Thermal Screen Fuel Saving Percent Calculator

Compare actual matched thermal-screen fuel exposures normalized to caller same heating-degree hours; signed increases retained, no universal fuel saving or causal correction for ventilation/crop/weather confounds.

Description

Fuel comparisons require matched heating exposure and consistent fuel units.

Fuel comparisons require matched heating exposure and consistent fuel units. Signed savings retain increased consumption.^[1]

Enter aligned nonempty nonnegative paired fuel values and positive degree-hours. Require positive baseline; return both pooled exposure rates and signed saving fraction.

When to use Thermal Screen Fuel Saving Percent Calculator

Use Thermal Screen Fuel Saving Percent Calculator when you need to evaluate the supplied records under the calculation and evidence rules below. No universal percentage, causal screen effect or weather/ventilation/crop correction is inferred.

Prepare measured container, labor, environmental or inventory records and independently verified stage limits requested. Keep units, temperature conditions and dates consistent.

How to use Thermal Screen Fuel Saving Percent Calculator and understand its results

Prepare measured container, labor, environmental or inventory records and independently verified stage limits requested. Keep units, temperature conditions and dates consistent.
Enter matchedUnscreenedFuelUnits, matchedScreenedFuelUnits, pairedHeatingDegreeHours using the field table and calculation rules, then run the tool.
Read unscreenedFuelPerDegreeHour, screenedFuelPerDegreeHour, matchedNormalizedFuelSavingFraction. The explanation below defines the units, signs, ordering and any flags or placeholder values.
If the tool reports an input issue, correct the values and run it again. Apply the stated assumptions when interpreting a successfully returned result.

Input field	Meaning	Value type; see rules below	Requirement
matchedUnscreenedFuelUnits	Matched unscreened fuel units	list of number	Required
matchedScreenedFuelUnits	Matched screened fuel units	list of number	Required
pairedHeatingDegreeHours	Paired heating degree hours	list of number	Required

Enter aligned nonempty nonnegative paired fuel values and positive degree-hours. Require positive baseline; return both pooled exposure rates and signed saving fraction.

baselineRate=sum(unscreened)/sum(degreeHours); saving=(baseline−screened)/baseline

Units, indexing, boundary conditions and exceptional cases are defined in the calculation rules above.

Output field	Meaning	Value type
unscreenedFuelPerDegreeHour	Unscreened fuel per degree hour	number
screenedFuelPerDegreeHour	Screened fuel per degree hour	number
matchedNormalizedFuelSavingFraction	Matched normalized fuel saving fraction	number

json

{
  "input": {
    "matchedUnscreenedFuelUnits": [
      10,
      20
    ],
    "matchedScreenedFuelUnits": [
      8,
      15
    ],
    "pairedHeatingDegreeHours": [
      100,
      200
    ]
  },
  "output": {
    "unscreenedFuelPerDegreeHour": 0.1,
    "screenedFuelPerDegreeHour": 0.07666666666666666,
    "matchedNormalizedFuelSavingFraction": 0.23333333333333334
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

No universal percentage, causal screen effect or weather/ventilation/crop correction is inferred.

Numeric inputs, where present, must be finite. Follow the calculation-specific rules for overflow, underflow and exceptional cases. Numeric lists are limited to 10,000 entries; string lists to 128 strings of at most 128 characters each. The rules above may impose smaller limits. Missing required fields, extra fields, wrong value types and violations of the calculation rules are input errors.

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References

Thermal Screen Fuel Saving Percent Calculator — tool.io

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