Optimal operation of plant chillers (EnergyPlus)
Hi! Now i am running a simulation of central plant system equipped with absorption chillers. The supply side has 3 chillers with headerd pump and common pipe. the following is the input parameter of the plant side system. i want each chiller to operate optimally with optimal part load ratio depending on the load(of course when multiple chillers operate, part load ratio could be below optimal PLR). so i expect that 'Pump Operating Pumps Count' should increase from 1 to 2, and from 2 to 3 depending on the load. but Pump Operating Pumps Count increases from 1 to 3 without being counted as 2. how can i control optimally these chillers?
I have sort of the same issue here. The model I am working on contains 4 chillers with 4 pumps attached to it. I have hard sized the chillers accordingly. But I figured from the results that each of all the 4 pumps gets sized to the overall loop capacity of all 4 chillers. When I tried autosizing the pumps, the model was throwing Fatal errors stating
Calculated efficiency higher than 100%
. I am using Pump:VariableSpeed and 4 electric chillers. Kindly help me resolve this issue.