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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks Bruce, that’s what I was looking for.
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Project Consultant <br>
Thornton Tomasetti <br>
386 Fore Street, Suite 401 <br>
Portland, ME 04101 <br>
<b>T</b> +1.207.245.6060 <b>F</b> +1.207.245.6061 <br>
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HSinghal@ThorntonTomasetti.com <br>
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<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]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Singhal, Harshul; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] Solar Thermal Plate Heat Exchangers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I think this is the website you are looking for.<br>
<a href="http://www.retscreen.net/ang/home.php">http://www.retscreen.net/ang/home.php</a><br>
Take a look under the Software and Data tab. The software and data is free.<br>
Bruce Easterbrook P.Eng.<br>
Abode Engineering<br>
Canada<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 18/06/2015 12:12 PM, Singhal, Harshul wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope everyone is doing well. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am working on one school facility project where I need to run couple of ECMs for HVAC system type. One of the system that has been suggested by mechanical engineers is:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><![endif]><i><span style="color:#31859C">The roof mounted solar thermal plate system will provide tempered hot water for the building central heating loop with a separately pumped glycol heat transfer system. Heat transfer will occur to the heating
loop through a plate heat exchanger located in the mechanical room. The system will be available to provide heat to the low temperature heating loop & also DHW preheating.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know eQuest cannot model solar thermals (it has PV modules though) for space heating. I know there is one website (from Canada) from where you can get hourly data for solar thermals & assign it to your eQuest model. The method need some
post-process calculation and I need to understand more on this (which I cannot recall right now). Can someone please provide some inputs?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Harshul Singhal, LEED AP BD+C</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
Project Consultant <br>
Thornton Tomasetti <br>
386 Fore Street, Suite 401 <br>
Portland, ME 04101 <br>
<b>T</b> +1.207.245.6060 <b>F</b> +1.207.245.6061 <br>
<b>D</b> +1.207.245.6074 <br>
<a href="mailto:HSinghal@ThorntonTomasetti.com">HSinghal@ThorntonTomasetti.com</a>
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<a href="http://www.ThorntonTomasetti.com">www.ThorntonTomasetti.com</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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