[TRNSYS-users] Type204-PCM

[bezeid.deddy at orange-ftgroup.com]

> Hello TRNSYS Users, 
I am Deddy bezeid and I make a thesis at the bretagne-sud university, I am a new user of TRNSYS and I encounter problems on the TYPE204 - PCM and I already found somebody who put the same questions with which I would like to have answers, here the questionnaires and thank you for your assistance
>  I want to use TRNSYS Type 204 for the simulation of PCM layers on a building. Has anyone used this type before? It takes forever to run an one week simulation...However the main problem is i cannot understand the way the model simulates a PCM layer... My questions are about the SUNSPACE example supplied into the files package loaded : There are 2 air zones in the TRNBUILD type 56 model of this example : SunZone and BackZone. SunZone is where "PCM wall" has been installed. So : 
> - How to make the difference if we want "PCM layer" into all walls surfaces from SunZone, or only into some of them?
>  - Why the resistance of the "PCM massless layer" created in TRNBUILD is only 0.1 m².K.h/kJ?
>  - Why the "PCM wall" using the "PCM massless layer" into SunZone (boundary wall calling T_PCM input) presents a so small surface of 0.2 m²? 
> - Why QCOMI is taken from the same "PCM Wall" (14) and not from other walls?
>  - Do we have to change values into the 4 text external files supplied (NodeTemp.txt, Tila.txt, Ceff1.txt, ALKU.txt) or do we only have to call their path?
>  - Why the PCMeT (average surface temperature of "PCM wall")calculated by type 204 is sent to the boundary "PCM wall" input (T_PCM) into type 56 ?
>  type 204 receives QCOMI from 0.2 m² surface (14), and T_AIR from SunZone volume, 
> then it calculates and sends T_PCM to boundary input for 0.2 m² surface (14)
>  => I don't see in which way this sequence allows modelization of PCM introduction into a wall? 
> I searched all the mailing list but i just found the same questions..and no answers... Please help...Thanks in advance 
> Deddy bezeid
> 
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