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HOT3000
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The HOT3000 software tool is designed to help Canada’s residential construction industry to advance the design of energy efficient and net-zero energy homes.
This energy analysis tool provides industry with the necessary means to evaluate the energy consumption and energy savings potential at the early design stages of new houses or renovating existing ones.
It can assess the potential impacts of designs that use both current and the next generation of energy efficient components. For example, it evaluates hourly energy demands and fuel consumption which are necessary for optimizing energy savings, emission reductions and economic costs associated with advanced passive-solar design, cogeneration, solar-heating and time-of-use rates.
The software has been developed by Natural Resources Canada in collaboration with the
University of Strathclyde and other leading research centres around the world using the state-of-the-art ESP-r energy analysis core.
Designed for:
- energy consultants
- students
- researchers
Full supported, HOT3000 will be updated as new algorithms for studying emerging technologies are created. Updates will continue to be made available, at no cost, from our website.
Applications:
- multi-zone house models
- photovoltaic analysis
- small time-step analysis
- comprehensive simulation engine
- 3-D graphical view of house model
- new house wizard for simple creation of new house files
- ease of HOT2000 inputs with an advanced engine (ESP-r)
- hourly or sub-hourly analysis
- hourly scheduling of heating/cooling
- set-back thermostat simulation
- simultaneous modelling of building, airflow and HVAC
- ground heat losses by frequency-domain response factor model
- infiltration modelling
- solar domestic hot water systems
- photovoltaic systems
- thermal mass and passive-solar design
- conventional HVAC systems, including furnace, baseboards, A/C and DHW
- weather data for 42 Canadian locations
- HTML report
- detailed outputs available
- simulation run-time – approximately 1 minute for typical house
1) Save the downloaded file to a folder on your local hard drive. Please remember the drive and folder name.
2) Once the download is complete, locate the file using Windows Explorer and open it. The download file is a compressed "zip" file and requires a program that can extract the file contents, such as WinZip. If you have a compatible program that is associated with this file type, it will automatically open the file and allow you to extract its contents when you double-click on the file.
3) Double-clicking on the *.exe will initiate the installation.
