Ana Paula:
The zone temperature (Tzone) used to activate natural ventilation is not Zone Operative Temperature. Tzone is "Zone/Sys Air Temperature" . Please rerun the input by adding a new report variable of zone temperature and let me know what happens.
Best regards,
Lixing Gu
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Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:58 PM
Subject: [EnergyPlus_ Support] Natural Ventilation
Hi,
I have some problems using the EnergyPlus to simulate natural ventilation.
During my simulation I used the TEMPERATURE as Ventilation Control Mode.
So, my building will be ventilated if:
Tzone>Tout and Tzone>Tsetpoint and If Venting Availability Schedule permits.
I analyzed the outputs (Outdoor Dry Bulb/Opening Factor Multiplier for Venting Modulation/Zone Operative Temperature) and I noticed that during some hours the natural ventilation is being used in a wrong away. For example: 02/27 the Tzone<Tout but the ventilation is used.
I attached an excel file that shows it. I am using the Florianopolis weather file (TRY1963.epw) .
Do you know what is happening?
Thanks for all,
Ana Paula. |