HVAC Talk of the Week: Determining your Energy Savings
Join our Energy Engineer Ruben as he delves into the captivating world of HVAC engineering, and discusses how to correctly determine your energy savings.
When optimising our energy design, we need to understand the energy savings before we start physically altering our design. Let’s take alook at an example.
We have an existing installation where we have an energy centre consisting out of old boilers and old pumps. As our operational cost is high, we are looking for changes and optimisations we can make in order to decrease our energy costs. To this end, we look for the impact of an hydronic optimisation and a decrease in supply temperature on the energy performance of our existing system.
But as we are also interested in decarbonising our energy centre, we examine whether we can use a heat pump in order to further decrease our energy costs. For this, we first look at a hybrid production design in which we use a heat pump alongside our boilers, and in a second phase, we analyse the energy performance of our system once we go fully electric.
The problem therefore now becomes: how can we compare all the system energy performances of all these different designs? In current practice, we use Excel sheets and rules of thumb in order to estimate the impact of each alteration on our existing system. However, whether the future system will actually reach these energy savings, remains to be seen. Luckily, we can do better.
Tune in to watch the video now, and discover how the Hysopt software solves this issue, while assisting you in your engineering process.
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