Dear Simulators,
I am working on modeling Phase Change Materials in Energy Plus and would
like to experiment with workarounds in other software.
My research shows that the only way to model phase change meterials of any
type correctly is to use Energy Plus, ESP-r, or TRNSYS, and that for
the dupont energain product EDSL Tas Building Designer, also there is a
tool called PCM express that provides limited functionality.
I have been told that workarounds have been preformed in the past to model
PCM's in the following simulation software:
? eQuest
? Carrier
? RemDesign
Also I have been provided with the graph below, and I wonder if anyone on
the list may understand how this was created in eQuest?
[image: biopcm-equest.png]
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*Jeremiah D. Crossett*
Thanks Christan,
The comment on the PDF on "DOE-2 simulations to obtain realistic
temperatures and air flows for the VAV system, then we used RADCOOL (Stetiu
et al. 1995), a finite difference building simulation program written in
the Simulation Problem Analysis and Research Kernel (SPARK) environment, to
model the thermal performance of the space equipped with phase change" is
an unexpected work around, never herd of and can not find a copy of RADCOOL.
About the refrig section of DOE2 doc libraries I searched
http://doe2.com/download/DOE-22/DOE22Vol4-Libraries_47.pdf for the mention
of PCM, but did not find, so looked in refrigeration and found some
varribles that I suppose may be able to be customized, or am I looking in
the wrong doc?
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