{"id":321,"date":"2016-06-10T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/sbes\/?page_id=321"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:04:58","slug":"hot-water-demand-profiles-downloadable","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sbes\/publications\/hot-water-demand-profiles-downloadable\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot water demand profiles (downloadable)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Hot water demand profiles (downloadable)\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>We have created representative hot water draw profiles that can be&nbsp;used for analyzing solar DHW, micro-cogeneration, and other systems, and for conducting long-term (e.g. annual)&nbsp;simulations. &nbsp;These are&nbsp;based upon measurements that were taken&nbsp;in 73 houses in Qu\u00e9bec (Canada). &nbsp;Annual DHW draw profiles at a time-resolution&nbsp;of 5 minutes have been created for 4 consumption levels and 3 temporal consumption&nbsp;patterns (sparing consumers who tend to use DHW in the mornings, average consumers&nbsp;who tend to use DHW in the evenings, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The measurement and data analysis methods employed to generate these 12 hot water&nbsp;draw profiles are documented in the following article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.solener.2014.10.026\">Skai Edwards, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, and Andr\u00e9 Laperri\u00e8re, &#8220;Representative&nbsp;hot water draw profiles at high temporal resolution for simulating the performance&nbsp;of solar thermal systems&#8221;, Solar Energy (111) 43-52, 2015.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of the 12 hot water draw profiles listed in Table 3 of the above-mentioned article&nbsp;is contained in a separate file. &nbsp;The data files are&nbsp;named by the house numbers used in the table. &nbsp;Each row of a file contains the hot&nbsp;water draw measured in litres for a 5-minute interval, starting from January 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are encouraged to make use of these data in your research or building performance&nbsp;simulations. &nbsp;We only ask&nbsp;that you cite the above-mentioned paper as the source of the&nbsp;data. &nbsp;We also ask that you <a href=\"mailto:Ian_Beausoleil-Morrison@carleton.ca\">provide us with your feedback<\/a> (positive and negative) so&nbsp;that we may improve our future work in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1UPjoRb38GglOXtxZZ7lWJuZumOl2psCo\/view?usp=share_link\">The full set of DHW profiles can be downloaded with this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have created representative hot water draw profiles that can be&nbsp;used for analyzing solar DHW, micro-cogeneration, and other systems, and for conducting long-term (e.g. annual)&nbsp;simulations. &nbsp;These are&nbsp;based upon measurements that were taken&nbsp;in 73 houses in Qu\u00e9bec (Canada). &nbsp;Annual DHW draw profiles at a time-resolution&nbsp;of 5 minutes have been created for 4 consumption levels and 3 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