BronYrAur
Mechanical
- Nov 2, 2005
- 798
Is there anything in the weather history sites that would be the equivalent to "Degree Days" for humidity? I see that the sites list min, max, and avg temperatures and dew points. They also list min, max, and avg % humidity, although they do not list the corresponding temperatures. So % humidify doesn't tell me much without the relative temperature.
Where I am going with this is that that I am trying to quantify the amount of cooling coil condensate that will be produced. I am involved with a building that has a recovery system that was never used. There will be a cost to get the system up an running, so I am trying to quantify the gain.
The total latent load of all my coils comes to roughly 40 GPM of condensate. That's a "design condition" number, so I am trying to make a calculation of how much I can expect to recover during the overall cooling season. I need to be able to tie in the local (Chicago) humidity data for the non-design conditions.
I could use the daily avg temp and avg dew point to obtain an OA condition and a latent load, but how accurate will that be? Something like a "degree day" for latent loads would make life easier.
Any thoughts?
Where I am going with this is that that I am trying to quantify the amount of cooling coil condensate that will be produced. I am involved with a building that has a recovery system that was never used. There will be a cost to get the system up an running, so I am trying to quantify the gain.
The total latent load of all my coils comes to roughly 40 GPM of condensate. That's a "design condition" number, so I am trying to make a calculation of how much I can expect to recover during the overall cooling season. I need to be able to tie in the local (Chicago) humidity data for the non-design conditions.
I could use the daily avg temp and avg dew point to obtain an OA condition and a latent load, but how accurate will that be? Something like a "degree day" for latent loads would make life easier.
Any thoughts?
