[Equest-users] eQuest - Electricity consumption for cooling in winter

Sami, Vikram vikram.sami at zgf.com
Thu Nov 14 12:23:04 PST 2013


Also – do you have an airside economizer? If so – you might be running in economizer mode which will show up on your fans, but not space cooling.

Vikram Sami
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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Nick Caton
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:20 AM
To: František Bartoš; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] eQuest - Electricity consumption for cooling in winter

Hi Frantisek,

A few shotgun thoughts:


·         Does that space have unmet hours (see airside tab summary report after a simulation)?

·         Does the corresponding zone have a cooling thermostat schedule?  Not defining one means the zone won’t call for cooling.

·         Is the zone defined as “conditioned” and not “unconditioned” or “plenum?”

·         Are the other spaces sucking all the internal heat gains out through the partitions?

·         Is there exterior exposure (envelope) incident on the space doing the same?

This all assumes you’ve actually defined your computer server room as a distinct zone… If you only defined a percentage activity allocation for the server area within a larger zone (in wizards), your model likely isn’t detailed enough to capture a simultaneous call for heating and cooling between the different zones/systems.

If none of this helps, you might consider uploading your files to the mailing list to allow others to take a look.  I suggest doing a File --> Save As… into a new directory, then attaching the few files resulting.  Also be mindful to specify which version of eQuest you’re using.

Best of luck!
~Nick
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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org> [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of František Bartoš
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:19 AM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>
Subject: [Equest-users] eQuest - Electricity consumption for cooling in winter

Hello,

I have a question about eQuest modeling - I created a model of quite simple rectangle Office building, but in results I have no consumption of electricity for cooling during winter (november - march) although in area specification I have 6 % of floor area specified as a Computer server room (data centre) with 100 % plug load in occupied and unoccupied times.

The building is in Prague (Czech republic) and from my experiences based on real dates from existing building there´s always consumption of cooling energy for data server rooms in winter in this location.

Do you know,  where the problem can? What parameter could I insert wrongly?

Thanks for advices.

Frantisek
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