Residential heating, ventilating, and air conditioning research workshop: Final report

Technical Report · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:6204286

Isaksen, L

The Residential HVAC load is an important one for electric utilities, contributing significantly to energy sales and peak demands. Utilities would like to see improvements in technologies which are desirable for both them and their customers. As a step in its R and D planning process, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) conducted workshops to identify research needs in HVAC systems. The workshops covered all HVAC topics, but the emphasis was on heat pumps. This report summarizes the workshop on residential systems. The workshop on commercial systems is reported separately. The workshop brought together 35 experts representing builders, contractors, dealers, distributors, research organizations, manufacturers and electric utilities for one and one-half days of discussions. This report includes summaries of the opening remarks by eight attendees, research statements from each of three breakaway groups (components, systems and applications), and a summary of the research needs identified. The research topics presented define work that needs to be done. The topics will be used by EPRI for R and D planning, however, not all of the topics presented in the report are necessarily appropriate for EPRI sponsorship.

• Research Organization: Analysis and Control of Energy Systems, Inc., Martinez, CA (USA); Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6204286
• Report Number(s): EPRI-EM-5398; ON: TI88920009
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320106* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Building Equipment-- (1987-)
BUILDINGS
DEMAND
ENERGY DEMAND
ENERGY SYSTEMS
HEAT PUMPS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
SPACE HVAC SYSTEMS