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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear all,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am a new user of TRNSYS and I have some doubts about its capabilities for I want to do, so I decided to post the details here to check if the software will be able to do what I
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am trying to simulate the energy and thermal balances of a
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">building</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> that includes PV panels and boosters in the roof.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would like to include optical effects (I don't know if ray tracing is the most suitable technique here) in oder to optimize the PV panels performance based on the boosters location.
Geometry will be buil using SketchUp.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The model should be able to give answer to the following questions:</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">How much light is being reflected from the boosters onto the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">PV
panels and other zones?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How much is being reflected from the plastic film roof onto
the PV panels</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">H</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">ow
much light is transmitted through the plastic film?<br>
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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">And similar info. Is TRNSYS capable of do such things? I have read that some researcher (some time ago) have implemented their own ray tracing FORTRAN code
and included it into the Simulation Studio to include this optical effects. But I don't know if the new releases of TRNSYS have included these kind of models.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Could you please kindly provide some light on this issue with your feedback?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Thank you very much in advance.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">My best,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">TENSIAN</span></p>
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