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Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] No gas consumption on Boiler



Your boiler was operating and you saw gas consumption before. Now that 
you do not see gas consumption, is your boiler still operating (use 
boiler report variables)? What is the size of the boiler reported in the 
eio file? Are your zones still being heated? If the boiler size in the 
eio file is 0, you might have to manually size the boiler (some demand 
components were not seen by the plant when auto sizing). You could also 
try upgrading to V3 and see if the problem still exists.

stefan_thor_smith wrote:
>
> Dear E+ Support,
>
> I'm modelling a building with baseboard heater:water:convective object 
> providing heating to a
> given zone. The associated plant uses a Boiler:Simple object (using 
> natural gas) to heat the
> water in the plant loop (using plant sizing). From the simulation 
> results the baseboard heater
> appears to be heating the zone in which it is placed.
>
> I want to report on the energy consumption of the boiler so created a 
> Gas:Plant Report Meter.
> The results, however, show no gas energy consumption.
>
> Before adding the plant sizing I had set the flow rates in the system 
> manually. The Gas:Plant
> Report Meter was reporting a gas energy consumption but the zone 
> temperatures were lower
> than expected, which is why I added plant sizing.
>
> Based on the above information does anyone know of reasons why the 
> gas:plant report
> meter now reports zero gas energy use?
>
> Regards,
>
> Stefan
>
>  

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