District Heating

DistrictHeating

Used in:   Hot water loop, supply side

The district heating component is used to provide heat to the supply side of a hot water loop. It can be used to model these systems:

1. Centralised sources of hot water (district heating systems), or,
2. Cases where it is not necessary to simulate the plant., e.g. where the focus of the study is on the air side of the system or the building zones.

General

Name

The auto-generated name of the district cooling system can be edited.

Nominal capacity

This numeric field contains the nominal demand (in W or Btu/h) that the district heating will meet. This field is autosizable.

Capacity fraction schedule

Select the schedule that describes how the nominal capacity varies over time. Values must non-negative. The capacity at a given point in time is determined by the product of the Nominal capacity (above) and the value in this schedule. The default schedule is On 24/7 i.e. a value of 1 all the time.