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EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
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Outdoor swimming pool object #8440

Open paul-caicedo opened 3 years ago

paul-caicedo commented 3 years ago

Issue overview

EnergyPlus has the indoor swimming pool object, but does not have an outdoor one. The object is necessary to account for the whole energy consumption in a building (internal plus external loads).

It would be necessary to account some variables like the wind speed, outdoor temperature, solar gain, among others to calculate all the losses.

paul-caicedo commented 3 years ago

A good reference of an actual software is Enerpool (https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/enerpool-30/7437). The help file contains an explanation of all the losses being considered in the model. Another reference is Transsolar from TRNSYS (http://trnsys.de/static/26bc4ce41fd74016a4bcfaac54023e10/type344_en.pdf)

samikhan60 commented 2 years ago

it would be great to have outdoor pool object in energy plus , i too agree that Enerpool would be a best reference . it is the high time for Energyplus to add the New feature.

Patolord commented 2 years ago

I would like this feature