VRF is a popular technology these days for many space conditioning
applications, with its ability to efficiently heat and cool spaces.
DesignBuilder uses a range of system curves to simulate VRF system
performance.
You can learn more about VRF and its mo...
Heat pumps are the go to technology these days to provide heating and
cooling in small and large buildings alike. With DesignBuilder you can
do detailed HVAC modelling of Water Source (Ground Source) and Air
Source Heat Pumps easily.
There are numerous r...
Although CIBSE state that they do not endorse any particular HVAC
design or analysis software tools, they do state that dynamic thermal
modelling software such as DesignBuilder is suitable for both local
and central HVAC plant sizing. See Figure 5.2, Sect...
First to define the system. Concrete core heating/cooling (often also
called "concrete core activation"), is where warm/cool air is passed
through holes within concrete slabs to heat the building fabric
directly, before supplying the air into the occupied...
It is possible to model freezer zones in DesignBuilder, but it is
important to ensure that the temperature of the supply air is set to a
very low value to cool the air below zero.
If you are using Simple HVAC then take these steps:
- Reduce the cooling...
It is quite straightforward to set up a simulation to calculate loads due to humidity control using compact HVAC: Switch on Compact HVAC model option Load the "Packaged direct expansion" HVAC templateSwitch on humidification and dehumidification...
The Zone Sensible Heating is the heating effect of the HVAC system
action on the zone heat balance, in particular the heating effect of
introducing air that is warmer than the zone air. Likewise Zone
Sensible Cooling is the cooling effect of the HVAC syst...
One common cause of under sized heating systems when working with Compact HVAC is incorrectly defined schedules. Schedules used to define the operation of equipment, lighting etc should normally be switched off for heating design. A correct form for a s...
DesignBuilder does not use the fuel consumption values generated by
EnergyPlus but instead calculates fuel consumption from coil loads and
the ideal system loads used in Simple HVAC using heating and cooling
CoP values entered on the DesignBuilder HVAC ta...
This is known and expected behaviour for EnergyPlus AHU-based Detailed
HVAC systems with fixed outside fresh air control including VAV, CAV
and Unitary multizone. The reason for the slight differences in zone
fresh air from the values requested for indivi...
Heating/cooling setback temperatures can be used to keep occupied spaces conditioned to avoid frost and/or overheating during periods when the building is not occupied. The setpoint and setback temperatures you define on the Activity tab under the Environ...
There are 2 ways of modelling HVAC systems in DesignBuilder:
1. SIMPLE in which the system is defined using basic HVAC data
descriptions and heating and cooling loads are calculated using the
idealised EnergyPlus "Ideal Loads" system. Heating and coolin...
