Hi All,
I’m experimenting with a simple apartment (using AirFlowNetworks so that I can control apertures individually with independent logic.)
Let’s assume no heating or cooling for simplicity. Lets assume a one room studio apartment, with a front door to a closed central building corridor (unconditioned room).
I have applied an OA system through ironBug to represent an exhaust fan to my apartment. However, this will set the supply air to the outdoor condition.
I reality, an exhaust fan just induces a negative pressure to the room, and that room will pull air from the least resistive path.
In an apartment with a well sealed exterior, supply air may come from a central corridor, rather than be pulled through the facade, which may well have very different temp, RH, and CO2 to the outside air.
Is there a way to setup a simple transfer of air, at a specified flow rate and schedule from one zone to another?
One might just try to use ZoneMixing - but that is ignored once you enable AFN.
Better yet, is there a way to induce negative pressure to the room (representing exhaust fan), and let AFN work out where the air is sourced from, based on all the crack flows?
I notice AirflowNetwork:Distribution has some components like PressureControllers, Ducts and Fans – can IronBug configure this?
Could it be achieved with something like AirflowNetwork:Intrazone:Linkage?
Can that be managed with the LBT suite somehow?