• Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value, commonly known as MERV, is a measurement scale designed in 1987 by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and...
    5 KB (521 words) - 21:00, 25 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for HEPA
    Hypoallergenic vacuum cleaner – vacuum cleaner with high efficiency air filter Minimum efficiency reporting value – Measurement scale for the effectiveness of air...
    38 KB (3,990 words) - 17:28, 26 April 2025
  • passes through the filter. MPR is different from MERV, the Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value. The MERV system measures a filter's ability to capture large...
    1 KB (132 words) - 16:54, 16 May 2024
  • Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) using a standard known as Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value (MERV). MERV is determined based on the size of particles...
    6 KB (725 words) - 06:13, 7 July 2024
  • different classes for air filters for comparison Minimum efficiency reporting value (MERV) High-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) Microparticle performance...
    5 KB (412 words) - 19:37, 14 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Air filter
    poorly, and some cabin air filter manufacturers do not print a minimum efficiency reporting value (MERV) filter rating on their cabin air filters.[citation...
    17 KB (2,041 words) - 16:24, 30 April 2025
  • and insufficient fresh-air intake or air filtration (see "Minimum efficiency reporting value"). Sick building syndrome has also been attributed to heating...
    41 KB (4,970 words) - 18:30, 22 April 2025
  • warehouses, offices and education buildings. This is because of their energy efficiency, heating distribution and noise when in operation. Distributed heating...
    7 KB (787 words) - 15:37, 5 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Air conditioning
    electricity, according to a 2018 report on air-conditioning efficiency by the International Energy Agency. The report predicts an increase of electricity...
    98 KB (10,242 words) - 00:03, 25 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Heat pump
    Larger values of either metric indicate better performance. When comparing the performance of heat pumps, the term performance is preferred to efficiency, with...
    74 KB (8,726 words) - 12:55, 28 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Fan filter unit
    well as a HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air), ULPA (ultra-low particulate air) or other MERV (minimum efficiency reporting value) filter. A motorized...
    6 KB (651 words) - 12:28, 12 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Power inverter
    width of the pulses and the modulation frequency. It can be shown that the minimum distortion of a three-level waveform is reached when the pulses extend...
    49 KB (6,511 words) - 12:30, 27 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Thermal expansion valve
    value. Although often described as a "thermostatic" valve, an expansion valve is not able to regulate the evaporator's temperature to a precise value...
    13 KB (1,702 words) - 16:49, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Building information modeling
    industry efficiency in general and to BIM adoption in particular. In August 2004 a US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report conservatively...
    105 KB (10,521 words) - 15:01, 19 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
    temperature. The current industry minimum SEER rating is 14 SEER. Engineers have pointed out some areas where efficiency of the existing hardware could be...
    59 KB (7,021 words) - 09:46, 4 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Room temperature
    the UK, the Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 provides for a minimum temperature in commercial premises, but not for a maximum temperature....
    14 KB (1,598 words) - 14:50, 21 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Evaporative cooler
    Furthermore, the device has a maximum efficiency of 55%, so its actual COP is much lower than this calculated value. However, regardless of these losses...
    58 KB (7,764 words) - 09:09, 18 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for ASTM International
    system Infrared thermometer Intelligent buildings LonWorks Minimum efficiency reporting value (MERV) Normal temperature and pressure (NTP) OpenTherm Programmable...
    9 KB (791 words) - 13:00, 10 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Ground-coupled heat exchanger
    system: Outside air is drawn from a filtered air intake (Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value MERV 8+ air filter is recommended) to cool or preheat the...
    18 KB (2,529 words) - 12:12, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Convection (heat transfer)
    dependent upon the physical properties of the fluid and the physical situation. Values of h have been measured and tabulated for commonly encountered fluids and...
    10 KB (1,283 words) - 09:12, 2 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Humidifier
    24 The air changes per hour (ACPH) ranges wildly based on: Ventilation: Values may be obtained from the HVAC maintainer that routinely (typically every...
    32 KB (4,133 words) - 04:07, 1 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Latent heat
    evaporation is released as the liquid's sensible heat onto the surface. The large value of the enthalpy of condensation of water vapor is the reason that steam...
    21 KB (2,500 words) - 23:20, 15 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Boiler
    Boiler (redirect from Boiler efficiency)
    fuel use in kg/h GCV, gross calorific value in kcal/kg (e.g., pet coke 8200 kcal/kg) To measure the boiler efficiency in indirect method, parameter like...
    29 KB (4,068 words) - 06:48, 5 May 2025
  • calculated at six temperatures with their percentage error from the table values of Lide (2005): A more detailed discussion of accuracy and considerations...
    13 KB (971 words) - 20:48, 18 March 2025
  • system Infrared thermometer Intelligent buildings LonWorks Minimum efficiency reporting value (MERV) Normal temperature and pressure (NTP) OpenTherm Programmable...
    9 KB (897 words) - 11:50, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing
    for people designing HVAC systems is the efficiency, i.e., the consumption of electricity and water. Efficiency is optimised by changing the design of the...
    11 KB (1,211 words) - 18:44, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Humidity
    regulate internal body temperature, high humidity impairs heat exchange efficiency by reducing the rate of moisture evaporation from skin surfaces. This...
    70 KB (7,508 words) - 22:35, 4 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Oil heater
    Several efficiency metrics can be measured about heaters, such as the efficiency of heating a room with a given amount of power, the efficiency of the...
    7 KB (1,034 words) - 18:13, 19 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Thermodynamics
    zero, all processes cease and the entropy of the system approaches a minimum value. This law of thermodynamics is a statistical law of nature regarding...
    48 KB (5,843 words) - 03:10, 28 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Thermal insulation
    and cheaper to keep warm in the winter, or cool in the summer. Energy efficiency will lead to a reduced carbon footprint. more comfortable because there...
    17 KB (1,891 words) - 17:15, 22 April 2025