Learn TRNSYS

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to TRNSYS

Lecture 1: Welcome to the Learn TRNSYS complete course!

Lecture 2: The TRNSYS Concept

Lecture 3: Course overview

Lecture 4: Purchasing TRNSYS software and extension libraries

Chapter 2: Exploring Simulation Studio

Lecture 1: Simulation Studio basics

Lecture 2: Component Libraries

Lecture 3: Running the first simulation

Lecture 4: Building a solar hot water system from scratch

Lecture 5: Adding weather data

Lecture 6: Connecting weather data to the solar collector

Lecture 7: Adding a pump

Lecture 8: Replacing the single speed pump with a variable speed

Lecture 9: Controlling the pump with a forcing function

Lecture 10: Exercise: variable flow rate

Lecture 11: Weekday and weekend forcing function sequences

Lecture 12: Creating a macro

Lecture 13: Customising link appearance

Lecture 14: Adding an outlet pipe

Lecture 15: Calculating the pipe heat loss coefficient

Lecture 16: Intro to Equations

Lecture 17: Adding a hot water tank

Lecture 18: Analysing output from the tank

Lecture 19: Adding the hot water load profile

Lecture 20: Adding the tempering valve

Lecture 21: Setting up the tempering valve and flow mixer

Lecture 22: Adding a differential controller

Chapter 3: Analysing Results

Lecture 1: Calculating the daily collector efficiency

Lecture 2: Exercise: monthly integration

Lecture 3: Calculating the minimum temperature delivery to the load

Lecture 4: Mean collector temperature

Lecture 5: Setting up a simulation summary

Lecture 6: Setting up an energy balance check

Lecture 7: Tidying up using layers

Chapter 4: Modelling a Simple Single-Zone Building

Lecture 1: Investigating a simple single zone building model

Lecture 2: Studying the single zone model documentation

Lecture 3: Calculating the infiltration rate

Lecture 4: Applying internal gains to the building with an occupancy schedule

Lecture 5: Calculating heating & cooling loads

Chapter 5: Multizone Building Modelling with TRNSYS 3D

Lecture 1: Google Sketchup

Lecture 2: TRNSYS 3D Plugin

Lecture 3: Sketching the first building zone

Lecture 4: Sketching the second zone and matching adjacent surfaces

Lecture 5: Adding an overlapping second floor

Lecture 6: Drawing windows

Lecture 7: Importing the building model to Simulation Studio

Lecture 8: Introduction to TRNBuild

Lecture 9: Creating new building materials

Lecture 10: Modifying a construction type

Lecture 11: Changing the horizontal roof construction

Lecture 12: Adding a variable infiltration rate

Lecture 13: Air coupling between zones

Lecture 14: Adding an occupany schedule and gains

Lecture 15: Updating the geometry of the building

Lecture 16: Changing the type of windows

Lecture 17: Outputting information from TRNBuild

Lecture 18: Heating & Cooling Loads using TRNBuild

Chapter 6: Conditioning & controlling the building

Lecture 1: Heating & cooling the building using basic HVAC devices

Lecture 2: Exercise: using differential controllers instead of the room thermostat

Lecture 3: Five stage room thermostat

Lecture 4: Modelling an air-source heat pump

Lecture 5: Control strategy for a heat pump

Lecture 6: Testing the control strategy

Lecture 7: Modelling a building-integrated photo-voltaic/thermal collector

Chapter 7: System Validation

Lecture 1: Reading customised weather data from a data file

Lecture 2: Processing radiation data for a range of surface orientations

Lecture 3: Setting the radiation processor parameters

Lecture 4: Calculating the shift in solar time

Lecture 5: Comparing the measured & simulated data on the plotter

Lecture 6: Calculating the relative error between measured & simulated data

Chapter 8: Automation

Lecture 1: Introduction to Parametric Analysis

Lecture 2: Preparing a solar hot water system model for parametric analysis

Lecture 3: Setting up the Excel Workbook

Lecture 4: Creating the VBA Macro – reading in information from the spreadsheet

Lecture 5: For Loops, and planning the macro script

Lecture 6: Read the text from the template deck file

Lecture 7: Replace parameter values into the template deck

Lecture 8: Write the new deck file

Lecture 9: Running the TRNSYS simulation from the command shell

Lecture 10: Count the number of TRNSYS simulations running

Lecture 11: Importing results to Excel

Lecture 12: Extra tips with VBA