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A practical look at climatic data for AC load calculation and energy estimation.

Author(s) : MASON M.

Type of article: Article

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The objective of this technical paper is to identify some misconceptions in the industry in regard to the use and application of climatic data for the design of air conditioning systems, and to highlight some of the practical issues confronting designers when deciding on the particular climatic data to use. With both estimating loads and estimating energy consumption it is often as much an art as it is a science, and there is all too often no “absolutely right” answer. For example, there are a number of methods of deriving the empirical design temperatures for load calculations. A second example is the “representative” or “average” hourly climatic data used in energy simulations is different to that when comparing actual measured energy consumption with predictions where a number of individual years of real-time hourly data are required. When supporting software used by the industry, the author has on numerous occasions had to explain to users many of the issues covered in this paper.

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Pages: 80-89 (9 p.)

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  • Original title: A practical look at climatic data for AC load calculation and energy estimation.
  • Record ID : 30018377
  • Languages: English
  • Source: EcoLibrium - vol. 15 - n. 4
  • Publication date: 2016/05

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