The Mechanical Engineers are the members of the design team who determines the l

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The Mechanical Engineers are the members of the design team who determines the loads that the building will experience throughout the heating season. They will total all of the loads e.g. conductive losses, air leakage losses, ventilation losses etc. that the building will experience at a worse case exterior temperature, termed Design Temperature (for Amherst the temperature is 0 oF). They will then add a safety factor to protect themselves. The purpose of this extensive exercise is to determine the size of the heating system that they need to install in the building. Their final result is an expression _____________ as indicated by the units ______________.

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The first blank answer will be "rate of heat transfer" and the second blank will be "Btu/hr" or kW

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