Heating and Cooling Essentials, 6th Edition

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• Master HVACR fundamentals, including heating, cooling, refrigeration, and service procedures.
• Build troubleshooting skills through hands-on labs, simulations, and real-world applications.
• Prepare for HVAC careers and certification with industry-aligned, safety-focused training.

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Title Overview

Heating and Cooling Essentials is the ideal introductory text for students entering the HVACR field, presenting a unique and focused approach to fundamental theory, applications, and skills. This text emphasizes the techniques needed to perform installation, service, and repair of refrigeration, air conditioning, and heating systems. Students build an understanding of how HVACR systems work and progress into troubleshooting and service. This new sixth edition has been updated to reflect coverage of relevant industry changes such as zeotropic refrigerants, A2L refrigerants and related equipment, smart thermostats, and more modern coverage of heat pump systems. A new chapter on safety covers essential safety guidelines and industry hazards relevant to introductory HVACR students. Digital users will have access to eBook content, online lab workbook, videos, animations, Follow-the-Heat animations, troubleshooting activities, and a new HVACR Virtual Toolbox.

The content correlates to HVAC Excellence, American Council for Construction Education (ACCE), and EPA 608 certification exam standards.
New Procedure features highlight step-by-step instruction for performing key processes done by HVACR technicians in the field.
Lab Workbook now includes chapter review questions and over 70 lab activities for hands-on practice of key procedures and skills required for an entry-level HVACR technician.

1. Careers in HVACR

2. Customer Relations

3. Safety

4. Hand Tools and Instruments

5. Fasteners

6. Working with Copper Tubing

7. Working with Pipe

8. Soldering

9. Brazing

10. Mathematics for Technicians

11. Basic Thermodynamic Principles

12. Temperature and Pressure

13. Basic Refrigeration Cycle and System Components

14. Other Refrigeration System Components

15. Refrigerants

16. Refrigerant Recovery and Recycling

17. Refrigerant Service Basics

18. Working with Metering Devices

19. Special-Purpose Valves

20. Compressors

21. Compressor Lubrication and Accessories

22. What is Electricity?

23. Power Transmission and Circuits

24. Motors

25. Electromagnetic Control Devices

26. Refrigeration Motor Controls

27. Air and Defrost Cycles

28. Gas Heat with Air Conditioning

29. Electric Heat with Air Conditioning

30. Heat Pumps

31. Ductwork

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About the Author

Don L. Crawshaw currently is the Department Chairman and Instructor of the HVAC program at Pikes Peak Community College (PPCC), Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mr. Crawshaw earned an Associates of Arts degree in Technical Theatre from Independence Community College (ICC), Independence, Kansas. He served part time as Stage Manager for the local community auditorium in Independence for about 10 years. While attending ICC he started working as a helper for a sheet metal installation crew for a local HVAC company. He has remained in the HVACR field ever since, over 30 years, working in Kansas, Utah and Colorado. Mr. Crawshaw has worked in the areas of installation, service and energy management for residential, commercial, and supermarket systems. He had been involved with in-house training in just about every company he worked for previously.

Mr. Crawshaw started his professional teaching career with Intellitec College in Colorado Springs, and later accepted his current position at PPCC. The 30 plus years of experience in many different areas and responsibilities in the HVACR field has allowed him to be able to teach many different topics and subjects. Along with his teaching and department chair duties, he also serves as the State Discipline Chairman for the Colorado Community College System HVAC discipline and is the Career and Technical Studies representative from the college to the State Faculty Curriculum Council. In 2011, Mr. Crawshaw was invited to sit on a panel for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), to help conduct an NAEP HVAC Judgmental Standard-Setting Study, looking into how math relates to entering into HVAC training. In 2012, Mr. Crawshaw earned the title of Certified Master HVACR Educator (CMHE) from HVAC Excellence. He was also voted Best Instructor Runner-up by The NEWS and Air-Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) that same year.

Jerry Killinger

and LaDonna Killinger established an excellent foundation upon which Mr. Crawshaw built. Mr. Killinger has extensive experience installing and servicing air conditioning, refrigeration, and heating systems. He has worked with industrial, commercial, and residential systems ranging from heat pumps to boilers to cooling towers to refrigerated food cases to solid-state environmental control equipment. Jerry has over 20 years' experience teaching traditional vocational classes as well as various seminars and workshops. He has conducted numerous seminars on refrigeration, air conditioning, and electricity for industrial maintenance personnel at facilitates of major manufacturers across the United States.

Gregory (Greg) Dean Smith Jr.has worked in the HVAC industry since 2002 but returned to school to earn his Florida state certified HVAC contractor's license in 2015. After earning his certification, he ran a successful HVAC company until being offered a position at Locklin Technical College in Milton, FL, where he taught secondary and postsecondary HVAC students. Since starting at Locklin, Greg has earned awards for CTE Rookie of the Year, Teacher of the Year, the Zach Butler award, and made the HVAC Excellence Top 25 HVAC instructors list in 2025. Greg is working towards his Certified Master HVAC/R Educators certificate, already earning subject matter expert certifications in Electrical Theory, Air-Conditioning, and Teaching Methodologies.Greg currently serves as the HVAC/R Department head for Locklin Technical College where he supervises the postsecondary HVAC program as well as the HVAC apprenticeship program. He also continues to teach adult postsecondary HVAC courses.

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