Re: [Einstein-developers] TOOL general questions for trainings

[Hans S. <han...@en...>]

Slawitsch, Bettina wrote:

> Dear all,
>  
> some general questions that might arise in the trainings, working with 
> the tool:
>  
> 1) The delete function is not working, right? just to know...

Delete WHAT ? There are many delete functions that DO work ...

> 2)Does the benchmark module work in your computers? Do we need to do 
> anything to make this work? Database?? On the panel nothing can be 
> selected and no button works.

PanelBM1 seems to have problems (I'm not sure). The best to show for the 
demo is the second one (benchmarks by product).
I have a corrected database from Damjan (he deleted the 0's ... ) but I 
still did not have time to include it. I someone has time to create a 
new benchmark.xml on this ... ?

>  
> less important, but helpful for us to answer the questions in the 
> trainings:
> 1) Is the reading of project data from excel questionnaire already 
> working? yes/no?

NO

> 2) Is the print questionnaire function working - yes/no?

NO. neither import / export / print of the questionnaire is working. In 
principle we have the tools to do this (same procedure as with report), 
but no time for programming this.

> 3) Preferences: Does the user need the debug modes for the CC in any 
> case, or was this just for internal CC check debugging?

No. The user does not need this. Anyway a "normal" user won't understand 
anything of these debug messages :-)

> 4) Where are the different modes of EINSTEIN 
> interactive/Semi-automatic/automatic best defined - so that the users 
> can re-read - in the audit guide or rather in the manual?

? I think in the manual (chap. 2 there's something written, but very bad 
... I just copied the slides from the Sabadell meeting)
In fact, at present there's very few difference.
INTERACTIVE - SEMI-AUTOMATIC: as far as I see there's no difference at 
all in the present state of the tool.
INTERACTIVE - AUTOMATIC:
In automatic mode:
1. the auto-pilot doesn't ask for confirmation in automatic mode
2. in some design assistants (HP, CHP) the final selection of equipment 
is done automatically, whereas in the interactive mode a pop-up appears 
that let's the user select among two or three automatically pre-selected 
equipments.

>  
> below some more questions for the trainings from yesterday.
> and a small comment: for us the link to subscribe to the EINstein 
> users is not working in the menu option - help.

I know. Maybe Heiliger Florian can help ...

>  
>  
> sunny regards, bettina &christoph
>  
> email yesterday:
> some more comments:
>  
> With which factors is PET calculated on the basis of FET? for gas, 
> oil, etc?

For the fuels, I think there is a PE conversion factor in the fuel data 
base.
For electricity, there is the table "electricity mix": the idea was that 
the user can define his/her own electricity mixes with the corresponding 
conversion factor.
Nevertheless, I think programming this remained on half-way, so up to 
now some default values are used (3.0 for electricity).

>
> Heat demand proc: car industry: why is UPH higher then UPHproc when no 
> HX is inserted?

This is a good question :-)

>
> What is the main statement that we want to give with the "energy 
> intensity" graphs? Is it used in the benchmark model or just for 
> visulation of the values?

The main objective of this of course is benchmarking !!

> on which basis is specific energy consumption per product calculated 
> (SEC)? Should there be a differenc between the values stated in Q1/ 
> product data/energy consumption per product and the SEC shown in the 
> EnergyIntensityPanel?

data ENTERED in Q1 are for present state.
for other alternatives energy consumption by product should be 
CALCULATED. (this is NOT done right now, as we still have no methodology 
of how to associate processes / equipments to a certain product line ... 
the only thing we could do is maintain the same proportions of the 
present state, and increase/reduce proportionally ... but: this is NOT 
working !!!)

> For car washing example: Q1: 0,15 mWh/product - reasonable, 
> EnergyIntensityPanel: 0,03 kWh/product ?

These are surely transmission losses on the way from the GUI to the 
EnergyIntensityPanel ...

>  
> Benchmark/ Global energy intensity - is the panel working??
>  

Once it was working, but testing one day with Claudia we discovered 
problems.
As stated above, for demo better use the "SEC by product" panel.

Hans

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