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An Investigation of Cooling and Heating Degree-Hours in Thailand Journal of Clean Energy Technologies, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 2013 An Investigation of Cooling and Heating Degree-Hours in Thailand Kriengkrai Assawamartbunlue degree-days. Thevenard [1] examined methods to determine Abstract—The simplest well-known method that can be used degree-days to any base temperature and concluded that the to preliminarily estimate energy consumption of buildings is the method developed by Schoenau and Kehrig were the best. degree-days method that usually requires the knowledge of Kolokotroni [3] developed an artificial neural network either annual or monthly cooling and heating degree-days. In models to predict hourly air temperature within the Greater this paper, annual and monthly degree-days of 4 major cities in Thailand are investigated based on hourly temperature data in London area that can be used to calculate HDD and CDD. term of “degree-hours.” Long-term hourly temperature data Adigun [5] used a statistical approach in terms of the for 15 years (1994-2008) are used to calculate degree-hours at probability density function (PDF) and cumulative various base temperatures. The Sandia method is used to make distribution function (CDF) based on beta distribution to annual hourly temperature dataset that can represent a typical develop CDD model for Southern Nigeria. Oktay [6] hourly temperature year instead of using long-term average developed a method to predict the daily outdoor temperature hourly temperature. The results show that Bangkok has the highest annual and monthly cooling degree-hours followed by based on the daily maximum and minimum temperature from Songkla, Ubonratchathani, and Chiangmai. In all cities, the which the daily and monthly cooling degree-hours for number of cooling degree-hours is much more than one of buildings were then calculated. heating degree-hours which implies that energy consumption of Krese [7] proposed a method to include the influence of buildings is used for space cooling much more than space latent loads into the cooling degree-days concept. The latent heating. Regression models are also developed for determining loads were presented in the form of performance surface annual cooling and heating degree-hours at any base temperature. graph that was a plot of electric consumption as a function of CDD and latent enthalpy days. The proposed method was Index Terms—Cooling degree-hours, degree-days, heating used to analyze electric energy consumption of a real degree-hours, Thailand, typical meteorological year building [8] and compared with convectional degree-days method. As previously shown, degree-days still plays an important I. INTRODUCTION role in energy estimations and analysis that are worth to be One of significant meteorological variables that relate to investigated. The assessment is needed to indicate the energy building and residential energy consumption is heating demand of heating or cooling for buildings. Even though the (HDD) and cooling degree-days (CDD). Both of them are degree-days is more common than the degree-hours due to basic quantities for preliminarily estimating energy the lack of hourly temperature data at a particular location, consumption of a building. Unfortunately the degree-days the degree-hours of 4 major cities of Thailand are presented are not commonly used in the past few years because of at various base temperatures in this paper using measured advanced communication systems that allows one to be able hourly temperature data. to remotely access data storages or servers to directly retrieve data [1]. The data could be yearly, daily, hourly, or even Chiangmai subhourly whichever matches the users’ requirements. Another reason is that effects of latent loads are not accounted into the degree-days. Ubonratchathani Nevertheless HDD and CDD are still useful in preliminary Bangkok energy audits to estimate savings of energy conservation measures (ECM) that depend on seasonal and outdoor temperature for which simple methods are more appropriate than complex and time-consuming methods. Thus there still are several researches in recent years to study and predict Songkla variations and trends of HDD and CDD at a particular location, such as China [2], London [3], and Turkish [4]. Fig. 1. Selected weather stations in Thailand. In addition to that, there were many researches that focused on developing mathematical models to predict II. DATA AND METHODS Manuscript received October 25, 2012; revised December 25, 2013. A. Data Kriengkrai Assawamartbunlue is with Energy Technology Research Group, Mechanical Engineering Department, Kasetsart University, Thailand Based on physical geography, Thailand could be divided 10900 (e-mail: [email protected]). DOI: 10.7763/JOCET.2013.V1.21 87 Journal of Clean Energy Technologies, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 