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Reasons for Fans demand low in OpenStudio simulation

I'm creating an Airloop in OpenStudio and the demand for fans is always low compared to the total power. I would like to know what could be influencing this demand to stay low. I don't know if the default fraction value is responsible for this, because in the simulations I always leave 0.3, but I don't know if I can increase that value, and if so, if I need to change the values ​​of the curves.

I was unable to insert the image, below are the values.

Fans -- General : 89.02 Electric Energy Use (GJ) /// 3254.20 Eletric Demand (W)

Fans -- Rated Electric Power Supply Kitchen = 4072.79 W /// Supply Saloon and services = 4455.37 W

Reasons for Fans demand low in OpenStudio simulation

I'm creating an Airloop in OpenStudio and the demand for fans is always low compared to the total power. I would like to know what could be influencing this demand to stay low. I don't know if the default fraction value is responsible for this, because in the simulations I always leave 0.3, but I don't know if I can increase that value, and if so, if I need to change the values ​​of the curves.

I was unable to insert the image, below are the values.

Fans -- General : 89.02 Electric Energy Use (GJ) /// 3254.20 Eletric Demand (W)

Fans -- Rated Electric Power Supply Kitchen = 4072.79 W /// Supply Saloon and services = 4455.37 W

Reasons for Fans demand low in OpenStudio simulation

I'm creating an Airloop in OpenStudio and the demand for fans is always low compared to the total power. I would like to know what could be influencing this demand to stay low. I don't know if the default fraction value is responsible for this, because in the simulations I always leave 0.3, but I don't know if I can increase that value, and if so, if I need to change the values ​​of the curves.

I was unable to insert Below follows the image, below are image of the values.airloop

Fans -- General : 89.02 Electric Energy Use (GJ) /// 3254.20 Eletric Demand (W)![alt text][C:\fakepath\airloop.PNG](/upfiles/15832564634454364.png)

Fans -- Rated Electric PowerThe next image shows the settings adopted for the Fans, considering 0.45 for the Fan Power Minimum Flow Fraction

Supply Kitchen = 4072.79 W /// Supply Saloon and services = 4455.37 W

![alt text][C:\fakepath\fans.PNG](/upfiles/15832566251565641.png)

The results found ![alt text][C:\fakepath\Resultados.png](/upfiles/15832570406973406.png)

Reasons for Fans demand low in OpenStudio simulation

I'm creating an Airloop in OpenStudio and the demand for fans is always low compared to the total power. I would like to know what could be influencing this demand to stay low. I don't know if the default fraction value is responsible for this, because in the simulations I always leave 0.3, but I don't know if I can increase that value, and if so, if I need to change the values ​​of the curves.

Below follows the image of the airloop

![alt text][C:\fakepath\airloop.PNG](/upfiles/15832564634454364.png)

The next image shows the settings adopted for the Fans, considering 0.45 for the Fan Power Minimum Flow Fraction

![alt text][C:\fakepath\fans.PNG](/upfiles/15832566251565641.png)

The results found ![alt text][C:\fakepath\Resultados.png](/upfiles/15832570406973406.png)

Reasons for Fans demand low in OpenStudio simulation

I'm creating an Airloop in OpenStudio and the demand for fans is always low compared to the total power. I would like to know what could be influencing this demand to stay low. I don't know if the default fraction value is responsible for this, because in the simulations I always leave 0.3, but I don't know if I can increase that value, and if so, if I need to change the values ​​of the curves.

Below follows the image of the airloop

![alt text][C:\fakepath\airloop.PNG](/upfiles/15832564634454364.png)text][C:\Users\natal\Desktop\airloop.PNG](/upfiles/15832564634454364.png)

The next image shows the settings adopted for the Fans, considering 0.45 for the Fan Power Minimum Flow Fraction

![alt text][C:\fakepath\fans.PNG](/upfiles/15832566251565641.png)

The results found ![alt text][C:\fakepath\Resultados.png](/upfiles/15832570406973406.png)

Reasons for Fans demand low in OpenStudio simulation

I'm creating an Airloop in OpenStudio and the demand for fans is always low compared to the total power. I would like to know what could be influencing this demand to stay low. I don't know if the default fraction value is responsible for this, because in the simulations I always leave 0.3, but I don't know if I can increase that value, and if so, if I need to change the values ​​of the curves.

Below follows the image of the airloop

![alt text][C:\Users\natal\Desktop\airloop.PNG](/upfiles/15832564634454364.png)

The next image shows the settings adopted for the Fans, considering 0.45 for the Fan Power Minimum Flow Fraction

![alt text][C:\fakepath\fans.PNG](/upfiles/15832566251565641.png)

The results found ![alt text][C:\fakepath\Resultados.png](/upfiles/15832570406973406.png)