Plants
The plants section of the program allows for creation of chilled water, hot water, mixed water, condenser, heat exchanger loops, and VRF plants. These plants will then be assigned to the airside systems to run a load or energy analysis if using water coils.
Plant Selection Confirmation message
No plant required:
After selecting a system, a plant might not be required for the program to run. Generally direct expansion systems don’t require a plant except for Water Source Heat Pumps and Variable Refrigerant Flow units. If the selected system does not require a plant, the Next Section button should be chosen from the message. If the user wishes to select a plant for the selected system, the button Select Plant should be pressed.
Plant required:
If the selected system contains water/steam coils, Water Source Heat Pumps (WSHP) and Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) units, then a plant needs to be selected. The program offers to create an automated plant that consists on District water or a basic configuration of DX for SHP or VRF. If the user wants to use the automated plant, the Automated button should be selected. Id the user wants to create a plant on it’s own, the Select plant button should be selected.
The workflow is to select a plant configuration, configure the components in the created plant, and then assign systems to the particular plant.
There are four sections: