[Equest-users] What does Space Heat include?

Jing Hong hongjing.shirley at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 11:45:05 PST 2018


Thank you Nick!
I've fixed the problem by setting the cooling and heating design season.

Jing

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 5:15 PM, Nicholas Caton <
Nicholas.Caton at schneider-electric.com> wrote:

> The last three pages of this document may prove a helpful starting place
> for “what’s included in XXX end use category” questions.
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> From there:
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> It’s hard for anyone to do better than just guess at what might be the
> source from what you’ve provided… reheat/baseboard/pilot lights… it might
> not be zone-thermostat schedule driven heating.
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> On the aside, have you explored whether you have any zones still dropping
> to 40F that could be a source (subjectively warm climates can still have
> brisk evenings)?  You can remove all calls for heat by defaulting away the
> heating schedule assignment, but pay mind to how close to freezing you go –
> your mechanical designer may not be so comfortable with the results!
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> Hope that’s helpful,
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> ~Nick
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> *From:* Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Jing Hong via Equest-users
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 26, 2017 9:08 AM
> *To:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org; equest-users at onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* [Equest-users] What does Space Heat include?
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> Dear all,
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> Happy Holiday!
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> I have a question: What does Space Heat include in eQuest? I set a heating
> design temp very low, like 40 F for a ventilation only condition, but still
> get 0.01  x10^6 Btu Space Heat in June and Aug for Climate zone 3B. That
> does not make any sense. I tried several ways to detect where that space
> heat comes from in June, but could not figure out.
>
> Here is the background of my model: It is in climate zone 3B. The baseline
> is DX+Furnace (ASHRAE). I have four schedules to control temperature:
> Cooling (75F), Heating(72F), Ventilation for cooling season(100F),
> ventilation for heating season(40F). I setup 100F and 40F to avoid turning
> the cooling and heating mode on for the rooms requesting ventilation only.
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> Please let me know if I did something wrong for my model. Thank you!
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> Jing
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