[TRNSYS-users] Comparison of TRNSYS results with HAP

[David BRADLEY via TRNSYS-users]

Sabine,

  It is very hard to say without looking at both the HAP and TRNSYS 
models. If the TRNSYS model is giving you a higher heating load than HAP 
look at what you have assumed for the temperature of the ground in the 
Type56 model. In some cases by default the ground temperature (on the 
back side of the GROUND_FLOOR surface) is set to a constant value of 0 
which gives your model a lot of (unfair) free cooling and which causes 
heating loads to be unrealistically high.

  Also, I believe that HAP assumes that there are no internal gains when 
it does it's peak heating load calculation (and may also assume that 
there is no solar since I think it is doing a steady state calculation). 
Make sure you understand what assumptions HAP is making so that you can 
duplicate all of them in TRNSYS.

kind regards,

  David



On 05/14/2017 06:03, sabine via TRNSYS-users wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
>
> I am trying to compare the results of a maximum heating  load of a 
> single zone office from TRNSYS with results from the HAP software.
>
> I got this big difference in loads even though I entered the same U 
> values of walls and windows, same heating temperature, and same 
> minimum outside temperature.
>
> Please if you can tell me why this is happening.
>
>
> Regards;
>
>
>
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