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AirLoopHVAC Autosizing does not recognise load from ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
A bug report. As per the title. A sample idf file is here (V22-2-0). It's based on the ExampleFile: OutdoorAirUnitwithAirloopHVAC.idf, but I revised it a little bit. There are 5 conditioned zones in the ExampleFile, and only SPACE4-1 has both ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
and AirLoopHVAC
. Originally, ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
for SPACE4-1 has HeatExchanger:AirToAir:Plate
and Coil:Cooling:Water
, but I removed them, which is irrerevant to the bug I want to report. Below is the air-side schematic. Please imagine that a kitchen has VAV system, Exhaust fan and Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil. I want to model that kind of system. So, the ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
here is meant to be Exhaust fan and Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil.
AirLoopHVAC
VAV Sys 4-1 and AirTerminal:Singleduct:VAV:Reheat
are autosized, but it seems that they do not recognise the fresh air load from ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
, which results in so many unmet hours in the annual run.
Some notes:
- The sequence described in
ZoneHVAC:EquipmentList
isZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
first andZoneHVAC:AirDistributionUnit
second. - I tried chaning
Account for Dedicated Outdoor Air System
inSizing:Zone
from "No" to "Yes", but in vein. - I tried modelling "Exhaust fan and Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil" with
AirLoopHVAC
instead ofZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
i.e. there are two AirLoops in one zone. EnergyPlus allows two AirLoops in one zone, but autosizing does not work well. The VAV system (one AirLoopHVAC) also did not recognise the fresh air load from the Fresh air makeup fan with preheat (another AirLoopHVAC) during sizing run. I will report this as a separate post when I have time. ZoneVentilation:DesignFlowRate
is not appropriate because I need to model a preheat coil on the fresh air makeup.
Is there any way to make AirLoopHVAC
recognise the load fromZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
?
AirLoopHVAC Autosizing does not recognise load from ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
A bug report. As per the title. A sample idf file is here (V22-2-0). It's based on the ExampleFile: OutdoorAirUnitwithAirloopHVAC.idf, but I revised it a little bit. There are 5 conditioned zones in the ExampleFile, and only SPACE4-1 has both ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
and AirLoopHVAC
. Originally, ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
for SPACE4-1 has HeatExchanger:AirToAir:Plate
and Coil:Cooling:Water
, but I removed them, which is irrerevant to the bug I want to report. Below is the air-side schematic. Please imagine that a kitchen has VAV system, Exhaust fan and Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil. I want to model that kind of system. So, the ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
here is meant to be Exhaust fan and Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil.
AirLoopHVAC
VAV Sys 4-1 and AirTerminal:Singleduct:VAV:Reheat
are autosized, but it seems that they do not recognise the fresh air load from ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
, which results in so many unmet hours in the annual run.
Some notes:
- The sequence described in
ZoneHVAC:EquipmentList
isZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
first andZoneHVAC:AirDistributionUnit
second. - I tried chaning
Account for Dedicated Outdoor Air System
inSizing:Zone
from "No" to "Yes", but in vein. - I tried modelling "Exhaust fan and Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil" with
AirLoopHVAC
instead ofZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
i.e. there are two AirLoops in one zone. EnergyPlus allows two AirLoops in one zone, but autosizing does not work well. The VAV system (one AirLoopHVAC) also did not recognise the fresh air load from the Fresh air makeup fan with preheat (another AirLoopHVAC) during sizing run. I will report this as a separate post when I have time. ZoneVentilation:DesignFlowRate
is not appropriate because I need to model a preheat coil on the fresh air makeup.
Is there any way to make AirLoopHVAC
recognise the load fromZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
?
AirLoopHVAC Autosizing does not recognise load from ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
A bug report. As per the title. A sample idf file is here (V22-2-0). It's based on the ExampleFile: OutdoorAirUnitwithAirloopHVAC.idf, but I revised it a little bit. There are 5 conditioned zones in the ExampleFile, and only SPACE4-1 has both ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
and AirLoopHVAC
. Originally, ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
for SPACE4-1 has HeatExchanger:AirToAir:Plate
and Coil:Cooling:Water
, but I removed them, which is irrerevant to the bug I want to report. Below is the air-side schematic. Please imagine that a kitchen has VAV system, Exhaust fan and Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil. I want to model that kind of system. So, the ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
here is meant to be Exhaust fan and Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil.
AirLoopHVAC
VAV Sys 4-1 and AirTerminal:Singleduct:VAV:Reheat
are autosized, but it seems that they do not recognise the fresh air load from ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
, which results in so many unmet hours in the annual run.
