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Comparison between available EINSTEIN versions

NEW ** What is new in EINSTEIN 3.0 ? **

 

EINSTEIN 2.4

EINSTEIN 3.0

EINSTEIN 2.5 plus

EINSTEIN 3.0 plus

Release date

December 2016

November 2019

July 2017

October 2019

License and pricing

free and open source

free 30-day demo

purchase of license required for full version

Support for EINSTEIN Thermal energy audit methodology

full support

Dynamic system simulation module

Base version

Enhanced simulation module with more than 10x improvement in calculation speed

  Real-time simulation with variable time-step
Time schedules and master control
Base version
Master control schedules for equipment
Electricity grid Base version Variable (hourly profile for tariff and environmental parameters) Base version Variable (hourly profile for tariff and environmental parameters)

Pinch analysis and heat exchanger network design

Base version

Additional features:

- graphical representation of hot and cold streams and heat exchanger network

- improved algorithm for automatic HX-network design (2 additional modes for exergy optimisation and for minimum heat exchanger size)

- possibility to select/unselect streams for analysis

Monitoring data
Base version

Import and automatic processing of monitoring data

Use of monitoring data as boundary conditions in system simulations

Mass and material flows (production flow chart)

Base version

Mass flow network:

- connections of mass flows between process in- and outflows and with raw materials and product data

- graphical editor for mass flow network

Graphical user interface (GUI)

Base version

New GUI with graphical system editor

Improved editors for system components and data bases

Plot of hourly simulation results in the GUI

Base version

New GUI with graphical system editor, editor of HX network and editor of system mass flows

Improved editors for system components and data bases

Plot of hourly simulation results in the GUI

Economic analysis module Base version New editor and user interface Base version New editor and user interface
Database server MySQL and SQLite SQLite 
Languages

EN, BG, CAT (*), CZ, DE, ES, FR, IT, PL, SI, SK

(*) up to now only EINSTEIN Audit Report master and EINSTEIN Audit Questionnaire

 

 

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NEW ** EINSTEIN 3.0.03 with Finnish translation **

September 2020: A new EINSTEIN update - Version 3.0.03/3.0.03plus has been released including a new translation of the tool into Finnish.

The EINSTEIN Expert-System Software Tool

The EINSTEIN methodology is supported by an expert system software tool that guides the user through the whole auditing procedure spanning from data acquisition, processing and estimation to the design and quantitative (energetic and economic) evaluation of alternative solutions.