Calculation of Heating Load for an Apartment Complex with Unit Building Method

As a simple to method estimate the plant heating energy capacity of an apartment complex, a new load calculation method has been proposed. The method which can be called as unit building method, predicts the heating load of the entire complex instead of summing up that of each apartment belonging to complex. Comparison of the unit heating load for various floor sizes between the present method and conventional approach shows a close agreement with dynamic load calculation code. Some additional calculations are performed to demonstrate it-s application examples.

Authors:

• Ju-Seok Kim
• Sun-Ae Moon
• Tae-Gu Lee
• Seung-Jae Moon
• Jae-Heon Lee

Keywords:

• Unit Building Method
• Unit Heating Load
• TFMLoad.

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