Ladybug Renewables: Missing Solar Water Heating Surface Component

[julianha]

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to model a facade integrated solar thermal collector. I have a working Honeybee model of my reference building. I have the intention to run the simulations on OpenStudio/EnergyPlus. However, I’m struggling to model the actual ST collector. I stumbled across the LB component “Solar Water Heating Surface” which would well suit my needs. Unfortunately, it is no longer available in the current LB version. Does anyone know if/when it will be available and if there would be a workaround?

Attached you can find a screenshot of the above mentioned component.

Thanks for the help,
Julian

[ZhengrongTao]

hi,@julianha

Please refer to this.

Possibility to have solar collector in Ironbug

Hey @MingboPeng I hope you are pretty well. I noticed there is a cs file in the Ironbug about the solar collector, which at the moment is commented as below: Would you kindly let me know whether it is possible to have a solar collector component in the Ironbug? I am interested in simulating below OpenStudio file from their library: Thank you very much in advance for your time and assistance. Sincerely, Behnam

best.
zhengrong