Industrial Refrigeration Handbook (PB)

knowledgeable enough to write at this level! I have been looking everywhere for a book like this and buying this was my very last attempt to find one. NOT an entry level book, and no color pictures. Lots of diagrams and graphs. This is the book you want when you have completely gone through your 1000+ page refrigeration textbook, understood it, and still want more (a LOT more). The author explains challenging topics that other authors gloss over (for the very good reason that they are hard to understand and not critical to know). This is not a book to teach you about practical stuff, like how to identify a valve or how a split system air conditioner works. This book explains theory at a practical level, and fills in the gaping logic holes other authors necessarily leave in their explanations. As a result it is slightly heavy on the math. If you have had college algebra, you'll get by just fine. If you have trouble understanding how to use a graph, this is probably not the book for you. It contains a lot of graphs. The book is a bit dated, the net result being that some of the newer refrigerants are not mentioned. Author also emphasizes ammonia based systems.

This book is certainly for people entering the Industrial Refrigeration industry or young engineers. Having said that, I have read very few technical books that break down and explain everything as well as this one does. Great figures to help understand too.

Buen producto.

This book helped me with purging condensers but, in my opinion, is severely lacking in information about compressor service work. This is not a Chilton's manual for screw compressors, but rather more of a text book. There is a lot of good information in it but I've also been very disappointed on several occasions when I was in a pinch at work. I'm not completely sure it's worth the price,l. I wish an old hand compressor service tech would write a book about ammonia compressors.

Stoecker has to be acknowledged as one of the giants in the field of refrigeration - at least, so far as writing books about refrigeration systems is concerned. I've read two books of his - Design of Thermal Systems and this one, and both are brilliant. They are lucidly written, well-illustrated and overall easy to understand.