THE DOE-2 USER NEWS

DOE-I!: A COMPUTER PROGRAM FORBUILDING ENERGY SIMULA TION

PUB-439Vol. 13, N o . 1

Spring 1992

The Simulation Resea rch GroupEn ergy and Env ironmen t Division

Lawrence Berkeley LaboratoryOne Cyclotron Road

Berkeley . California 9~720

Editor: Kathy EllingtonBldg. 90 - Room 3 1 ~ 7

Table of Con ten ts

Hands On (items of interest) .

New Features in DOE-2 .1E 2'

As k Uncle F red 4

Graphical T ools Help Calibrate 5DOf:..- :! to Measu red Lo ads

P acifi c Energy Center 15

0 0 E-2 Director y 17

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lO" DOE-2 Basics fr om N T IS !DOE·!! Basics, a man ual for new users, shouldfinally be available from the Na t ional T echni­cal Info rmation Service. As of m id April , NT IShad not ass igned a price , so you will have toca ll th em . Check th e order form in thisnewslette r.

-4 / 92 775 (c) 1992 Regen~ of the Umversuy of Cah­forma , Lawrence Berkeley LaboratoryTh IS work waa supported by the AssIStant Secretaryfor Ocnservaucn and Renewable Energy. Office ofBUIldin g T K hnologltS. BUIld ing Sys~ms and Matt-rialsDlVlmon of the U S Department, of Energy. und erContract No DE-AC03-76SFOOO98

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J une 10-12 - Building Systems Automation

..................... .in .t.~9.~~ ~!.'!~ :~-? .to be held in Dallas , Texas.Contact: USA-I '92, 13253 N. La MontanaDr ive, 1flO5 , Fo unt a in fElis , AZ 85268(p hone 6O'!-837-6575, FAX 602-837-6580).

June 10-11 - l/ VA C Controls and

.. .fl."}.~rf/y. .9~.~.~~~!-:~.~~~~ .f.~p.~~f!":l?f} .to be held in Boston, Massachuset ts.Contact: Associa t ion of Energy Engineers,·1025 P leesantdale road, Atl an t a , GA 303·10.

J.I,l.~.~••~?:-.~ .l!h-: .. ~ .::-::-..-:' .F!~.'!~ !.~§!fl~:.l§ .~llf.~ ~.('YI .to be held in Balt imore, Maryl an d .Contact : AS IIRAE Meetings Dep artment , 1791Tullie C ircle N E, Atl an t a , GA 30329(p hone .10 1-636-8·100).

July ·j-8 - R enewable Energy: Technology

............ ....J~ ~.. r.~~if.y .to be held in Ed mo nton, Alber t a , Canada.Co ntac t : Sola r Energy Society of Canada, 15New York Street , Ot t awa, O N KI N 557,Canada (6 13-236-.159~ , FAX 613-236-5053) .

Au g 30-Sep 5 - ACEEE 199f Summer Study..........................~~ .~f}.~rfly.. ~ff!·~..:~.~~Y. .

to be held in P ac ifi c Grove, Califoruie.Contact: ACEEE, 21-10 Shattuck Avenue,Berkeley, CA 9·170--1(phone 5 10-5 '19-99 1~ , FAX 5 10-5~9-998~) .

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New Features.In DOE-2.1E

A new version of the 00£-2 program, 2.1E, will be available mid- 1992. It will replaceDOE-2.1D, which was released in 1989. Ordering information will be mailed to User Newssubscribers as soo n as DOE-2.1E is ready for distribution. Major new features in 2.1E are:

DOL- User-specification of days where holidays fall.

LOADS- Switchable glazing simu lat ion .

- New Window Library:

solar-optical and thermal propert ies of 200 current ly-availa ble glazings, includ inglow-E, gas fill, heat mirror, superwindows.

- Custom glazings:

option to add custom glazings to the \ Vindow Library by runn ing the \\'Ii\1)OW· ·1program with layer-by-layer input .

