Manage your Operating Budget and Increase Efficiencies With Automatic HVAC Load Calculation Software

 

Cooling a space results in the highest energy expenses in buildings, especially during summers. HVAC load calculation software allows consultants to quickly determine the amount of heating and cooling required in a building and the recommended equipment capability, based on its specs and designs. An accurately sized HVAC unit will ensure that a space can reach the desired temperature without unnecessary wastage of energy.

Heat can enter a building through solar heat gain. Depending on how solar heat gain occurs, its effects can be felt in offices and living spaces immediately or over a period of time. Building occupants’ density also contributes to the total heat load of a building. If the outside air is warmer, it will increase the inside temperature when the heat enters halls, rooms, auditoriums, etc. A building cooling load calculation software considers all internal and external heat sources that are present and determines their total effect. The software will recommend the right type of air-conditioning system and avoid the oversized systems that can result in inappropriately higher initial and running costs, and results in short cycling. 

Serve your clients the best way with an efficient HVAC software

With energy prices continuing to rise, the cost of installing HVAC systems in commercial and residential buildings is straining the operating budgets of many enterprises. HVAC professionals can use building cooling load calculation software to perform heat load calculations. HVAC load calculation software automates many time consuming and repetitive tasks and can efficiently carry out complex engineering calculations that are likely to be erroneous if done manually. To best serve their customers, HVAC contractors can take advantage of the below HVAC load calculation software by ACADS-BSG, the leading building services provider that has come up with specialized solutions for use in Australia, New Zealand and other regions of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

CAMEL

This specialized air conditioning load estimation and psychometrics software calculates the design heating and cooling loads, and associated psychometrics for air conditioning plants in buildings. The calculations by CAMEL are based on the ‘AIRAH/IHRACE application manual DA9’ that incorporates the cooling load estimation techniques and data developed by the Carrier International Corporation, with refinements by ACADS-BSG.

Other key features of CAMEL include the below:

•           The program caters for overhangs complete with drop panels and reveals on both windows and walls.

•           It performs an hourly cooling load analysis considering thermal storage on a design day in each month of the year.

•           Specific 3 pm design day and wet bulb temperatures are available in CAMEL building cooling load calculation software for over 600 locations in Australia and many offshore locations.

•           Fresh air quantities can be entered at room or zone level as I/s/person with the plant fresh air quantity determined using the Compartment Formula.

•           The results viewing and printing screen provides for the selection of various tables, load charts and summaries.

SPRINK2000

The automatic sprinkler system SPRINK2000 by ACADS-BSG can be used to analyse automatic fire sprinkler systems with a simple end, side or centre fed configurations. It is designed specifically for use in North America to analyse fire hydrant and hose reel installations or their combinations.

Other key features of SPRINK2000 automatic sprinkler system include the below:

•           The piping system can have up to 10 input points that can be modelled as a fixed pressure.

•           The program can work on a wide range of units including Metric, British and the US.

•           Piping materials complying with a wide range of codes are catered for including copper, light, medium and heavy steel, and piping for North American codes.

•           The automatic sprinkler system can be used to determine the design point given the K-factor and minimum discharge of each sprinkler head or hose reel.

•           Provision is made in the program for gridded layouts to be entered easily.

•           Results of SPRINK2000 give a summary of the flows and pressures for all discharges and for all input points.

Other HVAC load calculations software by ACADS-BSG include HYENA that provides automatic fire sprinkler and hydrant piping analysis, KOALA that provides simplified building air conditioning load estimation, DOLPHIN that provides sizing and pressure drop calculations of duct runs, and many more. These building services software are designed to increase the efficiency of the building professionals and significantly reduce the cost of their installations with increased automaton.