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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D">Zheng,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D">It is best to reduce the amount of assumptions you make in any model. To reduce assumptions for snow melt, refer to section 51 of the
<u>2011 ASHRAE Handbook: HVAC Applications</u>. Table 3 should give the required information for the model. Just put the snow melt system on the hot water loop as a direct load using a schedule and load reflected in the table for your location. Of course, this
is only one way to model a snow melt system, and I encourage you to investigate other alternatives that may better estimate the load for your particular circumstance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Zheng Ling [mailto:zling@williamsengineering.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 03, 2013 3:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] Snow melting system simulation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi there:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I wonder how snow melting system is simulated in EQuest? Is there a way to input the annual energy consumption which I calculated manually?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">THX<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#545861">--Zheng</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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