rep and customer is still
surprised at the broad array of applications that benefit from a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis. This means that a myriad of designs currently in use in different sectors of the building industry could have been improved. 

Battery storage rack in a battery energy storage system
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Topics: Mock-Up, Heat Transfer, HVAC, Engineering, Design Engineering, Tech Tip, CFD

Price Engineer's HVAC Handbook

Posted by Price Industries on October 8, 2019 at 9:25 AM

 

The Most Comprehensive Guide To HVAC Fundamentals

Price has long been innovative in the presentation of technical content and product information. We saw a need to present the ever-growing content of our Product Catalog in a more efficient way, so the next innovative step for Price was to create the Price Engineer’s HVAC Handbook.
 
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Topics: System Efficiency, Heat Transfer, Psychrometrics, Thermal Comfort, HVAC Fundamentals, Design Engineering

Induction in Chilled Beams and Diffusers

Posted by Price Industries on July 16, 2019 at 9:18 AM

ACTIVE CHILLED BEAMS

In a chilled beam, the term “induction” is used to describe the process of injecting primary air under pressure through a nozzle, which in turn entrains return or plenum air at the discharge of the nozzle.

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Topics: Diffusers, Beams, System Efficiency, Induction, Heat Transfer

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Our customers have come to count on a consistent and ever-increasing stream of new products and enhancements.  Price has a large team of experienced and talented engineers who are consistently working on breakthrough ideas.  We are not afraid to move into whole new product categories if we believe we have a contribution to make.

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