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How to keep air loop flow rate constant?

Hello everybody,

I have been trying to model something specific these days and since I did not manage to achieve it and did not find relevant information, I thought of asking here. I would be grateful if somebody can help me out.

I have an AirLoop which provides ventilation to various thermal zones of a school, based on a schedule (low ventilation during night, high during day). I want to keep this schedule but I also need to add a cooling device (DX single speed) of certain capacity and try to see whether thermal comfort can be achieved based on these two parameters (cooling capacity, ventilation rate). The DX single speed is activated based on a setpoint manager "Warmest zone" (activated when the highest temperature of the served thermal zones reaches a specific temperature).

My problem is that when the cooling load cannot be satisfied, the ventilation rate is increased and does not follow the schedule that I have imposed. Consequently, I cannot know what the conditions would be under the real mass flow rate.

Any thoughts or ideas that could help me? Thanks for your time

Cordially, Jore

How to keep air loop flow rate constant?

Hello everybody,

I have been trying to model something specific these days and since I did not manage to achieve it and did not find relevant information, I thought of asking here. I would be grateful if somebody can help me out.

I have an AirLoop which provides ventilation to various thermal zones of a school, based on a schedule (low ventilation during night, high during day). I want to keep this schedule but I also need to add a cooling device (DX single speed) of certain capacity and try to see whether thermal comfort can be achieved based on these two parameters (cooling capacity, ventilation rate). The DX single speed is activated based on a setpoint manager "Warmest zone" (activated when the highest temperature of the served thermal zones reaches a specific temperature).

My problem is that when the cooling load cannot be satisfied, the ventilation rate is increased and does not follow the schedule that I have imposed. Consequently, I cannot know what the conditions would be under the real mass flow rate.

Any thoughts or ideas that could help me? Thanks for your time

Cordially, Jore

How to keep air loop flow rate constant?as the one imposed by schedule? and not automatically varied according to cooling load

Hello everybody,

I have been trying to model something specific these days and since I did not manage to achieve it and did not find relevant information, I thought of asking here. I would be grateful if somebody can help me out.

I have an AirLoop which provides ventilation to various thermal zones of a school, based on a schedule (low ventilation during night, high during day). I want to keep this schedule but I also need to add a cooling device (DX single speed) of certain capacity and try to see whether thermal comfort can be achieved based on these two parameters (cooling capacity, ventilation rate). The DX single speed is activated based on a setpoint manager "Warmest zone" (activated when the highest temperature of the served thermal zones reaches a specific temperature).

My problem is that when the cooling load cannot be satisfied, the ventilation rate is increased and does not follow the schedule that I have imposed. Consequently, I cannot know what the conditions would be under the real mass flow rate.

Any thoughts or ideas that could help me? Thanks for your time

Cordially, Jore

How to keep air loop flow rate as the one imposed by schedule? and not automatically varied according to cooling load

Hello everybody,

I have been trying to model something specific these days and since I did not manage to achieve it and did not find relevant information, I thought of asking here. I would be grateful if somebody can help me out.

I have an AirLoop which provides ventilation to various thermal zones of a school, based on a schedule (low ventilation during night, high during day). I want to keep this schedule but I also need to add a cooling device (DX single speed) of certain capacity and try to see whether thermal comfort can be achieved based on these two parameters (cooling capacity, ventilation rate). The DX single speed is activated based on a setpoint manager "Warmest zone" (activated when the highest temperature of the served thermal zones reaches a specific temperature).

My problem is that when the cooling load cannot be satisfied, the ventilation rate is increased and does not follow the schedule that I have imposed. Consequently, I cannot know what the conditions would be under the real mass flow rate.

Any thoughts or ideas that could help me? Thanks for your time

Cordially, Jore

How to keep air loop flow rate as the one imposed by schedule? and not automatically varied according to cooling load

Hello everybody,

I have been trying to model something specific these days and since I did not manage to achieve it and did not find relevant information, I thought of asking here. I would be grateful if somebody can help me out.

I have an AirLoop which provides ventilation to various thermal zones of a school, based on a schedule (low ventilation during night, high during day). I want to keep this schedule but I also need to add a cooling device (DX single speed) of certain capacity and try to see whether thermal comfort can be achieved based on these two parameters (cooling capacity, ventilation rate). The DX single speed is activated based on a setpoint manager "Warmest zone" (activated when the highest temperature of the served thermal zones reaches a specific temperature).

My problem is that when the cooling load cannot be satisfied, the ventilation rate is increased and does not follow the schedule that I have imposed. Consequently, I cannot know what the conditions would be under the real mass flow rate.

Any thoughts or ideas that could help me? Thanks for your time

Cordially, Jore