Weekdays and weekend schedule simulation on EnergyPlus

asked 2020-08-16 17:35:02 -0600

cerianipascual
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updated 2020-08-19 07:46:54 -0600

__AmirRoth__

4436 ●5 ●17 http://bleedinggreenna...

Hello,

I'm working on a project to simulate a simple house. But I want to do an schedule of occupation for weekdays and for weekend. The problem is that I'm not sure how to do properly. I know that is a very simple question but I'm new user of E+. Can you help me please? This is what I did. I know that is wrong or It is not working well.

Schedule:Compact,
    Sch_OcupSala,            !- Name
    SchLim_Fracao,           !- Schedule Type Limits Name
    Through: 12/31,          !- Field 1
    For: Weekdays,           !- Field 2
    Until: 7:00,             !- Field 3
    0,                       !- Field 4
    Until: 21:00,            !- Field 5
    .5,                      !- Field 6
    Until: 22:00,            !- Field 7
    1,                       !- Field 8
    Until: 24:00,            !- Field 9
    0,                       !- Field 10
    For: Weekend,            !- Field 11
    Until: 9:00,             !- Field 12
    0,                       !- Field 13
    Until: 11:00,            !- Field 14
    .5,                      !- Field 15
    Until: 22:00,            !- Field 16
    1,                       !- Field 17
    Until: 24:00,            !- Field 18
    0;                       !- Field 19

I need to simulate with different people occupation on weekdays (Monday to Friday) and weekend (Saturday and Sunday). But I'm not sure that I'm doing that in the correct Object >> Schedule:Compact

Thanks!

answered 2020-08-18 12:21:45 -0600

shorowit

11811 ●200 ●9 https://www.nrel.gov/b...

There are other schedule objects in EnergyPlus better suited to describing weekday/weekend schedules. I recommend the following approach using Schedule:Day, Schedule:Week, and Schedule:Year objects:

Schedule:Day:Interval,
  weekday day schedule,                   !- Name
  Fractional,                             !- Schedule Type Limits Name
  No,                                     !- Interpolate to Timestep
  05:00,                                  !- Time 1 {hh:mm}
  0.44,                                   !- Value Until Time 1
  24:00,                                  !- Time 2 {hh:mm}
  0.60;                                   !- Value Until Time 2

Schedule:Day:Interval,
  weekend day schedule,                   !- Name
  Fractional,                             !- Schedule Type Limits Name
  No,                                     !- Interpolate to Timestep
  05:00,                                  !- Time 1 {hh:mm}
  0.35,                                   !- Value Until Time 1
  24:00,                                  !- Time 2 {hh:mm}
  0.56;                                   !- Value Until Time 2

Schedule:Week:Daily,
  week schedule,                          !- Name
  weekend day schedule,                   !- Sunday Schedule:Day Name
  weekday day schedule,                   !- Monday Schedule:Day Name
  weekday day schedule,                   !- Tuesday Schedule:Day Name
  weekday day schedule,                   !- Wednesday Schedule:Day Name
  weekday day schedule,                   !- Thursday Schedule:Day Name
  weekday day schedule,                   !- Friday Schedule:Day Name
  weekend day schedule;                   !- Saturday Schedule:Day Name

Schedule:Year,
  year schedule,                          !- Name
  Fractional,                             !- Schedule Type Limits Name
  week schedule,                          !- Schedule:Week Name 1
  1,                                      !- Start Month 1
  1,                                      !- Start Day 1
  12,                                     !- End Month 1
  31;                                     !- End Day 1