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Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Re: Radiant Floor vs Forced Air



German,
There is more to modeling radiant system than I imagined. 
After more review, some assistance from Javed Iqbal (who also posted in this thread) and various associated corrections, the differences between the systems have come into closer alignment with my expectations. the heated floor now performs somewhat better than the forced air system.

Your chart revealed a very helpful way to view the difference in performance between the two systems. I thank you for that! In the past, I have reviewed results primarily using tabular data and only recently have I begun using charts.  It takes some practice to understand well what the charts represent, but I'm enjoying the new insights and becoming better at choosing which data to display.

Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones.

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:30 PM, ecoeficiente@xxxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support] <EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 

Hi Jim, my two cents:


I see clearly different air temperature curves. Heated floor model is not fast enough to reach setpoint temperature during the day while keeps temperature drop rate during the night.
I think that the contained not met loads is due to the ZoneControl:Thermostat:OperativeTemperature object in the heated floor model idf. Removing it, not met hours get duplicated (being based on air temperature).

Just looking at the temperature curves I can imagine that the difference in heat consumption is proportional to the areas I've painted in red and yellow in the results for air temperature:

 
Regards,

Germán 

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