Deliverable 3.1. Simulation software

CHESS SETUP system is composed by a sort of elements (water tanks, solar panels, heat pumps, etc.) that interact with each other. In order to analyze the feasibility of the proposed system and calculate the results, it’s necessary to perform a simulation of mass and energy balance between the different components.

This report is the user guide of the CHESS SETUP software. This software is intended to carry out a preliminary system sizing in a very quick and simple way. The software allows a calculation of the required solar surface and storage volume, power and energy performance of the equipments, solar production, electrical consumption of the heat pump, gas consumption, and thermal losses among other parameters. It also executes an economic analysis (investment cost, economic saving and payback).

The software is public and available in the CHESS SETUP webpage (http://chess-setup-similator.net/login.php) and can be accessed for free using the following codes: User: demo Password: demo