[Bldg-sim] Radiant slab Heating Cooling

Leslie Jones LJones at morrisonhershfield.com
Thu Feb 23 11:34:15 PST 2012


All

Is no one worried about the time characteristics of in-floor cooling (and heating) systems, i.e. the time lag between heat gains (or losses) and terminal/plant loads?, some kind of fudge factor would likely be required for software like DOE but what might one do?

Les Jones

From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of varun kulkarni
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:05 PM
To: Peter Simmonds
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Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] Radiant slab Heating Cooling

Thanks Peter,

I am using Carrier HAP and when I model a fan coil unit, I am asked to input the design supply temperatures for heating and cooling (which is usually 95F and 55F). Now, i think these are going to drive my energy consumed at the boiler and chiller. The whole point (not the only point but a major though) of using radiant slab heating and cooling is lower temps for heating, higher temps for cooling and also the fact that water has higher energy carrying capacity then air. So if you are not able to take credit for that in modeling then obviously, the energy consumption number is not right. Thats my reason to segregate the different temperatures.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Peter Simmonds <peter.simmonds at ibece.net<mailto:peter.simmonds at ibece.net>> wrote:
Varun, your perception is nearly true, but it depends on what you are modeling? If you are modeling the energy performance of a building a four pipe fan coil works just fine as it maintains the required energy balance. It is true that the actual performance of a radiant floor is different than a fan coil, but you are looking at energy and not optimal modeling.
Your thoughts on stratification are somewhat correct. I would tend to think that stratification is caused by space heat load and air movement, especially displacement. Yes, there is a convective flow from the floor but this is quite small as the temperature difference between the floor surface temperature and the space operating temperature.
Regarding temperature; this depends on what program you are using and why you want to segregate the different temperatures?

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From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org> [mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org>] On Behalf Of varun kulkarni
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Subject: [Bldg-sim] Radiant slab Heating Cooling

Good Morning everyone,

I have been reading through the archives for modeling radiant slab heating and cooling.
Most popular and the closest to real world approach I found was using a 4 pipe fan coil unit and making the fan energy zero.
I still have following questions:

*         Did anyone think of using a factor, which when multiplied to the energy usage by fan coil system, give us the actual energy usage by radiant system. (I would guess it would be <1)

*         As radiant heating and cooling forms a stratification layer in the space. And  we care about first 6-8 feet to be within desired temperature range. So to take that into account while modeling "it"  as fan coil unit, can we lower the ceiling height. Does that mean the conduction load from ceiling/roof or the wall above 6-8 feet doesn't count ?

*         The temperature range for heating water (95F-105F) and cooling water (55F-65F) pumped in the radiant system is different from the typical chilled water (44F-45F) and heating water (170F-180F). How do we make sure our model reflects this while using fan coil unit.

I am sure there are more questions you would have come across but these were some of my major concerns and I would appreciate any inputs/ suggestions.
PS: This is a aspiring LEED platinum building.


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Thanks and Best Regards,



Sincerely,

Varun Kulkarni

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Sincerely,

Varun Kulkarni

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