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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Hello
– We have an interesting modeling situation coming up: a complex of
buildings on a central heating plant, though actually there are 2 central
plants – one old steam plant and one newer plant. We’ll be
modeling one building in detail (using eQuest) and 2 other buildings in less
detail (maybe only an UA). </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Among
other issues we need to analyze these options for the 3 buildings: 1) stay on the
old central plant, 2) shift to the new plant, 3) install stand alone boilers in
the individual buildings. This is complicated by the fact that one of the
plants has geothermal preheating. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>My question
is this: I suspect that eQuest may not be the best choice for analyzing the
central plant options – is there a (not very expensive) piece of software
out there somewhere that would help us in this analysis? I’ve
visited the DOE site that lists 345 software tools and didn’t find
anything (though with that many choices I could have easily missed something)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Any
suggestions are gratefully appreciated.</span></font></p>
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