2020 Volume 45 Issue 284 Pages 37-44
The Building Energy Simulation Tool(BEST) Program was established as a new energy simulation tool with the cooperation of the industry, government, and academia in 2005, and the development committee has been established since then. Although several types of BEST programs exist, the professional version enables the most detailed examination and is believed to be useful in detailed design and research. However, we cannot be certain that it is fully utilized. One of the reasons is that the calculation results are not easy to handle and it is difficult to input data. Therefore, we developed a tool that can easily evaluate various air conditioning performances using the result of the BEST professional edition. In the developed tool, seven types of evaluation items were set, including the evaluation index for the water thermal storage type air conditioning system. This tool was used for evaluation when the input contents were varied in a water thermal storage type air conditioning system. Changes in the calculation results according to the input conditions could be easily confirmed, demonstrating efficiency in analysis. In the future, we intend to conduct the evaluation considering the partial load characteristics of the heat source and the evaluation method of the individual distributed system.
