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--></style></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Wirich,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am not sure what you are trying to model (just the wall or the zone in Type 56), but it is possible to remove a wall from a Type 56 model and simulate that wall with another component in TRNSYS. The method is described in a paper by Delcroix at al. for a Type that models walls with PCMs, but it can be applied with any component (see the appendix in the paper):<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:24.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span lang=FR-CA>Delcroix, B., Kummert, M., & Daoud, A. (2017). </span>Building-scale experimental validation of a new model for walls with phase change materials. <i>Science and Technology for the Built Environment</i>, <i>23</i>(6), 1049–1062. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/23744731.2017.1333353">https://doi.org/10.1080/23744731.2017.1333353</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Michaël Kummert<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Polytechnique Montréal<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'> TRNSYS-users <trnsys-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Freppel, Wirich via TRNSYS-users<br><b>Sent:</b> November 28, 2019 11:02<br><b>To:</b> TRNSYS USERS (trnsys-users@lists.onebuilding.org) <trnsys-users@lists.onebuilding.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Freppel, Wirich <Wirich.Freppel@saint-gobain.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [TRNSYS-users] control a Wall temperature with experimental data<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>Dear TRNSYS users,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I try to do thermal simulations on an experimental platform that was built in my lab. It is a single airnode room. For a specific application, I would like to control the temperature of one wall with some data I got from temperature measurements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>So , to summarize :<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-US>I measured the inner surface of the wall during a period of time in the experimental platform<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-US>I want to use this data as an input in TRNSYS to control the temperature of the wall (indoor surface)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I don’t really know how to set up this in TRNSYS, as I have the feeling that I must “deactivate” TRNSYS calculation for this wall… Is it even possible to control the inner temperature of a wall ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks in advance for your reply.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='margin-left:5.4pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=525 valign=top style='width:393.5pt;border:solid white 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#17428C;mso-fareast-language:FR'><img border=0 width=102 height=56 style='width:1.0666in;height:.5833in' id="Image_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D5A5E4.D56C78C0" alt="02. 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