Dear all,
I am trying to model a hot water system in Openstudio in which the water flowrate of the proposed case is 23% lower than the baseline.
From the results, the energy consumption under "pumps" was 23% lower in the proposed case which sounded fair. However,the energy consumption under "water system" of the proposed case was 98% lower than the baseline.
I am not sure what are included in the "water system" such that a 23% drop in flowrate resulted in such significant energy saving as all other input parameters in the two models were exactly the same.
I am therefore wondering if that is normal or if I have made a mistake somewhere in the inputs.
Daniel