CCTech Announces the Release of Autonomous HVAC CFD 2024
Revit & ACC Data Exchange Integration, ASHRAE 55 Compliance, Comfort AI Insights,
Load Calculation, and Metrics for Air Distribution and IAQ Assessment
Key Highlights
Breaking the
Silos: Read BIM data from Autodesk Revit and ACC using
data exchange
Effortless Load
Calculation: Automated load calculations to size air
distribution systems
Standard 55
Compliance: Report for ASHRAE 55 compliance for PMV and Local
Discomfort
New Comfort AI
Engine: Gain early insights using Artificial
Intelligence, reducing the design cycle
PUNE,
India - Centre for Computational Technologies (CCTech)
today
announced the release of Autonomous HVAC CFD 2024, supercharged with fusion
of AI and CFD to drastically improve the HVAC design professional
productivity. The new version reimagines the indoor environment design
journey, providing engineers with advanced tools to streamline building
physics workflows, increase accuracy, and enable the creation of mechanical
design outcomes that meet ASHRAE and building code standards while ensuring
optimal comfort and IAQ.
“Every moment of our life, we breathe air,
feeling the thermal sensation of surroundings. The air around us profoundly
impacts our physiology, thinking, creativity, innovation, relationships,
life expectancy, daily actions, productivity, and well-being. Our gadgets,
such as phones, cars, and laptops, are highly engineered using a lot of CFD
simulations. On the contrary, CFD is not used while designing homes,
offices, schools, and malls, where we spend most of our time. It's the
indoor environment that affects our health and well-being more,” said
Sandip Jadhav, CEO of CCTech. “We at CCTech have developed an
Autonomous HVAC CFD 2024 to remove all the barriers hindering HVAC
professionals from applying advanced CFD simulation in every built space
design. HVAC professional engineers and architects can leverage our new app
to build better indoor environments and better HVAC designs that ensure
every occupant has optimal thermal comfort, excellent indoor air quality,
building code compliance, energy efficiency, and a minimum carbon footprint
towards a more sustainable
future”
New Key Features of AHC 2024
Let's walk through the most exciting key features of AHC 2024.
Revit &
Autodesk Construction Cloud Data Integration
The big
challenge of our construction industry is that our data is scattered all
over the place, locked in different softwares. One uses on average five to
eight software to do different things. A lot of time is wasted in file
translations, data extraction, transformations and loading manual data, thus
increasing the possibility of compromising the data security. HVAC design is
an iterative process, therefore it’s very important to have connected
workflows that can handle changes easily.
To solve this
problem, this year we built two Data Exchange connectors with Revit and
Autodesk Construction Cloud for AHC 2024. Users can download them from the
Autodesk app store for FREE. These connectors bring highly granular BIM data
into the AHC 2024 application. Engineers can leverage Revit's advanced
modeling capabilities, extensive library, and create intricate architectural
designs while exploring multiple air distribution design
options.
Connectors
have been intelligently designed to handle the seamless flow of data from
source to AHC application, under the hood doing all the required validations
and mappings. Users can easily reach the simulation stage in just a few
minutes.
AHC Data Exchange Connectors
Effortless
Load Calculations and Optimal CFM Suggestions
In direct response to user
feedback,AHC 2024 now
makes it easy for HVAC engineers to perform load calculations and upon
completion, provides a promptly generated load calculation report in PDF
format. The software guides engineers with CFM suggestions for each space
while constructing an air distribution system, ensuring proper
equipment sizing. Engineers can delve deeper into design intricacies by
assessing component loads under varying conditions, including weather and
internal influences.
Heat Load Calculations reports
ASHRAE 55
Compliance and Local Thermal Discomfort
Within this
year's specialized and interactive results section, a new badge takes
center stage: ASHRAE 55 Local Thermal Discomfort results. Beyond general
comfort parameters like PMV and PPD, this innovation allows you to delve
into the specifics of ASHRAE 55 compliance. Additionally, receive a
comprehensive auto-generated compliance report for detailed scenario
assessment.
ASHRAE 55 Compliance report and Local Thermal Discomfort viewer
Introducing Comfort AI: New AI engine for quick
insights
Comfort AI is
our new AI engine developed using data-driven methodology to predict
occupant thermal comfort quickly. Comfort AI assesses thermal comfort
for every occupant using the Predictive Mean Vote (PMV) index and ASHRAE 55
local discomfort parameters. You can now gain important insights into
how your HVAC design impacts comfort, enabling informed decisions at an
early stage. Comfort AI provides all the required feedback to correct an
early design. This helps to avoid wasting time and money in setting
numerous and less perfect CFD simulations. Users can now perform
detailed CFD simulations based on Comfort AI results and get highly accurate
results and compliance validation.
Comfort AI
Performance
Indices
The software
now introduces essential performance indices required for a comprehensive
assessment of HVAC systems. Among them are Air-diffusion Performance Index
(ADPI) and Air Change Effectiveness (ACE). ADPI enhances air distribution
assessment, while the latter evaluates the system's ability to supply
ventilation air effectively.
Autonomous HVAC CFD 2024 will be available starting
August 29, 2023. The app brings a revolutionary Pay As You Go pricing model
to the industry, which means users pay only for credits they have consumed
for a project. For more information on AHC 2024, please visit
https://simulationhub.com/.
About
CCTech
Our Mission:
“Transforming Human Life by Democratization of
Technology”
Centre for Computational Technologies (CCTech) is a
leading digital transformation company building applications in areas of
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Engineering Design &
Simulation, 3D Web Applications, Augmented Reality, Digital Twins, and other
enterprise applications.
simulationHub
is a cloud-based CFD application platform developed by CCTech. At
simulationHub, we strive to transform human life by democratization of
technology.
For Media
Information Please contact : Aaditya
Ruikar Product Manager - AHC SimulationHub, CCTech,
Pune LinkedIn :Aaditya
Ruikar Email
:
aaditya@cctech.co.in
Aaditya Ruiker
Aaditya Ruiker is a CFD support Engineer at Centre for Computational Technologies Private Limited (CCTech), Pune. He loves to work in fields physics and mathematics. Skilled in OpenFOAM, Fluent, C, MATLAB, CAD Modelling. He has completed his M.Tech in Thermal and Fluids Engineering from (Dr. BATU), Lonere, Raigad. His areas of interest are Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Methods, Operation Research modeling. Driving and traveling, playing cricket and chess are his hobbies and he likes to explore historical places.
Aaditya Ruiker
Aaditya Ruikar works As a Product Manager at CCTech, He is involved in developing and delivering high-fidelity technologies for various industries at affordable prices and plays role of domain expert. He also has a vision to make these technologies more accessible and user-friendly for better and efficient design outcomes.His interests lie in researching and simulating real world systems, particularly in the domains of engineering, physics and sustainable development. He likes to tackle challenges and work with others to find innovative solutions.