Is it possible to delete a space infiltration effective leakage area object (SIELAO) in OpenStudio 1.12.0? I'm using the 90.1-2010 mid-rise apartment template and have built a model with 56 suites and 8 corridors, each assigned a thermal zone. I have connected my thermal zones to VAV with reheat for the corridors and a simple HVAC air loop (added OA system, var fan, and diffusers to an empty air loop) for the apartment suites which are heated via in-floor radiant heating (after reading this great post: https://unmethours.com/question/9177/simulate-heat-pump-for-hydronic-radiant-floor-and-duct-type-indoor-units/). I initially assigned a SIELAO to each of my two space types, but was getting errors like this:
Program Version,EnergyPlus, Version 8.5.0-c87e61b44b, YMD=2016.10.26 09:04,IDD_Version 8.5.0 *** IDF Context for following error/warning message: *** Note -- lines truncated at 300 characters, if necessary... *** 31135 ZoneInfiltration:EffectiveLeakageArea, *** indicated Name=Space Infiltration Effective Leakage Area 1 *** Only last 2 lines before error line shown..... *** 31136 Space Infiltration Effective Leakage Area 1, !- Name *** 31137 , !- Zone Name * Severe * IP: IDF line~31137 Error detected in Object=ZONEINFILTRATION:EFFECTIVELEAKAGEAREA, name=SPACE INFILTRATION EFFECTIVE LEAKAGE AREA 1 * ~~~ * Field [Zone Name] is required but was blank *** IDF Context for following error/warning message: *** Note -- lines truncated at 300 characters, if necessary... *** 31180 ZoneInfiltration:EffectiveLeakageArea, *** indicated Name=Space Infiltration Effective Leakage Area 2 *** Only last 2 lines before error line shown..... *** 31181 Space Infiltration Effective Leakage Area 2, !- Name *** 31182 , !- Zone Name * Severe * IP: IDF line~31182 Error detected in Object=ZONEINFILTRATION:EFFECTIVELEAKAGEAREA, name=SPACE INFILTRATION EFFECTIVE LEAKAGE AREA 2 * ~~~ * Field [Zone Name] is required but was blank * Warning * IP: Note -- Some missing fields have been filled with defaults. See the audit output file for details. * Severe * IP: Blank "required" fields found in input * Severe * IP: Out of "range" values and/or blank required fields found in input * Fatal * IP: Errors occurred on processing IDF file. Preceding condition(s) cause termination. ...Summary of Errors that led to program termination: ..... Reference severe error count=4 ..... Last severe error=IP: Out of "range" values and/or blank required fields found in input *** Warning: Node connection errors not checked - most system input has not been read (see previous warning). *** Fatal error -- final processing. Program exited before simulations began. See previous error messages. *** EnergyPlus Warmup Error Summary. During Warmup: 0 Warning; 0 Severe Errors. *** EnergyPlus Sizing Error Summary. During Sizing: 0 Warning; 0 Severe Errors. *** EnergyPlus Terminated--Fatal Error Detected. 1 Warning; 4 Severe Errors; Elapsed Time=00hr 00min 0.97sec
I then read a post that said it was better to assign them to the spaces directly. So I assigned them to each of my 64 spaces in the spaces properties tab under Air Flow; so then I had 64 SIELAOs for my spaces and still 2 in my space types - a total of 66 SIELAOs. I then tried deleting the SIELAOs from my space types tab simply by deleting the object names from my space types tab (haven't been able to find the remove orphaned objects measure), and of course, they don't delete; instead the SIELAO in my first space type reappears in the error message and the second one simply renamed itself to SIELAO 67. And the same errors appear:
Program Version,EnergyPlus, Version 8.5.0-c87e61b44b, YMD=2016.10.26 09:40,IDD_Version 8.5.0 *** IDF Context for following error/warning message: *** Note -- lines truncated at 300 characters, if necessary... *** 31135 ZoneInfiltration:EffectiveLeakageArea, *** indicated Name=Space Infiltration Effective Leakage Area 1 *** Only last 2 lines before error line shown..... *** 31136 Space Infiltration Effective Leakage Area 1, !- Name *** 31137 , !- Zone Name * Severe * IP: IDF line~31137 Error detected in Object=ZONEINFILTRATION:EFFECTIVELEAKAGEAREA, name=SPACE INFILTRATION EFFECTIVE LEAKAGE AREA 1 * ~~~ * Field [Zone Name] is required but was blank *** IDF Context for following error/warning message: *** Note -- lines truncated at 300 characters, if necessary... *** 31180 ZoneInfiltration:EffectiveLeakageArea, *** indicated Name=Space Infiltration Effective Leakage Area 67 *** Only last 2 lines before error line shown..... *** 31181 Space Infiltration Effective Leakage Area 67, !- Name *** 31182 , !- Zone Name * Severe * IP: IDF line~31182 Error detected in Object=ZONEINFILTRATION:EFFECTIVELEAKAGEAREA, name=SPACE INFILTRATION EFFECTIVE LEAKAGE AREA 67 * ~~~ * Field [Zone Name] is required but was blank * Warning * IP: Note -- Some missing fields have been filled with defaults. See the audit output file for details. * Severe * IP: Blank "required" fields found in input * Severe * IP: Out of "range" values and/or blank required fields found in input * Fatal * IP: Errors occurred on processing IDF file. Preceding condition(s) cause termination. ...Summary of Errors that led to program termination: ..... Reference severe error count=4 ..... Last severe error=IP: Out of "range" values and/or blank required fields found in input *** Warning: Node connection errors not checked - most system input has not been read (see previous warning). *** Fatal error -- final processing. Program exited before simulations began. See previous error messages. *** EnergyPlus Warmup Error Summary. During Warmup: 0 Warning; 0 Severe Errors. *** EnergyPlus Sizing Error Summary. During Sizing: 0 Warning; 0 Severe Errors. *** EnergyPlus Terminated--Fatal Error Detected. 1 Warning; 4 Severe Errors; Elapsed Time=00hr 00min 0.81sec
I am using a mid-rise apartment infiltration schedule set (default, since I didn't add it)...does this schedule need to be adjusted? I'm new at this all and running out of time to complete this analysis for a design competition (by Friday, Oct 28!), so any insight would be greatly appreciated! :)
