OMEGAlpes Graphical Representation

The energy systems developed in OMEGAlpes are describes following a specified graph representation.

Energy Unit representation

The energy units are describes as rectangles as presented just below. The graph is adapted considering if the unit is a variable or a fixed energy unit.

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Figure: Energy unit representation

A colour may be added to specify the carrier of the energy unit like gas (yellow), thermal (red), electricity (blue).

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Figure: Specified carrier energy unit representation

Conversion units use the former representation inside a green box as multi-carrier energy units. Have a look to the representation for ElectricalToHeat and HeatPump energy units

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Figure: Conversion units representation

Reversible units are represented as single units for simplicity purpose, even if they do include a production unit and a consumption unit like conversion units. The power flows of the production and consumption units in the reversible unit are represented with double arrows, while storage units’ power flow is represented with a single arrow with a double head. Finally, reversible conversion units are represented based on the former graphical representations.

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Figure: Reversible, storage and reversible conversion units representation

Representing all the energy unit

In order to link the energy units, energy nodes and arrows should be used. It is possible to highlight the variable which may be optimised by the system or which is interesting for the user.

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Figure: Energy Nodes, Flows and Variable of interest representation

Finally, constraints and objectives can be added on the model with the following representation

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Figure: Objectives and Constraints representation

Please, have a look to the examples to see if applications of this graphical representation OMEGAlpes Examples Documentation

Note

This graph representation is not used yet as a graphical user interface but we hope that it will be in the near future.