-e lmproved window If-value calculation:

integration of the very accurate \\ 'Il\l )OW--t calculation of win dow cond uction andsolar gain (includes window fram e calculation).

SYSTEMS- Evaporative cooling:

st and-alone evaporative cooling system (choice of indirect or indi rect/direct);

add-on evaporative pre-cooler for conventional systems;

residential direct eva porative cooler.

- Add-on desiccant cooling units:

solid desiccant dehu midi fier;

liquid desiccant dehumidifier;

liquid desiccant dehumidifier combined with gas-fired absorpt ion chiller .

- Heat pump water heaters:

additional air- side economizer options;

combined ent halpy /drybulb cont roller;

economizer lockout cont rols.

T hil llfw version of 00&2 wu collabo ra tinly developed by the Simulation Research Group at UU. and by IIirsor b &0: Aao<:l'&tel or Camarillo. CA. Sup port wu provided by DOE (Office of Build ing Teeheologi ee], SOll thern Cali fornia Edison Co m­pany. Pacillc Gill and Eleeteie Co mpany, Elect ric Pewee Research Inst it ute. Gas RfSearch Inst it ut e (yia EJectroCom GARD.Ltd.], Battelie-P u iO c Norlhw l!:lIt La boratory. and lEA Solar Healing and Cooling Program.

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- Addition al heat pump defrost opt ions:

- resistive or reverse-cycle defrost with on-demand or timed control.

- Sizing enha ncements:

independent SIZING-RATiOs for heating and cooling ;

summary of design-day SYSTE~fS sizing (S5-J design-day report );

loads-nat-met nags added to S5-J as indicat or of undersi zing.

- Variable-sp eed gas heat pump.

- Packaged VVT System.

- Residential system wit h individual zone control and variable-spe ed elect ric heat pump.

- Enhanced water- loop heat pump mod el:

varia ble-speed and sched uled pumping;

storage tank, boiler. and cooling tower in SYSTEMS;

air- side a nd water-sid e economizer;

units with different performance cha racteristics on same loop.

- water-elde econom izer for packaged systems .

PLANT

-Ice th er mal energy storage:

different typ es: ice-an-coil. ice harvester . ice s lurry. brine, eutectic salt ;

auto-slaing based on peak-day integrated cooling load;

various control options, including full vs. pa rtial sto rage and storage vs. chillerprio rity.

- Opti on of design-day vs. weather tape PLANT sizing.

ECONO MICSECONO~lICS has been rewritten to hand le ut ility rate st ruct ures that are more complexth an th e current program can handle.

- New capabilities include:

more t han two seasons;

separate rates for the same resource (mult iple elect ric and fuel meters);

ratchets that apply over a variety of time frames (on-peak, off-peak , etc .},

LOADSj SYST El\ISjPLANTHourly and mo nt hly disagg regation of electrical and fuel ene rgy cons umpt ion intodifferent end uses (area lighting elect ric, task lighti ng elect ric, cooling elect ric. heatingfuel, cooling fuel, etc.] .

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Dear U n cle Fred:I've been gett ing ext ra heading lines in my hourlyreports and can't figure out why ! T his has causedme to sink into a deep depress ion. My wife justbit me a nd t he dog left home yesterday . PleaseHELP me!!

signed,Driven into t he Deep DOE..;? Doldrums in Dulut h

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Dear Driven :Don' t Desp air! You 're not alone; seve ral DOE­2.10 users report that when prin t ing a fu ll year(8760 hou rs) of hourly reports t hey get ext ra head­ing lines embedded amo ng th e numeri cal data onApril 23, August 1·1. a nd Decem ber vt. This con­fuses their post processo r plotti ng program s: t henumerica l information is s till correct but the post­processor doesn 't expect t he extra head ings. Thisprobl em can be avoided by increasin g t he buffe rsize in th e hou rly report program. The fi x, to HRP ,is:

