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Heat Recovery Efficiency to Sensible Heat Recovery

asked 2018-10-31 09:32:31 -0500

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shorowit

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Hi, I used to do a lot of PHPP (Passive House design tool) where I input Heat Recovery Efficiency (usually 0,75-0,85). Now I am trying to make a test in Energy Plus and I do not know where to find data for sensible heat recovery. Can I convert the value of Heat Recovery Efficieny to Sensible Heat Recovery?

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answered 2018-10-31 10:48:38 -0500

Aaron Boranian

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For air-to-air heat exchangers, you will likely want to use one of two objects in EnergyPlus:

HeatExchanger:AirToAir:FlatPlate - has input field that sets ratio of primary air to secondary air (h * A)
HeatExchanger:AirToAir:SensibleAndLatent - has input field that sets sensible effectiveness and latent effectiveness at different heating and cooling air flows

You can read more about these two AAHX objects in this post.

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Thank you for your answer, I will try with that

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