[Equest-users] Refrigeration Modeling in eQuest and eQuest (refrig. Version)

[Nicolas Johnson]

Since energyplus already has a good baseline for supermarkets in
different cities, my partner and I have decided to start there.  Maybe
we will explore eQuest more later, but for the purposes of this class
energyplus might better suite our needs.

Thanks for the responses!

Nick

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Austin Hermsen <ahermsen at enermodal.com> wrote:
> I have used used the refrigeration somewhat successfully. There can be some
> problems with certain water side systems. I remember having to remove my DHW
> Loop. I think central plant systems in general don't transfer well, try
> switching your systems to packaged units. If you post some of your errors I
> might be able to be more helpful.
>
> - Austin
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Nicolas Johnson <skohcl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am a ME student @ Portland State University attempting to model a
>> grocery store as my final project for my building energy modeling
>> class.
>>
>> We have mostly dealt with eQuest and my instructor is encouring us to
>> venture into the "unknown" within eQuest to model things we are
>> currently don't know how to model.
>>
>> In this instance I really don't know how to model refrigeration for a
>> grocery store, and have been trying to get the refrigeration version
>> of eQuest to work for some time now.  Does anyone have a simple
>> tutorial or a help file that would make this possible?
>>
>> An example of some of the errors I am getting would be, when I make a
>> file in eQuest 3.55 normal version using the wizard and try to import
>> it into the refrigeration version I get 28 errors, some bdl and some
>> others.  And when I try to import the refrigeration examples into the
>> normal version there are even more errors, why don't these two
>> seeminly simlar programs communicate well together?
>>
>> Anyways, I know people have had problems with the refrigeration
>> version in the past, and I also know it has been succesfully used by
>> many professional modelers on large scale projects before, so if
>> anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Nick
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