I'd like to model heat reclaim by adding a constant heat source on a water loop. I don't want to model a heat source in a zone that passes through the air loop to the water loop.
Is this possible in OpenStudio / E+ (even if using a work-around)? The only thing I can think of is to add a pump with very low efficiency, and all of the inefficiency going into the water as heat.
Alternative to use of EMS user-defined component, as suggested by Archmage, is to define the load on a loop's demand side with the LoadProfile:Plant object
Thank you Ivan and Archmage. These look like E+ objects. Do you know any way to do this in OpenStudio?
LoadProfilePlant is expected in OpenStudio 1.9
If you want to add the heat to the supply side of plant loop, you could use DistrictHeating. Just set the nominal capacity to the constant source you want and setup the operation scheme and setpoints so it runs all the time.
If you want to add the heat to the demand side of a plant loop you could use EMS with a user-defined plant component, input object PlantComponent:UserDefined.
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@bryane I changed your unique tag to the existing and less general 'heat-recovery'.