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Add sizing data for VAV for case study #101

Closed mwetter closed 2 years ago

mwetter commented 2 years ago

This issue is to add to the branch issue92_caseStudyFullHVAC the sizing data from the EnergyPlus simulations.

mwetter commented 2 years ago

The development branch is issue101_caseStudyFullHVAC_sizingDataVAV.

Todo

mwetter commented 2 years ago

Note that the heating water temperatures and heating air flow rates at design conditions need to be changed. With 45/35C, we get

Error: The following error was detected at time: 0
  eps_nominal out of bounds, eps_nominal = 1.87907
  To achieve the required heat transfer rate at epsilon=0.8, set |T_a1_nominal-T_a2_nominal| = 75.1628
  or increase flow rates. The current parameters result in 
  CMin_flow_nominal = 339.181
  CMax_flow_nominal = 2039.5
  Failed condition: vav.VAVBox[1].terHea.eps_nominal > 0 and vav.VAVBox[1].terHea.eps_nominal < 1

FixInitials:Init: Integrator failed to start model.

E.g., for the air and water flow rates from EnergyPlus, we would need 75K temperature difference between heating water supply and air inlet temperature.

mwetter commented 2 years ago

@yanchenpnnl: There seems to be something wrong with the flow rates from EnergyPlus. I transferred them to issue101_caseStudyFullHVAC_sizingDataVAV, commit cb1238d8a8f19d6c0f79020a6faff08e5be268ef. The terminal box computes eps_nominal = QHea_nominal/( CMin_flow * dT_nominal) where dT_nominal is the design temperature difference of the inlets. With this, the modeI gets eps_nominal = 1.87907 which is not physical, and the model stops after initialization due to an assert that checks for eps_nominal. Can you please verify what heat exchanger efficiencies result from the EnergyPlus design calculations with 45/35C heating temperatures, and 13 degC AHU discharge temperature. The above error indicates that we would need 13+75=88 C heating water temperature to have a heat exchanger effectiveness of 0.8. Note that CMin_flow_nominal is from medium 2, which is the air-side. All updated sizes are in SizingParameter.mo.