The ASHRAE Pocket Guide 9th SI & IP edition for Air Conditioning, Heating, Ventilation, Refrigeration, is packed with practical and useful information and is designed for immediate use. This 9th edition, revised and expanded for 2018, includes properties for new refrigerants, new data on refrigerant safety, ventilation requirements for residential and nonresidential occupancies, occupant thermal comfort, extensive data on sound and vibration control, thermal storage, radiant-panel heating and cooling, air-to-air energy recovery, space air diffusion data, equipment heat load data, combustion turbines, fuel cells, ultraviolet lamp systems, and more. This editions updates include data from the four current volumes of the ASHRAE Handbook series, including the 2013 ASHRAE Handbook-Fundamentals, and from the 2010 and 2013 editions of ASHRAE Standards 15, 34, 55, 62.1, 62.2 and 90.1.
Throughout this Pocket Guide, original sources of figures and tables are indicated where applicable. For space concerns, a shorthand for ASHRAE publications has been adopted. ASHRAE sources are noted after figure captions or table titles in brackets using the following abbreviations:
