Economic factors
name: "\U0001F680 Feature request" about: Suggest an idea for this project
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
PichGUI currently enables to compute the heat cascade and to display curbs and energetic indicators of the pinch analysis (and to choose DTmin). Next step of the analysis needs to estimate the economic cost of installations (Heat Exchanger Network design and costs). Some simple algorithms can be used to do so (see OFEN manual annexe 2, p 177).
Describe the solution you'd like
Adding a new tab where we can set the economic factor as parameters (cost of one heat exchanger for a given area), evolution factor of the costs depending on the area) etc... And to determine the variation of energy savings, of price etc... depending of the DTmin (and maybe give the best DTmin found).
In all cases, indicators can be computed easily for each analysis (e.g. minimal number of heat exchanges), they can be indicated in the analysis results too.
Describe alternatives you've considered
None.