What is the guidance for modeling a heat recovery chiller with air-cooled condenser in energyplus. This type of equipment is becoming very common. It is also one of the most feasible ways to reduce fossil fuel usage on site. The industry desparately needs a way to model this.
Currently, all the chillers in energyplus only support heat recovery if the condenser is water-cooled. Is there a feasible work-around?
Is this on the roadmap for the energyplus development team? This is omething I need to get off my chest. I would love to see this prioritized. If energyplus can't handle this then my shop will be foreced to use something else. In general, I think energyplus needs to take a look in the mirror. What is the real goal of energyplus? It seems that it is so focused on exotic corner cases for PhDs instead of helping the industry being able to model real-world systems. Energyplus is still not very practical for practitioners after years of funding and development
