Accuracy tests for simulations of VAV dual-duct, single-zone, four-pipe fan-coil, and four-pipe induction air-handling systems

ASHRAE Transactions, July, 2006 by G.K. Yuill, J.S. Haberl, J.S. Caldwell

CONCLUSIONS

The heating and cooling coil loads tabulated here provide the BEA program user and the program developer with a method of checking the performance of that segment of a BEA program that simulates air-side systems. By comparing the output of the program with the data presented in this paper, potential errors in a BEA program can quickly be identified. A companion paper provides similar accuracy tests for constant volume, dual-duct and variable volume air-handling systems.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The work described here was supported by ASHRAE Research Project RP-865.

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G.K. Yuill, PhD, PEng

Fellow ASHRAE

J.S. Haberl, PhD, PE

Member ASHRAE

J.S. Caldwell

Associate Member ASHRAE

G.K. Yuill is director of the Architectural Engineering Program at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. J.S. Haberl is an associate professor of architecture at Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. J.S. Caldwell is an associate principal at James Posey Associates, Baltimore, Maryland.