PTACs usually have the ability to run an economizer and WSHPs do not. I am not sure if you modeled it this way, you would need to check the inputs. This would account for a drop in savings, but not sure it would account for everything. Also, I would expect an increase in pump energy use for the WSHP system. In regards to the part load efficiency curves, I have not studied WSHP and PTACs next to each other. You might want to make sure that your curves are normalized to EERs you are inputting. <br>
<br>--<br>Karen<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Tobias, Mike <<a href="mailto:mtobias@loringengineers.com">mtobias@loringengineers.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Modeling a 30 story hotel with PTACs (9.54 EER) vs. WSHP (12 EER) I am<br>
expecting to see a large cooling energy reduction. Since the envelopes<br>
are the same I'm expecting to see the full 26% improvement, however I<br>
only see an 11% improvement in cooling energy comparing the BEPS report.<br>
I would expect part load performance to maintain an almost constant<br>
efficiency spread of 25% through the whole part load curve. But maybe<br>
for some unkown reason to me the efficiency spread decreases<br>
dramatically through part load? Also is there any way to check overall<br>
building cooling efficiency like divide overall cooling loads into<br>
energy? Cooling energy can be found on BEPS, but total building cooling<br>
load varies from LS-F and LS-D to SS-D.<br>
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