[Equest-users] Modeled Interior Floors as Exterior Roofs

[Haberl, Jeff via Equest-users]

Hello Darryl:

It may be worse than you think.

From the looks of the image it also appears that you have plenums in the building, which further complicates the simulation, and for reasons that are not always obvious. For example, in DOE-2 if you declare the return air path as having a plenum and then assign the walls, roof, floor, etc. to that plenum as the zone, then the heat gain/loss from that surface is assigned to the air that is returning from the zone on its way back to the HVAC system and therefore, it will not show up in the peak load in LOADS because it is a heat gain to the return air and not the zone. You can prove this to yourself using the SAMP1 file that comes with DOE-2.

For example, in the SAMP1.INP file that comes with DOE-2, RUN 3A, there is a single story 5 zone model with a plenum. What you will notice when you run this model is there is no roof load in LOADS because the single story building has a plenum and the roof load has been assigned to the plenum as the zone. The load from the roof does show up when you assign a SYSTEM where it then appears as heat gain/loss from the return air.

To “see” the load from the roof you have to remove the plenum and re-proportion the roof to the zone area. Then the roof shows up in the component loads in the LOADS peak load report.

I suspect that deep inside the bowels of the model you showed below this is going on.

Jeff

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From: Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Darryl Kasun via Equest-users
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 2:42 PM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>
Subject: [Equest-users] Modeled Interior Floors as Exterior Roofs

Hey everyone,

The hospital I am working has different footprints for each level (see snapshot below).  While going thru the bldg. envelope in detailed mode, I noticed that the surfaces separating interior floors are modeled as exterior roofs.  Now it’s been a while since I’ve modeled using eQUEST but I’m sure these surfaces should be modeled as interior floors.


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So a couple questions:


1)      What did I miss in the DD Wizard?  One shell was made for each elevation, and for the each above grade floor, below is the input entered for the floor info.  Is this where I made my mistake?  Or do I need to model the shells with and without roofs separately?



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2)      Is there a fast way to change what’s needed without deleting each “interior roof” and replacing it with an interior floor or going back into the DD wizard?  Pretty sure not but here’s hoping!

Thanks everyone.  Hope your mid-week is going well!!

Darryl Kasun



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