sounds like you're modeling the peak energy use of the equipment. If so, you can develop a schedule, which has the equipment on at part load all days except cooling design days. You'll need to do some research to figure out what the appropriate part load is. If the building is complete, or if there is a similar building currently in operation, I recommend obtaining electricity use data, and monitoring a few sub-panels for a period of a few days. In many labs, the high-energy equipment is not used at full load most of the time.<div>
<br></div><div>--</div><div>Karen<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:24 PM, steven rutter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stevenrutterjr@gmail.com">stevenrutterjr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>I am trying to model a 2-story college going for LEED. The building contains several differernt lab rooms which includes a lof of equipment (Approximately 26W/ft^2 for half of the building). After running the simulation, the preliminary report states that the annual TDV Energy Use Summary for the entire building is 847.95 TDV-kBtu/sqft-yr with 684.71 towards the receptacle energy. Trying to get the minimum 14% energy cost savings is almost impossible with this receptacle energy. What options do I have to reduce the Receptacle Energy in order to meet criteria for LEED points? Is there somewhere I can input this heat load so it does not have such a great impact on the energy use summary report and still have an accurate model of the building? </div>
<div>-Steven Rutter</div>
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