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GRAPHICAL TOOLS TO HELP

CALIBRATE TilE 00&2

SIMULATION PROGRAM TO

MEASURED LOADS

J eff Haberl, Doug Bronson , Sharon Hinchey,Dennis O 'Neal, David C la r id geMechanical E ng ineer ingTexas A&M UniversityCo lle ge Station, T exas 77843

In troductionDuring the design stage hourly building energy models providean effective method for simulati ng t he energy usage of a bu ildin g.Increas ingly, s uch mode ls are being used to eval uate ret rofi ts inexisting buildings, sometimes even as veri ficat ion for demand sidemanagement. Unfortunately, litt le agreement exists among users ofthe models about how to calibrate the simulat ion to the measured data from a building.

This article provides a sampling of several graphical tools we've developed for calibratingDOE-2 to measured loads. The procedure relies on comparative :J-D graphics and carpetplots that allow for hourly differences to be viewed over the entire simulation period .T he reader is referred to t he addit ional papers for more details (Dn O;":SON 1992).

MethodologyIn general we use a mu lt i-step. iterati ve proced ure to ca lib ra te DOE-2 to measu redenergy use for a epcclflc building. A method t hat seems to yie ld good results is toextract 0 0 8-2's hou rly data for pre-specified varia bles, translate t he data into a cou tig u­0 115 columnar ASCII format, merge it with measured dat a for t he same period , and t hencompare t he sim ulated hou rly varia ble to its measured counterpart using va rious graphi­cal and statistical techniques.

T he simulations performed for this art icle were done on a supe r-min icomputer clusterusing DOE-2.1D. In addition to DOE-2, other support ing software is also needed,depending on what is to be done and the volume or data to be handled. 2-D and 3-Dplotting programs with good data handling capabilities are mandatory for viewing thedata. The procedu res described here are specific to the graphics packages used to producethe plots, yet we reel they are general enough to be or value for use wit h other packages.

DOE-2 contains many input variables that can be adjusted during t he calibration pro­cess. O ne convenient grouping is to consider weat her dependent and non-weatherdependent inp ut variables. Weat her dependent variables include ene rgy that is con­sumed for space heating/cool ing pu rposes ; non-weather dependent energy use includesenergy used for loads t hat are prima rily sched ule domi nated (i.e., lights and receptacles) .As one wou ld expect, there is some ove rlap between th e two categories. T his weather

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dependent and non-weat her depe ndent categorization agrees well wit h monitored datafrom buildings, especially when data are being measu red for the whole-buildin g elect ricityand th ermal energy use, and sub-metered data are available for th e motor cont rolcenters, and other important subsyste ms.

Figure 1 is a flow cha rt of the overall DOE-2 calibration procedure. Our primary so urcesof information include as-built drawings, audit reports. info rmation from on-site visi ts .and monitored data. A DO£-2 input deck is produced for each building a nd meas uredweath er dat a are converted to suit able units, overlaid o nto the TR'{ weather tape for alocal site, and repacked for use with DOE-2 using th e weather processing ut.illrles th atcome with th e program.

Figure 2 is a software diagram that shows th e different modules required to produce th edifferent plots . In general. hourly values are extracted from DO£-2. translated to a com­mon columnar form at and compared to th e measured data. This process is t henrepeated un til t he difference betw een t he s imulated a nd measured data fall wit hin anaccept able ran ge.

As mu ch as possible. public domain procedures were used to hold down costs and tofacilitate th e development and distribution of soft wa re th at ot hers can use. Beginni ng inthe upper left-hand corner measured non-weather dependent elect ricit y consumption dataand weather data are extrac ted from the main file and prepared for insertion into DOE-2input. The non-weather dependent data are condensed into day types usin g a day­typing routine (KAT IPAMUL\ 1991) and th e resu ltant informat ion inserted into th eDOE-2 sched ules whic h are t hen mult iplied by the appropriate scaled load density [e.g..IV/ f(2) for each variable.

