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Subject: [EE] HVAC filter efficiency and energy consumption
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Hello,

I was contemplating changing my Air filters to MERV11 and was told by some
people that they are bad for energy usage and air flow. I came across a
study that measured and compared the effects of low efficiency and high
efficiency filters and I found the technical details fascinating. Their
conclusion was that effects are not significant in residential settings.

Does anyone have experience with this, or have monitored this before on
their own?

I thought of just correlating energy consumption increase/decrease around
the initial few days of installing  the filter, at similar temperatures,
though the paper suggests there can be a complex interaction of many
variables before coming to conclusions.

Here is a link to the Study:
https://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/novoselac/Publications/Novoselac_ASHRAE_Tr=
ansactions_2010.pdf
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