Simulate equipment in isolation
Keen to simulate different configurations of plant but without modelling the whole building.
Is it possible to simulate a pair of cooling towers that maintain a given CW setpoint and use historical data for entering and leaving temps only across the boundary. The goal is to test different power consumption for CT's running simultaneously at lower speed vs rotating each CT given a run hours limit.
I'm just getting started with OpenStudio and this seems like a simple way to start
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Hi,
I am not very familiar with Openstudio but you could certainly do this to a large extent using EnergyPlus (IDF). You should look into the objects like LoadProfile:Plant to define cooling load without modeling whole building. Additionally, you might need to look into PlantComponent:TemperatureSource object & the EMS programming to define different Cooling tower temperatures. Check this example file in the example folder of E+ installation folder for some more clarity 'PlantLoadProfileCoolingReturnReset.idf'.
Hope this is helpful.