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ASHRAE Book 20thCenturyAirConditioning 2021

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20th Century Air Conditioning

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Air Conditioning Transformed the 20th Century Air conditioning for comfort in buildings developed rapidly over the 20th century. From the earliest approaches of blowing air through cheesecloth filters and over blocks of ice, through the movie theatre boom of the 1920s that spurred advancement in ventilation technologies, to the sophisticated mechanical refrigeration systems of the mid and late century, air conditioning has driven change in many of the world

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8 Contents
16 Chapter 01
Alfred R. Wolff
Figure 1.1 Alfred Wolff2
17 Figure 1.2 Marine cutter Richard Rush6
Carnegie Hall
18 Figure 1.4 Artistā€™s impression of the New Music Hall12
19 Figure 1.5 Annotated Contemporary Drawing of Carnegie Hallā€™s Heating and Ventilating Plant15
Figure 1.6 Ice Rack at Bottom of Air Inlet Shaft18
20 The Lenox Lyceum Theatre
The American Theatre in New York
21 Figure 1.8 Sturtevant Cone Wheel Fan26
22 Figure 1.11 Knowles Mushroom Air Diffuser circa 1890
23 Tall Buildings
Cornell Medical College
24 Figure 1.13 Attic Plant Room
25 Figure 1.16 Pontifex-Hendrick Advertisement, 189941
Hanover National Bank
26 Figure 1.18 Hanover National Bank44
27 Figure 1.21 New York Stock Exchange Building, 190350
The New York Stock Exchange
29 Figure 1.22 Henry Torrance, Jr.60
Heating, Ventilating, and Cooling the Board Room of the New York Stock Exchange
30 Figure 1.23 New York Stock Exchange Basement Heating, Cooling, and Ventilation Plant Room64
31 Figure 1.24 the New York Stock Exchange68
32 The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition
33 Figure 1.25 Board Room Gallery Glazing72
34 Figure 1.28 The Missouri Building82
36 Chapter 02
City Pollutionā€”The Impetus for Cleaning Air
37 Air Washer Inventions
Figure 2.1 Zellweger Combined Fan and Air Washer12
38 Figure 2.3 Acme Air Washer Patent Diagram14
39 Willis H. Carrier
Figure 2.5 Advertisement for Walter Timmis, New York Times (1908)19
Figure 2.6 Sackett & Wilhelms Lithographic Printing Factory (1903)20
40 Figure 2.7 Willis Carrier (Cornell Year Book 1901)24
42 Figure 2.8 Front Page, Heating and Ventilation, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1904)36
43 Figure 2.9 Carrier Air Washer, Diagram from Patent Application, 190438
45 Figure 2.12 Carrier Differential Thermostat51
Air Conditioningā€” Stuart W. Cramer
46 Figure 2.14 Stuart W. Cramer56
Figure 2.15 Cramerā€™s Humidifier in a Spinning Room60
47 Figure 2.16 A Silk Mill Installation from Carrierā€™s 1908 Air Conditioning Brochure63
Courtesy Carrier Corporation
48 Chapter 03
The Larkin Administrative Building
49 Figure 3.1 One of the Four ā€œAir Purifying and Cooling Devicesā€9
Courtesy Jack Quinan
50 Figure 3.2 Kroeschell Advertisement, Ice and Refrigeration, June 189911
51 Figure 3.3 Layout of Plant and Ducts in Basement12
Courtesy Jack Quinan
52 Rapid Adoption of Air Washersā€”Theatres
53 Figure 3.4 McCreery Air Washer25
54 Figure 3.6 An Example of the Amount of Dirt Caught by an Air Washer29
Air Washers for Comfort Cooling
55 Figure 3.7 Webster Air Washer37
56 Figure 3.10 Braemerā€™s hygrometric chart40
