ZONECOOLTOWER:SHOWER
A cooltower (sometimes referred to as a wind tower or a shower cooling tower) models passive downdraught evaporative cooling (PDEC) that is designed to capture the wind at the top of a tower and cool the outdoor air using water evaporation before delivering it to a space.
Name
Availability Schedule Name
Type: list of objects
(
SCHEDULE:FILE,
SCHEDULE:CONSTANT,
SCHEDULE:YEAR,
EXTERNALINTERFACE:FUNCTIONALMOCKUPUNITIMPORT:TO:SCHEDULE,
SCHEDULE:COMPACT or
EXTERNALINTERFACE:SCHEDULE)
Availability schedule name for this system. Schedule value > 0 means the system is available. If this field is blank, the system is always available.
Zone Name
Type: list of objects
( or
ZONE)
Water Supply Storage Tank Name
Type: list of objects
( or
WATERUSE:STORAGE)
In case of stand alone tank or underground water, leave this input blank
Flow Control Type
Type: choice
(WaterFlowSchedule or WindDrivenFlow)
Water flow schedule should be selected when the water flow rate is known. Wind-driven flow should be selected when the water flow rate is unknown.
Default: WindDrivenFlow
Pump Flow Rate Schedule Name
Type: list of objects
(
SCHEDULE:FILE,
SCHEDULE:CONSTANT,
SCHEDULE:YEAR,
EXTERNALINTERFACE:FUNCTIONALMOCKUPUNITIMPORT:TO:SCHEDULE,
SCHEDULE:COMPACT or
EXTERNALINTERFACE:SCHEDULE)
Maximum Water Flow Rate
Type: real number
Unit: m3/s
Effective Tower Height
Type: real number
This field is from either the spray or the wet pad to the top of the outlet.
Unit: m
Airflow Outlet Area
Type: real number
User have to specify effective area when outlet area is relatively bigger than the cross sectional area of cooltower. If the number of outlet is more than one, assume the air passes through only one.
Unit: m2
Maximum Air Flow Rate
Type: real number
Unit: m3/s
Minimum: 0
Minimum Indoor Temperature
Type: real number
This field is to specify the indoor temperature below which cooltower is shutoff.
Unit: C
Minimum: -100
Maximum: 100
Fraction of Water Loss
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 1
Fraction of Flow Schedule
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 1
Rated Power Consumption
Type: real number
Unit: W