Hi Mark In 2010 we didn't accept any students for that project. In 2009, José Zapata did some work on the same topic, and made some useful improvements to the Data Reader (for accessing weather data files) but otherwise didn't expand our model library much in this regard. I have done some modelling of rankine cycles, brayton cycles, etc, recently, and that stuff is directly useful for in particular concentrating solar power (CSP) and biomass systems, but we do need to expand more into the solar collector and storage aspects (for my pet area of CSP) as well as many others (for the other areas like PV, wind, etc.)
On top of the above stuff, which up to now is all more-or-less steady state, I would like us to get into some initial simple dynamic models especially for solar domestic hot water or simple molten salt CSP storage concepts. Answer: both, sort of! There are plenty of existing designs/publications/books that contain stuff can use as a template; we don't have to be designing from scratch here; the goal is to improve to tools, not (just yet) to design new systems. Cheers JP mark delgado wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently reading the GSOC wiki for 2010 and 2011 for student > projects, http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/Student_projects. I see that > Renewable Energy Systems Modelling was present in 2010 with the goal > of developing models of photovotaic cells, pumps, turbines based off > of the sun's position and weather data. Was this completed? Which > models were specifically built? If this is already done then is the > goal of the 2011 project to design power plants based off of the > models that were already developed? > > In short, do I have to code new models of solar and thermal hydraulic > components or do I have to design power plants? Or both? > > Thanks! > -Mark > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Create and publish websites with WebMatrix > Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; > WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and > publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Ascend-sim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ascend-sim-users > -- Dr John Pye Dept of Engineering Australian National University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Ascend-sim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ascend-sim-users
