Jason - My previous question had to do with the apparent small difference in Return Air and Mixed Air Temperature in hourly printout from a DOE-2.1E model. I also asked if the input of Outside Air at the ZONE level translated into the SYSTEM level.
I received several kind suggestions to insure I had my OUTSIDE-AIR-CFM set correctly, as well as:
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No, OA is done as PO being <>0 thus Tmix being Trx(1-PO) + Toa*PO.
Is OA-CONTROL fixed? Does SV-A show the system OA fraction as what you expected; if not, you may
have used the wrong keyword.
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Graham & Megan [hamnmegs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Outside air set at zone level should be fine and takes precedence over any system level outdoor air command.
Have you checked variable #39 (PO) to see if the outdoor air damper is in fact open? If not then have you set outdoor air requirements using OA-CHANGES or CFM/person? if the latter then you need to have people in the space to have outside air delivered - i.e. works like demand controlled ventilation.
Aside from that what you suggest should work. You may want to look at ambient and return air humidity ratio as well so you can see you latent ventilation load ...
Graham
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(John again)
As it turned out, I DID have my OUTSIDE-AIR-CFM in ZONE set ridiculously low (BLUSH). When I correct the OSA back to the Design numbers, the T mix and T Return became much further apart. So, indeed, the ZONE level OSA DID translate into the SYSTEM level. And reasonable numbers ensued.
Thanks again to ALL who helped me square this away !!!
John R. Aulbach, PE, CEM
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