[Equest-users] Infiltration heating load from window type

Brian Fountain bfountain at greensim.com
Tue Mar 16 20:13:58 PDT 2010


I would look at the time of occurrence of the peak loads -- and the 
corresponding values in the infiltration schedules eQUEST creates.  I 
suspect the time of the peak is changing which is setting a different 
infiltration rate.

Bishop, Bill wrote:
>
> The infiltration heating load (shown on the LS-C report) is reduced 
> roughly in half when I perform a parametric run that only replaces the 
> window type with one with poorer U-value and higher SHGC. The 
> infiltration cooling load is unchanged.
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> Any ideas why?
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> Thanks,
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> Bill
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