Sentence examples for degree hour from inspiring English sources

When summing the temperature deviations per month, the amount of energy, expressed in degree hour for each month of the year, necessary to heat and cool the houses during cold weather and hot periods, respectively, is obtained.

23 We estimated the space heating demand of the stock due to ventilation heat losses using the standard degree hour method, 24 25 assuming a heating efficiency of 77%.

Cooling degree hours and virtual climatic discomfort hours were calculated for the entire set of locations.

A clear correlation between power demand and heating degree hours (HDH) is presented.

The time of ovulation was calculated in degree hours and daily motor activity was recorded using a photocell.

Thermal comfort levels along with energy use were assessed and compared, in terms of degree hours of overheating/under heating and cooling energy use.

In this study, two alternative approaches for the development of current and future weather files are presented: one (pHSY-1) is based on Weighted Cooling Degree Hours (WCDH), the other (pHSY-2) is based on Physiologically Equivalent Temperature (PET).

As a support of the simulation results to be confirmed to a larger scale (the whole Italian territory), an analysis on the two TMY data sets was carried out by calculating CDH (Cooling Degree Hours) and HDD (Heating Degree Days) for 21 Italian locations together with annual global horizontal radiation and average annual mean daily wind velocity.

A typical office room was therefore modelled using a building energy simulation programme (HELIOS), and the effect of different parameters such as building construction, heat gains, air change rates, heat transfer coefficients and climatic conditions including annual variations on the number of overheating degree hours (operative room temperature >26 °C) was evaluated.

The effect of most important parameters affecting night ventilation performance such as building construction, heat gains, air change rates, heat transfer coefficients and climatic conditions was evaluated including annual variations on the number of overheating degree hours (operative room temperature >26°C) (Artmann et al. 2008).

Exposure in the child's bedroom was 2.03 degree hours in the intervention group compared with 4.29 degree hours in the control group, a difference of 2.26 degree hours (0.99 to 2.34, P<0.001).