Appendix D Degree Day and Design Temperatures General Comments Appendix.D. specifies outdoor design conditions. Al though the Gata were extracted from the 1985 ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals, updated values for design conditions can be oblained from the 1987, 1993, 1997, ‘and 2001 editions ofthe ASHRAE handbook, The exterior design conditions are-described below In three groups. ‘The groups ere established according to how the data are used. D Purpose ‘Appendix D Is reprinted for informational purposes and provides climate conditions for 223 locations throughout, the United States. These summaries include sources for degree days and values of dry-bulb and wet-bulb temper- atures to be used for evaluating the protection of vent tor- minals or the thickness of insulation required for recircu- lating hot water distribution systems as required by the code. The appendix also assigns the outdoor design con- ditions required for the calculations called forin the Inter ‘national Property Maintenance Code® (IPMCS) for mini- ‘mum Space heating requirements, : Load calculations Outdoor desian temperatures are used in performing the lad calculations required by the IPMC for determining minimum heating facilites for residential structures (see Sections 602.2 and 602.3). Winter Design Dry-Bulb (97, percent): This is the out- door dry-bulb temperature used to calculate heating loads. The value means that, on average, the outdoor ‘temperature will be above this temperature for 97/4 Percent of the hours curing the heating season. Forthe ‘northem hemisphere, the heating season in the United States is the three-month winter period from December through February. s ‘Summer Design ‘Dry-Bulb (2% percent). This is the ‘outdoor dry-bulb temperature used to calculate cooling loads. The value means that, on average, the outdoor ‘temperature will be above this temperature for 2% per- ‘cent of the hours ‘during the cooling season, For the nrorthem hemisphere, the cooling season in the United States is the four-month summer’ period from May Urough August ‘Mean Coincident Wet-Bulb (21 percent). This is the Suitdoor wel-bulb temperature used to calculate cool- ing loads, The value means that, on averdge, the out- door temperature willbe above this temperature for 21), Percent of the hours during the cooling season. Piping insulation "Distribution losses impact building energy use both in the energy required to make up forthe lost heat and in ‘he adcitional load that can be placed on the space Cooling system if the heat is released to the air-con) _ boned space. in citculating systems, hot water is ex- Posed to loss throughout the entire distribution system ‘as long as the water is circulaling. These losses may «be limited by insulating the entire hot water supply and “fetum piping system to the requirements of the Interna » tonal Energy Conservation Codes (ECC), Protection of vent terminals ‘The possiolity of frost closure of vent terminals pre- dominantly occurs in areas of the country having cold Climates, as determined where. the- winter design dry-bulb (971, percent) temperature is less than O"F (18°C) (see Sections 904.2 and 904.7), Bibliography ASHRAE Hendoook of Fundamentals. -Atianta, ‘American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Ai Conditoning Engineers, Ine, 2001. Qwenby, J.R., 0.8. Ezell, and RR. Hein, Jr, Annual De- ‘gree Days lo Selected Bases Derived from the 1961 fo 1290 Normals: Climatography of the United States No. 81 ~ Supplement No. 2. Ashevile, N.C. U.S. Depart sMent of Commerce, National Oceanic end Atmo- spheric Administration, Naional Climatic Data Center, 1992. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 90.1 Code Compli- ance Manual. 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