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Define Heating Plant
Equipment Modeling: Heating Plant / Define Heating Plant
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Inputs Needed

  • Number of boilers
  • Boiler type by boiler priority #
  • Boiler sizing by boiler priority #
  • Design boiler efficiency by boiler priority #
  • Part Load Ratios for stage-up

Outputs

  • The boilers, their capacity, efficiency profiles, and staging scheme will be defined

Overview

In this section, you will define the boilers that provide the heating source for the hot water plant.

In-Depth

The boiler type (condensing/non-condensing) and the boiler sizing (in order of priority of operation) are required for this step. Note that most identical boilers in a system are likely to rotate in terms of which one is the lead boiler, and that is okay. A smaller or larger boiler, compared to the rest of the boilers in a system, is likely to be a dedicated lead or lag boiler and should be specified in the priority order accordingly. Boiler efficiency is an optional input. The default is 80% for non-condensing boilers and 91% for condensing boilers. Boiler stage-up part-load ratios are also optional as input. The default is 100% loading to sequence the next boiler. There is no benefit to under 100% for non-condensing boilers.