openACHP

openACHP is a library for optimizing heat-driven cooling system designs. It includes some simple cycle and heat exchange models for realistic results. Applications include selection of a cooling system and education.

To-DO …

• Optimization problem statement
• Cooling cycle models
• Heat exchange models
• System models
• Optimizers
• Fluid properties
• Results

Notebooks

• Compare chillers
• compare_ammonia_props
• compare_libr_props
• CP_demo
• demo solution9
• demo_coolprop_ammonia
• demo_HRHX_integral
• show_scipy_optimize_trials
• Demo Ammonia1.slides (or one long page)
• Debug ammonia1
• optimize_trials2
• optimize_trials2_3
• optimize_trials2_5
• Feasibility of ammonia-aqua chiller
• Ammonia-aqua properties Benchmark 1 | Benchmark 2
• fitting-effectiveness
• Finite difference method for heat exchanger and cooling tower

Set-up for using the library

Use the environment file to install with conda. See documentation for help installing CoolProp in Windows. Some additional packages may be useful but are not used by the code:

• pandas
• beautifulsoup4
• pandoc
• TeX environment for nbconvert (see here)