Hi, I am trying to model AHU with a heat recovery system in energy plus with DOAS feature. I am trying to look at the impact of my heat recovery effectiveness both sensible and latent to my size of DOAS cooling coil rate. However, it seems like the heat recovery effectiveness did not bring much impact to my DOAS cooling coil rate. For sizing system, here said that the sizing did not take into account the heat recovery, and there should be a difference in the annual simulation result. However, when I tried to have two difference efficiency (0.3 and 0.75) both the sizing result and the annual simulation result don't change.
When I take a look at the energy result, there is a difference in heat recovery total energy for efficiency 0.3 and 0.75. For the efficiency of 0.3 =
For the efficiency of 0.75 =
The total electric cooling energy for the building is the sum of heat pump electric energy and DOAS electric energy. Both DOAS and VRF system have the same system availability schedule, but why there is a big difference in energy result but not in cooling coil rate?
I am not quite familiar with the AHU modeling in Energy Plus. Thank you