Air Washers and Surface Coolingā€” Fred Wittenmeier
57 The Congress Hotel, Chicago
Figure 3.11 Gold Room, Congress Hotel
58 Figure 3.12 Ground Floor Plan, Congress Hotel47
59 Figure 3.13 Congress Hotel Cooling Plant, Pompeian Room53
The Blackstone Hotel, Chicago
60 Figure 3.14 CO2 Compressors, Blackstone Hotel62
The Science of Air Washers and Humidity Control
61 The Vento Heating Coil
62 Figure 3.16 Otto Armspach81
Otto Armspach
63 Carrier Engineering Corporation
The ASHVE Research Facility
64 Figure 3.17 Hillā€™s Synthetic Chart83
66 Chapter 04
Nickelodeons and Silent Movies
Figure 4.1 Grand Moving Picture Theatre Explosion
67 Nickelodeons and Health
Figure 4.2 San Francisco Call Article on Ventilation Requirements in Nickelodeons6
69 Figure 4.4 Castle Theatreā€™s ā€œSuperior Ventilationā€
The Roaring 20sā€” Mechanical Cooling in Theatres
Fred Wittenmeierā€”Cooling Chicagoā€™s Movie Theatres
70 Figure 4.6 Riviera Advertisement Promoting ā€œAir Refrigerationā€22
71 Figure 4.8 Wittenmeier Advertisement (1920)27
72 Figure 4.9 Wittenmeierā€™s Temperature Measurements at the Riviera Theatre31
Tivoli Theatre, Chicago
73 Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
Figure 4.10 Artistā€™s Impression of the New Theatre in Minneapolis (1921)
74 Downflow Heating, Cooling, and Ventilating Systems
Figure 4.13 Section through Graumanā€™s Metropolitan Theatre Roof Showing Heating and Cooling Plant44
75 McVickers Theatre, Chicago
Figure 4.14 Advertisement of the McVickers Theatre 48
76 The Science of Comfort
Figure 4.15 A Representative Group of the 130 Observers from the U.S. Bureau of Mines, 192250
77 Figure 4.16 Sample Results to Determine Equivalent Comfort Conditions51
Figure 4.17 Comfort Zone (Humans at Rest)53
78 Carrierā€™s Centrifugal Refrigeration Machine
79 Figure 4.18 Taylor Separation Chamber62
Lewis and the Energy Saving Bypass Method
80 Figure 4.20 Three Carrier 75-ton Units at the Stephen F. Whitman and Sonsā€™ Philadelphia Candy Plant65
81 Figure 4.22 Evolution of Lewisā€™s Bypass System
82 Exporting Air Conditioning
Figure 4.23 Carrier Centrifugal Machine, Carlton Theatre, 1927
Courtesy CIBSE Heritage Group
BBC Broadcasting House
83 Figure 4.24 Carrier Centrifugal Chiller (200 ton) at the BBC Broadcasting House76
Courtesy Carrier Corporation
1929 Sydney State Theatre
84 Figure 4.25 Sydney State Theatre, Original Refrigeration Machine
Courtesy John Gibson
85 Figure 4.26 State Theatre Refrigeration Machine Nameplate
Courtesy John Gibson
86 Chapter 05
The New Madison Square Garden, New York
87 Air-Conditioning Multistory Buildings
Figure 5.1 Madison Square Garden, 1925
Courtesy Carrier Corporation
88 The Milam Building, San Antonio
Figure 5.2 Milam Building, October 192713
89 Figure 5.3 Milam Building Typical Upper Floor Plan14
90 Figure 5.4 Milam Building Original Glazed Office Door with Exhaust Louver17
91 Union Trust Building, Detroit
Figure 5.6 Cross section of Union Trust Building20
Figure 5.7 Ceiling Duct Layout for Typical Union Trust Office Floor21
92 Figure 5.8 Holes in Beams for Ducts22
Figure 5.9 Plan of Union Trust Floor Air-Conditioning Unit24
93 Le Corbusierā€™s Alternative Method of Air Conditioning: Lā€™aire Ponctuel
94 The PSFS Building, Philadelphia
95 Figure 5.10 PSFS Building in 1997
96 Figure 5.12 Corridor Return Air Duct, Louver to Fan Room on Right
Rockefeller Center, New York
