[Bldg-sim] Secondary variable pump modeling

Malherek, Elyse elyse.malherek at mcquay.com
Tue Oct 25 07:50:54 PDT 2011


You can look at the EnergyPlus example file called 5ZoneVAV-Pri-SecLoop.idf as a guide for creating a primary-secondary chilled water flow configuration in EnergyPlus.

Basically, you just have to have two pumps in the chilled water plant loop: a Pump:VariableSpeed object to represent the secondary loop and a Pump:ConstantSpeed object to represent the primary loop.  And then in the chilled water PlantLoop object, change the Common Pipe Simulation parameter from blank to “TwoWayCommonPipe”

You may want to run the example file and look at the .svg output file to see how the plant is arranged and how the node names should match between the various EnergyPlus objects.

Use the EngineeringReference document (from the help menu) and search the document for Primary-Secondary to find the section that explains how primary-secondary loops are implemented and controlled in EnergyPlus.

Elyse Malherek
Applications Engineer
McQuay International
a member of DAIKIN group
763.553.5379 (Office)
elyse.malherek at mcquay.com<mailto:elyse.malherek at mcquay.com>
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in the modeling of pump systems, according to 90.1, it should be primary/secondary systems with VSD on the secondary pumping loop.
I wonder how to model this in E+.
Besides, how to know the four coefficients of the variable speed pump? in E+, it is said that the variable speed pump model is described in the ASHRAE secondary HVAC toolkit, but I don't have it.
Can anybody give me a hint?
Thanks!



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