Open Studio: Gas-Fired Burner
Open Studio: I am trying to model a gas-fired "plug-load" on the load tab to represent a kitchen burner.
When I manually size my system, my values are off by an order of magnitude, and I am uncertain as to why. I am using default schedules created by NREL, and comparing my values to CEUS and RECs. I get reasonable results when I reduce my manually sized values by an order of magnitude.
For example, when I set a gas-fired burner to 9500 BTU/h (2784 W) as a gas load, the interior gas-fired equipment yields: 169.4 MBtu But when I reduce it to 278.4 W, it yields: 16.9 MBtu
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It would be helpful if you could tell use exactly which schedule you're using and where you found it.
I use a residential range schedule from a measure created by NREL where they are attempting to port BeOpt over to Open Studio. Links to the Beopt measures here: https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio-BE...
I use one for a fuel cooking range (ResidentialApplianceCookingRangeFuel), and another for the gas-fired DHW tank (ResidentialHotWaterHeaterTankFuel).
But I have this problem for commercial buildings as well using the office default schedules associated with the aforementioned...
See my edit below, the schedule created here if you didn't change the measure default input amounts to 2224.331552719538 EFLH.