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  List of Articles by William J. Coad
 

ENERGY CONSERVATION IS AN ETHIC, ASHRAE Journal, July 2000.

ENGINEERING FOR IMPROVED INDOOR AIR QUALITY; ASHRAE IAQ Applications, Spring 2000.

CONDITIONING VENTILATION AIR FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE AND AIR QUALITY; Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning, September 1999.

ELEGANT AND EFFICIENT: PUMPING CHILLED WATER; Consulting Specifying Engineer, August 1999.

VARIABLE AIR VOLUME DESIGN FOR ACCEPTABLE INDOOR AIR QUALITY; an ASHRAE Shortcourse, January 1998, Richard J. Pearson and William J. Coad.

A FUNDAMENTAL PERSPECTIVE ON CHILLED WATER SYSTEMS, Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning Magazine, August 1998.

ENERGY CONSERVATION IN ENGINEERING DESIGN: THE ETHIC AND THE REALITY; Twenty Seventh Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Congress of the Union of Mechanical and Electro-Technical Engineers and Technicians of Serbia, December 1996.

INDOOR AIR QUALITY: A DESIGN PARAMETER, Keynote address: Proceedings of ASHRAE IAQ-95 Conference, October 23, 1995. Also published in ASHRAE Journal, June 1996.

ENERGY CONSERVATION IS AN ETHIC, ASHRAE Symposium Paper, January 1996. Republished in the ASHRAE Journal, July 2000.

FUNDAMENTALS OF STEAM HEATING SYSTEMS, Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning, November 1995.

VARIABLE AIR VOLUME TECHNOLOGY: PAST FAILURES AND FUTURE TRENDS; Proceedings of the Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Congress of the Union of Mechanical & Electrical Engineers & Technicians of Serbia, December 1, 1994.

DESIGN/BUILD - AN OPTION NOT A PANACEA, Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning, March 1994.

OPEN CHILLED WATER SYSTEMS FOR FREE COOLING - A Simple Concept that Lacks Simplicity. ASHRAE Transactions No. 94-7-1. January, 1994.

THE WORLD BEHIND THE THERMOSTAT, Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning, December 1991, William J. Coad.

VARIABLE FLOW CHILLED WATER SYSTEMS: UNDERSTANDING THE LOAD REQUIREMENT IS ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESSFUL DESIGN. ASHRAE Journal, October 1990, William J. Coad. (This article was awarded the "Best Journal Article" award of 1990 by the American Society of Heating Refrigerating & Air Conditioning Engineers.) Was presented as a Technical Paper at the Twenty Seventh Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Congress of the Union of Mechanical and Electro-Technical Engineers and Technicians of Serbia, December 1996.

RETROFIT: PROBLEM OR OPPORTUNITY, Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning, March 1989.

RETROFIT AUDITS: PEACE OF MIND AND THE BOTTOM LINE, Building Operating Management, February 1988.

AIR HANDLING SYSTEMS; DESIGN FOR EFFICIENCY, Consulting-Specifying Engineer, September 1987, William J. Coad, J. Barrie Graham, Gerald J. Williams.

STEAM HEATING SYSTEMS, Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning, December 1986.

VARIABLE FLOW IN HYDRONIC SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED STABILITY, SIMPLICITY AND ENERGY ECONOMICS, ASHRAE Transactions 1985 V912 Pt. 1. Republished under title of HYDRAULIC ENERGY ECONOMICS, ASHRAE Journal, June 1985. (This paper received the ASHRAE Crosby Field Award for the best paper published by the Society in 1985.)

STUDIES IN ENERGY RETROFIT - MISSOURI STATE PENITENTIARY, William J. Coad, David L. Schwaller, and Gerald J. Williams, Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning, March 1985.

AIR SYSTEM DESIGN AND RETROFIT FOR ENERGY/COST EFFECTIVENESS, William J. Coad, Gerald J. Williams, and J. Barrie Graham, ASHRAE Special Publication Book, April 1982.

ENERGY ENGINEERING & MANAGEMENT FOR BUILDING SYSTEMS, William J. Coad. Book published by Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982.

WATER CHILLERS; CHANGING TECHNOLOGY, Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning, July 1981.

RE-EVALUATION OF TWO PHASE TECHNOLOGY IN THERMAL FLUID SYSTEMS,

ASHRAE Transactions, Volume 87, Part 2, 1981.

