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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks, Bruce. I ended up figuring this out yesterday. After going through everything and comparing different system types, I discovered that if I used the Equest system type “Packaged Single Zone”, the software would add heating energy for the reheat used to control humidity, but did not add any additional cooling energy in order to overcome the additional heat from the reheat. The cooling kWh was literally the exact same with or without the reheat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I then changed my system type to “Packaged VAV”, set the fan control to be constant volume, and the cooling energy responded more appropriately when I added reheat to the zones. I hadn’t run into this issue before, though I rarely use ASHRAE System Type #3 (Packaged single zone, CV, furnace), so it was a huge “aha” moment for me. Equest doesn’t operate well using the Packaged Single Zone system (similarly, it also does not operate well using the WSHP system type), so it’s better to use the Packaged VAV option when your baseline is ASHRAE system #3 and you have humidity control. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ve been spreading this information like a public service announcement, but I’m sure others have run across this before. Thanks again for your help!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kristy M. Walson, PE, LEED AP BD+C, BEMP</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Associate / Sustainability Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#333333'>407-487-1118</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Bruce Easterbrook [mailto:bruce5@bellnet.ca] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 17, 2012 9:41 AM<br><b>To:</b> Walson, Kristy<br><b>Cc:</b> 'equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] Different cooling loads with different system types<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Hi Kristy,</span></tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br><tt>The explanation is the loads in the SS-D report are the coil loads of your system units not a full building load. I ran into it on the SS-J reports on heating loads. SS-J is a sub report of the SS-D. The differences will probably be found in under heated or cooled hours and/or in your terminal units. I noticed it because the low airflow in the ahu was not maximizing the amount of heat the unit could send to the zones. As I increased the cfm/sf the heating peak increased on the SS-J report. I assume it would have also increased on the SS-D report. My underheated hours were decreasing as the peak heating was increasing.</tt><br><tt>The loads are there, just not on this report. More information on the reports and what is in each one is in the Detailed Simulation Reports Summary in the DetailedUI folder of the Tutorials section of eQuest.</tt><br><tt>Bruce Easterbrook P.Eng.</tt><br><tt>Abode Engineering</tt><br></span><br>On 16/01/2012 01:20 PM, Walson, Kristy wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am working on a model where the baseline system type is Packaged Single Zone with a Fossil-Fuel Furnace (System Type 3) and the proposed system type is Chilled Water VAV with a Gas-Fired Steam Boiler. When I take the proposed model, save as, and then just change the system type to the DX CV system, the cooling loads in the SS-D report <i>change.</i> They are less when the DX CV system. How can the <i>loads</i> change? These should stay the same and the energy used to meet these loads should change. 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