Some notes:
- The sequence described in
ZoneHVAC:EquipmentList
isZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
first andZoneHVAC:AirDistributionUnit
second. - I tried chaning
Account for Dedicated Outdoor Air System
inSizing:Zone
from "No" to "Yes", but in vein. - I tried modelling "Exhaust fan and Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil" with
AirLoopHVAC
instead ofZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
i.e. there are two AirLoops in one zone. EnergyPlus allows two AirLoops in one zone, but autosizing does not work well. The VAV system (one AirLoopHVAC) also did not recognise the fresh air load from the Fresh air makeup fan with preheat (another AirLoopHVAC) during sizing run. I will report this as a separate post when I have time. ZoneVentilation:DesignFlowRate
is not appropriate because I need to model a preheat coil on the fresh air makeup.
Is there any way to make AirLoopHVAC
recognise the load fromZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
?
AirLoopHVAC Autosizing does not recognise load from ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
A bug report. As per the title. A sample idf file is here (V22-2-0). It's based on the ExampleFile: OutdoorAirUnitwithAirloopHVAC.idf, but I revised it a little bit. There are 5 conditioned zones in the ExampleFile, and only SPACE4-1 has both ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
and AirLoopHVAC
. Originally, ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
for SPACE4-1 has HeatExchanger:AirToAir:Plate
and Coil:Cooling:Water
, but I removed them, which is irrerevant to the bug I want to report. Below is the air-side schematic. Please imagine that a kitchen has VAV system, Exhaust fan and Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil. I want to model that kind of system. So, the ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
here is meant to be Exhaust fan and Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil.
AirLoopHVAC
VAV Sys 4-1 and AirTerminal:Singleduct:VAV:Reheat
are autosized, but it seems that they do not recognise the fresh air load from ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
, which results in so many unmet hours in the annual run.
Some notes:
- The sequence described in
ZoneHVAC:EquipmentList
isZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
first andZoneHVAC:AirDistributionUnit
second. - I tried chaning
Account for Dedicated Outdoor Air System
inSizing:Zone
from "No" to "Yes", but in vein. - I tried modelling "Exhaust fan and Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil" with
AirLoopHVAC
instead ofZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
i.e. there are two AirLoops in one zone. EnergyPlus allows two AirLoops in one zone, but autosizing does not work well. The VAV system (one AirLoopHVAC) also did not recognise the fresh air load from the Fresh air makeup fan with preheat (another AirLoopHVAC) during sizing run. I will report this as a separate post when I have time.
Is there any way to make AirLoopHVAC
recognise the load fromZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
?
AirLoopHVAC Autosizing does not recognise load from ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
A bug report. As per the title. A sample idf file is here (V22-2-0). It's based on the ExampleFile: OutdoorAirUnitwithAirloopHVAC.idf, but I revised it a little bit. There are 5 conditioned zones in the ExampleFile, and only SPACE4-1 has both ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
and AirLoopHVAC
. Originally, ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
for SPACE4-1 has HeatExchanger:AirToAir:Plate
and Coil:Cooling:Water
, but I removed them, which is irrerevant to the bug I want to report. Below is the air-side schematic. Please imagine that a kitchen has VAV system, Exhaust fan and system + Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil. I want to model that kind of system. So, the ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
here is meant to be Exhaust fan and Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil.
AirLoopHVAC
VAV Sys 4-1 and AirTerminal:Singleduct:VAV:Reheat
are autosized, but it seems that they do not recognise the fresh air load from ZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
, which results in so many unmet hours in the annual run.
Some notes:
- The sequence described in
ZoneHVAC:EquipmentList
isZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
first andZoneHVAC:AirDistributionUnit
second. - I tried chaning
Account for Dedicated Outdoor Air System
inSizing:Zone
from "No" to "Yes", but in vein. - I tried modelling
"Exhaust fan and Fresh"Fresh air makeup fan with preheat coil" withAirLoopHVAC
instead ofZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
i.e. there are two AirLoops in one zone. EnergyPlus allows two AirLoops in one zone, but autosizing does not work well.TheTthe VAV system (one AirLoopHVAC) also did not recognise the fresh air load fromtheFresh air makeup fan with preheat (another AirLoopHVAC) during sizing run. I will report this as a separate postwhen I have time.later.
Is there any way to make AirLoopHVAC
recognise the load fromZoneHVAC:OutdoorAirUnit
?