Introduction

HVAC - Heating Ventilation & Air conditioning

Purpose - To provide comfort & healthy condition for the crew & passengers.
- Establishing the heating, Ventilation & Air conditioning requirements for each
space and then preparing a set of "Load" calculation & analyses to determine
the size of HVAC equipment that meet all established requirement.
Peculiarities of HVAC at marine
- is subjected to forces induced by pitch/roll/slamming of the ship
- is designed to operate over a wide range of weather conditions and can be sujected to
extreme changes in weather conditioins (temperature, humidity and solar) within short period
of time.
- designed to function in corrossive seawater environment.
- relatively compact due to space limitation on ships.
- is more susceptiable to noise problems because the enclosed space are relatively small
close to equipment and machinery spaces and the ship's structure affords very little inherent
sound dampening.
- must be very rugged because ship operating schedules sverely limit the time available for
maintainence by specialized land - based personnel.

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