ASHRAE Handbook

The ASHRAE Handbook is the four-volume flagship publication of the nonprofit technical organization ASHRAE (formerly
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers). This Handbook is considered the practical
repository of knowledge on the various topics that form the field of heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration
(HVAC&R).

The four volumes are Fundamentals, Refrigeration, HVAC Applications ("Applications"), and HVAC Systems and Equipment
("Systems and Equipment"). Members of ASHRAE receive the current volume, in both print and CD-ROM form, each year as a
basic membership benefit. An enhanced electronic version, known as ASHRAE Handbook Online is a web-based version updated
annually that contains the four latest volumes as well as extra content such as calculations, demonstration videos, and spreadsheets.
The various versions of the Handbook are typically available to the public via technical, and other
, libraries and bookstores.

Contents
History
Review and Revision
References
External links
See also

History
The ASHRAE Handbook has had a variety of titles.[1] It began in 1922 as the ASH&VE Guide. In 1973 it became the ASHRAE
Handbook, and in 1985 separate publication of inch-pound (I-P) and international system (SI) units versions of the volumes began.
The current publisher of record is W. Stephen Comstock, and the Editor is Mark S. Owen. The Handbook is published by ASHRAE
from its headquarters inAtlanta, Georgia.

Review and Revision

The Handbook's content is created and modified by volunteers via ASHRAE's many Technical Committees (TCs), and then edited
and formatted by professional staff at ASHRAE. For example, three chapters, in three different volumes, are maintained by TC 5.3,
Room Air Distribution. Each chapter within a particular volume is reviewed and revised in a repeating four-year cycle; one volume is
printed each year.[2] In the summer of 2017 the new Fundamentals volume was released. ASHRAE's Handbook Committee maintains
an Authors and Revisers Guidewhich can be obtained freely via the Handbook portion of the ASHRAE W
eb site.

While each new or revised chapter manuscript is to be reviewed for technical content by each TC voting and corresponding member
before publication, there are often many other pre- and post-publication reviewers. For example, members of the Society's Handbook
Committee and the College of Fellows[3] review chapters each year. Reviews, from basic comments to detailed new content, are
encouraged from all users of the Handbook and may be submitted through an on-line commenting system.

References
1. "The ASHRAE Centennial: 100 Years of Progress", ASHRAE Historical Committee, 1994
2. "ASHRAE Handbook Authors and Revisers Guide", ASHRAE Inc., August 2007
 3. "Archived copy" (https://web.archive.org/web/20080704165122/http://www .ashraecof.org/Handbook/HandbookRepor
t2008.htm). Archived from the original (http://www.ashraecof.org/Handbook/HandbookReport2008.htm) on 2008-07-
04. Retrieved 2008-05-21. , accessed May 21, 2008

External links
ASHRAE's Web site

See also
Implicit functions
Colebrook equation

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