Building Loads Program for HVAC System Simulation

Abstract

An hourly building loads calculation program that runs on a personal computer was developed to estimate a building's heating, ventilating, and cooling (HVAC) needs. The program uses an `ETD' (Effective Temperature Difference) method and includes a time averaging scheme to calculate heating and cooling loads for a multizone building. The building can have any number of zones and user-friendly input is provided using a data file to specify the building's physical description, number of people and internal load density. The output of the program compared very favorably with that for the same input from one of the leading `commercial' mainframe programs. Examples of the use and advantages of this loads program which utilizes actual hour-by-hour weather data are included.

Department(s)

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0402-1215

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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Citation

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text

Language(s)

English

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© 2024 The Authors, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Dec 1996

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