98 Figure 5.14 Diagrammatic Section of Air-Conditioning System A in the Music Hall45
99 Figure 5.15 Proposed Ground Plan of Rockefeller Center, 193451
100 Figure 5.16 Wallingford Steel Co. Office Building, 193462
Windowless Buildings and Air Conditioning (1934ā€“1939)
101 The Hershey Office Building
102 Figure 5.17 Hershey Building Electric Weather Man69
Windowless Buildings with Glass Block Walls
103 Figure 5.18 Detroit Edison Company Service Building72
Johnsonā€™s Wax Administration Building
104 Figure 5.20 Air Washer Plant Beneath ā€œnostrilsā€80
106 Figure 5.21 Buried Heating Pipes83
107 Figure 5.22 Private office in Johnsonā€™s Wax Building
Figure 5.23 Johnsonā€™s Wax Great Work Room
108 Chapter 06
The Advent of Fan-Coil Unit Room Coolers and Air Conditioners
Figure 6.1 Kramer Room-Cooling Apparatus
109 Figure 6.2 Schutz Cooling Device
The ā€œSplitā€ Air Conditioner
Fan-Coil Units
110 Figure 6.4 Neiman Marcus Unit Coolers12
Chicago Heat Waves and Unit Air Conditioners
The Tribune Tower
111 Figure 6.5 Tribune Building in 201919
112 Figure 6.6 New Room Unit Ready to Be Placed in Position of the Original Steam Radiator32
113 Figure 6.7 Westinghouse Room Unit Chassis35
Steam-Jet Refrigeration
114 Figure 6.9 Steam-Jet Refrigeration Principle
The First ā€œFully Air-Conditioned Hotelā€
115 Figure 6.10 Steam Jet Venturis Being Delivered to the Tribune Tower39
Galsonā€™s De La Vergne Heat-Pump Unit Conditioner
116 Figure 6.11 Galsonā€™s De La Vergne Heat-Pump Unit Conditioner
117 Carrier Joins the Trend
Home Air Conditioners
Induction Unit Systems
118 Figure 6.14 Carrier Low-Velocity Weathermaster Unit65
119 Air-Conditioning The Pentagon
Figure 6.15 Office in Pentagon with Weathermaster Unit (circled)71
High-Velocity Induction Units
120 Figure 6.16 Conduit Weathermaster Induction Unit74
Courtesy Carrier Corporation
Figure 6.18 Statler Hotel Primary Air-Handling Plant77
122 Chapter 07
Belluschiā€™s Design Study for an Office Building in 194X
123 The Equitable Building, Portland
J. Donald Kroekerā€”Engineer
124 Figure 7.1 The Equitable Buildingā€”Glazed FaƧade
Mechanical Systems
125 Figure 7.3 Typical Floor Mechanical Plant in the Equitable Building
Figure 7.4 Mechanical Room, Trane Advertisement, 194821
126 Figure 7.6 Air-Cooled Refrigeration Machines (on Roof) that Replaced the Equitableā€™s Heat Pump Cooling in 1999
127 Double Duct (Multizone Air Conditioning)
Figure 7.7 Prudential Building, Los Angeles, 195028
High-Velocity Induction Unit Air Conditioning
128 United Nations Secretariat Building, New York
Figure 7.8 United Nations Secretariat Building, New York36
129 Lever House, New York
130 Figure 7.9 Lever House, New York
Radiant Heating and Cooling
131 Figure 7.11 All-aluminum ALCOA Building, Pittsburgh46
Manufacturers Life Building, Toronto
132 Figure 7.12 1935 Advertisement for Air Conditioning with Panel Heating And Cooling49
Shell Centre, London
Figure 7.13 Extruded Aluminum Ceiling Panels Including Light Troffer53
133 Prudential Building, Chicago
Dual-Duct High-Velocity Air Conditioning
134 Figure 7.14 Inland Steel Building (Far Right) with Service Tower (Center)
Inland Steel Building, Chicago
135 Figure 7.16 Supply Fan in Inland Steel Building Basement
Air Conditioning Older Buildings
New York Life Building, New York
136 Figure 7.18 Inland Steel Building Original Chiller, Operational in 2001
