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Hello. I want to plot the hourly Zone Infiltration Mass Flow Rate of the building in energy plus but as I have 27 zones and in the output: variable I cannot define the whole building in the key value, it gives me the result for each zone separately. How can I see the hourly Zone Infiltration Mass Flow Rate for all zones?
You can use a Meter:Custom object to accomplish this. In particular, the EnergyPlus documentation has an example of calculating building-level Infiltration Heat Loss & Heat Gain by summing zone-level output variables:
Meter:Custom,
Building Infiltration Heat Loss, !- Name
Generic, !- Resource Type
*, !- Key Name 1
Zone Infiltration Total Heat Loss Energy; !- Output Variable Name 1
Meter:Custom,
Building Infiltration Heat Gain, !- Name
Generic, !- Resource Type
*, !- Key Name 1
Zone Infiltration Total Heat Gain Energy; !- Output Variable Name 1You can then request hourly output for the custom meter.
Thank you very much for your time and help.
The field was renamed in more recent EnergyPlus versions but the inputs are the same. You should still use "Generic".
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Last updated: Oct 08 '21
