[Equest-users] Natatorium/Pool

[Riley Beise]

Tom,

Here's how I do it: (geez it looks long now that I've written it, but it's really not bad and I feel it does a good job)


1.       Determine your peak evaporation rate (lb/hr) for the pool(s) within the natatorium

a.       Should be available from the pool designers or if not, see the Natatorium section in ASHRAE Handbook - HVAC Applications section 5 (Places of Assembly).

b.      Values will depend largely on water temperature and peak "Activity Factor" expected, but ballpark values are

                                                               i.      Lap pool: 0.05 lb/hr per ft² of water surface area

                                                             ii.      Leisure pool: 0.2 lb/hr per ft² of water surface area (warmer than lap and higher activity factor (more splashing = more evaporation))

                                                            iii.      Swirl or Hot Tub: 0.4 lb/hr per ft² of water surface area (hot, with jets)



2.       Create a schedule to represent the pool evaporation rate during different usage scenarios (different activity factors, different evaporation rates).

a.       I use three modes of operation:

                                                               i.      Unoccupied and uncovered: approx.  0.3

                                                             ii.      Occupied and low use: approx. 0.7

                                                            iii.      Occupied and high use: 1.0



3.       Create an Internal Energy Source within your natatorium space with the magnitude equal to the peak evaporation rate, but in Btu/hr (1000 Btu/lb of water evaporating), and make the load 100% latent, 0% sensible like so:

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4.       Now create a process heating load on your heating water loop and apply the same schedule.  The magnitude of the load is calculated as:

a.       Pool water heat loss to evaporation (equal to evaporation "Internal Energy Source"), PLUS

b.      Heating energy required to heat the makeup water from DCW inlet up to pool water temperature.  This is accounting for heating the fresh water that is replacing the water lost due to evaporation (in the range of 140 Btu/hr per lb/hr of water depending on your makeup water and pool water temps)

c.       Note that this assumes that 100% of the heat required for evaporation at the pool's surface is provided by the pool water's heat, where in reality it is expected that some component comes from the air, though I expect it is a small component.



5.       Set min and max RH in your AHU and you're done.

And if you felt there was significant heat loss through the pool wall to the ground, you could add that in as well, though I think that it probably isn't when compared to the energy involved in evaporation.


Riley Beise, P.Eng., BEMP, LEED Green Associate
Energy Analyst

AME Consulting Group
721 Johnson Street
Victoria, BC, V8W 1M8
p.  250-382-5999

From: RobertWichert [mailto:robert at wichert.org]
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 8:44 AM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Natatorium/Pool

Well, it's not EQuest, but it's on topic:

http://energyexperts.org/CalculatorsTools/PoolEnergyUseCalculator.aspx




Robert Wichert P.Eng. LEED AP BD&C

+1 916 966 9060

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On 3/28/2014 11:49 AM, Tom Mickley wrote:
Does anyone have a simple, easy way to model an in ground pool and spa for a natatorium?



Thanks,

Tom Mickley
Mechanical Engineer CEM
The K Company
Cell 330-760-3994
Office 330-773-5125





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