FIFTY YEARS OF CONTRIBUTION, Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning, September 1979.

THE PROFESSIONAL'S ROLE IN ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND RETROFIT, Specifying Engineer, April 1978.

CO-EFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE VS ENERGY EFFECTIVENESS FACTOR (James M. Calm and William J. Coad), Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning, August 1977.

SECTION 12 - TOWARD A MORE EFFECTIVE USE OF ENERGY RESOURCES, ASHRAE Journal, May 1977.

INVESTMENT OPTIMIZATION, ASHRAE Journal, January 1977.

ENERGY CONSERVATION THROUGH LOCAL BUILDING CODES, Missouri Municipal Review, October 1976.*

ENERGY EFFECTIVENESS FACTOR, Heating/Piping, Air Conditioning, August 1976.

COMPUTER APPLICATION FOR SYSTEMS DESIGN AND ANALYSIS (Albert W. Black III, and William J. Coad) ASHRAE Symposium Paper, June 1976.

AN ENGINEERING OVERVIEW OF SYSTEM BALANCE AND ENERGY CONSERVA­TION, Purdue University Conference on Efficiency in HVAC Equip­ment, April 1976.

INTEGRATED DECENTRALIZED CHILLED WATER SYSTEMS, ASHRAE Symposium Paper, January 1976.

THE COMPUTER AS A TOOL FOR ENERGY ANALYSIS, Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning, January 1975.

A NEW LOOK AT FAN SYSTEM CURVES, Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning, November 1974, William J. Coad and Philip D. Sutherlin.

APPLIED SCIENCE OF ENERGY ECONOMICS IN BUILDING SYSTEMS, ASHRAE Journal, May 1974. Reprinted in Journal of Australian Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating, August 1975.

AIR CONDITIONING WITH CHILLED WATER USING LOOP SYSTEMS, Twenty First Annual Meeting of Central States Regional Association of Physical Plant Administrators, October 1973.*

ENERGY ECONOMICS - A DESIGN PARAMETER, Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning, June 1973.

INTEGRATED LOOP SYSTEM FOR CAMPUS COOLING, Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning, May 1973.

CONSUMER AND COMMERCIAL USER REQUIREMENTS AS SEEN BY THE CONSULTING ENGINEER, ASHRAE Symposium paper, June 1972.

PREHEATING OUTDOOR AIR WITH TRANSFER FLUID SYSTEMS, ASHRAE Symposium paper, January 1972 (Published 1973).

THE EFFECT OF ENERGY ECONOMICS ON HOSPITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN, St. Louis Construction News, June 1971.*

OIL TOTAL ENERGY PLANT MAKES TURNPIKE SERVICE PLAZA SELF-SUSTAINING, ASHRAE Journal, April 1969.

NATURAL GAS IN THE TOTAL ENERGY MARKET, Forty Fourth Annual Conference, State Utility Commission Engineers, National Association of Railroad & Utility Commissioners, May 1966.

* Local or Regional Publications.

Monthly Column in Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning entitled FUNDAMENTALS TO FRONTIERS:

