[Equest-users] e-QUEST and Passive Evaporative Cooling Towers

[Sami, Vikram]

Rima,
I'm not sure I quite understand what you are looking for here.
When you say passive evaporative cooling towers - are you thinking of downdraught chimneys? In which case I'm pretty sure eQUEST cannot model it and there's probably to credible workaround for it either.
Also - are you looking to model all three simultaneously (No active cooling, but with passive cooling & natural ventilation) or in separate runs?

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 Rima Daghman
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 6:33 AM
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Subject: [Equest-users] e-QUEST and Passive Evaporative Cooling Towers


Hi all,

I am relatively new to e-QUEST, but was considering using it for my thesis. I am working on Passive Evaporative Cooling Towers. I was thinking of taking a building prototype (office building) and running an e-QUEST simulation

1.      Building with NO active cooling

2.       Building with Passive Evaporative Cooling ( from the cooling  tower)

3.       Building with natural ventilation ( possibility)

My questions are:

1.      I know e-QUEST has Evaporative Cooling, but can it be in a passive way?

2.       I was thinking of combing the UFAD as a distribution system for the cool air that comes out of the cooling tower, so does e-QUEST deal with UFAD?

I'm still in the planning stage of my thesis, so if anyone has ideas or suggestions for a better way of going forward with this, I'm open to them. All your tips will be very appreciated,

Thanks in advance,

Rima Daghman
Gradate Student, MS in Built Environment,
Design School,
Arizona State University,




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