[Equest-users] % LOAD ATTRIBUTED TO OA DELIVERY

Jones, Christopher Christopher.r.Jones at wspgroup.com
Fri Oct 16 09:11:30 PDT 2015


Mark,
Are you in one of RWDI’s Canadian offices? If so, are you reviewing an EE4 model that has heat recovery on a make-up air system serving fan coils or heat pumps?  EE4 uses a work around to approximate heat recovery for make-up air systems serving fan coils and heat pumps.  EE4 defines a “dummy” zone served by the make-up air system then uses the OA-FROM-SYSTEM keywork in each fan coil/heat pump zonal system.  To approximate the effectiveness of the heat recovery, EE4 reduces the specified outdoor air by (1-HReef).  For example, if the make-up air system is design to provide 10,000 cfm of outdoor and the specified heat recovery effectiveness is 70%, then the modeled outdoor air will be 10,000 * (1-0.7) = 3,000 cfm.  This, in addition to the other issues raised by the egroup make it difficult to review the .sim file to determine the accuracy of the model.



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From: Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hallman
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Subject: Re: [Equest-users] % LOAD ATTRIBUTED TO OA DELIVERY

Thanks for all the helpful comments, folks.

Is there anyway of parsing this out without having the model available, just the SIM files?  I’m reviewing results as a 3rd party but don’t have access to the model nor the hourly results.   What I’ve been doing so far is:

Cooling Load without OA = LS-C cooling load
Cooling Load with OA = Plant Cooling Load (SS-D report) + System Cooling Load (Max Cooling elec load from SS-H report)

Tx!
Mark.

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With MIN-AIR-SCH,  you have to zero out all zone exhausts, because exhaust overrides the schedule.  And, almost every building I work on has ventilation heat recovery, which affects the mixed air temp.  I’m not quite sure what will happen at MIN-AIR-SCH =.001.  Be careful with the control strategy.

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All,

Bill describes  how to do this easily in his initial reply. The MIN-AIR-SCH at the system level over-rides the zone OA inputs (Actually, I'm not positive what happens if there are zone exhaust fans in the model! I avoid these like the plague.) MOST AHU models should have a SYSTEM MIN-AIR-SCH which is either -999  (default, model uses sum of zone OA  flows, or system MIN-OA if there are no zone OA flows) during occupied periods or 0.0 (no econ, no damper leakage) or 0.01-0.03 or so (leakage, economizer allowed)  for hours when the system can cycle on during unoccupied periods. Changing this one system schedule to one with zero or 0.01 at all hours is absolutely the easiest way to do a run with "no" OA.  It is very easy to do as a "parametric."



Fred



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Depending on your system, you can allow economizer by assigning an arbirtrary, tiny OA CFM (like 0.01 CFM) to the zone. Then there is essentially no OA being delivered in normal operation, but economizer can be engaged.





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There should be a way to run without outdoor air while still allowing economizer operation. If you set the outdoor air to zero at the zone level, and allow for an economizer at the system level, I imagine that eQUEST would do this. It would be worth looking at the hourly reports for the OA fraction at the system level to confirm that the outdoor air flow rate is behaving as expected.



All the best,



Dan





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> On Oct 13, 2015, at 7:37 PM, Porter, Frederick NOR <fporter at noresco.com<mailto:fporter at noresco.com>> wrote:

>

> Mark,

> I'd stick with Bill's original suggestion. Run the model with "zero" OA and compare to the "proposed" case. Seem's close enough to me... As Joe notes, in the end there can be some ambiguity about exactly how the total hourly coil  load should be apportioned. If you are curious about how the model works on an hourly basis, generate some hourly AHU reports (coil loads, MA and SA conditions), from the two runs. Do not just compare L- and S- loads reports. L- reports are at a constant temp, and in addition to OA, do not include any "false" loads from overcool/reheat, fan heat... I'm sure there are more.

>

> One thing to check first; make sure your coil capacity with the OA is large enough to fully condition the air at each timestep. Also, for models that use it, set the "cooling coil/cool control range" to 0.1F or so to avoid possible small changes in the coil leaving air temps between runs.

>

> I think Trace and HAP provide a "ventilation load" in reports they probably do some intermediate calculation each hour for the AHU w/ and w/o OA. They may even allocate it per zone.

