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costs during their entire life cycle. Further, the energy and cost savings were
such that the owners earned more from each building even though the LEED
program might have been more expensive during the construction of the
building.
With the higher costs of energy today, engineers and designers are

conscious of producing more efficient designs for heating, ventilating, and air
conditioning. Calculation procedures in Section 13 of this handbook cover
many topics, including energy equations of a variety of types, annual heating

and cooling costs, energy savings using ice-storage systems, run-around heat
recovery, heating capacity requirements for buildings with steam- and hot-
water heating, carbon dioxide buildup in occupied spaces, centrifugal-
compressor power and energy input, fan and pump energy performance, air-
bubble enclosure energy analysis, expansion-tank sizing for hydronic

systems, heat and energy-loss determination for buildings of all sizes and
dimensions, heating apparatus steam and energy consumption, air-heating
coil selection and energy analysis, energy and heat-load computation for air-

conditioning systems, plus numerous other interior-climate and energy
control calculations. Using the data given, any engineer or designer should be
able to prepare a preliminary design and analysis quickly and easily for any
structure anywhere in the world.
Section 14, the final one in this comprehensive handbook, covers energy

conservation and environmental pollution control. Both of these topics are of
key importance in today’s competitive energy world. Calculation procedures
covered include atmospheric control system energy investment analysis,

energy-from-waste economic analysis, emissions reduction using flue-gas
heat recovery, cogeneration heat savings, cost of cogeneration heat-recovery
boilers, sizing an electronic precipitator for air-pollution control, explosive-
vent sizing for industrial buildings, thermal pollution estimates for power
plants, flash steam heat-energy recovery for cogeneration, environmental and

safety-regulation rating for equipment, high-temperature hot-water heating to
save energy, repowering options for power plants, energy aspects of cooling-
tower choice, plus numerous other key calculation procedures for energy

conservation and environmental pollution control.
Each section is introduced with technical parameters important to the topic
of the section. These parameters also provide last-minute information on
energy facts important to engineers designing, building, and operating