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Hi,

For my masterthesis I have to perform a simulation of a passive school building equipped with 5 AHU's for heat recovery and 4 of them have adiabatic cooling. I did manage to put the building and the HVAC components into Energyplus. For the HVAC system I used Open Studio and copy pasted into my E+ file. But I keep getting a lot of errors and can't manage it to fix them:

* Warning * Calculated design heating load for zone=CAFETARIA is zero. * ~~~ * Check Sizing:Zone and ZoneControl:Thermostat inputs. * Warning * Calculated design heating load for zone=CLASSROOMS EAST is zero. * ~~~ * Check Sizing:Zone and ZoneControl:Thermostat inputs.

... and this for all my zones,

AND

* Warning * ManageSizing: Calculated Heating Design Air Flow Rate for System=AIR LOOP HVAC 1 is zero. * ~~~ * Check Sizing:Zone and ZoneControl:Thermostat inputs. * Warning * ManageSizing: Calculated Heating Design Air Flow Rate for System=AIR LOOP HVAC 2 is zero. * ~~~ * Check Sizing:Zone and ZoneControl:Thermostat inputs. * Warning * ManageSizing: Calculated Heating Design Air Flow Rate for System=AIR LOOP HVAC 4 is zero. * ~~~ * Check Sizing:Zone and ZoneControl:Thermostat inputs.

AND

* Warning * GetAirPathData: AirLoopHVAC="AIR LOOP HVAC 1" has no Controllers. * Warning * GetAirPathData: AirLoopHVAC="AIR LOOP HVAC 2" has no Controllers. * Warning * GetAirPathData: AirLoopHVAC="AIR LOOP HVAC 3" has no Controllers. * Warning * GetAirPathData: AirLoopHVAC="AIR LOOP HVAC 4" has no Controllers. * Warning * GetAirPathData: AirLoopHVAC="AIR LOOP HVAC 5" has no Controllers.

So i did some research and tried to fix it:

• I checked the thermostats but them seem fine to me. (link
• Also I tried to add compact schedules for the internal gains only for the design days. link text

But then I just get additional errors:

* Warning * GetInternalHeatGains: Zone="KITCHEN" occupant density is extremely high. * ~~~ * Occupant Density=[20] person/m2.
* ~~~ * Occupant Density=[5.066E-002] m2/person. Problems in Temperature Out of Bounds may result.

... I checked these schedules, but again they look fine?

Everything I know is from the internet and some reading, so I am not that experienced with Energyplus. Could anyone that is more experienced with Energyplus take a look? Please, let me know and I will send you the IDF-files.

Hi,

For my masterthesis I have to perform a simulation of a passive school building equipped with 5 AHU's for heat recovery and 4 of them have adiabatic cooling. I did manage to put the building and the HVAC components into Energyplus. For the HVAC system I used Open Studio and copy pasted into my E+ file. But I keep getting a lot of errors and can't manage it to fix them:

* Warning * Calculated design heating load for zone=CAFETARIA is zero. * ~~~ * Check Sizing:Zone and ZoneControl:Thermostat inputs. * Warning * Calculated design heating load for zone=CLASSROOMS EAST is zero. * ~~~ * Check Sizing:Zone and ZoneControl:Thermostat inputs.

... and this for all my zones,

AND

* Warning * ManageSizing: Calculated Heating Design Air Flow Rate for System=AIR LOOP HVAC 1 is zero. * ~~~ * Check Sizing:Zone and ZoneControl:Thermostat inputs. * Warning * ManageSizing: Calculated Heating Design Air Flow Rate for System=AIR LOOP HVAC 2 is zero. * ~~~ * Check Sizing:Zone and ZoneControl:Thermostat inputs. * Warning * ManageSizing: Calculated Heating Design Air Flow Rate for System=AIR LOOP HVAC 4 is zero. * ~~~ * Check Sizing:Zone and ZoneControl:Thermostat inputs.

AND

* Warning * GetAirPathData: AirLoopHVAC="AIR LOOP HVAC 1" has no Controllers. * Warning * GetAirPathData: AirLoopHVAC="AIR LOOP HVAC 2" has no Controllers. * Warning * GetAirPathData: AirLoopHVAC="AIR LOOP HVAC 3" has no Controllers. * Warning * GetAirPathData: AirLoopHVAC="AIR LOOP HVAC 4" has no Controllers. * Warning * GetAirPathData: AirLoopHVAC="AIR LOOP HVAC 5" has no Controllers.

So i did some research and tried to fix it:

• I checked the thermostats but them seem fine to me. (link
• Also I tried to add compact schedules for the internal gains only for the design days. link text

But then I just get additional errors:

* Warning * GetInternalHeatGains: Zone="KITCHEN" occupant density is extremely high. * ~~~ * Occupant Density=[20] person/m2.
* ~~~ * Occupant Density=[5.066E-002] m2/person. Problems in Temperature Out of Bounds may result.

... I checked these schedules, but again they look fine?

Everything I know is from the internet and some reading, so I am not that experienced with Energyplus. Could anyone that is more experienced with Energyplus take a look? Please, let me know and I will send you the IDF-files.