Weather data for building energy cost-benefit analysis

This paper deals with European TRY weather data processing for climatic indexes 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 processed according to a bin method that preserves the correlation between dry bulb temperature and moisture content, and then reduced by an averaging technique. An example is worked out in order to present an engineering shorthand for energy and cost evaluation of HVAC system. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.