how to add a construction to removable insulation?

asked 2025-01-09 04:05:23 -0600

Alaa Salah's avatar

updated 2025-01-09 09:03:13 -0600

Aaron Boranian's avatar

hello, how can I add a construction of insulation material and another layer of PCM to a movable insulation? it accepts only materials. as shown in the idf example

SurfaceControl:MovableInsulation,

Outside,                 !- Insulation Type

Zn001:Wall001,           !- Surface Name

SINGLEPANEOPAQUE,        !- Material Name

ON;                      !- Schedule Name
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Is the question: "how to add 2 layers (1x insulation, 1x PCM) as a single SurfaceControl:MovableInsulation object"? If so, I suspect a composite layer (part insulation, part PCM) needs to be derived, similar to how repetitive thermal bridging and insulation are often integrated as a single composite material layer.

Denis Bourgeois's avatar Denis Bourgeois  ( 2025-01-09 09:55:58 -0600 )edit

I think Denis is correct. E+ can only take a single material as movable insulation. I'm not sure about using PCMs at all for this layer, I've never tried that but if it works make sure you use ConductionFiniteDifference. From the IOreference, it implies that you could do a movable insulation layer to both the inside and the outside of the wall, but I'm not sure that would help you.

JasonGlazer's avatar JasonGlazer  ( 2025-01-16 06:37:32 -0600 )edit
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