John,It depends a bit on what you are trying to accomplish with the integration. We've done simulations in which we took heating and cooling load profiles generated by DOE-2 (I don't think it was eQuest that generated them. More likely it was Visual DOE) and then imposed them on a TRNSYS system simulation. It isn't a great solution because you get no interaction between the system and load. However, since DOE-2 ignores that interaction anyway, it may not be so bad.
If you are trying to run your simulations in eQuest and get input from a TRNSYS simulation, it gets a little bit harder. The way we have solved this one is to run simplified TRNSYS simulations that give us a total net energy transfer into a particular building zone, then to take that energy transfer as a miscellaneous gain into the eQuest building. I am not too clear on how that part of it was accomplished.
Hope that helps, David bushjd@umd.edu wrote:
Hi All, I apologize if this has been covered recently, but does TRNSYS easily integrate with eQuest or another dedicated building model software? I'd imagine we could somehow derive thermal and electric load profiles from the text output of eQuest, but has anyone already come up with a good solution to this?Any advice or insight would be appreciated. Thanks! John_______________________________________________ TRNSYS-users mailing list TRNSYS-users@cae.wisc.edu https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/trnsys-users
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