The DOE-2 input deck and hour ly weather data were t hen transferred from the micro­computer to t he super-minicompu te r cluster on which t he DOE-2 program resides. T hemeasured weather dat a did not embody all the meteo ro logica l and insolation parametersrequired in a TRY weather fi le; t herefore, a n additional wea ther pre processing programwas used to derive certain weather pa ra meters from t he measu red data and conve rt intot he proper inp ut units (i.e., horizontal so la r was split into a direct normal and diffusecomponents) and " repacked" in to a TRY format weather lile using the FORTRANweat her processing program that is included wit h DOE-2.

A DO£-2 simulation was th en run on the superminicomputer cluster with th e" repacked" TRY weather tape and the inpu t file that contained the actual non-weatherdepend ent elect ric load profiles which had been ente red as sched ules. The simulationout put file was transferred back to the PC, where hou rly values were ext rac ted a nd plot­ted from each run . Each time a different as pect was being considered, it was necessaryto edit th e DOE-2 input deck. transfer th e DOE-2 input deck to th e superminicompute rfor processing a nd t ra nsfer the DOE-2 out put back to the P C a nd ext ract and manipu­late th e hou rly out put for th e preparation of th e necessary gra phics. At fi rst. this pro­cess was very tedious and error prone and conside rable effor t was spent automating t heprocedures. In order to facilitate automation in th e face of varyi ng fil e formats it wasdecided to develop modul es that could be quickl y linked together in to the desiredconfigura tion for each run. See (BRO!'\SOi'\' 1992) for information on t he mod ules.

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Applica tionThe procedure was applied to a case st udy building: the Engineering Center is a large,multi-purpose building whic h contains classrooms, laboratories, facul ty / st aff offices, anda large cent ra l com puter facility; it is located on the Texas A&~t Unive rsity campus incentral T exas about two hou rs Northwest of Houston. T he Engineering Center receivessteam, hot water, chilled water, elect ricity, and communication se rvices from a cent ral­ized utility distribution syste m. The four s tory, 32·1.·100 squa re foot fa cility was built inthe early t070's. The building measures 339 feet (the lon g axis ) by 221 feet and is 60feet in height. P arking is provided under the fa cility for 82 cars . The building can becharacterized as an internal load dominated, high mass st ruct ure. Only about 9% of th eexte rior enve lope is gla zed. The building has a maximum occupancy of 2,300 occupantswhich occurs du ring peak periods each semester. The occupa ncy pro fi les are charact er­ized by a n 8 a .m. to 7 p.m. weekday schedule. Significant evening usage of the buildingoccurs on weekdays between 7 p.m . and midnight during semesters. Weekend usage is

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mod erate. Intern al lighting loads (2 \Vj ft- ) and equipment loads (2,,1 \ \ ' jft- ) peak dn r­ing th e weekdays in the early afternoon . Considerable elect ricity is consumed in t heevenings by a centra l com put ing facility. The building has 12 constant volume, du al­duct AHUs whi ch continuously provide 330,500 CFt\.1 to the 90+ zones in the buil ding.The AHUs ar e located in the parking garage with return air paths provided by concretechaseways that encircle the exte rior of t he buildi ng .

Resu lt sTo demonstrate this procedure, statistically deriv ed day-types were created for the build­ing and input in to DOE-2. The resultant simulat ed profiles for the non-w eather depen­dent loads were then com pared to hourly measured dat a from the building using 3-Dcom parat ive plots produced with a spreadsheet add-on package. Energy use !,or thebuild ing's lighti ng and equipment loads (o r receptacle loads) was input as a \V/ ft· valuea nd scheduled accord ing to different day types (e.g.. Mon-Fri, and w eekends and Holi­days). The application of a sim ple hourly day- typing rou tine by Kati pa mula and Haberl( KAT IPAMU LA 1991 ) to hourly data from a six-mont h dat a set y ielded six primary day­types (K-H day types): fall weekdays and weekends, spring weekdays and weekends, andsemester-break weekdays a nd weekends. Spring and fall day types were necessarybecause, during the break between semesters , the ent ire Computer Science departmentmoved out of the building and into their newly const ructe d facilities in a different build­ing, with the remaining space being reallocated to previously cram ped departments.

