[Equest-users] Radiant ceilings

[Arpan Bakshi]

Shalini

An alternate method is using fan coil units with turned down fans. Have you
tried this already?



On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Rob Hudson <rdh4176 at gmail.com> wrote:

> eQuest forces the cooling system of "VAV" to chilled water.  if you use
> "PVAV" or packaged VAV, then the cooling type is forced to be DX coils.
>
> Happy Monday!
>
> Rob
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Shalini Modi <shalinimodi at msn.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hello all,
>>
>> I need to model radiant ceiling for heating and cooling both. As per the
>> suggestions in the archive (quoted below), I kept the system as VAV, reduced
>> fan usage to represent radiant slab system's fan usage, kept my heating by
>> water loop baseboards and cooling by DX and coil head and loop temperatures
>> as per radiant slab system but after selecting the system type as 'VAV', in
>> the cooling page, it won't allow me to select 'electric DX' as the cooling
>> source.
>>
>> Kindly advice how can I solve this problem.
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Shalini
>>
>> [Equest-users] How do I model a building with radiant slab heat ANDair
>> conditioning? *Bishop, Bill* wbishop at pathfinder-ea.com
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>>
>> Rob,
>>
>> Select the system based on the DX air conditioning, then add hot water
>> baseboards for the radiant slab. Set your baseboard capacity, coil head,
>> loop temperature etc. to match the radiant slab heating system.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bill
>>
>> William Bishop, EIT, LEED(r) AP | Pathfinder Engineers & Architects LLP
>> Mechanical Engineer
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>> [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org <http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org>] On Behalf Of Rob
>> Rosen
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 4:34 PM
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>> To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org <http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org>
>> Subject: [Equest-users] How do I model a building with radiant slab heat
>>
>> ANDair conditioning?
>>
>> To All,
>>
>> Is it possible to model a building with radiant slab heat (hot water
>> loop) and air conditioning? It appears to me that the eQUEST airside
>> system type for radiant slab heating is FPH (floor panel heating
>>
>> system), and that this is "heating only".
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a way to model a building that has both radiant slab
>> heating and DX air conditioning?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rob Rosen
>> Senior Energy Analyst
>>
>> Taitem Engineering
>> 110 S. Albany St.
>> Ithaca, NY 14850
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