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[EnergyPlus_Support] Re: ASHRAE 90.1-2007 App G G3.1.3.2 boiler sizing





Hi Julien,

Thank you very much for your useful inputs.

However, when checking LEED table 1.4 form, it looks the case is different for boilers and chillers, there should be one HW pump even if two boilers are required (the hot water loop must be primary only), while one pump for each chiller shall be required together with one pump each at condenser side (CW pump). And for Chilled Water Loop they do require primary-secondary setting so the primary subloop should use constant pump(s).

Is above observation right?

Thanks a lot.

Sean


---In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, <julien.marrec@...> wrote :

G3.1.3.5 is pretty clear on that

G3.1.3.5 Hot-Water Pumps (Systems 1, 5, and 7).
The baseline building design hot-water pump power shall
be 19 W/gpm. The pumping system shall be modeled as
primary-only with continuous variable flow. Hot-water
systems serving 120,000 ft2 or more shall be modeled
with variable-speed drives, and systems serving less than
120,000 ft2 shall be modeled as riding the pump curve.

So, just one pump (put it just after the supply side inlet or just before the supply side outlet), either constant or variable.



By the way for chillers, when they say (G3.1.3.10) that if you have 300 tons or more you need a primary secondary pumping system... That doesn't mean you should put one pump per chiller, and then one pump on the supply side. What it means is that you should have a constant speed pump on the supply side (typically right after the supply inlet node) and one variable speed pump on the demand side, typically right after the demand side supply inlet node. If you use the HVACTemplate:ChillerWaterLoop and select ConstantPrimaryVariableSecondaryas pumping configuration, that's what you get...See attached





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2016-02-18 12:09 GMT+01:00 seanking.1970@... [EnergyPlus_Support] <EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
 

Also another question arisen from the same section: if 2 boilers are required, do we need to model two pumps (branch pumps) with one serves each boiler or just need one pump to serve both boilers please?


Thank you very much.

Sean




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