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RE: [EnergyPlus_Support] Conversion Tool ESP-r to Energy Plus

Yes, you can just use straight ESP-r to convert them. I will point you to another similar email to this group less than 2 months ago (I am copying the same text here):


ESP-r exports up to EnergyPlus v2.0 and some other older EnergyPlus versions
too. If you are using version v2.1 you will need to convert the idf file (from
v2.0 to v2.1).
I have successfully exported few ESP-r models to EnergyPlus v2.0 in the past but
you will need to be careful and know what can go wrong or what things do not
work during the process. In brief:

1) If you have a door in your esp-r model then the converted idf will not work.
I used to delete the doors in ESP-r before the conversion and then re-define
them in EnergyPlus after the conversion. This is not a big deal I guess.

2) I also used to delete the resulted schedules in EnergyPlus from the
operations file of ESP-r (although the idf will work with the resulted
schedules). I did not really like the suggestions of ESP-r for occupancy
schedules, etc. during the conversion to the idf and I was re-defining my
schedules afterwards to better match the two models. Again, I think that this is
not a big deal because the most important, at least for my work, was to convert
geometry, materials and constructions.

Other things like the ideal controls that I was using in ESP-r are not converted
into ideal systems (e.g. Purchased Air) in EnegyPlus. You will need to do this
by yourself but I did not find it difficult myself.

If you follow the above 2 suggestions you will convert your model correctly..

Regards,
Georgios

-----Original Message-----
From: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of André Lopes
Sent: Thu 08/05/2008 09:31
To: EnergyPlus Support
Subject: [EnergyPlus_Support] Conversion Tool ESP-r to Energy Plus
 
Dear Team 
Is there some tool to convert the ESP-r files to Energy Plus? If yes, it converts in what EPlus version?
Regards
A L


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