http://www.rehva.eu/publications-and-resources/hvac-journal/2014/032014/power-demands-of-heating-ventilating-and-air-conditioning-components-in-eu-buildings/

Power Demands of Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning components in EU Buildings

The importance of understanding energy use at HVAC component level

A previous paper in the January 2104 REHVA Journal (Knight, 2014) proposed that detailed monitoring of energy use at HVAC component level was likely to be a key element in achieving sustained reductions in energy use in EU buildings. To use this detailed monitoring to its full potential it needs to have benchmarks against which it can be compared, and Power Demand benchmarks are a key component for identifying Energy Conservation Opportunities.

The iSERVcmb project (www.iservcmb.info) is producing what is believed to be the first public dataset of measured energy and power consumption of HVAC components operating in European Buildings. This paper presents a brief overview of a subset of this data, normalised Power Demands, to illustrate some of the forthcoming outputs from the project this summer.

The Power Demands presented here are from measured data obtained during the iSERVcmb project. It was taken from 1700+ HVAC systems and components drawn from across Europe, which are servicing a variety of activities and floor areas. This measured data is a key element in the HVAC system benchmarking process proposed and tested by iSERVcmb across 16 EU Member States.

With such a large dataset it is inevitable that the data covers a wide range of years, and as such will continue to be analysed at finer levels of detail before the end of iSERVcmb to explore different ways of examining the data. However, the full dataset present at the time of this paper is used to provide the largest data source possible for analysis here.

Due to the analysis work still to be completed, this paper therefore provides only an overview of the ranges of Power Demands being found in practice by HVAC Component Type normalised by Area serviced by that component. Note that this floor area is derived from the iSERV spreadsheet and is therefore much more accurate than simply relating power demand to total building floor area.

Measured Energy Use by HVAC components

The iSERVcmb process philosophy is based around physically quantifiable parameters i.e. energy, space, activity types, and HVAC system components. A HVAC component could be, for example, a fan, pump, air handling unit, cold generator, etc. There are subcomponents of these component types…..To read the full article, download the attachment below.