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Is Zone people occupant count results in decimal number reasonable?

asked 2024-09-18 05:31:42 -0500

Thit
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updated 2024-09-18 06:23:38 -0500

Hello Everyone, what is the purpose of practice on occupant schedules to be in decimal numbers in office buildings when calculating people on Area/person=18.58 m² on DOE Ref Small Office. I just want number of people to be in whole numbers based on area/person calculation instead of People method in DOE model. PnnlTechnicalReport_16250 image description

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answered 2024-09-18 10:14:02 -0500

Greg Estep
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fractional people spread out across a building and through time makes sense.

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Do we have to round up 7.12 fractional people to be 8 people? But then I want to use this max number of people as multiplier value in Contam CO2 sources of generation rate 0.3L/min/person and using same schedule of 0.1,0.2.... as in Energyplus and 0.1*8=0.8 people doesn't make sense to me sir.

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