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Description
Pull Request Description
Move out-of-unit water heaters (i.e., Water Heater In Unit=No from Location=None to Location=Conditioned Mechanical Room (corresponds to OS-HPXML location: "other heated space").
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Ideally out-of-unit WHs are modeled as shared centralized WHs, which have different pipe and tank losses than in-unit WH and would not have interactions with in-unit equipments such as HVAC. Central WH is not currently being modeled in ResStock, though that's changing soon with this PR and this PR.
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Water Heater Location.tsvis currently a tag that's not connected to any ResStockMeasures. This means out-of-unit WHs are currently modeled as in-unit WHs. The revised location should remove the HVAC-HPWH interaction. But the pipe loss is still underestimated with in-unit WH models.
resstock-estimation PR: https://github.com/Test-Cloned-Org/resstock-estimation/pull/395
Stats from test/base_results/baseline/annual/*:
| Row Labels | count | Average of total_energy_mbtu | Average of load_delivered_m_btu | Average of tank_losses_m_btu |
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| Attic | 2 | 6.726 | 6.0515 | 0.462 |
| Conditioned Mechanical Room | 44 | 9.26368182 | 5.96754545 | 1.91309091 |
| Crawlspace | 2 | 5.1975 | 0.997 | 2.0995 |
| Garage | 63 | 9.81980952 | 6.40836508 | 2.08746032 |
| Heated Basement | 39 | 14.4264103 | 8.10228205 | 3.26838462 |
| Living Space | 151 | 10.8256424 | 6.41452318 | 2.21530464 |
| Outside | 8 | 11.867875 | 6.541625 | 2.964625 |
| Unheated Basement | 41 | 13.1755122 | 7.97468293 | 2.9404878 |
Checklist
Not all may apply:
- Tests (and test files) have been updated
- Documentation has been updated
- If related to resstock-estimation, checklist includes data dictionary, source report, options saturation, options_lookup.
- Changelog has been updated
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openstudio tasks.rb update_measureshas been run - No unexpected regression test changes on CI (checked comparison artifacts)
Source: NREL on 2024-01-26.