[Bldg-sim] Cold Storage Energy Simulation

Paul Carey paul at zed-uk.com
Fri Jan 29 12:35:29 PST 2010


Equa AB ida ice 4 should be able to do it easily. Not sure about E+.



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On 29 Jan 2010, at 20:32, "Fareed Syed" <syedf at progressiveae.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
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> Does anyone have any idea which software has the capability of  
> modeling a cold storage (-30 F) for energy analysis?
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> I talked to customer support of Trace 700 and came to know it does  
> not have that capability.
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> Thanks,
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> Fareed Syed EIT, LEED® AP
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> Mechanical Engineer
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> From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:bldg-sim- 
> bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Justin Spencer
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 3:08 PM
> To: Field, Kristin
> Cc: BldgSim Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] Commercial building baseline energy use/ 
> techs forAlaska
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> Hey Kristin,
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> Thanks for the link and caveats.  Any idea how these things were  
> calibrated?
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> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Field, Kristin <Kristin.Field at nrel.gov 
> > wrote:
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> Bob,
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> This will not entirely cover what you want, but it may give you a  
> good start.  DOE has published benchmark energy models and results  
> for 16 different types of commercial buildings in 16 ASHRAE  
> 90.1-2004 climate zones here:
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> http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/commercial_initiative/new_construction.html
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> If you prefer not to dive into the energy models themselves, you can  
> get most of what you would need to know about them in the “scorecard 
> ” spreadsheets.  Each scorecard lists the inputs and results for one 
>  particular building type across all the climate zones.  Tip - to ge 
> t the scorecard files, you will need to download the zip files by bu 
> ilding type, not climate zone.  It looks like Alaska has climate zon 
> es 7 and 8.  Climate zone 7 was simulated using the TMY2 Duluth, MN  
> weather file, and climate zone 8 was simulated using the TMY2 Fairba 
> nks, AK weather file.
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> These are considered to be baseline/benchmark buildings  
> representative of a particular commercial building type.  They may  
> help you by:
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> ·         Showing the difference in energy consumption in climates 7 
>  and 8 versus the other climate zones – both total and broken down b 
> y end-use and fuel type
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> ·         Showing how the above changes depending on building type
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> ·         Showing the variation in auto-sized equipment between clim 
> ate zones and building types
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> One big caveat – for a more apples-to-apples comparison, system type 
> s were not varied across climate zones according to local practices. 
>   If you want to know what system types are more common in Alaska vs 
> . another region, these models will not provide you with that inform 
> ation.  They are simulations intended to represent average (new cons 
> truction) buildings, but not any one particular real building.
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> To get more of a statistical representation of what’s out there, you 
>  might try the CBECS dataset:
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> http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cbecs/
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> Good luck!
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> Kristin M. Field
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> Engineer II - Mechanical
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> From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:bldg-sim- 
> bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Ramirez, Bob
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 10:59 AM
> To: BldgSim Mailing List
> Subject: [Bldg-sim] Commercial building baseline energy use/techs  
> for Alaska
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> Hello all.  I am looking for baseline information on commercial  
> building energy use, construction and technologies for Alaska.
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> If you are aware of any such studies, I would be very grateful if  
> you can tell me where to find them.
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> Thanks in advance for your assistance!
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> Regards,
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> Bob
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> Bob Ramírez, P.E.
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