Plant and Condenser Loops

There are 4 pre-defined plant loops provided by Detailed HVAC:

• Hot water plant loop
• Chilled water plant loop
• Primary/secondary chilled water plant loop
• Domestic hot water/solar plant loop

A single condenser loop is provided:

• Condenser loop

A plant equipment operation facility is included to provide plant and condenser loops with a mechanism for controlling the operation of the loop and to specify which equipment is available under what conditions. This allows you to model scheduled sequencing of plant equipment depending on time-varying load requirements. For example you may want to model a multiple chiller system and schedule low load chillers to handle loads up to a certain magnitude and then switch in higher load chillers as the cooling load increases. This feature is available through the plant/condenser loop Plant Equipment Operation tab.