2013 into four regions, i.e. central, north, north-east, and south throughout the year. There are only a few hours when the region. One data station was carefully selected to represent outside temperature is lower than the base temperature in each region based on availability and completeness of the northern and north-eastern region, especially in winter. There data. They were Bangkok (Donmuang), Chiangmai, Songkla are no heating season for Bangkok and Songkla. Thus, (Hat Yai), and Ubonratchathani, as shown in Fig 1. The energy conservation measures that improve performances of hourly dry-bulb air temperature dataset of each station was cooling systems will have a great influence on energy provided by the Thai Meteorological Department for 15 consumption of buildings. consecutive years (1994-2008). 10,000 Chiangmai Bangkok Songkla Ubon B. Methodology 9,000 An hourly dataset that represented typical temperature of 8,000 each region was created from long-term data. Instead of using 7,000 long term average for each particular hour to create hourly 6,000 temperature of a whole year, individual months from 5,000 different years of the period of record were selected using the 4,000 Sandia method. The Sandia method was the method that was onthly Cooling Hours Degree 3,000 used to create TMY3 [9], a well-known meteorological M 2,000 dataset for computer simulations. The dry-bulb temperature was used as an index in the Sandia method. 1,000 0 Briefly, for each month, CDF of months for the daily index Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec was calculated. Five candidate months with CDF closet to the Fig. 2. Monthly cooling degree-hours at Tb=18.5C. long-term (15 years) were selected and then ranked with 700 respect to closeness of the month to the long-term mean and Chiangmai Bangkok Songkla Ubon median. The highest-ranked candidate month that meets the 600 persistence criteria was used. The persistence criteria were 500 set in such a way that the frequency and length of runs of consecutive days with values above and below fixed 400 long-term percentiles. Finally, the 12 selected months were 300 concatenated to make a complete year. nthly HeatingHours Degree 200 C. Degree-Hours Mo 100 Heating and cooling degree-hours are defined as the sum of the differences between hourly average temperatures and 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec the base temperature. The number of cooling degree-hours Fig. 3. Monthly heating degree-hours at Tb=18.5C. (CDH) in a day is defined as N TABLE I: THE MONTHLY AVERAGE CDH = ()− + (1) CDH b ∑ Ti Tb Station Mean Min Max Std. i=1 Chiangmai 5,343 2,923 7,366 1,415 where N is the number of hours in the day, T is the base Bangkok 7,615 6,482 8,692 750 b Songkla 6,275 5,443 7,127 579 temperature to which the degree-days are calculated, and Ti Ubonratchathani 6,258 4,807 8,193 1,071 is the average hourly temperature. The “+” superscript indicates that only positive values of the bracketed quantity TABLE II: THE MONTHLY AVERAGE HDH are taken into account in the sum. Similarly, daily heating Station Mean Min Max Std. degree-hours (HDH) are defined as Chiangmai 122 0 614 219 N Bangkok 00 10 + = ()− (2) Songkla 00 00 HDH b ∑ Tb Ti . i=1 Ubonratchathani 37 0 163 56 Monthly degree-hours are simply the sum of daily 100,000 91,374 CDH HDH degree-hours over the number of days in the month. Likewise, 90,000 yearly degree-hours are the sum of monthly degree-hours 80,000 75,298 over the 12 months of the year. 75,093 70,000 64,117 60,000 50,000 III. RESULTS 40,000 early Degree Hours Degree early Y Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 shows monthly cooling and heating 30,000 degree-hours of the selected weather stations, respectively. It 20,000 is obvious that most of energy in a building is consumed by 10,000 1,464 10439 cooling systems rather than heating systems due to hot and 0 humid climate of Thailand. Most of the average hourly Chiangmai Bangkok Songkla Ubon Fig. 4. Annual cooling and heating degree-hours at T =18.5C. temperature is greater than the base temperature at 18.5 C b 88 Journal of Clean Energy Technologies, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 2013 Table I and Table II show basic statistical features of proposed regression models and the Schoenau & Kehrig monthly CDH and HDH of selected stations. Bangkok has model [1] on annual CDH. Schoenau & Kehrig model the highest CDH followed by Songkla, Ubonratchathani and implemented a statistical approach to estimate monthly CDD Chiangmai. Bangkok and Songkla have relatively small at any base temperature assuming that the daily mean variations compared to Chiangmai and Ubonratchathani. The temperatures are normally distributed around the monthly monthly average HDH are very low in all stations and not mean. It is obvious that the estimated CDH by Schoenau & significant in energy consumption of buildings.
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