[Equest-users] LEED Compliance work arounds for errors caused by Equipment Controls and Load Management

[James Geers]

I have discovered another work around for a LEED compliance Error caused by
Equipment Controls and Load Management.

 



My Thermal storage system was causing the first error so I went into the INP
file and manually deleted the Equipment Controls and Load Management lines
of code. Then compliance engine worked correctly.  For the second set of
errors I went ahead and changed the plenums and unconditioned zones to
conditioned zones and then ran the compliance engine.

 

It seems that a lot of errors can be overcome by tweaking the INP file in a
similar fashion.

 

 

$ *********************************************************

$ **                                                     **

$ **                Metering & Misc HVAC                 **

$ **                                                     **

$ *********************************************************

 

$ ---------------------------------------------------------

$              Equipment Controls

$ ---------------------------------------------------------

 

"Equipment Control 1" = EQUIP-CTRL      

   TYPE             = COOLING

   CIRCULATION-LOOP = "Chilled Water Loop"

   LOADS-THRU-1     = 0.6

   LOADS-THRU-2     = 1

   LOADS-THRU-3     = 2

   PRORATE-LOAD     = NO

   CHILLERS-1       = ( "Chiller1 (Screw)" )

   CHILLERS-2       = ( "Chiller1 (Screw)" )

   CHILLERS-3       = ( "Chiller1 (Screw)" )

   CHILLERS-SEQ-1   = ( 1 )

   CHILLERS-SEQ-3   = ( 2 )

   STORE-SEQ-1      = 2

   STORE-SEQ-2      = 1

   STORE-SEQ-3      = 1

   STORE-MAX-LOAD-1 = 0.9

   STORE-MAX-LOAD-2 = 0.9

   ..

 

 

$ ---------------------------------------------------------

$              Load Management

$ ---------------------------------------------------------

 

"Load Management 1" = LOAD-MANAGEMENT 

   TYPE             = LOOP-LOAD

   CTRL-LOOP        = "Chilled Water Loop"

   LOADS-THRU-1     = 1.5

   LOADS-THRU-2     = 0.7

   EQUIP-CTRLS-1    = ( "Equipment Control 1" )

   EQUIP-CTRLS-2    = ( "Equipment Control 1" )

   ..

 

 

JAMES F. GEERS  |  ARCHITECT & LEED AP

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