Hi Omar,
I think the best way to do this is to connect the solar collectors to a Hot Water storage tank, and then connect the storage tank to the supply side of the second PlantLoop. To get a pretty direct coupling between the two loops, make the storage tank volume small. I have
tried using the water/water heat exchanger for something other than free cooling with poor results.
Karen
Omar,
Not sure about the answer to your question. The plate heat exchanger is basically meant to allow free cooling and thats how its operation scheme is set up internally in EnergyPlus.
But you can try connecting heat exchanger as you desire and see the results. If you are trying to model Integrated Collector Storage (ICS), this technology will be added to
EnergyPlus in the upcoming release.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Hope this helps.
Chandan
On 1/19/2012 8:02 AM, Omar Tabuyo wrote:
A fluid/fluid heat exchanger is designed to couple one condenser loop to another condenser loop, but i need to connect two plant loop because there is a heat exchanger among solar collectors and the storage tank.
Is it possible to create this cofiguration in Energy Plus? Could I couple two plant loop with a heat exchanger?