[Bldg-sim] EQUEST QUESTION

[Chris]

I've always found the default plug & lighting loads in eQuest to be on the
high-side which has a significant affect on space temperatures and space
conditioning energy.

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:27, RobertWichert <robert at wichert.org> wrote:

> I am trying to learn E-Quest and I am trying to model a building that I
> have already modeled with Energy Pro.  The gas usage from E-Quest is very
> very low compared to both actual and Energy Pro.  It is a hot water reheat
> VAV system with a boiler and a water cooled condenser.  The actual gas use
> is 17891 Therms, from the bills.  Energy Pro predicts 17600 Therms.
>  E-Quest predicts 580 Therms.  This makes no sense to me, but it is clearly
> my error.  I have gone over the inputs several times.
>
> Is there anything that occurs to anybody that would make gas usage that
> far off?
>
> Electrical from E-Quest is 453 MWh.  Electrical from Energy Pro is 422
> MWh.  Electrical actual is 543 MWh.  The building has lots of
> unaccounted-for process equipment, so I'm not so worried about being low on
> electrical.  It's not too far off.  But the gas use is just way too low.
>  Hot water is showing up at 3 Therms a month.
>
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> This is the first model I have done with E-Quest, so I apologize for even
> asking.  It's obviously something stupid that I have done.
>
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Chris Flood BSc (Eng)
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