[Bldg-sim] underground temperatures Morocco

leen peeters l.f.r.peeters at gmail.com
Tue Mar 5 13:45:37 PST 2013


Thanks Joe!


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Joe Huang
<yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com>wrote:

> **
> Leen,
>
> Barring places with geothermal hot spots, ground temperatures are
> calculated using a simple equation developed by the late Dr. Tamami Kusuda
> at NBS (National Bureau of Standards, now renames NIST National Institute
> of Science and Technology) in the early 1970's that assumes a constant deep
> ground temperature of the average annual air temperature + 1 K. This
> equation is basically a sine curve that dampens and lags the annual air
> temperature profile depending on the soil conductivity and depth below the
> surface.
>
> All that is worked out in any of the processed weather files, such as the
> IWEC2 weather files available from ASHRAE for $229 for the entire set of
> 3,012 or individually from my company for $35 a station.  For your location
> (Nador), the closest IWEC2 weather file is for Melilla 8 kilometers to the
> north, for which the monthly ground temperatures at 1 meter below grade are:
> 16.7  15.7  15.6  16.1  18.0  19.9  21.5  22.6  22.6  21.8  20.2  18.4
> (converted to Celsius from Rankine in DOE-2 *.BINM weather file for
> Melilla)
>
> Joe
>
> Joe Huang
> White Box Technologies, Inc.
> 346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 108D
> Moraga CA 94556yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.comwww.whiteboxtechnologies.com
> (o) (925)388-0265
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>
>
> On 3/5/2013 12:16 PM, leen peeters wrote:
>
>  Dear simulators,
>
> I am looking for a ground temperature file of Morroco, city of Nador in
> the North of Morocco.
> I want to use this as input for a ground source heat pump.
>
> Leen
>
>
>
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