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Heating and Cooling load components: a detailed breakdown

Hi all,

I hope everything is going well with you. I am working on a small office building's energy evaluation project implemented in the OpenStudio application, and I need to analyze the heating and cooling loads (I am using the Ideal Air Loads option, so there is no designed HVAC system). What I am specifically looking into is: what is the contribution of each component to the hourly heating and cooling loads? For example, assuming that the hourly heating load for February 5th at 2:00 PM is 20J, how much is due to the heat conduction from opaque walls, internal gains due to people's activity, etc. I looked into different reports such as annual sensible heat gain components and zone component load summary (this one gives the values for peak loads only). I have also used the envelope and internal load breakdown, but they are only monthly and annual gains and losses, so it is not what I am looking for. Do you recommend any other solution?

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

Heating and Cooling load components: a detailed breakdown

Hi all,

I hope everything is going well with you. I am working on a small office building's energy evaluation project implemented in the OpenStudio application, and I need to analyze the heating and cooling loads (I am using the Ideal Air Loads option, so there is no designed HVAC system). What I am specifically looking into is: what is the contribution of each component to the hourly heating and cooling loads? For example, assuming that the hourly heating load for February 5th at 2:00 PM is 20J, how much is due to the heat conduction from opaque walls, internal gains due to people's activity, etc. I looked into different reports such as annual sensible heat gain components and zone component load summary (this one gives the values for peak loads only). I have also used the envelope and internal load breakdown, but they are only monthly and annual gains and losses, so it is not what I am looking for. Do you recommend any other solution?

Thank you very much in advance for your help.