Learn TRNSYS

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Medium of instructions English
Mode of learning Self study
Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based

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₹ 3,699
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The syllabus

Introduction to TRNSYS

  • Welcome to the Learn TRNSYS complete course!
  • The TRNSYS Concept
  • Course overview
  • Purchasing TRNSYS software and extension libraries

Exploring Simulation Studio

  • Simulation Studio basics
  • Component Libraries
  • Running the first simulation
  • Building a solar hot water system from scratch
  • Adding weather data
  • Connecting weather data to the solar collector
  • Adding a pump
  • Replacing the single speed pump with a variable speed
  • Controlling the pump with a forcing function
  • Exercise: variable flow rate
  • Weekday and weekend forcing function sequences
  • Creating a macro
  • Customising link appearance
  • Adding an outlet pipe
  • Calculating the pipe heat loss coefficient
  • Intro to Equations
  • Variable Pump Flow
  • Adding a hot water tank
  • Analysing output from the tank
  • Adding the hot water load profile
  • Adding the tempering valve
  • Setting up the tempering valve and flow mixer
  • Adding a differential controller
  • Building a solar water heater from scratch

Analysing Results

  • Calculating the daily collector efficiency
  • Exercise: monthly integration
  • Calculating the minimum temperature delivery to the load
  • Mean collector temperature
  • Setting up a simulation summary
  • Setting up an energy balance check
  • Tidying up using layers
  • Generating Output

Modeling a Simple Single-Zone Building

  • Investigating a simple single zone building model
  • Studying the single zone model documentation
  • Calculating the infiltration rate
  • Applying internal gains to the building with an occupancy schedule
  • Calculating heating & cooling loads
  • Single zone office building in London

Multizone Building Modeling with TRNSYS 3D

  • Google Sketchup
  • TRNSYS 3D Plugin
  • Sketching the first building zone
  • Sketching the second zone and matching adjacent surfaces
  • Adding an overlapping second floor
  • Drawing windows
  • Importing the building model to Simulation Studio
  • Introduction to TRNBuild
  • Creating new building materials
  • Modifying a construction type
  • Changing the horizontal roof construction
  • Adding a variable infiltration rate
  • Air coupling between zones
  • Adding an occupany schedule and gains
  • Updating the geometry of the building
  • Changing the type of windows
  • Outputting information from TRNBuild
  • Heating & Cooling Loads using TRNBuild
  • Multizone Building with TRNSYS 3D

Conditioning & controlling the building

  • Heating & cooling the building using basic HVAC devices
  • Exercise: using differential controllers instead of the room thermostat
  • Five stage room thermostat
  • Modelling an air-source heat pump
  • Control strategy for a heat pump
  • Testing the control strategy
  • Modelling a building-integrated photo-voltaic/thermal collector
  • Modelling & Controlling a Thermal Storage (Trombe) Wall

System Validation

  • Reading customised weather data from a data file
  • Processing radiation data for a range of surface orientations
  • Setting the radiation processor parameters
  • Calculating the shift in solar time
  • Comparing the measured & simulated data on the plotter
  • Calculating the relative error between measured & simulated data

Automation

  • Introduction to Parametric Analysis
  • Preparing a solar hot water system model for parametric analysis
  • Setting up the Excel Workbook
  • Creating the VBA Macro - reading in information from the spreadsheet
  • For Loops, and planning the macro script
  • Read the text from the template deck file
  • Replace parameter values into the template deck
  • Write the new deck file
  • Running the TRNSYS simulation from the command shell
  • Count the number of TRNSYS simulations running
  • Importing results to Excel
  • Extra tips with VBA
  • Multi-system analysis

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