Production plant form

The grid form for production plants shows all production plants in the model. You can enter production, temperatures and network pressurisation here. The node in which the plant is located is highlighted in the map screen when you highlight the plant in the grid form. The detailed form for the plants is opened if you double-click in the row number column at the far left.

To create a new plant in the model, select Create new in the right-click menu. This opens a detailed form.

Give the plant a name or select an existing plant from the list at the top right. Connect the plant to a node, the icon to the near right of the field retrieves the node highlighted in the map. The adjacent icon shows the selected node in the map. You should place the plant at the end of an “appendix pipe”.  No other values, i.e. powers, temperatures, shunts or bypasses, are to be specified in the node in which where you place the plant!

Enter either power or flow, enter supply pipe temperature. Enter a pump type and pressurisation of the network, where necessary. The fields max. and min. power are only information you provide so as not to define the plant outside its working range. In the model, there but be one and only one plant for every separate hydraulic circuit without a specified power or flow. Likewise, in a model for every separate hydraulic circuit there must be one and only one plant with data for pressurisation of the model (static pressure). It is possible in the grid form to link a temperature curve to the plant (see section Temperature curves under System data form).