[Bldg-sim] ESPr vs. E+ for occupant behavior research

Paul Carey paul at zed-uk.com
Fri Apr 9 07:49:38 PDT 2010


Holly,

 

You can use an external file within a schedule to model say occupancy.  If
you had data that told you the level of occupancy for each room for each
hour of the day, etc then you can bring that file into the EnergyPlus model
within a schedule for occupancy and hence it would allow you to model it
exactly if necessary.  Then using the Parametric tools that E+ offers, you
could then change a variable at a time (that would be my preference, even
though you can do more than 1 at a time) to then work out the effects of
those variances and the link to occupancy and effectiveness, etc.

 

ESP-r will probably run faster than E+ which will be useful if your models
are large.  Both are difficult to work in.

 

Cheers

Paul

 

 

 

 


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From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of holly
wasilowski
Sent: 09 April 2010 14:47
To: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Bldg-sim] ESPr vs. E+ for occupant behavior research

 

I am studying the impacts of occupant behavior on the success of various
building technologies, such as natural ventilation, radiant ceilings,
phase-change materials, automatic lighting controls, demand-controlled
ventilation, etc. using whole building energy simulation.  I am wondering
whether to use EnergyPlus or ESP-r.  An advantage of ESP-r seems to be the
SHOCC module, which seems to offer a great deal of flexibility for
manipulating occupant behavior, including stochastic processes.  However an
advantage of EnergyPlus seems to be its extensive HVAC libraries so that I
can actually model energy use instead of loads.  I am wondering if the
EnergyPlus Runtime Language (ERL) (described in Ellis, Torcellini, Crawley
2007) would offer the opportunity for a similar level of occupancy control
via simple programming.  I would appreciate any advice on the
appropriateness of each software for this research.  

Thanks in advance!

Holly

 

Holly Wasilowski

Doctoral Student in Sustainable Design

Harvard Graduate School of Design

 

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