Empire State Building, New York
High-Velocity Air Conditioning in Europe
Pirelli Tower, Milan
137 Figure 7.19 Advertisement for Marlo Central Station Air-Conditioning Units69
Figure 7.20 Typical Floor Plan Showing Ductwork in Pirelli Tower71
138 Exporting the Curtain Wall Style
Figure 7.20 Pirelli Tower, Milan72
140 Chapter 08
Rinascente Department Store, Rome
Figure 8.1 Partial Above-Ceiling Plan Showing Rinascente Dual-duct Air Conditioning
141 Air-Conditioned Buildings in the United Kingdom
UK Atomic Energy Authority Building, London
142 CIS Building, Manchester
Figure 8.2 CIS Building Open Plan Office, 2001
143 Figure 8.3 Weathermaster Induction Unit, Outlet Grille Removed
144 Figure 8.9 Svenska FlƤktfabriken Induction Unit with Access Panel Removed
Millbank Tower, London
Robinson Building, Bristol
145 Figure 8.11 UniTrane Induction Patent Diagram16
Variable Air Volume (VAV)
146 Figure 8.13 Cross-Section Diagram of Moduline Unit 37A19
Courtesy Carrier Corporation
147 Perimeter VAV, Toronto
Figure 8.14 Shuperā€™s Perimeter VAV Terminal22
Induction Unit Air Conditioning
148 Figure 8.15 Richard J. Daley Center
The All-Electric Skyscraper
The John Hancock Center
149 Figure 8.17 Original York Chiller at Richard J. Daley Center, 2001
VAV Exported
150 Figure 8.19 John Hancock Center, Chicago
151 Figure 8.21 John Hancock Center 1620 kW Electrode Boilers
Figure 8.22 IBM Office Building, Greenock, Scotland, VAV System Schematic30
152 Chapter 09
The 1973 Oil Crisis and Energy Conservation
153 Thermal Energy Storage
Ice Thermal Energy Storage
154 Figure 9.1 Ice Accumulator Evaporator, Ice Store, 193912
Phase-Change Thermal Energy Storage
The Attractions of Off-Peak Electricity Rates
155 Figure 9.2 Exploded View, CALMAC Ice Bank17
156 State of Illinois Center
Figure 9.4 State of Illinois Center
157 Lake and Aquifer Thermal Storage
Figure 9.5 Lake Thermal Storage, HFC Trust Building, 1988
158 Figure 9.6 HFC Trust Thermal Flywheel Circuit Diagram24
Encapsulated Ice Storage
Figure 9.7 Cristopia Ice Balls
159 Figure 9.8 Encapsulated Ice Tanks
Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF)
The Scroll Compressor
VRF Systems
160 Figure 9.10 Youngā€™s Diagram Showing Compression in Scroll Compressors
Figure 9.11 Three-Pipe VRF System32
161 Figure 9.12 Outdoor VRF Units
Building Mass Thermal Storage
Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage
162 Figure 9.14 Gateway 2, The Atrium
Figure 9.15 Gateway 2: Predicted Airflow Patterns, Summer and Winter
163 Figure 9.16 SAS Headquartersā€” Indoor Street
Chilled Beams
164 Chapter 10
Green Buildings
Environmental Assessment Methods
165 Figure 10.1 Cover of First BREEAM Environmental Assessment Guide
Low-Energy Coolingā€”Demonstration Projects
166 Figure 10.2 Dow Chemical Europe Headquarters in Horgen, Switzerland, 1991
Mixed Mode
167 Figure 10.5 Photovoltaic Panels, Dow Chemical Europe Headquarters
168 Figure 10.6 Mixed-Mode Concept, Barclaycard headquarters18
Prototype Low-Energy Buildings versus Commercial Realty
169 Figure 10.8 Automatic Roof Vents, Barclaycard Headquarters 2020
Commerzbank Tower
170 Figure 10.10 Chiller Energy Efficiency Improvement, 1970 to 201024
171 Figure 10.12 Woolworth Building, Built 1914
172 References
194 Index
ASHRAE Book 20thCenturyAirConditioning 2021
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