Humidity produced by the plants (green houses)

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Hello dear @chris and @mostapha

I am planning to measure humidity which is produced by the plants in the greenhouses. So I was wondering if we could be able to edit people gain battery in the ladybug tools to just have humidity and remove the produced heat from its script and make a new battery for plants role in the space. I will also be able to edit the plant’s produced humidity based on the literature.
Could you please help me with this case?

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Hi @Pourya ,

That’s a clever way of going about it. You can set the latent_fraction of people using a line or two of Python inside a GHPython component. You can see here on the SDK docs that the People object has a property to hard-set the latent fraction:

https://www.ladybug.tools/honeybee-energy/docs/honeybee_energy.load.people.html

Setting this to 1 will mean that effectively all of the hear from people will be turned into humidity so you can match things with the literature.

FYI, I have also found that trying to model irrigated beds of plants is not all that dissimilar from modeling indoor swimming pools if you wanted to try adding this object to your IDF using additional strings:

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