Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] interaction between purchased air and infiltration

[Linda Lawrie <linda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:49 AM 8/9/2007, carlosochoam wrote:
>Certain summer night hours indicate an outside temperature of 20
>degrees Celsius. However, for those same hours and despite the
>infiltration rate, I get a report that the Purchased Air operated
>cooling in order to reach the setpoint. Is that possible?

It is quite possible, depending on how much heat gain your cell 
receives during the day and storage in the building elements.  You 
could remove/turn off the purchased air all together and allow the 
cell to float -- to see how high the temperature gets without benefit 
of cooling.


Linda

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