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Heat Gain from Electrical and Control Equipment in Industrial Plants, Part II,
ASHRAE Research Project RP-1395
Technical Report · November 2011
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26908.39045
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ASHRAE Research Project – RP-1395
Heat Gain from Electrical and Control Equipment in Industrial Plants, Part II
Emilio C. Piesciorovsky and Warren N. White
Abstract – In order to size the required equipment, the HVAC design engineer must be able to
estimate with certainty the amount of energy added to the environment from various heat sources
and lost through various heat sinks located in a room. Heat could be added from several sources
such as the presence of many people in a classroom or office, solar radiation through windows,
and incandescent room lighting. A sink could consist of outside doors and windows in winter or a
basement floor or wall that remains at an essentially constant temperature throughout the year. By
closely estimating the heat gain or loss, the HVAC equipment will not be undersized with
insufficient capacity or oversized with costly unutilized excess capability.
Building and industrial plants make use of electrical power for many uses such as lighting, driving
motorized devices, HVAC, and energy transmission and distribution throughout the structure. All
of this electrical equipment contributes to the total heat load. Estimating the total amount of
rejected heat is a necessary part of sizing the heating and refrigeration equipment required for the
building.
Until recently, the primary source of information available to the design engineer for estimating
the electrical equipment rejected heat is the paper by Rubin (1979). In this well used document,
the rejected heat values for transformers, power distribution equipment, motors, switchgear, and
power cables, to name a few, were presented in tables for a range of equipment sizes common to
indoor equipment. The data presented by Rubin was obtained from the paper presented by Hickok
(1978) and from other, unspecified manufacturers. Hickok, who worked for GE at the publication
time of his paper, states, "The data are on General Electric products..." At no point in either
Hickok's paper or in Rubin's paper is there a discussion of measurement procedure or measurement
uncertainty. Rubin's motivation for publishing the data was to aid the HVAC design engineer.
Hickok's motivation in his paper was to aid the factory engineer in identifying plant locations
where efficiency could be improved. Hickok's motivation is easy to appreciate since the energy
price shocks provided by two oil embargoes made increasing efficiency of existing plants,
buildings, and factories the first choice in reducing the costs of production. McDonald and Hickok
(1985) later co-authored an update of Hickok's 1978 paper with much of the same data.
The information provided by these papers is dated. Since the oil embargoes of the 1970s, many
electrical equipment manufacturers have taken pains to increase the efficiency of their products.
At the same time, advances in power electronics and computer control have made much of the
technology reflected in the 1970 equipment obsolete. Another change that has occurred since
Rubin published his work is that the manufacturing standards that apply to the various items of
power equipment have been re-issued and updated several times. These standards could provide
details for measuring the power loss in the equipment where, perhaps, originally none existed.
Also, the standards might specify a maximum level of uncertainty for performing the
measurements and any data reported by a manufacturer claiming to follow the standard could be
deemed reliable. Thus, there is a need to update the 30 years old information presented by Rubin.
White and Pahwa (2003a) reported on work undertaken to provide new, up-to-date equipment heat
loss data as well as information on losses corresponding to part loads. A result of this project was
the issuance of a proposed design guide for estimating the environmental heat gain. The scope of
the work was reported in White, Pahwa, and Cruz (2004a) while a synopsis of the design guide
was reported in White, Pahwa, and Cruz (2004b). While good strides were completed in the work
of White et al., RP-1104 was a beginning in the development of accurate ways of estimating the
rejected heat of indoor electrical distribution equipment.
The purpose of this work is to continue the effort initiated in RP-1104. The scope of the work is
outlined in the following section. In several situations, the worked performed in RP-1395 differed
from the original scope. These exceptions are also discussed in the following section. Following
the introductory section, the results of the investigation are presented.
White WN, Piesciorovsky EC. Heat Gain from Electrical and Control Equipment in Industrial
Plants, Part II. ASHRAE Research Project RP –1395. TC 9.2 Air Conditioning and Industry
Committee, pp. 1-204, November 2011.
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