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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I don’t know if anyone has used it
for modeling swimming pools, but EnergyPlus does provide a way of specifying water
uses.  If you know and can schedule the water temperature and evaporation
rates, that can be used as input for a Water Use Equipment object with a latent
fraction of 1.0.  The modeling accounts for both sensible and latent
effects of evaporation related to cooling, zone humidity, integrated interactions
with HVAC, etc.  <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:windowtext'> bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Dusko Nikolic<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 30, 2008
2:20 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Bldg-sim] Swimming pool
modeling</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi,<br>
<br>
Is it possible to model swimming pool in Energy+? I could not find the way to
model latent loads due to water evaporation<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
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