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Cooling coil availability and increasing upper limit of cooling supply air temperature increases boiler energy consumption?

Hello E+ community.

I am modelling a CAV system in E+ and realized that room temperatures in cooling season are way too low. When I change the upper temperature limit of SetpointManager:MultiZone:Cooling:Average from 18 to 20, the interior temperatures get much better but this time, boiler natural gas consumption increases quite a lot! (from around 270 kWh to 330 kWh). I already have AvailabilityManager objects at my PlantLoop's, AirLoop object and PlantLoopOperationSchemes so that the cooling system doesn't activate in winter and vice versa. On top of this, when I add the same (appropriate) Availability schedule to my heating coil the results almost don't change, and when I add one for the cooling coil the natural gas consumption increases from 330 kWh to 520 kWh!! (this is not a typo! when I limit cooling coil to heating season, natural gas consumption in the winter increases!!)

I tried changing many different inputs and still don't know why this is happening. Any help is appreaciated and thanks in advance.

Cooling coil availability and increasing upper limit of cooling supply air temperature increases boiler energy consumption?

Hello E+ community.

I am modelling a CAV system in E+ and realized that room temperatures in cooling season are way too low. When I change the upper temperature limit of SetpointManager:MultiZone:Cooling:Average from 18 to 20, the interior temperatures get much better but this time, boiler natural gas consumption increases quite a lot! (from around 270 kWh to 330 kWh). I already have AvailabilityManager objects at my PlantLoop's, AirLoop object and PlantLoopOperationSchemes so that the cooling system doesn't activate in winter and vice versa. On top of this, when I add the same (appropriate) Availability schedule to my heating coil the results almost don't change, and when I add one for the cooling coil the natural gas consumption increases from 330 kWh to 520 kWh!! (this is not a typo! when I limit cooling coil to heating season, natural gas consumption in the winter increases!!)

I tried changing many different inputs and still don't know why this is happening. Any help is appreaciated and thanks in advance.

Cooling coil availability and increasing upper limit of cooling supply air temperature increases boiler energy consumption?

Hello E+ community.

I am modelling a CAV system in E+ and realized that room temperatures in cooling season are way too low. When I change the upper temperature limit of SetpointManager:MultiZone:Cooling:Average from 18 to 20, the interior temperatures get much better but this time, boiler natural gas consumption increases quite a lot! (from around 270 kWh to 330 kWh). I already have AvailabilityManager objects at my PlantLoop's, AirLoop object and PlantLoopOperationSchemes so that the cooling system doesn't activate in winter and vice versa. On top of this, when I add the same (appropriate) Availability schedule to my heating coil the results almost don't change, and when I add one for the cooling coil the natural gas consumption increases from 330 kWh to 520 kWh!! (this is not a typo! when I limit cooling coil to heating season, natural gas consumption in the winter increases!!)

I tried changing many different inputs and still don't know why this is happening. Any help is appreaciated and thanks in advance.

Cooling coil availability and increasing upper limit of cooling supply air temperature increases boiler energy consumption?

Hello E+ community.

I am modelling a CAV system in E+ and realized that room temperatures in cooling season are way too low. When I change the upper temperature limit of SetpointManager:MultiZone:Cooling:Average from 18 to 20, the interior temperatures get much better but this time, boiler natural gas consumption increases quite a lot! (from around 270 kWh to 330 kWh). I already have AvailabilityManager objects at my PlantLoop's, PlantLoops, AirLoop object and PlantLoopOperationSchemes so that the cooling system doesn't activate in winter and vice versa. On top of this, when I add the same (appropriate) Availability schedule to my heating coil the results almost don't change, and when I add one for the cooling coil the natural gas consumption increases from 330 kWh to 520 kWh!! (this is not a typo! when I limit cooling coil to heating season, natural gas consumption in the winter increases!!)

I tried changing many different inputs and still don't know why this is happening. Any help is appreaciated and thanks in advance.

Cooling coil availability and increasing upper limit of cooling supply air temperature increases boiler energy consumption?

Hello E+ community.

