[Equest-users] Belimo Valve PlugIn

Javed Iqbal eee.javed at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 07:08:00 PST 2014


Dear Bishop,

My demo run also shows similar savings numbers which i feel needs to be
validated before using it for code compliance submission.

Any suggestions???




On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Bishop, Bill <bbishop at pathfinder-ea.com>wrote:

>  Thanks, Rohini and Javed.
>
> I installed the plugin but I also had the same problem as Rohini with no
> documentation. I tried the "Belimo-Pressure-Depen-5-10 psi" curve in a
> random model and the pump energy increased 103%. And that's just when I use
> it for variable speed pumps. The literature doesn't warn you not to apply
> to single-speed pumps for additional savings, but there's nothing stopping
> you from doing that in eQUEST.
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> A PIV Plug-in Brochure/Flyer<https://www.belimo.us/ishop/cms/sh/news_events/plugin.html>mentions that "full documentation of the development of the Belimo pressure
> dependent pump performance curves is included along with the plug-in to
> make your models easily defensible to the most demanding audience". But I
> don't have the documentation (or I can't find it). If anybody has a copy of
> this documentation, please share as I would consider using it for pump
> energy savings in my models when I'm confident the savings are realistic.
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> Thanks,
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> Bill
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> *From:* R B [mailto:slv3sat at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, February 10, 2014 2:48 PM
> *To:* Javed Iqbal; Bishop, Bill; eQUEST Users List
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] Belimo Valve PlugIn
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> Here is what I found out about the Belimo valve eQuest curves. They are
> pump power curves to be used for baseline and the eQuest default curves
> would be the proposed (chw/hw system which has a pressure independent
> valve). The attached has more information if you are interested.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Rohini
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> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Javed Iqbal <eee.javed at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Hi,
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> Are you looking for this document? I also tried installing this plugin but
> found an installation error as "3.65 Data" folder doesn't exist. I've 3.64b
> installed on my laptop and this plugin supports 3.6X all version as per
> developer. Did you find this problem?
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>
> Thanks for sharing.
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> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:04 AM, R B <slv3sat at gmail.com> wrote:
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>    Has anyone used the belimo plug in? On installation, it is supposed to
> show the eQuest instruction documentation, but unfortunately that is not
> happening on my computer. If any one has this sheet, can you please forward
> it to me (assuming it is a regular text or pdf file).
>
> Here is the link if anyone is interested.
> https://www.belimo.us/americas/sp_online.html
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Rohini
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Javed Iqbal, LEED AP, CEA
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