[Bldg-sim] IDA - ICE

[leen peeters]

Dear all,

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.
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.

Hope that helps,

Leen

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Andy Stone <andy.stone at bdsp.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Andy
>
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