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Water Cooled Jacket Equipment

asked 2026-05-26 15:08:39 -0500

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updated 2026-07-21 14:51:36 -0500

How would I model a water cooling jacket heat load?

I have a plant where evaporative cooling towers are sending cooling water to a heat exchanger in primary, open, circulating loop. The secondary, closed, loop serves always-on electric furnace that is cooled via a water cooled jacket. I am able to set up both loops, pumps, adiabatic pipes, the heat exchanger so it's connected between both loops, etc. But I don't know what I can use to represent the furnace. I am not interested in air-conditioning the space at this stage, I'm trying to establish the tower operation serving only the process load (furnace cooling). I know the heat flux from the electric heaters, and jacket inlet/outlet water temperatures and the flow rate. What can I use to represent this load? I tried Coil Cooling Water but it asks for airflow rates which is not the actual case. The Coil Electric Heating obviously cannot go into a water loop. And so on.

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What software are you using?

JasonGlazer's avatar JasonGlazer  ( 2026-07-14 06:50:10 -0500 )edit

Welp, should have clarified that. I'm using OpenStudio.

MKMKMK's avatar MKMKMK  ( 2026-07-14 10:54:54 -0500 )edit

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answered 2026-07-21 08:48:15 -0500

If I'm understanding correctly, if you are just trying to model a load on a plant loop, you can try using LoadProfile:Plant.

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