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Reducing heating unmet load hours in EnergyPro

I have a lot of zones with heating unmet load hours. Does anyone have any guidance on how to reduce them? I'm using EnergyPro 9, so I have to get rid of these hours to issue the certificate of compliance. I have many fan coil units serving one zone each, and about half of them also have terminal VAV boxes. Heating plant is a natural gas hot water boiler. I tried oversizing FCU and VAV box heating capacities and airflows, but not much changed.

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Srecko Curkovic
asked 2023-10-10 18:13:56 -0500
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Aaron Boranian
updated 2023-10-11 14:53:16 -0500
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Have you tried to increase the boiler capacity in addition to the zone system capacities?

On oversizing zone systems for test-cases in your energy model, it can sometimes be good to try something extreme, like 200% oversizing. Depending on the space types you selected for the various rooms served by the thermal zone and terminal unit, there could be different loads (or lack of internal loads), than what the engineer actually assumed when they designed the system.

Lastly, check the airflows of fresh air match the design intention for each zone. Again, if the design assumed less ventilation and different space uses than what you assumed for specific rooms, the model could be over ventilating and resulting in higher heating needs than what the HVAC system was designed for.

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answered 2023-10-10 18:33:59 -0500
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Thank you! I've tried some of those approaches, but there might be another issue with the way system was modeled. I'm going to post a separate question about it.

Srecko Curkovic's avatar Srecko Curkovic (2023-10-17 17:19:04 -0500) edit
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