Energy Economics - A Science Needed, January 1975
Design Parameters, February 1975
Planned vs. Breakdown Maintenance, March 1975
Engineering: Can We Afford It?, April 1975
What is Energy?, May 1975
Steam: A State of the Art Update I, June 1975
Steam: A State of the Art Update II, August 1975
More on the Energy Hypothesis, September 1975
The Computer and HVAC System Design, October 1975
Energy Source & Conversion System Selection Parameters, November 1975
Live Cycle Costing, December 1975
Return to Regionalism in Building Design, January 1976
Thermal Effectiveness of a Vapor Compression Refrigeration Cycle, February 1976
The Key to Vapor Lock (In Refrigeration Liquid Line), March 1976 (Reprinted in the Journal of Australian Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating, July 1976)
Energy Transportation, April 1976
Keep it Simple, May 1976
Look to the Obvious, July 1976
System Tuning Part I, August 1976
System Tuning Part II, September 1976
Education: The Key to the Energy Dilemma, October 1976
What's the Load?, November 1976
Local Building Codes, December 1976
Energy Management, January 1977
Infinite Source, February 1977
Pure vs. Applied Science, March 1977
The Fan Curve: A Useful Tool?, April 1977
Hydronic Systems Overview: Part I, May 1977
Hydronic Systems Overview: Part II, July 1977
Hydronic Systems Overview: Part III, August 1977
Building Automation Systems, September 1977
Section 12: An Overview, October 1977
The Myth of Free Steam, November 1977
Energy: A Unique Commodity, December 1977
A Re-examination of Engineering Education, January 1978
Specialty Devices (or gadgets?), February 1978
The Design Process, March 1978
Reliability by Design, April 1978
The Status of Total Energy, May 1978
Standards I: The Cornerstone of Commerce, July 1978
Standards II: The Role of Consensus, August 1978
Minor Details - September 1978
Fads: Their Influence on Design, October 1978
Evaluation Functions, December 1978
Infinite Sink?, January 1979
Second Law Concepts: I - February 1979
Thermodynamic vs. System Efficiency, March 1979
The Laundry List - April 1979
New Energy Technology: Closer Than We Think, May 1979
Energy Audits I: The Energy Profile, July 1979
Energy Audits II: Components of Energy Use, August 1979
Energy Audits III: Components of Energy Use, October 1979
Energy Audits IV: The Use of Audits, November 1979
A Single Equation For Cogeneration Analysis, December 1979
It's Time to Re-evaluate Computer Use, January 1980
Extending the Cogeneration Equation, February 1980
A Primer on Electric Rates, March 1980
Feeding the Mechanical Slave, April 1980
Expansion Tanks, May 1980
Air in Hydronic Systems, July 1980
Energy Concepts of Air Handling Systems, August 1980
Energy Analyses for Existing Buildings, September 1980
Phase II Energy Analysis for Existing Building, October 1980
Energy Profile - The Base, November 1980
Chilled Water Hydronic Systems, December 1980
A Perspective on Operation & Maintenance, January 1981
Fundamentals of Thermodynamics, February 1981
Seven Years in Retrospect, March 1981
A Renewed Interest in District Heat, April 1981
Legislative Regulation & Engineering, May 1981
Planning Future Opportunities, August 1981
Centrifugal Pumps: Construction & Application, September 1981
Energy Profile - The Thermal Variable, October 1981
Energy Profile - The Electrical Variable, November 1981
Improved Thermal Envelopes: A New Challenge, December 1981
Basics of Combustion I - June 1982
Basics of Combustion II - February 1982
Unavailable Energy, March 1982
Demand Control, April 1982
Air Distribution Techniques: A New Challenge, July 1982
Phase Change, August 1982
Cost Control Through Design, September 1982
Applying the Dry Bulb Economizer, October 1982
Energy Management Systems: Spontaneous Technology?, November 1982
Retrofit Design Requires Painstaking Engineering, January 1983
Domestic Hot Water System: New Way to Size Components, February 1983
False Loads, March 1983
System Energy Losses, May 1983
The Energy Budget: An Invaluable Device, July 1983
EMC's and Digital Controllers, August 1983
The Unoccupied Cycle: A Design Requirement, September 1983
More on Simplicity, November 1983
The Heat Pump, December 1983
DX Control Problem with VAV, January 1984
Freeze Prevention of Steam Heating Coils I, February 1984
Freeze Prevention of Steam Heating Coils II, March 1984
The 10 Years Since the Oil Embargo, April, 1984
Energy Economics of Domestic Hot Water Systems, July 1984
Central Plants I, August 1984
Central Plants II, September 1984
Ideal Terminal Control & Distribution System I, October 1984
Ideal Terminal Control & Distribution System II, November 1984
Safety Factors in HVAC Design, January 1985
Causes of & Cures for Building System Defects, February 1985
On Evolution and Innovation in Engineering Design, April 1985
Dalton and Vapor Migration, May 1985
Simplified Sizing of Pipes and Ducts, July 1985
A Dissertation on Loads, September 1985
Psychometric Principles, October 1985
Casual Analysis of Machinery Failures, December 1985
Energy and Your Home (Part I), February 1986
Energy and Your Home (Part II), March 1986
Improved Control for Steam Systems, April 1986
Air Transport Factor: Opportunities and Limitations, July 1986
From the Laboratory to the User: The Widening Gap, Sept. 1986
Steam Hammer: Causes and Cures, November 1986
Inspect Existing Buildings, March 1987
Curiosity: Hallmark of an Engineer, April 1987
Complementary Technologies, May 1987
Retrofit Opportunities for Building Systems, July 1987