New Features in Polysun 5.4
New Features
- Report includes financial analysis
- The Pro report shows a picture of the map section and a picture of the site.
- Double click on a Polysun file *.pse and start Polysun automatically.
- Enter monthly weather data manually in GUI
- A new Scattered Data Interpolation is used for COP calculation
Database Updates
- Photon PV moduls
- Photon inverters
- SRCC and SPF collectorsPhilipine Schemes
- Rheinzink Schemes
Improvements
- New weather data file from Meteonorm-Version 6.1
- Bug fix for sites north of polar circle
- improved sorting of PV/inverter layout options
- Polysun Help-PDF file added in Chinese
- Multi-screen solved when using mutlipel screens working with Polysun.
- An automatic support file is generated and saved on your desktop when pushing support button.
- Improved graphis of energy flow diagram
Important note for Designer level users
The old building model will no longer be supported in the next update 5.5. Please replace old building models in projects if any with the new one.
New Features in Polysun 5.3
General
- Reference report compares two system diagrams in one report
- Energy flow diagram of the results
Following catalogs have been updated to the latest version:
- SRCC & SPF collector catalog
- Photon PV and inverter catalog
- Rheem and State Water Heater tanks
- Walter Meier products
- PermaSolar Hydronic scheme
- Plus a lot more catalog entries
Solar Cooling
New Features in Polysun 5.2
All Versions
- Improved map feature for the selection of worldwide weather locations
- Native MAC version (please contact Vela Solaris for more info)
- Spanish and French tutorial translation completed
PV-Version
- PV-module and inverter database updated with thousands of new entries (Photon Database)
- Improved wizard for wire losses
- Improve wizard for PV field and inverter mismatching factor
- Improved saving and loading of PV-projects
Solar thermal Version
- Collector database updated with new entries
- New DHW template for commercial application
Solar Cooling Version
- Cooling manual (please contact Vela Solaris team for a copy)
- Adsorption Chiller available in Beta Version (please contact Vela Solaris team)
- Variable fan speed option for wet recooler
- Improvement in energy balance between cooling components i.e. water-water heat pump, absorption chiller, and building
New Features in Polysun 5.1
- Solar cooling
- PV Layout-Wizard enhanced with cable losses and inverter setup validation
- Result reports in Power Point, Word, and Excel
- Convenient Selection of worldwide weather location with online map
- Local district heating
- Enhanced economy result User-Interface
- Catalogs extended by new entries (Photon database, pumps, collectors, etc)
New Features in Polysun 5.0
Polysun is available in different versions
- Polysun Solarthermal Simulation (contains solar thermal and reference templates)
- Polysun Heatpump Simulation (contains heat pump and refernce templates)
- Polysun Photovoltaic Simulation (contains photovoltaic templates and inverter wizard)
- Polysun Simulation Software: The Various versions can be combined freely, e.g. Polysun Professional, containing heat pump- and solar thermal templates.
- All versions are available in the user levels Light, Professional, and Designer. Photovoltaic is not available in Designer level yet.
- Polysun educational version (restricted in templates and reports)
User friendliness, intuitive handling
- Labels make settings of components easily accessible and clearly laid out
- Help Button: A new help file guides through basic steps in Polysun
- Wizard (Assistant) calculates number of inverters and strings needed for PV field
- DHW and building loads can be modified directly in the variant, by clicking on the water tab or building.
- Enter pool dimension directly in the user interface, pool catalog is no longer needed
- Improved absence catalog for DHW or building
- Overworked user interface
Results
- Display FSS (fractional solar savings, solar fraction compared to a reference system)
- New economy results analysis
- Enhanced professional report, containing more results
- Short report for Light user
- Compare a solar thermal system with a reference system and analyse results in a combined bulk diagram
- New imperial unit system, displaying energy and power in kWh and kW.
- Old Light report will be removed soon
Cooling
- Compression cooling
- Passive cooling in connection with ground loops
New Building model
- Building demand can be defined by entering yearly fuel consumption, e.g. 1000 Litres of oil per year.
- The building model can handle cooling loads
- Helios building model will be removed soon
Ground loop
- Simulate borehole fields, various ground loops connected to one or more heat pumps.
- Various new heat pump templates, collecting heat from ground water
- Simulation prerun time > 1 year possible (accessible in the variant menu)
Heat sink / Load profile
- Import a detailed demand profile into Polysun. This component can be used to simulate process heat systems, or is applicable for any case where a detailed heat demand profile is given.
Polysun provides the largest template assortment
- Various new templates available, cooling-, DHW-, heat pump-, and space heating systems
- New company templates are available
Horizon / Weather Data
- Import Weather data from file
- Import horizon data from file
Miscellaneous
- Performance improved on simulation time on several hydronic system combinations
- New SPF collectors added to the catalog
- New SRCC collectors added to the catalog
- Improved outdoor and indoor pool model
- Templates for PVT systems added
- Proxy and it's authentication settings for internet connection editable in settings dialog
