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.