[EnergyPlus_Support] simulating a greenhouse

[Andrés Montero <amontero75@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

My name is Andrés. At the moment I am a PhD student in Tarragona 
(Spain) in a program of HVAC and Energetic Efficiency in buildings. 
I've been assigned with a project related to climatization go 
greenhouses, so I was wondering if I can use EnergyPlus in order to 
calculate thermal loads, and after this set up a series of 
refrigeration systems so I could simulate and get results for the 
best of all systems.

I don't know how to fill the idf in the case of walls and windows; 
I'm not sure since as you may know the greenhouses are built of metal 
structure and plastic. So, can someone help to decide whether I use 
no walls and work only with windows (filling with plastic parameters -
 I don't know if I can work only with windows) or the walls must be 
fill with plastic parameters (not sure, since I don't have in walls 
the parameters used in glass). I'd like to take in account some of 
the metal structure since I think the metal structure will have 
influence in the thermal calculations (or not?).

Thanks


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