Zone Infiltration Mass Flow Rate of the building

asked 2021-10-08 09:50:15 -0600

Melina
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updated 2021-10-08 16:53:30 -0600

Aaron Boranian

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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?

answered 2021-10-08 10:18:04 -0600

shorowit

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updated 2021-10-08 10:18:30 -0600

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 1

You can then request hourly output for the custom meter.