>

> Food for thought: In buildings without high exhaust flows, some of the "OA ventilation load," imposed by OA at the AHU, actually offsets some infiltration load that would occur throughout the building if that OA was not brought in, or ended up in an ERV somehow. "Simple" simulation programs attempt to account for this with schedules that are applied to infiltration based on initial AHU operating schedules, however those infiltration schedules are not directly linked to OA schedules. I've seen "efficient" buildings that were not adequately pressurized because the nifty heat recovery ventilator exhaust fan used up all the air that would otherwise kept the building pressurized.

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> On Behalf Of Joe Huang

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> Subject: [External] Re: [Equest-users] % LOAD ATTRIBUTED TO OA

> DELIVERY

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> There are so many differences between what's reported in the LS-D and SS-D that I would not use this method for anything more than an extremely crude look at the load attributable to OA.  In Loads,  all the heat flows are calculated at the reference temperature (TLOADS) and counted as Cooling if the net space load that hour is positive or Heating if it's negative.  In Systems, these loads are corrected to the actual zone temperature and the load from OA and interzone heat transfer added, while solving for the zone temperature. If the zone temperature is outside the thermostat deadband, a deficit would be considered a heating load and an excess as a cooling  load on the HVAC system.

>

> There's a much better way to get the OA load, but it would take some work, either with a User-Function, which unfortunately is not available in DOE-2.2 (although I've heard that Expressions could do much the same thing...), or by post-processing hourly outputs.  Print out an Hourly Report with the following parameters: Outdoor Air Temp (To), Room Air Temperature (Trm), Outside Air CFM, and the Zone Load.  Then, use Excel or awk ( my favorite :-) :-) ) to calculate the load due to the OA as (Trm-To)*CFM*Cp of air .  This can then be compared to the Zone Load, but you'll notice some anomalies  such as during the swing season when the OA Load is actually "free cooling".   You'll then have to decide how to attribute the OA heat flows to the HVAC loads, which can be tricky.

>

> Various people, including me, Dan Fisher, Jason Glazer, etc., have

> wandered into this area of deriving component loads, and have found

> that it ultimately raises philosophical questions.  :-) :-)

>

> Joe

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> On 10/13/2015 9:02 AM, Keith Swartz wrote:

> Good point, David. The system report adds more than just ventilation load to the space load.

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> From: David Eldridge [mailto:DEldridge at grummanbutkus.com]

> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 10:47 AM

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> Subject: RE: [Equest-users] % LOAD ATTRIBUTED TO OA DELIVERY

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> I'm not sure if that will exactly give the ventilation loads - the "L" reports are the building space loads, but the "S" reports will include other system effects such as fan heat, reheat, heat gain to the return air, so that the difference might not exactly be a ventilation load, and might be pretty far from an OA-only load.

>

> If there is a preheat coil, you can set up a report to trend that coil's load if you are after the heating loads. You could trend the cooling coil load as well, but this is a function of economizer operation and outside air temperature as well.

>

> David

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> From: Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org]

> On Behalf Of Keith Swartz

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> Mark,

>

> Look at the differences between values in reports LS-D and SS-D. SS-D

> includes ventilation. LS-D does not. (The first letter "S" stands for

> "system." "L" is for "load," the load in the space.)

>

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> From: Shaun Martin [mailto:smartin at shaunmartinconsulting.com]

> Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 12:13 PM

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> Subject: Re: [Equest-users] % LOAD ATTRIBUTED TO OA DELIVERY

>

> Hi Mark,

>

> You can use hourly reports to pull out the outside air volume (variable PO) plus the supply and return volumes and temperatures. Then off to a spreadsheet.

>

> Or, if you're feeling ambitious, you could write an input function (see Topics).

>

> Shaun

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> Thanks Bill, nice tip.  Any way of parsing it out without running two simulations?

>

> Tx!

> Mark.

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> From: Bishop, Bill [mailto:bbishop at pathfinder-ea.com]

> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 11:12

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> One way would be to create a MIN-AIR-SCH with all hourly values set to 0 (or 0.001 to activate economizer), apply it to all SYSTEMs and use the difference in the outputs.

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> Hi there,

>

> Is there a way to accurately parse out from the eQUEST output file the percentage of the cooling and heating load that is attributed to OA delivery?   Any advice would be appreciated.

>

> Thanks in advance!

> Mark Hallman.

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