[EnergyPlus_Support] Help on Vapor Compression with Customized HX Designs in Energy Plus

["Kwesi Mensah kwesimensah7@xxxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support]" <EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Engineers and Experts,

Please I am very new to EnergyPlus and I need guidance and direction on what to do. Apparently I do not know where to begin from actually.

Problem Details:

I am to model a vapor compression system with the Heat Exchange Configurations as showed in the Figure attached.

I have a few questions that I will appreciate to receive information on as follows;

1. In EnergyPlus, can a direction expansion vapor compression system be modelled component by component and then afterwards, connected together? (i.e. Compressor, Evaporator, Expansion device, and condenser)

2. With the Heat Exchanger configurations, is there a similar example file that i may refer to in order to modify to suit my  purpose? Or, how will be the best way to model and imitate this problem? The water line in the ( Fig. A) is a secondary fluid line for free cooling purposes. And so for certain operating conditions, the mode will be switched between free-cooling (use of water) and vapor compression (circulating refrigerant) 

3. If there are existing complete vapor compression systems, is it possible to edit the example file in order to include these designs for my simulation purposes?

4. Which other programs (Apart from EnergyPlus) may be best for simulating a complete vapor compression system with these HX configurations without much complications.

Thank you very much and Looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours friends in urgent need and support.

Kwesi Mensah 

Ph.D. Candidate
Mechanical Engineering Department.

Hanbat National University-South Korea

Email: kwesimensah@xxxxxxxxxxxx/kwesimensah7@xxxxxxxxx /

Mobile: +82-010-8695-1702 (Korea)

skype ID: kwesi.mensah83

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