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Glossary of terms & definitions

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ANSI

American National Standards Institute

ARI

Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Institute now known as AHRI (Air-conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute)

ASHRAE

American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers

ASME

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

AWWA

American Water Works Association

DOE

Department of Energy

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

ISA

International Society of Automation

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Psychrometric

Term used to describe the field of engineering concerned with the determination of physical and thermodynamic properties of gas-vapor mixtures.

RTS

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