<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt">Nick:<br><br>My experience in the real world has been that the temperature in the plenum is about 4-6 degrees warmer than the space temperature. Don't forget the heat introduced by the lighting ballasts and the lamps themselves. I have performed some stratification studies and the temperature of a space at ceiling level can often be 4 degrees warmer that at the standard 5' thermostat elevation. I was recently commissioning a project and noticed that the T-8 lamps are very warm to the touch when they have been on for some time. T-12's run cooler. The rule of thumb that I have used is that 30% of the lighting wattage is radiated into the plenum. It depends on the type of lighting fixture.<br><br>On a ducted return system, the plenum is much hotter than the
space temperature, as much as 90 degrees on a hot day with a space temperature of 72 degrees. As I work with automation systems quite a bit, it is not unusual for the discharge air to rise 6 degrees between the discharge of the fan unit and the discharge of a VAV box. And this is with a duct insulated with 2" of fiber. This is not a negligible heat gain, especially when working with large air handlers.<br><br>Paul Diglio<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Nick Caton <ncaton@smithboucher.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> John Bixler <JBixler@Sebesta.com>; Paul Diglio <paul.diglio@sbcglobal.net>; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, March 30, 2011 7:04:32 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Equest-users] question about inefficiency of duct<br></font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Thanks John, I think that sums it up nicely – we’re very much on
the same page now =).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">My latent concerns regarding return duct inputs are resolved as
well… I seem to have glazed over the right half of the basic system tab!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">~Nick</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(45, 77, 94);">NICK CATON, E.I.T.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(45, 77, 94);"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "sans-serif";"> John Bixler
[mailto:JBixler@Sebesta.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 30, 2011 5:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nick Caton; Paul Diglio; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Equest-users] question about inefficiency of duct</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Nick,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The original post as well as follow ups from Paul and myself
discuss loses that occur in supply and return ducts, not limiting the
discussion to return ducts nor limiting it to plenum loses, for that matter.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Equest has inputs for duct loses, in several different
formats/locations. In my experience, it has been difficult to accurately
model these loses and obtain logical results.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I believe Mike’s point was “if the air in the duct is the same
temp as the air the duct is passing through, the effect is negligible”. I
certainly agree with that, and the classic example of that scenario is a return
duct (carrying room temperature air) passing through conditioned space or
plenums (assuming the temp of the plenum is near the temp of the space).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">From a practical standpoint, unless you are working on an
existing building with outdated construction standards, or trying to model
a specific energy conservation measure that analyzes the impact of duct
insulation (or potentially changing supply air temps), there are few compelling
reasons to account for these loses (from an energy use standpoint). </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">On the other hand, if you are trying to run load calcs for
equipment sizing, you may want to account for them. Again, equest has
inputs under “duct loses” to do so. It sort of sounds like this is what
the original poster is asking for. (original poster: try to
calculate the ducts UA value and use that).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "sans-serif";"> Nick Caton
[mailto:ncaton@smithboucher.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 30, 2011 5:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> John Bixler; Paul Diglio; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Equest-users] question about inefficiency of duct</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Paul/John,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Thanks very much for the clarifications! I’m learning a
thing or two, but I suspect my choice of words might be getting in the way of
what I was trying to convey… </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Please consider and affirm or correct this statement: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">If there is rarely a case where return duct plenum losses/gains
are negligible, then it follows all energy models should explicitly account for
these losses/gains to those spaces.</span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">A specific follow-through would be: If an eQuest model
does not model conductive heat gains/losses in the return air path, does that
make the eQuest model invalid? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Trying to pull this discussion back into daily practice with
eQuest… I am still fuzzy on exactly how and to what extent eQuest/DOE2 does
model such internal supply and return duct losses/gains (outside of light load
fractions)… Can anyone in the know clarify this query?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">~Nick</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(45, 77, 94);">25501 west valley parkway</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(45, 77, 94);">olathe ks 66061</span></p>
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equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John
Bixler<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Paul Diglio; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] question about inefficiency of duct</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">In addition to significant delta Ts, please also consider the
additional airflow required to cool/heat a space when the supply air delta T
(between the supply air and the conditioned space) is lowered due to duct
losses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Example: Say the cooling load requires 100 cfm to cool a
space assuming a supply air temp of 55 and a perfectly insulated duct (that is,
a duct with no change in temp as it leaves the AHU and gets to the
