[Bldg-sim] LEED District Steam Rules: baseline step 1 vs step2
Sam Mason
sam.mason at atelierten.com
Thu Dec 3 07:11:19 PST 2009
Ryan,
If you look at Table 4 on page 7of the USGBC District Energy System
Modeling Guidelines, you will see district heating for step 2 can be
either a heating plant (boilers) or furnaces. Since your building falls
under system type 3, I believe you would use Option 1 and model fossil
fuel furnaces for heating in step 2.
Anyone else have a thought?
Sam
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Sam Mason
Atelier Ten
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[mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Del
Balso
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 5:41 PM
To: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Bldg-sim] LEED District Steam Rules: baseline step 1 vs step2
I am working on a LEED energy model for a small <5000sf project that has
a hot water loop served by a campus district steam loop. I am trying to
follow the "Required treatment of District Thermal Energy in LEED NC2.2"
rules, but am unclear of the requirements it is asking for. I
understand the requirements for the proposed Step 1 and Step 2, but the
baseline requirements seem quite unclear to me.
This building falls in the System 3: PSZ-AC with Fossil Fuel Furnace
heating type.
My understanding of the requirements are as follows:
- Step 1 baseline: because it is supposed to be cost neutral, I model
the systems with a hot water loop and coils served by purchased steam
rather than the normal 90.1 System 3- fossil fuel furnace.
-Step 2 Baseline (this is where I am more unclear):
Option 1: model this exactly as described in App G, system 3: with a
fossil fuel furnace with 90.1 efficiency (i.e. no hot water loop and
coils, and no steam boiler).
Option 2: model this with the hot water loop and coils as in step 1, and
put in a hot water boiler with the efficiencies listed in 90.1?
Option 3: model this with the hot water loop and coils as in step 1, and
put in a steam boiler with the efficiencies listed in 90.1?
Please let me know if I am understanding step 1 correctly and which
option should be followed for step 2.
Thank you for your help.
Ryan Del Balso, PE
Building Performance Engineer
ryan at ambient-e.com
130 W. 5th Avenue, Denver, CO 80204
t 303.278.1532x210 | f 303.278.8533 |
ambient-e.com <http://www.ambient-e.com/>
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