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Heating and cooling panels and hot water with heat pump

Hi! I'm trying to model kind of complex model of heat pump plant for my future house. In reality it will look like this: the heat pump is connected to water tank. Water tank contains inside of itself two smaller, asymetrical tanks - the upper one, bigger, which operates with hotter water and later - water connections. And the lower one, smaller, which is only for central heating and cooling using radiant ceiling. The scheme is show below, as well as my attempts of modeling it. I made a radiant material, I put heat pump in thermal zones, as well as radiant floors and connected them for both heating and cooling to heat pump plant. Please tell me if I'm going in the right direction, or what needs to be changed. Also, how to make cooling side? Will I need another loop? I'm trying what I can on my own, but learning OpenStudio without your help is definietly not easy...

https://imgur.com/a/cpREDqx image description image description image description image description image description image description

Heating and cooling panels and hot water with heat pump

Hi! I'm trying to model kind of complex model of heat pump plant for my future house. In reality it will look like this: the heat pump is connected to water tank. Water tank contains inside of itself two smaller, asymetrical tanks - the upper one, bigger, which operates with hotter water and later - water connections. And the lower one, smaller, which is only for central heating and cooling using radiant ceiling. The scheme is show below, as well as my attempts of modeling it. I made a radiant material, I put heat pump in thermal zones, as well as radiant floors and connected them for both heating and cooling to heat pump plant. Please tell me if I'm going in the right direction, or what needs to be changed. Also, how to make cooling side? Will I need another loop? I'm trying what I can on my own, but learning OpenStudio without your help is definietly not easy...

https://imgur.com/a/cpREDqx image description image description image description image description image description image description

Heating and cooling panels and hot water with heat pump

Hi! I'm trying to model kind of complex model of heat pump plant for my future house. In reality it will look like this: the heat pump is connected to water tank. Water tank contains inside of itself two smaller, asymetrical tanks - the upper one, bigger, which operates with hotter water and later - water connections. And the lower one, smaller, which is only for central heating and cooling using radiant ceiling. The scheme is show below, as well as my attempts of modeling it. I made a radiant material, I put heat pump in thermal zones, as well as radiant floors and connected them for both heating and cooling to heat pump plant. Please tell me if I'm going in the right direction, or what needs to be changed. Also, how to make cooling side? Will I need another loop? I'm trying what I can on my own, but learning OpenStudio without your help is definietly not easy...

https://imgur.com/a/cpREDqx image description image description image description image description image description image description