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Unit inducing mistake when you set a Cooling Tower in OpenStudio / EnergyPlus

Only to inform other users, if you are setting Cooling Tower, if you use Evaporation Loss Mode: Loss Factor, you will need to set Evaporation Loss Factor.

The unit showed is percent/K. So, InputOuputReference indicates a typical value from 0,15 to 0,27 [percent/K].

But you need to set in program 0,0015 to 0,0027 to result in reasonable results. In other words, you need "to do the percent" before you set this parameter. If not, the results are unreals.

Unit inducing mistake when you set a Cooling Tower in OpenStudio / EnergyPlus

Only to inform other users, if you are setting Cooling Tower, if you use Evaporation Loss Mode: Loss Factor, you will need to set Evaporation Loss Factor.

The unit showed is percent/K. So, InputOuputReference indicates a typical value from 0,15 to 0,27 [percent/K].

But you need to set in program 0,0015 to 0,0027 to result in reasonable results. In other words, you need "to do the percent" before you set this parameter. If not, the results are unreals.