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Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Storage tank



Here is additional information from ticket 1126 at the EnergyPlus help 
desk - http://energyplus.helpserve.com

Use this schedule in the PlantEquipmentOperationSchemes object to make the "loop" (and therefore the pump on the loop) turn on when solar radiation is higher than 250 and turn off otherwise.



Edwin Lee wrote:
>
>
> There may be an easier way to do this, but if you are running only one 
> or two locations, it may be easy enough to do this process:
>
>
> 1) View .epw in excel, split by comma (don't re-save .epw!)
> 2) Use IF(SolarRadiationCell > 250, 1, 0) style to create a column of 
> 1's and 0's for every hour of the year
> 3) Move these to a text file
> 4) Add Schedule:File object to your IDF to reference this external file
>
> If you are doing many locations this would be a bit tougher, and there 
> may be an easier way, but for a single location it seems pretty 
> straightforward.
>
> Edwin
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:52 AM, davylagre <davylagre@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:davylagre@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     I want to make run my solar pump only when solar radiation is
>     greater than 250 W/m² for example...
>     So, acoording to you, is it possible to create a schedule (which
>     is calling my weather data) to do this?
>     Hoping my question was understandable.
>     Regards
>
>
> 

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