I am modelling a CAV system in E+ and realized that room temperatures in cooling season are way too low. When I change the upper temperature limit of SetpointManager:MultiZone:Cooling:Average from 18 to 20, the interior temperatures get much better but this time, boiler natural gas consumption increases quite a lot! (from around 270 kWh to 330 kWh). I already have AvailabilityManager objects at my PlantLoops, AirLoop object and PlantLoopOperationSchemes so that the cooling system doesn't activate in winter and vice versa. On top of this, when I add the same (appropriate) Availability schedule to my heating coil the results almost don't change, and when I add one for the cooling coil the natural gas consumption increases from 330 kWh to 520 kWh!! (this is not a typo! when I limit cooling coil to heating season, natural gas consumption in the winter increases!!)

I tried changing many different inputs and still don't know why this is happening. Any help is appreaciated and thanks in advance.

Cooling coil availability and increasing upper limit of cooling supply air temperature increases boiler energy consumption?

Hello E+ community.

I am modelling a CAV system in E+ and realized that room temperatures in cooling season are way too low. When I change the upper temperature limit of SetpointManager:MultiZone:Cooling:Average from 18 to 20, the interior temperatures get much better but this time, boiler natural gas consumption increases quite a lot! (from around 270 kWh to 330 kWh). I already have AvailabilityManager objects at my PlantLoops, AirLoop object and PlantLoopOperationSchemes so that the cooling system doesn't activate in winter and vice versa. On top of this, when I add the same (appropriate) Availability schedule to my heating coil the results almost don't change, and when I add one for the cooling coil the natural gas consumption increases from 330 kWh to 520 kWh!! (this is not a typo! when I limit cooling coil to heating season, natural gas consumption in the winter increases!!)

Edit:

I think knowing what happens if the cooling coil does or doesn't have an availability schedule while the plant loop already has one; would help to diagnose this issue further??

I tried changing many different inputs and still don't know why this is happening. Any help is appreaciated and thanks in advance.

Cooling coil availability increases boiler energy consumption?

Hello E+ community.

I am modelling a CAV system in E+ and realized that room temperatures in cooling season are way too low. When I change the upper temperature limit of SetpointManager:MultiZone:Cooling:Average from 18 to 20, the interior temperatures get much better but this time, boiler natural gas consumption increases quite a lot! (from around 270 kWh to 330 kWh). I already have AvailabilityManager objects at my PlantLoops, AirLoop object and PlantLoopOperationSchemes so that the cooling system doesn't activate in winter and vice versa. On top of this, when I add the same (appropriate) Availability schedule to my heating coil the results almost don't change, and when I add one for the cooling coil the natural gas consumption increases from 330 kWh to 520 kWh!! (this is not a typo! when I limit cooling coil to heating season, natural gas consumption in the winter increases!!)

Edit:

Edit: I think knowing what happens if the cooling coil does or doesn't have an availability schedule while the plant loop already has one; would help to diagnose this issue further??

I tried changing many different inputs and still don't know why this is happening. Any help is appreaciated and thanks in advance.

Cooling coil availability increases boiler energy consumption?

Hello E+ community.

I am modelling a CAV system in E+ and realized that room temperatures in cooling season are way too low. When I change the upper temperature limit of SetpointManager:MultiZone:Cooling:Average from 18 to 20, the interior temperatures get much better but this time, boiler natural gas consumption increases quite a lot! (from around 270 kWh to 330 kWh). I already have AvailabilityManager objects at my PlantLoops, AirLoop object and PlantLoopOperationSchemes so that the cooling system doesn't activate in winter and vice versa. On top of this, when I add the same (appropriate) Availability schedule to my heating coil the results almost don't change, and when I add one for the cooling coil the natural gas consumption increases from 330 kWh to 520 kWh!! (this is not a typo! when I limit cooling coil to heating season, natural gas consumption in the winter increases!!)

Edit: I think knowing what happens if the cooling coil does or doesn't have an availability schedule while the plant loop already has one; would help to diagnose this issue further??

I tried changing many different inputs and still don't know why this is happening. Any help is appreaciated and thanks in advance.