Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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Back in 2007, I led a team of 7 at LBNL to develop doe2ep, a modified version of DOE-2.1E that exports an EnergyPlus imf file that then goes through epmacro to produce an idf file. In contrast to other efforts I've seen, doe2ep is meant to be a full conversion including both the building and HVAC descriptions. Due to funding limits, we were able to convert 95% of the loads, 50% of the HVAC, and maybe 25% of the Plant inputs, the missing portions mainly system and plant types that were not covered. However, for what it can translate, doe2ep has been very robust, as attested by that I used doe2ep to create all the first versions of the DOE Reference Commercial Buildings (also in 2007).
In 2012, I had another project with SCE where I was tasked with converting hundreds of eQUEST/DOE-2.2 files to EnergyPlus, and developed a process using awk scripts to convert from DOE-2.2 to DOE-2.1E, use doe2ep to go to EnergyPlus 3.0, and finally the Multiple VersionUpdater to what was then current, i.e., EnergyPlus 7.2.
I don't have any intentions of turning this into a self-contained piece of software, since that would take a lot of time and debugging, but I have provided this as a service on multiple occasions to others. When I get a DOE-2.2 file, I run it through my process to see what happens, and then deal with problems that occur.
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Back in 2007, I led a team of 7 at LBNL to develop doe2ep, a modified version of DOE-2.1E that exports an EnergyPlus imf file that then goes through epmacro to produce an idf file. In contrast to other efforts I've seen, doe2ep is was meant to be a full conversion including both the building and HVAC descriptions. Due to funding limits, we were able to convert 95% of the loads, 50% of the HVAC, and maybe 25% of the Plant inputs, the missing portions mainly system and plant types that were not covered. However, for what it can translate, doe2ep has been very robust, as attested by that I used doe2ep to create all the first versions of the DOE Reference Commercial Buildings (also in 2007).
In 2012, I had another project with SCE where I was tasked with converting hundreds of eQUEST/DOE-2.2 files to EnergyPlus, and developed a process using awk scripts to convert from DOE-2.2 to DOE-2.1E, use doe2ep to go to EnergyPlus 3.0, and finally the Multiple VersionUpdater to what was then current, i.e., EnergyPlus 7.2. See the report (here)[http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/downloads/DR11SCE09%20EnergyPlus%20Based%20Tool%20Development%20Feasibility%20Study%20Report.pdf] for details.
I don't have any intentions of turning this into a self-contained piece of software, since that would take a lot of time and debugging, but I have provided this as a service on multiple occasions to others. When I get a DOE-2.2 file, I run it through my process to see what happens, and then deal with problems that occur.
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Back in 2007, I led a team of 7 at LBNL to develop doe2ep, a modified version of DOE-2.1E that exports an EnergyPlus imf file that then goes through epmacro to produce an idf file. In contrast to other efforts I've seen, doe2ep was meant to be a full conversion including both the building and HVAC descriptions. Due to funding limits, we were able to convert 95% of the loads, 50% of the HVAC, and maybe 25% of the Plant inputs, the missing portions mainly system and plant types that were not covered. However, for what it can translate, doe2ep has been very robust, as attested by that I used doe2ep to create all the first versions of the DOE Reference Commercial Buildings (also in 2007).
In 2012, I had another project with SCE where I was tasked with converting hundreds of eQUEST/DOE-2.2 files to EnergyPlus, and developed a process using awk scripts to convert from DOE-2.2 to DOE-2.1E, use doe2ep to go to EnergyPlus 3.0, and finally the Multiple VersionUpdater to what was then current, i.e., EnergyPlus 7.2. See the report (here)[http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/downloads/DR11SCE09%20EnergyPlus%20Based%20Tool%20Development%20Feasibility%20Study%20Report.pdf] here for details.
I don't have any intentions of turning this into a self-contained piece of software, since that would take a lot of time and debugging, but I have provided this as a service on multiple occasions to others. When I get a DOE-2.2 file, I run it through my process to see what happens, and then deal with problems that occur.
