EnergyPlus Energy Simulation Software 2.0
-- Consulting-Specifying Engineer, 5/22/2007 1:48:00 PM
EnergyPlus is a building energy simulation program capable of modeling buildings’ heating, cooling, lighting, ventilating and other energy flows. As a stand-alone simulation program it does not require a user-friendly graphical interface. Based on popular features and capabilities of BLAST and DOE-2, EnergyPlus reads input and writes output as text. Some of the new features included in the simulation program include:
- 173 updated solar collector data from SRCC
- 86 locations of new weather data: 69 in Australia, 16 in Canada and 1 in Iran
- Modified Zone Sizing that allows standard-type calculation of design outside air flow rates
- Hourly ventilation object reports on air changes
- Speed up simulation of water-to-air heat pumps using RegulaFalsi solution technique
- Added green roof simulation
- Fuel cell model updated
- Updated Input/Output Reference and Engineering Reference for all new features and updates
- Meters report cumulative value in addition to resetting at reporting time interval
- Added balanced flow desiccant heat exchanger options for existing heat exchanger-assisted DX cooling coil object.
For a complete list of the new features, click here
