Cooling consumption during winter
Hello everybody.
I'm having trouble with my model. I'm doing the simulation for a 80 m2 single home in Rome, Italy. My problem is that I get cooling consumption even in the winter. I thought that this could be due to the high solar radiation heat gain, so I added shadings, blinds and also I modified the model on Sketchup to add shading surfaces. Unfortunately this didn't solve the problem as I still got cooling during the winter. Also, (but this is a different problem), the fan flow is ridiculously high, up to 25 kg/s. I had to hard-sized the maximum flow to 50 m3/s, because if not, the system would not reach setpoint temperature for heating.
I tried everything so I decided to set the cooling thermostat setpoint for the winter high, (50ºC), and I still get cooling during the winter! I don't know what else to try! Please help
sounds like you're having an issue with system sizing, and that the system is sizing to meet an unrealistic internal load. What are you assuming for lighting and equipment power density? If you posted a link to your model, the forum could debug ti really fast.
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About what you mentioned on the lighting and equipment power density. I am using a fix value on W and then dimensionless schedules. That is supposed to be solved ,since I changed the values of the fraction radiant, fraction visible...to recommended values but I don't know anymore.
Also i get this in the .eio file:
The following error categories occurred. Consider correcting or noting. Loads Initialization did not Converge ..1) very high thermal mass such as very thick concrete (solution: increase max number of warmup . days in the BUILDING object); 2) moderate mass and inadequate space conditioning such that the building keeps getting warmer and warmer on successive days (solution: add HVAC, check buildinl properties, check infiltration is included, make sure HVAC properly controlled);
Infiltration is included, so that's not the problem
3) a soil layer modeled below the concrete slab - (solution remove this layer and read about ground temperatures in the Auxiliary Programs document). This is supposed to be resolved by adding and Energyplus Measure (slab) link textbut bcl is down so I haven't been able to try that yet
If you add a tag like 'openstudio' or 'energyplus', it should send email to the right people on the development teams.