DOAS with Heat Recovery for AHU

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Hi, I am trying to model AHU with a heat recovery system in energy plus with DOAS feature. I am trying to look at the impact of my heat recovery effectiveness both sensible and latent to my size of DOAS cooling coil rate. However, it seems like the heat recovery effectiveness did not bring much impact to my DOAS cooling coil rate. For sizing system, here said that the sizing did not take into account the heat recovery, and there should be a difference in the annual simulation result. However, when I tried to have two difference efficiency (0.3 and 0.75) both the sizing result and the annual simulation result don't change.

When I take a look at the energy result, there is a difference in heat recovery total energy for efficiency 0.3 and 0.75. For the efficiency of 0.3 =

For the efficiency of 0.75 =

The total electric cooling energy for the building is the sum of heat pump electric energy and DOAS electric energy. Both DOAS and VRF system have the same system availability schedule, but why there is a big difference in energy result but not in cooling coil rate?

This is the sizing:system description that I used in my model.

Now, I tried to understand how it works in other simulation software, and the DOAS sizing is changed when I change the heat recovery efficiency. As explained here, the impact of heat recovery in Energy plus is not taken into account for the DOAS coil sizing. The software did the separate calculation with E+ by taking the condition of the air after the heat recovery coil at each time-step and sizing the heating and cooling coils in the air handling unit based on that condition rather than on the pure outside air condition.

I took a look at the system node temperature from E+ result, and found out that there is a difference DOAS cooling coil inlet temperature when I changed the heat recovery effectiveness. However, there is no change in the DOAS cooling coil capacity as explained above. I quite do not understand about the sizing calculation when there is DOAS with heat recovery system and how to model the AHU system correctly in Energy Plus.

I would be grateful to have any help for solving my problem. Thank you.