Energy Efficiency Manual: for everyone who uses energy, pays for utilities, designs and builds, is interested in energy conservation and the environment (Energy Efficiency Manual)
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heavy book,heavy reading
A more than 8 pounds book will not make you an expert in energy efficiency.It is especially true from an Chinese perspective.It is more or less for facility operators,and everyone knows without top management commitment,nothing will happen,regardless of how many measures you know and are applicable for your facility.
You can find all of them in DOE BestPractices,and you won't have to carry this huge manual.
Buy Handbook of Energy Engineering,or Plant Engineer's and Manager's Guide to Energy Conservation,they are better.
Useful and interesting - STRONGLY RECOMMENDED
Despite the intimidating name and size of this tome, I found it fascinating to read. It covers everything from light bulb selection to rooftop chiller maintenance. The depth and breath of coverage is amazing.
This is not a hippie guide to backwoods eco-conservation. It is a practical manual, firmly grounded in science and economics that explains different strategies for maximizing comfort while minimizing energy use. In every case, the author examines both the pros and cons of the measure, and calculates the expected payback term. It is so helpful to have a book that is realistic in its treatment of energy conservation. Lots of books outline promising energy saving techniques, none I've read before talk so frankly about the problems you will encounter when you implement them.
Quite technical in many places, the text excels at explaining important concepts that are often ignored in other texts. I have a background in physics, but not until reading this book did I have a good grasp of the operation of absorption coolers or how the spectrum of a light bulb affects the visual comfort of the scene it illuminates. The concise overview of heat transfer mechanisms is more thorough than any thermodynamics textbook I've ever read.
Most important of all is the practical advice that is clearly based on a huge body of real experience. As the book so frequently points out, energy saving measures are useless if they break or are defeated by building occupants. Hundreds of (non-obvious) examples of these failures are given, with pictures.
This book would be great for anyone with responsibility for designing or maintaining buildings of any size. If you are hesitant to pay the high price, find it at a local library. I don't write many Amazon reviews, but after reading this book I felt compelled to strongly recommend it.
Superlative! A must have!
Superlative! The ENERGY HANDBOOK of EFFECTIVENESS by Donald
Wulfinghoff east "must have" for professionals, libraries, directors
of service, décisionnaires, owners of a house, and no matter who
differently who is serious about the energy of economy and the cashing
inside on the lower invoices of energy. It is the final resource of
energy saving for companies, industry, and the government. MORE, it
will save the money and will reduce pollution, the lower results of
corporation satisfactory, the décisionnaires, and the ecologists all
at the same time. This book is single. Strongly instructive,
illustration-rich person, and easy to use, it is trove of treasure of
very that you must know the energy effectiveness of A to Z do not take
the trouble to look at elsewhere -- the HANDBOOK of ENERGY
EFFECTIVENESS A simply all. This book will pay itself almost as
quickly as you can repèrer an escape of hot air or to install a bulb
of ideal efficiency! -- Ami Vickers
A secret weapon for the energy auditor
As an energy auditor I'd almost call the Energy Efficiency Manual a secret weapon, except it has so many good ideas that I can't help but show it to many of the customers and prospective customers I meet. The diagrams are very useful, as is the self contained but well cross-referenced way in which each improvement measure has been written. For example, talking to the maintenance manager of a hospital, we looked at the diagrams of hot/cold deck multi-zone systems while discussing the pros and cons of upgrading a constant volume air conditioning system to a variable volume system. It is by far the most useful book on energy management that I have ever read (well, in the case of the Energy Efficiency Manual, that I have partially read - its an enormously large book!), and the ratings of each of the measures are particularly useful, along with the practical, no-nonsense approach. The book is extremely well cross referenced and Wulfinghoff has covered an enormous body of knowledge in writing the book. As someone fairly new to the field I'm grateful that he went to the effort of documenting and making available his knowledge and 30 odd years experience in the Energy Efficiency Manual.
Everything you always wanted to know, in plain English
I nodded my head in agreement while reading Wulfinghoff's philosophy about energy savings in commercial and light industrial facilities. He distills 20+ years of experience in this field with practical, no-nonsense how-tos to gain energy and dollar savings in a wide variety of facilities and end-uses: lighting, water use, steam systems, space heating, water heating, air conditioning, scheduling, pumps, energy management controls: its all here in a well-written, well-illustrated book.Perhaps best of all, the author goes beyond theoretical considerations of high-tech efficiency products, with precautions of what works and what might fall short. He also reminds facility managers to be mindful of the human factors that can foil our best efforts. He offers suggestions on how to plan and manage efficiency upgrades complete with information for building operators and occupants, so that the savings persist.
Highly recommended for anyone managing energy use in facilities, ranging from individual buildings to college campuses to government facilities. [I am a local government energy manager myself.]
Provides practical advice for avoiding pitfalls
The energy handbook of effectiveness of Donald Wulfinghoff is a solid
mass, the work of reference 1,536-page which is organized to quickly
guide the reader with the good information for their project, problem,
or inquires particular of energy. The first part of this handbook "of
friend of user" has 400 activities logically grouped to improve the
energy effectiveness that each activity starts with estimates and a
scorecard of choice to help the reader to judge the merits and the
difficulties of this particular activity the sidebars of "economic
sciences" estimates the saving, the cost, and the period of refunding.
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Efficiency in technical publications.
I have been in the Architect/Engineering business for over 20 years. There were several cases in the past where this book would have been of great value. The Energy Efficiency Manual is now my standard resource in saving money and energy for my clients. Mr. Wulfinghoff has invested over 20 years in compiling this manual and this is reflected in the quality of the content. I am particularly impressed with the format, which is extremely accessible to anyone. The book gets right to the point in a highly straightforward manner. I would recommend that authors of other technical books take note and attempt the same. It would certainly make my life easier. In other words I honestly feel that I got my money's worth this time and recommend it to anyone who wants to save energy.
A practical Book
This book is an excellent resource for engineers and people who worry
about the ecoefficiency and of the industrial costs. It was very
usefull with me, because I writting my thesis of MBA about this topic
and it matches my matters exactly
energy conservation
I have reaped much larger rewards from the Energy Efficiency Manual than the money I have saved by utilizing the concepts described in the book. This manual very clearly shows how to effectively maneuver enery into forms that are more useful for everyone. The basic concept of physics is that everything is energy. It is possible to build anything with the concepts in this book and let Mother Nature do your heating, cooling, lighting, motion in some cases. If not through natural sources, then waste energy from other processes can fuel another necessary reaction. What this review boils down to is that I really like the Energy Efficiency Manual and I think anyone can use some part of this book.
Excellent Resource
We save thousands of dollars using the Energy Efficiency Manual. It is really easy to understand. You should see the look on a contractor's face when I ask him an intelligent question about his specialty. This book makes sure that I get the job done right, and at the best price.
Valerie Kendall, recycling center owner
Landmark Reference for Practical Energy Efficiency
This volume, more than any mandate of policy or directing, made with
energy effectiveness a practice. Mr. Wulfinghoff clearly and
systematically described thousands of measurements of energy
effectiveness applicable to the commercial, industrial, and
residential applications. They are presented in a way in which is
immediately accessible to the directors from service who make daily
decisions about the maintenance of service of use and system. The
accessibility of this information advances the cause of the energy
effectiveness more effectively than any open proclamation of policy.
The technical details of each measurement are supplemented with a
discussion of economic sciences, which are crucial to fix "the
blessing of corporation" directors that of the these majority of the
service require to obtain made things. This text is an article duty-to
have for directors of service as well as the companies which ensure of
the services of energy.
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