A Real-Time Experimental Method for Room Cooling Load Calculations

Abstract:

A real-time experimental method for room cooling load calculations is developed in this paper. Experimental based study was also performed during summer months of 2010 in a reference office room in Shanghai. Hourly indoor temperature curves were drawn and the cooling capacity of air conditioner was measured. One energy simulation tool, Designer’s Simulation Toolkits (DeST), was used to calculate the basic dynamic temperature and hourly cooling loads. Comparison of results from real-time experimental method and DeST simulation shows that the proposal model can be used in cooling load calculations, with an average 2.5% relative error to DeST results.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 433-440)
• Pages: 4490-4495
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.433-440.4490
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Ting Zhang Liu, An Hong Gong, Li Xia Yao
• Keywords: Air-Conditioning, Cooling Load Calculation, DeST, Modeling and Simulation, Real-Time Experimental Method

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