space). The room is 70 degrees, so which makes the sensible cooling in
the space about 1630 btu. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Now take this same room, and assume the duct gains 5 degrees
between the AHU and the space (note, I am not talking about heat gain from fan
energy here). Now the air being supplied to the space is 60 degrees, and
to maintain the same sensible cooling capacity, the airflow must be 150 cfm, a
50% increase (!).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">This heat is not lost to the space being cooled (most
likely). The idea of *<b>neglible</b>* loss at the room level does not
apply.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">At the system level, the idea of *<b>neglible</b>* energy loss
may or may not apply. CLEARLY there is additional fan energy used. The
heat that is lost from the duct to somewhere, may be recovered to a large
degree (in the case of a 100% return air system, where the primary area of
energy loss COULD be additional heat gained in the plenum due to increased
delta t between the plenum and the OA temp) or it may be lost entirely (in the
case of a 100% OA system, which is obviously already a big energy user and this
simply adds to the problem). In the case of significant relief of the air
the heat is lost to, there is also a large impact on cooling and heating energy
as you are moving more air, and trying to maintain the same setpoints at the
system level.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The notion that there is no net effect is really only true if
the heat is being lost/gained directly at the location of the temperature
sensor/tstat.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">(Most buildings these days have appropriate insulation on the
ductwork which minimizes this effect, but it wasn’t that long ago when this
wasn’t the case)</span></p>
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equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Diglio<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:32 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> John Bixler<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] question about inefficiency of duct</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Nick:<br>
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For a supply duct passing through a plenum return ceiling during the cooling
season, the temperature difference between the supply air and return air can be
as much as 25 degrees.<br>
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During the heating season, this difference could be as much as 30 degrees
during morning warm up.<br>
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Paul Diglio</span></p>
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<b>To:</b> Paul Diglio <paul.diglio@sbcglobal.net>; "McArdle,
Mike" <Mike.McAardle@state.vt.us>; xiaoyang shi
<xs2144@gmail.com>; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tue, March 29, 2011 8:03:32 PM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I think Mike’s general point is fair and isn’t to be taken in
absolutes. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">When a ducted return air stream is passing through a conditioned
space or plenums/chases in between other conditioned spaces, it’s probably a
safe bet to claim any duct gains/losses are *negligible* (not nonexistent),
particularly if said return ducts are insulated, due to the relatively small
delta-T.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">On the other hand, winter losses and summertime gains at extreme
temperatures may be considerable if any ductwork is routed exterior to the
building, even if insulated. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Xiaoyang, if you wish to calculate it as a percentage at design
conditions: ( U x A x deltaT )<sub>DUCT</sub> / (total building
heating or cooling load) x 100</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">If you wanted to model such exterior duct heat losses/gains in
eQuest… I haven’t considered that before – but depending on your system setup,
it might be as simple as a small exterior wall surface with appropriate
U-value and area equal to the duct surface area… in the event the solar loads
incident on the duct might be significant, make a point to correctly locate the
surface in 3D (over the roof, along a wall, etc.) to avoid any incorrect
self-shading from other surfaces.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">If anyone has delved into this and knows a better/simpler way
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[mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 29, 2011 4:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> McArdle, Mike; xiaoyang shi; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Michael:<br>
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"if the air in duct is the same air as the air being supplied to the
space, there is no net effect"? What do you mean by net effect?<br>
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The duct heat loss/gain depends on the difference of the temperature of the air
in the duct and the temperature of the air surrounding the outside of the
duct. It is highly unlikely that these temperature will be the same.<br>
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Paul Diglio</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "sans-serif";"> "McArdle, Mike"
<Mike.McAardle@state.vt.us><br>
<b>To:</b> xiaoyang shi <xs2144@gmail.com>;
"equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" <equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tue, March 29, 2011 5:39:40 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] question about inefficiency of duct</span></p>
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xiaoyang shi</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">It Depends on the temperature differentials between air in duct
and space and insulation thickness </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">But more importantly , if the air in duct is the same air
as the air being supplied to the space there is no net effect </span></p>
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[mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>xiaoyang
shi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 29, 2011 5:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] question about inefficiency of duct</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Hi folks,<br>
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In the winter time, some heat loss in HVAC is from duct.<br>
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What is the percentage of heat loss through the duct to the total building heat
load, due to the inefficiencies of duct delivery system?<br>
<br>
Thank you guys.</p>
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