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Is it possible to meter different "Fan" annual electricity consumptions separately in OS?

asked 2015-07-09 04:59:52 -0600

Daniel Mak's avatar

updated 2015-07-11 16:56:48 -0600

Dear all,

As a requirement in the LEED submission, I need to report the exhaust fan energy consumption for the car park separately.

It seems that there is only one item in the "Energy Meters" section of the OpenStudio report which is "Fan:Electricity". Is there a way to break this down into different fans so I can extract the information for a particular fan only?

Regards, Daniel

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answered 2015-07-09 08:37:04 -0600

updated 2015-07-10 08:12:24 -0600

In EnergyPlus the End Use Subcategory field can be used for reporting. In OpenStudio, most of these fields have not been exposed yet (e.g. ElectricEquipment, Fan:ConstantVolume, Fan:VariableVolume), but for the Fan:ZoneExhaust it is. Entering a name such as "Parking Garage" will add a subcategory to the ABUPS End Use Subcategory table and one to the Energy Meters table.

Field: End-Use Subcategory

Allows you to specify a user-defined end-use subcategory, e.g., “Central System”, etc. A new meter for reporting is created for each unique subcategory (ref: Output:Meter objects). Subcategories are also reported in the ABUPS table. If this field is omitted or blank, the fan will be assigned to the “General” end-use subcategory.

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This will report the total annual energy and demand for the exhaust fans. To get the total exhaust fan power for LEED, I use the Equipment Summary report which contains a table for Fans listing the rated electric power. There's also a table for Pumps to check the W/gpm values in this report.

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Dear Matthew thanks for the answer

Daniel Mak's avatar Daniel Mak  ( 2015-07-09 19:44:46 -0600 )edit
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answered 2015-07-09 14:54:23 -0600

If you need more detail, you can also request the timeseries fan power values for each fan by using the Add Output Variable Measure to request the output called Fan Electric Power. If you check out the eplusout.rdd file, you can see a list of other variables you can request as well.

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Thank for the reply, I will check it out later.

Daniel Mak's avatar Daniel Mak  ( 2015-07-09 19:46:51 -0600 )edit

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