Version 10.0.0
Version 10.0.0 is a major release that adds various new packages and models.
The library has been tested Dymola 2023x, OpenModelica 1.22.0-dev (41-g8a5b18f-1), OPTIMICA 1.43.4 and recent versions of Impact.
The following major changes have been done compared to release 9.1.1:
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A package with configurable template models for variable air volume flow systems
with control based on ASHRAE Guideline 36 has been added to
Buildings.Templates
. -
Reduced order building envelope models
based on the ISO 13790:2008 Standard have been added.
This allows modeling of building envelope heat transfer either with a detailed Modelica
multizone model (
Buildings.ThermalZones.Detailed
), with EnergyPlus via the Spawn coupling (Buildings.ThermalZones.EnergyPlus_9_6_0
), or with reduced order models based on ISO 13790 (Buildings.ThermalZones.ISO13790
) or based on VDI 6007 (Buildings.ThermalZones.ReducedOrder
). -
Various models for district energy systems have been added to the package
Buildings.Experimental
. This package includes models for- combined heating and cooling district energy systems that operate near ambient temperature (sometimes called 5th generation district energy systems),
- Energy Transfer Stations (ETS) with all electric plants with heat recovery chillers,
-
ETS with multiple heat pumps (heat recovery as well as air-source heat pumps) and storage, i.e.,
the so-called Time-Independent Energy Recovery (TIER) plant in
(
Buildings.Experimental.DHC.Plants.Combined.AllElectricCWStorage
), - direct and indirect ETS for heating or for cooling, and
- district steam systems.
-
A package with all major hydronic configurations that are encountered in heating and cooling systems
has been added in
Buildings.Fluid.HydronicConfigurations
. This package also includes automatic sizing of control valves to obtain suitable valve authority. - The fan and pump models have been revised, and can now be configured to compute the part load efficiency based on the Euler number.
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Various new elementary control blocks have been added to the
Buildings.Controls.OBC.CDL
package to provide a reference implementation of the ASHRAE Standard 231P Control Description Language that is currently being developed. See also obc.lbl.gov.