本文基于ASHRAE研究项目RP-1544的研究结果。酒店的热水使用及其相关的能源使用非常重要。然而，到目前为止，关于酒店热水使用模式的信息一直有限，导致大多数酒店热水系统的设计都使用了非常古老的热水使用数据（45到80年前），这些数据早于水和节能装置和器具的引入。认识到这一事实，ASHRAE资助了研究项目RP-1544“建立商业热水使用的基准水平和模式——酒店”，目的是开发一种其他人可以复制的监测方法，从更多酒店收集热水使用数据，并从至少两家酒店获得最新的热水使用信息。本文基于项目最终报告中提供的信息，即之前发表的三篇论文，与本文同时发布的第四篇论文介绍了如何使用更新的数据为任何所需规模的酒店选择热水系统，并将这种规模确定方法的结果与ASHRAE手册中描述的其他酒店热水系统规模确定方法进行了比较- -暖通空调应用，第50章，厂用水加热（ASHRAE 2015），通过使用示例。引文:ASHRAE Transactions，第123卷，pt。2.

This paper is based on findings resulting from ASHRAE Research Project RP-1544.Hot-water use in hotels and its associated energy use is significant. However, information on hotel hot-water use patterns has been limited until now, resulting in most hotel hotwater systems being designed using extremely old hot-water use data (45 to 80 years old) that predate the introduction of water and energy-efficient fixtures and appliances. In recognition of this fact, ASHRAE funded Research Project RP-1544 "Establishing Benchmark Levels and Patterns of Commercial Hot- Water Use–Hotels" to both develop a monitoring methodology that could be duplicated by others to collect hot-water use data from a larger number of hotels and to obtain updated hot-water use information from at least two hotels. This paper builds on information presented in the project final report, the three previously published papers, and a fourth paper released simultaneously with this paper to present information on using the updated data to select water heating systems for hotels of any desired size and compares results of this sizing method to other hotel hotwater system sizing methods described in ASHRAE Handbook-- HVAC Applications, Chapter 50, Service Water Heating (ASHRAE 2015) through the use of examples.