[TRNSYS-users] TRNSYS building modelling

[David Bradley]

John,
 It depends a bit on what you are trying to accomplish with the 
integration. We've done simulations in which we took heating and cooling 
load profiles generated by DOE-2 (I don't think it was eQuest that 
generated them. More likely it was Visual DOE) and then imposed them on 
a TRNSYS system simulation. It isn't a great solution because you get no 
interaction between the system and load. However, since DOE-2 ignores 
that interaction anyway, it may not be so bad.

 If you are trying to run your simulations in eQuest and get input from 
a TRNSYS simulation, it gets a little bit harder. The way we have solved 
this one is to run simplified TRNSYS simulations that give us a total 
net energy transfer into a particular building zone, then to take that 
energy transfer as a miscellaneous gain into the eQuest building. I am 
not too clear on how that part of it was accomplished.

Hope that helps,
 David


bushjd at umd.edu wrote:
> Hi All,
> I apologize if this has been covered recently, but does TRNSYS easily integrate with eQuest or another dedicated building model software?
> I'd imagine we could somehow derive thermal and electric load profiles from the text output of eQuest, but has anyone already come up with a good solution to this?
> Any advice or insight would be appreciated. 
> Thanks!
> John 
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