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As far as I know, in EnergyPlus (by itself) you'd need some sort of workaround, but there might be an EMS-based approach that I'm not aware of. A couple of options that might work if the simulation you wish to do doesn't couple with the energy simulation in any way are (1) write out all the linkage flows and put together the contaminant simulation yourself or (2) write out all the zone temperatures and use that to schedule a CONTAM model's zone temperature. I've used that second option several times with some success. The downside of scheduling all the zonal temperatures is that it takes some work to get that all connected up correctly and it is easy to make mistakes. CONTAM's cosimulation feature would do this more directly and might require less model-specific work. And it's probably a more general solution.
