Coil:Heating:Water:Baseboard capacity not reported

[muh182]

Issue overview

EnergyPlus isn’t showing the coil object in the sizing results. and…

OpenStudio doesn’t have a “applySizingValues” method for the ZoneHVACBaseboardConvectiveWater object.

Current Behavior

The capacity does not get reported.

Expected Behavior

The capacity of Coil:Heating:Water:Baseboard should be reported.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Use the attached model
2. Run the model
3. Open the SQL or the EIO file.
4. Observe that the "Heating Design Capacity" is not reported.

coil_heating_water_baseboard.osm.zip

This is likely an EnergyPlus bug too.

Possible Solution

Fix the method.

Details

Environment

• Mac 14.4 but also occurred on Windows too.
• Occurred on 3.6 and now on 3.7

Context

Students had to model baseboards and hard size their models last semester but could not find the capacity.

[joseph-robertson]

The ZoneHVACBaseboardConvectiveWater object does not contain any autosizable fields, so I believe we wouldn't expect it to have a “applySizingValues” method.

[joseph-robertson]

You are right, there doesn't appear to be a reported "Design Size Heating Design Capacity" field for the ZoneHVAC:Baseboard:Convective:Water object:

Looks like there's an open EnergyPlus issue about this: NREL/EnergyPlus#4957

[muh182]

Thanks @joseph-robertson for cross referencing it.