Weather data for building energy cost-benefit analysis

This paper deals with European TRY weather data processing for climatic ind exes generation, useful for HVAC energy and cost simplified evaluation. For nine Italian locations are presented: 99 and 2.5% dry bulb temperatures, 2 .5% wet bulb temperatures, heating and cooling degree days, latent enthalpy days, unitary sensible and latent loads. TRY psychrometric data were proce ssed according to a bin method that preserves the correlation between dry b ulb temperature and moisture content, and then reduced by an averaging tech nique. An example is worked out in order to present an engineering shorthan d for energy and cost evaluation of HVAC system. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons , Ltd.