[Equest-users] First time modeling cooling towers, Need Help! :)

[Kevin Felt]

I am trying to model water source heat pumps attached to a loop
consisting of a cooling tower and boiler.  

I have a few of questions:

 

How do I do this the right way?  The EER of the heat pumps is quite a
bit better than baseline, but my cooling use came out higher.

 

1.        I assigned the boiler to the same loop as the cooling tower,
but cannot assign that loop to the heating side of the heat pumps.  Do I
have to have the boilers on a separate HW loop?

2.       Under the Cooling tower on the "Fluid and Dry Coolers" tab
under operation is "Heat Exchanger".  Do I have to specify the heat
exchanger in order for the cooling tower to operate properly or is
filling in the Basic Specifications enough?

3.       If I specify the heat exchanger, how do I know which to pick?
I have a  cooling tower that has water running over the pipes that
contain the fluid I am trying to cool that also has a fan to promote
evaporative  cooling.  Is this air to water, water to air, water to
water?

4.       I don't know where to put the size of the electric heater for
Pan Freeze Protection, all I could see is where I picked electric.

 

 

Any help will be appreciated.

 

 

Kevin A. Felt

Kevin  A. Felt

Senior Technical Analyst

QA Designee

MaGrann Associates

856-722-9799

 

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