<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">Anyone have any advice on modeling phase change materials in Energy Pro, or any other SIM software/workarounds to work in any other SIM software? I have projects in CA so Energy Pro would be nice.. </div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">My problem is Energy Plus is showing the same results when changing the enthalpy temperature input as stated bellow...</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><font color="#336666" face="verdana, sans-serif">I am working on modeling phase change materials in Energy Plus, </font><span style="color:rgb(51,102,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Here is an example what I am working on creating output </span><span style="color:rgb(51,102,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">visualization</span><span style="color:rgb(51,102,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> (once I get the modeling figured out) </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Angnu5sp0FF9dFB6RlNYSkZyMW5MUTd0cmNxZGhpbnc" target="_blank" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Angnu5sp0FF9dFB6RlNYSkZyMW5MUTd0cmNxZGhpbnc</a><br>
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<div><div> </div></div><div><font color="#336666" face="verdana, sans-serif">I ran an experiment with the generic data from the example phase change materials IDF, as well as four varieties of data configuration and bench marked them against an identical building with no phase change materials and was very disturbed at the results. </font></div>
<div><font color="#336666" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#336666" face="verdana, sans-serif">All buildings with phase change use exactly the same amount of energy! </font></div><div><font color="#336666" face="verdana, sans-serif">It makes me wonder if the phase change calculations are not really using the input data, as the energy is the same kBtu for each.. Below is the graph and here are links to my analysis sheets..</font></div>
<div><font color="#336666" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(51,102,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Output Data in question </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak5Rfmjyon9idHpKQnI5ZVp5T0UxeThNTTVIcUg0aGc" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak5Rfmjyon9idHpKQnI5ZVp5T0UxeThNTTVIcUg0aGc</a></li>
</ul></div><div><font color="#336666" face="verdana, sans-serif">The results piloted below</font></div><div><font color="#336666" face="verdana, sans-serif"><img src="cid:ii_134fd8344bb1a982" alt="no_change.png" title="no_change.png"><br>
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<div><font color="#336666" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div>Any help or advise would be great, as I want to compare phase change products, brands and technologies but if the enthalpy temperature data does not change the outcome then that seems impossible.
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