Welcome to EnergyPlus PET’s documentation!
PET as in Parameter Estimation Tool, not a friendly supporter that hangs around ready to help…or maybe both?
- Walk-through and forms information
- Equipment Documentation
- Base Equipment Class
- Water-to-Air Heat Pump Heating Mode Curve Fit
- Water-to-Air Heat Pump Cooling Mode Curve Fit
- Water-to-Water Heat Pump Heating Mode Curve Fit
- Water-to-Water Heat Pump Cooling Mode Curve Fit
- Column Header Definition (Developer Info)
- Equipment Type Listing (Developer Info)
- Equipment Type Manager (Developer Info)
- Common Curves Collection (Developer Info)
- Adding a New Component Type
- Adding a New Unit Type
- Other Support Modules
Indices and tables
EnergyPlus is a building simulation tool developed by the United States Department of Energy. The simulation program is comprised of dozens of different component models which have been developed over the course of decades. In some cases there are similarities in the model formulation, but in many cases, due to either different assumptions, physics, boundary conditions, etc., component models will have their own formulation.
One difficulty in using the various component models in EnergyPlus is how to consume actual manufacturer’s data and get it into a form usable for EnergyPlus. That’s where this tool is helpful. The long term goal of this tool is to be able to generate EnergyPlus inputs for a wide variety of the component models that exist inside the simulation program. With the critical focus on heat pump deployment in our current time, the first models used in this tool are heat pumps. Over time, other model types will be added.
So how does this tool work? Well, it’s only a few quick steps:
Take manufacturer’s data and preferably copy and paste it into a spreadsheet to allow quick and easy data prep
With this tool, enter any correction factors for the catalog data
Then enter the base data set, with some columns potentially being constant, only to be corrected with factors later
Let the tool generate parameters!
This documentation will cover walking through the main form operations, as well as providing developer support for those interested in extending the program or making changes.
Installation
This program should be installed from PyPi using pip install energyplus_pet
.
Once installed, a new command will be available from that Python environment called energyplus_pet_gui
, with a
.exe
appended on Windows. A future version of this tool will add an optional process to make it available from
a desktop icon. In the meantime, you are welcome to create a desktop link manually on the operating system of your
choice.
Developing
If you are curious about the latest code, or want to open an issue or submit a contribution, check out the repo at https://github.com/myoldmoopar/EnergyPlusPET. This will likely soon move to a new location.