Heating a Room with People

I am currently sitting in a really boring meeting that is being held in a very small room. The room is packed full of people and it is hot in here. Of course, there is a part of me that is glad that the room is hot because I would hate for it to be too cold. I hate being cold, and if it goes on to affect my concentration, then I definitely won't be a happy bunny. My friend found himself in the same situation not so long ago. His boiler had decided to break on him and he was subsequently left with no heating and no hot water, which as you can imagine, was a complete nightmare for him. It wasn't until he was pointed in the direction of somewhere like this gas boiler service Durham company that he was able to get warm again. Thank goodness because I'm not sure how he would've coped otherwise.

So, after all of that, you could definitely say that the heater in the room that we were in was definitely working. Maybe it was too warm... All the same, I'm just glad that we weren't freezing cold. After thinking about it though, this situation reminds me of a conversation I had with a Universal HVAC services engineer many years ago about the heat load that people present to a cooling system. During that discussion, the HVAC engineer casually mentioned that he models every person as a 100 W load. I should be able to estimate that number based on the average daily calorie consumption of a person. Consider the calculation I show in Equation 1.

Eq. 1

where

• E is the average daily energy consumption of a human being. I am using the FDA recommended value of 2000 calories.
• T is length of a day.

The use of 100 W per person seems like a reasonable average number.