6.8.1. Design Assistants - General Issues¶
EINSTEIN offers design assistant modules for the semi-automatic design of alternative heat and cooling supply systems.
All design assistants are formed of the following blocks:
- A table summarising the relevant equipment of a given type which is currently present in a given alternative proposal.
- Graphical representation of relevant heat demand and heat supply curves
- Numerical data summarising the performance of the equipment of a given type
- Configuration of the design assistant
In the configuration, the user can preselect certain parameters that constrain the allowed options for automatic design, e.g.:
- preselection of / excluding certain type of equipment, type of fuels, etc.
- specifying allowed temperature ranges
- specifying minimum requirements on performance (e.g. yearly operating hours, …)
The user has the following possibilities for modifying the equipment in a given alternative proposal:
- manual editing (adding/deleting/modifying equipment) via the data entry (independent of the design assistant
- manually adding equipment from databases
- (semi-)automatically adding equipment using the design assistant