[EnergyPlus_Support] Re: Peak cooling loads

["omarvelling" <laxoayi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jean, I appreciate what you mentioned in your reply but I'm not trying to size any system here, I'm only looking for peak cooling loads and that is why I used sizingperiod:weatherfiledays instead of sizingperiod:designday to determine the date/time that the peak load occurs on and its magnitude. Bearing that in mind, should'nt I expect to find the value of the peak load in the .eio file to match the value of the ideal loads air system sensible cooling rate in the output variable file at the same timestep?

Thanks a lot, your help is very much appreciated,
Omar

--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jean marais" <jeannieboef@...> wrote:
>
> The peak cooling load during your statistical weather year is "most probable". The design day is used to size your systems for that once in a hundred years hot day (the same day occuring over and over again untill building temperatures at the beginning and end of the day equal/match those of the day before and after) x sizing:parameter factors. the design day cooling loads are therefore much more than the statistical year's worst day. 
> 
> --- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "omarvelling" <laxoayi@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm trying to determine the peak cooling loads for my model. I used weather file days as my sizing period and also performed an annual simulation using an ideal loads air system to control the zones. I checked the time of the peak design sensible cooling load from the .eio output file and then checked the output variable file but found the value of the ideal loads air sensible cooling rate to be different from that of the .eio file at the same timestep. Is this normal? Am I missing something here? Why do the values of the sizing differ from the annual simulation although I'm using weather file days to perform sizing?
> > 
> > Thanks
> >
>




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