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<div>a few years ago I was checking which program to use for my PhD research. I ended up with 3: TRNSYS, IDA-ICE and ESP-r. I was used to TRNSYS, but did want to check the others before making a final choice.</div>
<div>I tested IDA-ICE, and my aim was to model both existing and non-existing plant systems in a given building. The main issue was that IDA_ICE is not open-source. And however Per and his collegues are willing to help, it remains commercial software developped and maintained by a small commercial company. I finally opted for ESP-r, because of its active development community. The mian thing is that you have to go into the code, but that will be the case for all non-standard plant simulations. Unless the hydraulics are not important. In that case you could easily work out a model using the equation writers in TRNSYS.</div>
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<div>Hope that helps,</div>
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<div>Leen<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Andy Stone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy.stone@bdsp.com">andy.stone@bdsp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>Hi,</p>
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<p>I am also interested in hearing about the capabilities of IDA ICE, in particular whether its plant modelling capabilities are as good as they look on the website. I’ve been using EnergyPlus to do some plant modelling recently and it seems that while it works fine for fairly standard systems, as soon as you try to simulate something a bit novel it struggles and often fails to converge. How does ICE’s plant modelling compare to something like TRNSYS?</p>
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<p>Regards,</p>
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