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Modeling Cooling Tower without Chiller in IES-VE

I'm trying to test a design that only uses a cooling tower with no chiller (actually there is also an option with a small pony chiller than would only cycle on when the cooling tower can't meet the load). The problem in the VE is that a chiller is necessary to have a cooling tower. But even trying to include the small pony chiller, it is set up that the chiller load conditions are primary. The only half though I have is to come up with a fake chiller curve that would result in a COP of 1 or 100% efficiency and then send the chiller power to a random fuel category to ignore.

Any ideas? Ben

Modeling Cooling Tower without Chiller in IES-VE

I'm trying to test a design that only uses a cooling tower with no chiller (actually there is also an option with a small pony chiller than would only cycle on when the cooling tower can't meet the load). The problem in the VE is that a chiller is necessary to have a cooling tower. But even trying to include the small pony chiller, it is set up that the chiller load conditions are primary. The only half though I have is to come up with a fake chiller curve that would result in a COP of 1 or 100% efficiency and then send the chiller power to a random fuel category to ignore.

Any ideas? Ben