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CHAPTER 18
' 1956 Guide
' Table 8. Degree-Days fob Industrial Heating in Various Cities-of the . United States*
Annual Totals for a Normal Heating Season.
State
Degber-Dayb 45F 55F Base
State
Citt
Degree-Days
45F 55F Base Base
Ala.. Am. Ark.. Cal..
Col.. Conn..' D. C... Fla.. ..' Ga...:
Idaho.
m.. c..
Ind.. la....
Kan..
Ky.... La...... Me..-. Md.'.
Birmingham................. Mobile...................... Montgomery...........
853 245 504
Phoenix....................... Yuma..........................
Fort Smith.. Little Rock..
Eureka.......... ....... -Fresno....... Independence....... Los Angeles........... Red Bluff..................... Sacramento........... San Diego.............. Sfyn Francisco....... San Luis Obispo...
Denver................. Grand Junction.. Pueblo.................
'3 .519
15481767 1499
1478 [Minn... 1188
1328
718 1930
17 822
803 26 384
Miss.. Mo...
3440
3433 3261
Meriden./-- New Haven..
1769 3237
Washington...........
1041 2487
Pensacola:...................
127 Nev...
Atlanta...................... Augusta.......... ......... Macon..'..................... Savannah..................
Boise....................... Lewiston................ Pocatello................
109 1165 N. H.. 661 711 N. 3... 231 N. M.
1045 2814 ' 1034 * 2688 N. Y.. 2161 4140
Cairo.. ......... Chicago............. Springfield.......
749 2119 1969 3743 1677 3289
Evansville.;.. Indianapolis..
799 2335 1397 2829 N. C..
Charles City............... Davenport.................. Des Moines................. Dubuque.................... Keokuk-- .............. Sioux City........ .
Concordia. Dodge City.. Topeka........ Wichita.'.......
3370 ' 5293 2296 4142 2440 4180
1628 4468 1926 - 35792894 4732
1652
1385 1518.. 1152
2690
2962 1811
2587
N. D. Ohio..
Lexington-- Louisville......
2557 1073 2294 Okla..
New Orleans.............. Shreveport..................
30 565
Ore...
Eastport.. Poiritiand..
Baltimore..
2956 5236 2530 4572 Pa...
986 2491
Boston................... Nantucket....................
Alpena.............. Detroit.............. Escanaba.......... Grand Haven.. Grand Rapids..
1787 1514
3131 2240 3699 2405 2332
3603 3419
'5499 4089 5918 3435 4177
i. iIs. C..
Houghton.................. Lansing...................... Marquette.............. Port Huron............... Saginaw.......... ......... Sault Ste. Marie.......
Duluth...................... Minneapolis.......
4029 2537
3713 2630 2312
4049
6112 4444 5842 2 4275 4552 6575
4419 3309
4796 2497
6774 5417 6572
5497
Vicksburg..
Columbia....... Hannibal. -- TCanafta City.. St. Louis....... Springfield...
468.
1252 2939 1635 3231 1463 2980 1186 2745 982 2423
Havre....... Helena-- Kalispell.
Lincoln.................... North Platte................ Omaha..................... Valentine.................
Winnemucca...
Concord.......
Atlantic City..
Santa Fe.. ...
Albany.......... Binghamton. Buffalo......... Ithaca.......... New York... Oswego......... Rochester...
Charlotte.............. Hatteras................... Raleigh.................... Wilmington.............
Bismarck................. Williston............... ..
3736
2843 2874
5874 5071
5131
3023
2291 2284 2833
3850 4152 3982
4801
1670 3468
2646 4640
1123. 2904
1634 . 3106 -
2018 2073 2359
2412 1098 2274 2341
4302 4296 4316
4023 3089 4363
4231
172 1338 718
229 1080 729
3831 4616
6468 6399
Cincinnati.............
Cleveland..............
Columbus.............. Dayton...................
Sandusky............... Toledo............. .
1376 1525 1600
1487
1949 1990
3003
3795 3255 3147
3425 3757
Oklahoma City..
600 1835
Baker....... Portland.. Roseburg..
Erie................ Harrisburg... Philadelphia.. Scranton....... Pittsburgh....
. 2321 373
272
4307. ` 1911 .1868
2337
1565 1122
1938' 1377
3837
3236 2695
3755 3028
Block Island..
Charleston.. Columbia:.. Greenville..
871 3388
336 759 297 1502
Estimating Fuel Consumption for Space Heating
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Table 8.
Degree-Days for Industrial Heating in Various Cities of the United States (Continued)
Annual Totals for a Normal Heating Season.
State
City
Degree-Days
45F 55F Base Base
State
City
Degbee-Days
45F 55F Base Base
S TV
3743 3162 2590 2898
Chattanooga................. Knoxville.,................... Memphis
Nashville.......................
242
431 . 166
419
Abilene-- .................. Amarillo........................
El Paso.......................... Fort Worth...................
Galveston..................... Houston........................
Palestine....'............... San Antonio............... !
786
1978 1475
5678 Vt............... Burlington.................... 5234 4628 6045 Va...............
1398 Richmond..................... 1741 1284 1678
Walla Walla...................
2220 919 754
W. Va...... Parkersburg..................
43 Wis............
30^
3981 Wyo............ 3202
3014 4984 3652 7121
554 1928 260 1496 549 1895
184 2062
2185 1741 3672 507 2365 993 2565
1506 3327 1147 . 2784
3318 3034
3067 2657
5331 3992 . 4850
. 4617
2500 3208
4700 5450
& From Degree-Day Handbook, by C. Strockand C. H. B. Hotchkiss (The Industrial Press, 1937, pp. 132-134). Values are not coordinated with table 2 which is from a later source.
of degree-days, plant operators frequently compute each month the fuel burned per degree-day by the heating plant. The resulting unit value, by eliminating the outside temperature variable, indicates whether the operating efficiency of the plant is above or below the previous month or year.
INDUSTRIAL DEGREE-DAYS
When estimating the heating requirements of warehouses, factories, and other buildings where the inside temperature to be maintained differs greatly from the usual inside temperature range of 68 to 72`F, it is common to use degree-days based on temperatures of 55 to 45 F. These are gen erally referred to as industrial degree-days, and are listed in Table 8 for a number of cities using both 55 F and 45 F as the base. In general, the degree-days (55 F base) are used when the temperature of the heated space is to be maintained at approximately 60 F. For an inside temperature of about 50 F, the degree-days calculated on a 45 F base should be used.
The industrial degree-days are useful for estimating fuel consumption by comparison between localities in which the difference in degree-days is not too great, and where the known fuel consumption of one building may be used to determine unit consumption per degree-day.
MAXIMUM DEMANDS AND LOAD FACTORS
In one form of district heating rates, a portion of the charge is based upon the maximum demand of the building. The maximum demand may be measured in several different ways. It may be taken as the instantane ous peak or as the rate of use during any specified interval. One method is to take the average of the three highest hours during the winter. These figures are shown for a number of buildings in Detroit in Table 9.12