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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">You’d still have to do all of the work you already have done in order to decide the importance of the various parameters…unless you’ve entered all of the load criteria, costs, and maintenance data into DOE2 as well, how would it know what the optimal choice was?</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The client may be remembering someone else’s tool that was based on DOE2 and had some library of possible options and sizing configurations (maybe one of the CHP centers)…I don’t remember this functionality in the base DOE2.1 or 2.2 software.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Here are some tools, several of which use DOE2.1 as the basis: </span></font><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.chpcentermw.org/10-00_tools.html">http://www.chpcentermw.org/10-00_tools.html</a></span></font></b><font color="black"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Anyway, eQuest runs DOE2.2 – so there can be features included in the DOE2.2 engine that aren’t available in the eQuest interface. I don’t believe this automatic cogen sizing is available as an option either way though.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Russ J. Arneson<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, November 11, 2010 8:54 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Equest-users] Using eQuest to Optimize CHP (co-gen) plant</span></font></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Our firm has been told by a client that DOE-2 (and thus eQuest) can be used to optimize the size of a combined heat-power (co-gen) plant within the program (not by running several iterations and analyzing the results to pick the optimal size). Is this correct?</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We have already run iterations on the cogen plant size using two other programs and completed manual analysis of the results to pick the plant size, but would like to be able to answer our client’s request.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:bold">Russ Arneson, PE</span></font></b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></font></p>
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