Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning of commercial buildings: Research workshop: Final Report

Technical Report · Wed Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:6431230

Isaksen, L

Commercial building space heating and cooling represent significant current and potential energy sales and peak demands for electric utilities. Commercial building space heating and cooling technology improvements that increase the cost-effectiveness, efficiency, reliability, and load factor of this equipment and thus its value to electric utilities and their customers are therefore of great interest to electric utilities. As a step in its R and D planning process, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) sponsored a workshop during which industry experts identified research needs in commercial building heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Twenty-seven industry experts representing builders, contractors, dealers, distributors, research organizations, manufacturers, and electric utilities attended the one- and one-half day workshop held on August 12 and 13, 1986. Sessions covered all HVAC topics, but the emphasis was on heat pumps. This report summarizes the results of the workshop. Specific recommendations for research needs in the areas of components, applied or built-up systems, and unitary or packaged systems are included and ranked in order of priority.

• Research Organization: Analysis and Control of Energy Systems, Inc., Martinez, CA (USA); Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6431230
• Report Number(s): EPRI-EM-5300; ON: TI87920534
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

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