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Control of ZONEHVAC:BASEBOARD:RADIANTCONVECTIVE:WATER flow rate with EMS

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am trying to overwrite the existing control of baseboard heater in EnergyPlus with an EMS program. There is no actuator for control of baseboard mass flow and I just defined an actuator on input mass flow node of baseboard and wrote a program to set this value for every time step. However, when i run the simulation, this control does not apply and the baseboard convector still operates with existing control algorithm in the energyPlus. Could you give me some hints on how to fix this problem. Any option beside modifying the EnergyPlus source codes?

Regards, Esmail

Control of ZONEHVAC:BASEBOARD:RADIANTCONVECTIVE:WATER flow rate with EMS

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am trying to overwrite the existing control of baseboard heater in EnergyPlus with an EMS program. There is no actuator for control of baseboard mass flow and I just defined an actuator on input mass flow node of baseboard and wrote a program to set this value for every time step. However, when i run the simulation, this control does not apply and the baseboard convector still operates with existing control algorithm in the energyPlus. Could you give me some hints on how to fix this problem. Any option beside modifying the EnergyPlus source codes?

Regards, Esmail