[Equest-users] waste heat from gas generators in 3.64

[Grammy]

Hi, James,

   1. put a direct loading on the loop, that will make a flow on the loop
   2. when you successfully run with this slight boiler, try to delete it
   and re-run, I have done this in eQuest 3.63, it works.


On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:43 AM, James Hansen <JHANSEN at ghtltd.com> wrote:

> Has anyone ever had success retrieving waste heat from a gas generator in
> eQuest?  V3.64 makes it fairly simple to set up – define a gas generator,
> and create a heat recovery hot water loop that receives heat from the flue
> gases.
>
>
>
> However, I connected this to an absorption chiller, and it gave me an error
> that there was no heating equipment attached to the loop.  Even if I forced
> the gas generator to run 8760 hrs a year, still had the same result.  I put
> in a 0.001 MBH gas-fired boiler connected to the loop, but there is still
> basically no flow and no heat recovery occurring into the heat recovery hot
> water loop from the generators.
>
>
>
> Don’t really know what I’m doing wrong.  Has anyone had luck?  Would love
> to send the files to the group, but I can’t.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
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