3-D plots for the day type pro fil es are shown in Figu re 3. Three d imensional profiles arean effect ive method of presen t ing the enormous am ount of dat a t hat m ust be inspectedwhen one is viewing hourly dat a over a six month period (HABEilL 1988). Sm alldifferences am ong different data sets can be quick ly identi fied because the viewer ca n spa­tially com pare the individual features or "small mult iples" t hat the surfaces produce(TUFTE 1990). The 3-D plots displ ay hour-of- the-day alon g the x-axis and day-of-t he­year projecting in to the page (beginning with September 1989 in t he lower right cornerand proceedin g from right to left ). The energy use is the height of the surface above thex-y plane. Comparing the minut e differences between two surfaces ca n be furtheren ha nced with t he use of :~-D comparative plots (HABERL 1990). 3-D com parat ive plot s

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are produced by merging two surfaces in to positive a nd negati ve resid ua ls. For examp le.in Fig. 3 the upper gra ph represents t he act ua l measured dat a for the building and thesecond graph represents the day ty pe schedule based on statist ica l day types. The t hirdgraph represents the positive residu al [l.e.• simulated - moni tored dat a for va lues t hat aregreater than zero). and th e fourth graph is the absolute value of t he negative residu al{l.e.• moni tored - simulated data) . Both posi tive and negative residu als are trimmed atzero to enha nce the features.

Figure 3 shows the comparison between th e elect ricity use predicted by the K-H daytypes a nd measured electricity consumption for the same period . Clearly, as seen in theresidual plots , the use of simple day types yield a shape that a ccurately fits the hour- lydata for the buildi ng. Only a few days during the Christmas break requires furth eradjustment. T he day types also provide a good est imate of t he monthly electricity use,yieldin g est ima tes that differ from ~3 .a% to + 1.0% for the six months that were in vesti­gated . Severa l ot her da y-t yp ing routi nes as well as th e specia l adj ust ments necessary toDOE-2 are discussed in t he paper by Bronson et al. (DRONSO~ 1092).

For wea ther dependent ca librations. especia lly in cen tral T exas where a significant por­tion of the building's cooling load was latent cooling. it was determined that a series ofplots would be t he most useful. Specifically. an hourly scatter plot of energy use vers usambient te mperature, a " mapping" of t he energy use onto a psyc hromet ric chart. histo­grams showing t he occurrences of data in bot h tempera t ure and speci fic humidity bins .energy use versus specific humidity. day type plots , and time series traces of all va riables.Also. it was determined th at aligning t he differen t graphs a round t he psychrometriccha rt helped im prove the imp act of the comparative graphic.

Figure 4 illust rates t he carpet plot that was deve loped for this purpose. The term "car­pet plot" is used because th e axis of the gra phs arc linked by common va ria bles (TUKEY1988). The nine plots which make tip th e carpet plots in Fi gure ·1 were all plotted withth e same soft ware package, varying only t he graphical tem plate. In each row of plots.th e t ente r column of plots contain th e o utdoo r dry bulb temperature as the x-axis. T heth ree upper plot s a ll have the building's energy use alon g the y-axls. The upper left­hand plot conta ins cooling day typ e profiles a nd electricity profiles for weekdays andweekends for condit ions a bove and below flOF' . The middle plot in the upper row showsheating and cooling energy use vers us outdoor dry bulb temperatu re. A simple 2 pa ram­eter (slope and intercept) curve fit has been added to show t he central tendency of th edata points. Th E' up per righ t-hand plot disp lays t he cooling a nd heating energy use as a2-D time series plot for t he period un der investigation. a nd the !O\... er right- hand plotshows t he time series t race for the t emper-at lire and humidi ty data. In the center plot inthe middle row, t he position of each hourly point is displayed on a psychromet ric chart.Directly to t he righ t of t he psychrometric plot is a histogram t hat displays t he numbersof hou rs for )Q spec ific humidity bins. Directly below t he psychrom etri c chart is a histo­gram t hat displays the number of hours for 22 temperature bins. Even t ho ugh t he ini­tia l set up of these plots was tedious. once in place. they proved very useful in deter min­ing very fine differences in the progression of the weather calibration of the DOE-2 simu­lation . Additional reports concerning how th ese carpet plots have been used to assess th eimpact of different weather input fil es are available from the authors.

