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Case for, from Page 11 parisons to purposely oversized system selections. so, wHaT’s wrong with the article? • The math. • In any classically balanced static balance valve system, the hydraulically most significant path should have no “balancing” balance valve loss, as the pump is selected for that circuit. All other circuits’ balancing valves account for only the hydraulic differences of distribution piping and mixed head loss devices (coils, valves, etc.) required to make that circuit the same loss as the most significant. The other circuits’ balancing valves only account for the same pressure drop affiliated with piping in the most significant circuit. System curves don’t lie. • The article’s Figures 3 and 4 system curves are improperly calculated and shown for constant-speed pumping systems, and their referenced points of operation are improperly shown. • If required flow for the coils is 360 gpm, then the flow for the system is 360 gpm. • Why would an engineer care about the cost to run a purposely oversized system?—only, of course, if one is attempting to make an oversized system work as if it were properly sized. Balancing does not fix problems. It does adjust for variations in actual performance versus field performance if the associated equipment can be adjusted for if constraints such as the pump curve and control valve allow for it. • When comparing three-way versus two-way control, the authors state the branch losses to be 10 ft. That implies a very oversized valve and much hydraulic interaction between circuits that, without going into the control theory and relative mathematical proof, this would act in only a two-position control mode cycling the coil between full and no flow, wasting pump energy. Remember that in a modulating system with equal percentage control valve, stroking the valve from 100% open to 90% open ideally reduces flow by some 31%, and the next 10% of stroke September 2009 reduction reduces the flow to 48% of design flow. An experienced pump or control engineer would recognize that as being less than 12% of the design brake horsepower. And, better yet, most cooling load profiles would suggest that 97% of the yearly hours of operation would be at that point, a fact most system designers know. • The only trick in modulating a two-way, variable-speed, variable flow system is getting it to work as intended. In that regard, valve authority again plays an integral role in making the system work properly. While www.info.hotims.com/25208-25 ASHRAE Journal 13

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of ASHRAE Journal - September 2009

ASHRAE Journal - September 2009
Contents
Commentary
Industry News
Letters
Meetings and Shows
Getting to Net Zero
Feature Articles
How High Can You Go? Building Height and Net Zero
Lab for Learning
Solar Hot-Water Heating System: Lessons Learned
50th Anniversary—Low Pressure Steam Heating Systems
Building Sciences
Products
Emerging Technologies
People
Classified Advertising
Advertisers Index
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