对能量回收装置的性能进行测量和建模很困难，在某些情况下，可能会导致不可接受的高不确定性。本文介绍了受控实验室实验和详细的数值模型，结合不确定性分析，可以量化能量轮的性能。详细介绍了根据物理原理建立的数值模型和确定具有可接受不确定性的能量轮性能的实验方法。其中包括测试前、测试中和测试后的不确定度分析，允许实验者使用空气中的能量和质量平衡，在每次实验之前、期间和之后准确估计精度（随机）和偏差（固定）误差- 介绍空气能量回收装置以及各仪表和数据采集系统的特点。本文第二部分（Simonson et al.1999）将能量轮的感知、潜在和总有效性的综合测量数据与相应的模拟结果进行了比较。单位:SICitation:ASHRAE Transactions，第105卷，pt。1.

Measuring and modeling the performance of energy recovery devices is difficult and, in some cases, may result in unacceptably high uncertainties. In this paper, controlled laboratory experiments and a detailed numerical model are presented, which, together with uncertainty analysis, can quantify the performance of energy wheels. A numerical model that has been developed from physical principles and an experimental method for determining the performance of energy wheels with acceptable uncertainties are detailed. Included is a pre-test, during-test, and post-test uncertainty analysis that allows the experimenter to estimate accurately precision (random) and bias (fixed) errors a priori, during, and a posteriori each experiment using energy and mass balances on the air-to-air energy recovery device as well as the characteristics of each instrument and the data acquisition system. A comprehensive set of measured data for the sensible, latent, and total effectiveness of an energy wheel is compared with the corresponding simulation results in Part II of this paper (Simonson et al. 1999).Units: SI