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HP is the REF.BOX module dedicated to the design, virtual prototyping, optimization and commercial characterization of heat pumps for air-conditioning applications.
This software module allows to design and simulate a heat pump with a scientific approach, being able to completely characterize the refrigerant circuit thermodynamic and heat-transfer phenomena, the unit control, the on-board hydronic lines with the pumping group, the unit operating range, to rapidly and accurately calculate the heat pump seasonal energy indexes such as SCOP, UNI /TS 11300-4 and performance in part-load operation and to commercially characterize the refrigeration unit by defining its descriptions, images, documentation, any associated accessories and price lists distinguished by market.
It’s a must-have software module for all companies focused on air-conditioning heat pumps efficient design, optimization and commercialization.
The heat pump module can create a faithful digital copy of the real refrigeration unit, allowing its comprehensive definition:
REF.BOX is equipped with an extremely robust and advanced numerical engine that allows the refrigeration units design, virtual prototyping and optimization in terms of costs and energy performance. The calculation engine includes the refrigeration unit operating constraints returning alarm signals if necessary. The heat pump module can calculate the refrigeration unit in different operating modes, in detail:
REF.BOX allows a complete commercial characterization of refrigeration units. This characterization is used in the REF.WEB configurator for unit commercial selection. In particular, it’s possible to assign to each unit:
REF.BOX extremely intuitive graphic interface and its intrinsic characteristics allow the user to quickly and easily manage all the details necessary to define the heat pump, and to fast create and manipulate entire product series. In addition, the provided Excel files allow the massive import of hundreds of components, accessories, descriptions, price lists and fully-defined refrigeration units.
The main REF.BOX features are:
Nowadays to commercialize a heat pump for air-conditioning applications, it is not sufficient to declare its COP at nominal conditions, but the legislation obliges the manufacturer to calculate the seasonal energy performance coefficient SCOP equal to the ratio between the annual heating requirement and the annual electricity consumption. The seasonal energy index calculation is very really time consuming for the designer.
REF.BOX includes algorithms that can quickly and accurately calculate the energy index and to verify whether or not a given heat pump satisfies the minimum efficiency requirements prescribed by the ErP Directive 2009/125/EC according to the indications dictated by the European Regulation (EU) 813/2013. In case of non-compliance, REF.BOX can quickly modify the unit and re-evaluate its performance until the aforementioned minimum requirements are met. The whole process, supported by the robust and advanced calculation engine, is extremely effective in terms of time and costs, allowing the designer to concentrate on components and control unit parameters optimization and not on math.
In addition to the SCOP calculation, REF.BOX can also generate the performance data according to the UNI/TS 11300-4:2016 Italian standard “Energy performance of buildings – Part 4: Renewable energy and other generation systems for space heating and domestic hot water production”. Finally, in the case of reversible heat pumps operating in summer air conditioning mode, the software includes the calculation of the seasonal performance coefficient SEER defined as the ratio between the annual cooling requirement and the annual electricity consumption.
The data resulting from the energy calculations can be stored in the database and used within the REF.WEB commercial configurator to automatically generate ErP Directive 2009/125/EC complaint energy fiches.
Thanks to REF.BOX, in addition to the heat pumps technical characterization, the user can also manage autonomously and completely the commercial stuff, associating all the accessories, price lists, texts, documents and images necessary to the selection and drafting of the offer documents within the REF.WEB commercial configurator.
Specifically, REF.BOX allows to define entire series or single heat pumps: