2.  Outdoor Design Conditions

3.  Indoor Design Conditions

4.  Cooling Load Components

5.  Cooling Load Principles

6.  Cooling Coil Load

7.  Heating Load

8. Software Applications

• Bruning, S. F., 2012. Load calculation spreadsheets: Quick answers without relying on rules of thumb, ASHRAE Journal, 54 (1): 40-46. [PDF]
• Howell, R. H., Coad, W. J. and Sauer, H. J., 2013. Principles of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, 7th ed., American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [ASHRAE Catalog: 697 A82 T4]
• Chapter 4 Design Conditions
• Chapter 5 Load Estimating Fundamentals
• Chapter 6 Residential Cooling and Heating Load Calculations
• Chapter 7 Nonresidential Cooling and Heating Load Calculations
• HVAC Made Easy: A Guide to Heating & Cooling Load Estimation http://www.pdhonline.org/courses/m196/m196.htm
• Course Content http://www.pdhonline.org/courses/m196/m196content.pdf
  
• Cooling Load Check Figures:
• Cooling Load Check Figures http://www.iklimnet.com/expert_hvac/cooling_load_check_figures.html
• Cooling Load Check Figures and CLTD Equations [PDF]
• Cooling Load Check Figures (based on the  AIRAH Handbook 3rd edition) [PDF]
• Cooling load calculation methods -- examples:
• Heating & Cooling Load Calculation Form - CLTD/CLF/SCL Method (IP units) [Excel][Description: http://www.geokiss.com/software/TideLoadInstr.pdf]
• Cooling load calculation of a single family house using CLTD/CLF method [PDF]
  
• Air conditioning cooling load calculations - Example from ASHRAE 2013 Handbook - Fundamentals Chapter 18, Single Room [PDF]
  
• RTS cooling load calculations - input and results [JPG]
• Cooling load components [JPG]
• RTS example XLS (IP units) http://www.hvac.okstate.edu/Software/RTS_example_Montreal_ASHRAE_Chapter_6Oct2003.xls

• ASHRAE, 2013. ASHRAE Handbook Fundamentals 2013, Chps. 14-19, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., Atlanta, GA. [ASHRAE Catalog: 697 A82 T4]
• Chapter 14. Climatic Design Information
• Chapter 15. Fenestration
• Chapter 16. Ventilation and Infiltration
• Chapter 17. Residential Cooling and Heating Load Calculations
• Chapter 18. Nonresidential Cooling and Heating Load Calculations
• Chapter 19. Energy Estimating and Modeling Methods
  
• ASHRAE, 2009. ASHRAE Handbook Fundamentals 2009, Chps. 14-19, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., Atlanta, GA. [ASHRAE Catalog: 697 A82 T4]
• ASHRAE, 2005. ASHRAE Handbook Fundamentals 2005, Chps. 28-32, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., Atlanta, GA. [AV 697 A82 H05][ASHRAE Catalog: 697 A82 T4]
• ASHRAE, 2001. ASHRAE Handbook Fundamentals 2001, Chps. 26-31, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., Atlanta, GA. [AV 697 A82 H01][ASHRAE Catalog: 697 A82 T4]
• Kavanaugh, S. P., 2006. HVAC Simplified, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [697 K2]
• Heating & Cooling Load Calculation Form - CLTD/CLF/SCL Method (IP units) [Excel]
• Pedersen, C. O., et al., 1998. Cooling and Heating Load Calculation Principles, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [697 C77]
• Spitler, J. D., 2010. Load Calculation Applications Manual, SI ed., American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [697 S761 l79]
  
• Wang, S. K., Lavan, Z. and Norton, P., 2000. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering, Chp. 6, CRC Press, Boca Raton. [697.93 W246 a]

• Basic concepts:
• Overall Heat Transfer [http://www.arca53.dsl.pipex.com/]
• Thermal Transmission [http://www.arca53.dsl.pipex.com/]
• Heat Gains [http://www.arca53.dsl.pipex.com/]
• Thermal transmittance -- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_transmittance
• Cooling load temperature difference calculation method -- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_load_temperature_difference_calculation_method
  
• Examples of load calculation software:
• Carmel Loadsoft 6.0 [AV 697.00028553 L79  CDROM and Manual]
• Carmel Residential 5.0 [AV 697.00028553 R43 CDROM and Manual]
• Elite Software: CHVAC and RHVAC [AV 697 E43] http://www.elitesoft.com/
  
• HVAC Load Explorer http://hvac_2.okstate.edu/books/edition_6/hvac_load_6.html
• User's Guide http://www.philadelphia.edu.jo/academics/sammourah/uploads/HvacLoadExplorer.pdf
• Examples of load/energy calculation software:
• TRACE 700  http://www.trane.com/TRACE700‎
• TRACE 700 tutorial - Introduction to Trane TRACE 700 (11:09) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ije73V5EYdE
• TRACE 700 Tutorial - learn TRACE in under 10 minutes (8:33) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWpILURIk60
• Carrier E20-II  http://www.carrier-commercial.com