Typical weather data of main Turkish cities for energy applications

Energy consumption and performance investigations of environment-dependent systems such as building HVAC and refrigeration systems, solar collectors, cooling towers, usually require weather information. This introduces a prob lem because there may be significant variances between the recurrent days o r years. In this work, typical hourly weather data for the selected 23 prov inces that represent demographic and climatic conditions of Turkey are obta ined by using actual recordings. The results are stored as computer files r eady to be used by simulation programs. By using these typical meteorologic al years, heating and cooling degree-days, dry-bulb temperature bins and wi nter and summer design dry-bulb temperatures are calculated. Sample typical -year simulations show for example that energy savings of about 11 and 16 p er cent could be expected in Ankara by 3 and 5 K night-setback, respectivel y. Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.