[Equest-users] Heating energy backwards

[R B]

Jacob,
I looked at your file. If you look at the cfm's for each zone, the proposed
zones have more cfm than baseline. If the cfm is more than required, it
leads to more reheat energy also - since you have min flows in the 30-40%
range. You might want to check that or see why the baseline cfm numbers are
lower than proposed (since lighting is reduced to almost half in proposed).
Hope this helps.
-Rohini


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:10 PM, jacob goodman <jacobgoodman22 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the reply! Let me know if you catch anything obvious or any
> thoughts in general. I don't want to spam the list so I'll just send it to
> anyone who replies. Thanks so much and I wish there was some kind of hourly
> help line/service for eQeust or LEED modeling for those of us not fortunate
> enough to have been doing this for 10 years or have a colleague who has.
>
> J
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:50 AM, R B <slv3sat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you send me (or the mailing list) your .inp, .pd2, (for both baseline
>> and proposed) and weather file, I can take a look at it. If you send the
>> file to the mailing list, some other folks might also look at it and give
>> you feedback.
>> Thanks,
>> -Rohini
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, jacob goodman <jacobgoodman22 at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Dear eQuest community,
>>>
>>> I am working on a LEED project and have an issue where my higher
>>> efficiency proposed system is using significantly more gas than the
>>> baseline system. The proposed system is central AHU with zone VAV terminals
>>> fed by 96% AFUE boilers. The Baseline system is Appendix G system type 3
>>> PSZ with 80% efficient gas furnace. I know there are tons of factors that
>>> go into this. I noticed that the higher baseline fan energy and higher
>>> lighting load are doing some of the work that the furnaces would do, but
>>> this doesn't account for the whole difference. Anything that jumps out
>>> comparing these two systems would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> since I have no one with greater eQuest knowledge in house, I am open to
>>> a few hours consulting with someone at a reasonable hourly rate if you
>>> think this could be resolved.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jacob
>>>
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