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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hello Nitin,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I wanted to ask you to clarify something that wasn’t clear to me. Is the reviewer indicating that they expect that the norm for building conditioned spaces should
be having relative humidity between 50% and 60% or is that the specific requirement of your building? Because the way it should be handled is that you model the Proposed design model based on the actual design requirements for relative humidity and then make
sure that the Baseline model is modeled with the same relative humidity range.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The reason I ask is that for most building types that I’ve worked on, there isn’t a minimum relative humidity setpoint only maximum. Therefore, if that should
also apply to your building, then I would suggest not worrying about the few hours in the 40-49% range.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Alternatively, if that does matter, than I would need additional information to help troubleshoot your problem, such as what time of the day and season of the
year do those hours occur, are you including a humidifier when you set a minimum humidity setpoint, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Nitin Harjai [mailto:nitin.harjai28@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 7, 2020 2:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] How to control the Relative Humidity as per requirement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am working on a project and I have got the reviewer comments for the project.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As per review comments, they want me to confirm that the building conditioned spaces are meeting the norms (for temperature 24°C <span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">±</span> 2° and Relative humidity 50%-60%).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My project location is in India (warm & humid climate) and below are the HVAC parameters considered in the proposed model:-<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Humidity control range - 50% - 60% under Air side HVAC system tab.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">System type - Single Zone Reheat<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After the above necessary inputs are considered in the proposed case to bring the Relative Humidity within range, software generated SS-N reports indicate that Relative humidity of particular air side system falls in the range of 50%-59%
however, there are few hours that fall in the range of 40%-49% .<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone help me on how to shift this few hours from the range of 40%-49% to 50%-59% range and how the eQuest software works to maintain the required Relative Humidity?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance for your valuable reply on this.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0B5394">Thanks & Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0B5394">Nitin Harjai</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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