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One FCU serving multiply zones, and with an outdoor air MAU

Hello all: I am trying to model an FCU serving three small offices in a whole building using OpenStudio. My aim is to simulate the room temperature for every office and check if it matched the actual temperature, so I define every office as a single zone. Furthermore, there is an AHU serving the whole building, so it serves outdoor air for the three offices ( every office has one diffuser). The FCU and AHU both use heating/cooling coil.

Because the zone equipment "Four pipe fan coil" only serves a single zone, so I use AirLoopHVAC Unitary System and a fan to simulate the FCU, connect it into the three thermal zones with diffusers. but I've no idea how to add outdoor air in this case.

Another way is that I model an AHU with outdoor air serving the three thermal zone, then add zone equipment "Four pipe fan coil" for all zones. This method means I have three FCUs for every office, not one FCU serving three offices, which is different from the actual situation.

I was wondering if you have any comment in this case, and any answer is welcome! Thanks.

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asked 2018-09-07 09:53:23 -0500
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updated 2018-09-08 08:22:02 -0500
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EnergyPlus? Another tool? Add a tag for the software you are using.

__AmirRoth__'s avatar __AmirRoth__ (2018-09-07 11:17:10 -0500) edit

I use openstudio~sorry I tried to add the tag but failed.

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As of v8.8 (Sep 2017) EnergyPlus supports more than one airloop serving the same zone. So you can have one AirloopHVAC for the outdoor air, and another for the fan coil unit.

I don't know if OpenStudio supports this yet. If not, I would keep the AirLoopHVAC that you have for the FCU and then use one ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit per zone to supply the outdoor air to each zone.

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answered 2018-09-10 13:16:42 -0500
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