OpenUtilities sisHYD
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Integrated Design, Analysis, and Simulation of District Energy and Gas Networks
- Design District Energy and Gas Networks, Including Engineering Calculations
- Optimize Network Design and Construction
- Achieve Optimal Energy Consumption and Delivery
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Improve Planning, Design, Construction, and Operations of District Energy and Gas Networks
OpenUtilities sisHYD is a comprehensive analytical modeling and network design application that delivers the thermal and hydraulic calculations needed for district energy and gas pipeline networks. It helps users identify asset usage costs, present operational status, locate critical points, simulate failure scenarios, and calculate all major thermal and hydraulic parameters of the network.
Because every firm has different needs, there are multiple flexible OpenUtilities sisHYD variations:
- OpenUtilities sisHYD Heat: Achieve efficient and reliable sustainable solutions for your district energy needs - heating and cooling.
- OpenUtilities sisHYD Multi Utility: Achieve efficient and reliable sustainable solutions for your district energy and your gas distribution needs.
- Both variations come with options for networks with 1,000 pipes, 10,000 pipes or unlimited numbers of pipes.
Design District Energy and Gas Networks, Including Engineering Calculations
OpenUtilities sisHYD provides the hydraulic calculations needed for designing district energy and gas pipeline networks, as well as the thermal calculations for district energy networks (heating and cooling).
Optimize Network Design and Construction
Build district energy networks and gas networks at the right size. In design mode, the calculation engine proposes new pipe types based on the specific pressure loss.
Achieve Optimal Energy Consumption and Delivery
Modeling outputs help meet customer service agreements by ensuring that heat is delivered at just the right temperature and pressure. OpenUtilities sisHYD enables you to operate district energy and gas networks at their optimum.
Design Calculations and Analysis
- Calculate hydraulic and thermal network parameters
- Design new networks using design aids for placing appropriate pipe diameters
- Generate reports that calculate equipment and construction costs
- District energy-specific controls: mass flow control, differential pressure control, temperature control (in general and specialized as bypass control and admixture control)
- Use manufacturer pump and valve specifications for modeling
- Validate that calculated elements are operating within their assigned limits
- Design pipe inner diameters by limiting the specific pressure loss and velocity
- Pipe inner diameter designs can be done on the entire network, by network segment, by pipe type, or by selected pipes
- Network analysis to find critical points (such as pressure differences and temperatures)
Scalable Network Modeling
- Unlimited number of consumers
- Unlimited number of loops
- All network components are modeled as elements (pipes, pumps, valves, supplier, consumer)
Energy Balance Modeling
- Heat generation
- Heat consumption
- Overall heat loss
- Pumps
Data Management
- Open database for storing data
- External applications can access the published database schema
- Import data from OpenUtilities sisNET® or other network documentation systems to avoid redundant data models
- Exchange data for use with third-party optimization tools (load distribution, daily resource scheduling, pump optimization, interfacing with computer process control)
Special Functions
- Complete network thermal calculation
- Thermal dynamic calculation
- Heat losses
- Consideration of different supply service temperatures
- Temperature plots (color-coded network plot, profile plot)
- Bypass between supply and return with and without control valves/pumps
- Supply customers from the return when operating conditions are favorable
- Return temperature may be modeled as a dependency of the supply temperature
- Admixture control support
- Simulate arbitrary pump tasks
- Preconfigured yet customizable units of measure
Usability
- User-friendly interface with intuitive controls
- Tooltip displaying analytical results
- Objects intelligently linked between map graphics and profile, reports, and logs
- Print preparation features
- Seamless integration with MicroStation
- Trace and search in the map views
- Validate input data
- Wizard-based workflows
Reports, Maps, And Charts
- Generate tabular lists and reports
- Create presentation map plots with labeling to document analysis results
- Configure network map plots to display selected objects and results as labels
- Apply color and weight coding to map plots based on attributes
- Color-code pressure differences or supply temperatures
- Thematically apply line weights based upon the internal pipe diameter
- Create profile plots of node and pipe results along user-defined network routes
- Generate time series plots at specific points on the network, showing details for each time step
- Export map graphics as PDFs for archiving and distribution
- Publish network plots at user-defined map scales
- Symbology and annotation collision detection
Operating System
Windows 11 (64-bit)/ Windows 11 (21H2) - Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education
Windows 10 (64-bit)/ Windows 10 (21H2) - Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016 (64 bit)
Processor
Intel® or AMD® processor 3.0 GHz or greater
Memory
4GB minimum, 16 GB recommended. More memory will almost always improve performance, particularly when working with larger models and an Oracle Database Installation on the workstation.
Hard Disk
25 GB minimum, 25-42 GB depending on additional installations such as Companion Features and Companion Products. Recommended 40 GB disk space.
Video
See the graphics card manufacturer for latest information on DirectX drivers. 512 MB of video RAM or higher is recommended. If insufficient video RAM or no graphics card supported by DirectX can be found, OpenUtilities sisHYD attempts to use software emulation. For optimal performance, graphics display color depth should be set to 24-bit or higher. When using a color depth setting of 16-bit, some inconsistencies will be noted.
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