[Equest-users] Converting Heat Pump COP to EIR

[John T. Forester]

Hi Kathryn,

The document that Pasha included in her email will work if your heat pumps are terminal heat pumps (System 2) and are rated using the ARI 240/260 rating method.  However, if you are modeling packaged rooftop heat pumps (System 4), these heat pumps follow a different rating method, ARI 340/360.   I haven’t reviewed this in detail but my guess is that the fan power is a little different than the 240/260 method.

If you know the gross and net cooling capacities from the equipment cutsheet, you can calculate the fan power per CFM and an adjusted COP (or EIR) for the compressor/condenser power only.  The difference between net and gross is the cooling required to overcome the fan heat and can be converted to Watts and used as the fan power.  See the snapshot below from the 90.1-2007 Users Manual.  It is an example on how to separate the two values.

Alternatively, you could review the 340/360 standard to see how fan power is accounted and use those numbers.  It could be as simple as the method described in Pasha’s email or by assuming a value for total static pressure, fan efficiency and motor efficiency and the calculating the fan power directly.

John


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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Pasha Korber-Gonzalez
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 12:33 PM
To: Ana N.
Cc: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Converting Heat Pump COP to EIR

Here's a good reference for use too.  See attached,

Pasha
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Ana N. <ananeddav at hotmail.com<mailto:ananeddav at hotmail.com>> wrote:


You can use this link to access discussion on this topic.

http://lists.onebuilding.org/pipermail/equest-users-onebuilding.org/2010-May/004407.html


Heating EIR = (1/(COP*3.413)-0.012167)/((1/3.413)-0.012167)
and
Heating EIR = (1/((HSPF*0.28+1.13)*3.413)-0.012167)/((1/3.413)-0.012167)

Hope this helps,
 Ana

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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:12:26 -0800
From: kathryn.kerns at bceengineers.com<mailto:kathryn.kerns at bceengineers.com>

To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>
Subject: [Equest-users] Converting Heat Pump COP to EIR
Everyone, is there a relationship written down somewhere that removes fan energy from a heat pump COP value to develop a heating EIR?  Something like the DX cooling EER equation that removes fan energy from EIR  cooling values? It looks like the eQuest wizard is doing something like that when a heat pump heating COP is entered, but I am not sure what.

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