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DiscussionThis art-icle has briefly introduced several public domain grap hical tools for ca libratingDOE-2 to measured loads . The procedure relies on com parative 3-D graphics and carpetplots that allow for hourly differences to be viewed ove r the entire simulat ion period(8.760 dat a points if necessary]. Examples of each of t he primary graphica l tools havebeen provided. The availa bility of com parative 3-D surface plots and carpet. plotssignificant ly improves the abili ty to view sma ll differences between the simulated andmeasured data and , in t u rn, allowed for the creation of a "super-t uned" D08-2 s imula­tion . A utomat ion of these rout ines dram atica lly cuts down on the processing timeneeded to produce a set of plots. Use of these com pact graphical tools to calibrateDOE-2 can also avoid the needless pri nting of thousands of pages of DOE-2 output.

AcknowledgmentsThis proj ect was fund ed a nd supported by the Governor's En ergy Office of the State ofTexas as part of T exas A&M's LoanSTA R Monitoring and An alysis con tract using oilovercharge funds. Further fund ing and support was provided by the Texas Higher Edu­cat ion Coordinating Board under Proj ect #227.

Software used du ring the course of t his project incl udes:

Data Exp lora tion software from Lantern Corpora tion. Clayton. Missouri

Lotus 1 - 2- :~ Spreadsheet (V2x)

Grapher a nd Surfer soft ware from Golden Software, Golden . Colorado

3-0 . 123 add-on pac kage from lntex Solutions. Needha m. Massachusetts

Statistical Analysis Sof twa re from the SAS Institute. Cary. I [ort h Carolina

file transfer soft ware from FTP Soft wa re Inc., Wak efield, Massachusetts

ARCHIVE soft ware, Fcucrman, D., Kempton, \V. 10S7. "AHCIHVE: Software forthe Management of Ficld Data". Center for Energy and Environmental St udiesReport "'0.216 ( FEUEIl ~tAN 1987)

t he GA\ \'l-( columnar processi ng routines (FSF 1989)

Postscri pt ty pesett ing wit h TeX (TeX 1986)

Copies of the public domain DOE-2 post-proces..sing softwa re used to produce theplots cau be o btained from the authors

For information on t he LoanSTAH program. please wri te o r e-mail t he au thors (Bit net :JSH4037@TA..\tSIG~1A or Int ernet : jhabcrJ@loanstar.tamu.edu ). Specia l t ha nks toSrinivas Katlpamul a. Dean \\'illis. Ro bert Sp arks. and Hober t Lopez for providi ng techn­ical support.

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Fcucrman. D., Kempton, \ V. 19S7, "AR CHI VE: Software fOI'th e Mana.gement of Field Data", Cente r for Energy andEnvironm en tal St udies Report No.2 16, (T his also includesTony's Too ls, and Art 's Tools which are useful columnardata processing tools), P rin ceton Univers ity.

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Haberl , J. , and Komar, P . l OgO. "Improving Commercia lBuilding En ergy Audi ts: How Daily and Hourly ConsumptionData Can Help". ASIIRAE Journal. Septe mber.

Kat.lpamula, S., K., a nd Haberl, J ., 1001. "A Methodology toIdentify Diurnal Load Shapes for Non-Weat her DependentElectric End-Uses", Solar En gineerin g, 1001: P roceedings ofthe ASME-JSES-JSl\1E Int ern ation al Solar Energy Confer­ence, pp. 457-467, Reno, Nevada, March.

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