Test Cases

Ready-made building emulators

Test Case Name

multizone_office_simple_hydronic

Brief Description

The test case represents an office HVAC system with two zones in Belgium. The building represented is a rectangular building of 40x25 m and 15 m of height, including five floors each 3 m high. Hence, the total floor area to be conditioned is 5000 m2. For modeling, the building is divided in two zones of equal floor area, with their main facades oriented towards north (NZ) and south (SZ) respectively, and with five internal floors included for thermal mass. Each zone has a window-to-wall ratio of 50%.

Each zone is equipped with independent air handling units (AHUs) for ventilation and fan-coil units (also known as ventiloconvectors) for space heating and cooling. Heating water is produced by an air-source heat pump and chilled water is produced by an air-cooled chiller.

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Available Test Scenarios

Time Periods

peak_heat_day typical_heat_day peak_cool_day typical_cool_day mix_day

Electricity Prices

constant dynamic highly_dynamic

Dependencies

The Modelica model for this test case uses the Modelica Standard Library, Modelica Buildings Library, and Modelica IDEAS Library.

The FMU for this test case is compiled by Modelon’s OPTIMICA Compiler Toolkit (OCT).