Hi!
I wrote here and to all of you many times but I don't know how to do by myself so I ask another time your help...
I am an Italian student and I am trying to use EnergyPlus and Google SketchUp (with openStudio) to study the heating requirements of a small health center in Tanzania for an international cooperation project by Engineers without Borders.
I had the results of my simulation (zone mean air temperature and sensible heating energy).
I want to have never less than 20°C.
Now I have to put in each zone (three in total) of the building a very simple heating system:
- a solar collector to warm water during the day
- a 2,000 liters barrel to store the water
- coils (simple coils, not fancoils because there's no electricity..) inside the building to warm the zones during the night with the hot water stored in the day...
after that I will add a pump and a valve to control the plant
I am trying to do it editing the IDF with no succes.
I made a New Obj in "Coil:Heating:Water" without results;
then I added a new solar collector but I don?t know how to add the 2,000 liters barrel to store the water?and mainly I don?t know how to create a unique heating system (I am studying the InputOutputReference guide, but I don?t understand which is the correct way to follow [I think I made confusion without understanding the correct use of branchlist, nodelist, plantloop? which is the correct instrument to create my very simple heating plant?])
Can someone give me a piece of advice, or some steps to follow? I don?t know how to complete my work?
(I attach the idf file)
thank you
Giovanni
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