Hi Martin Apologies for the delay. I have been using ASCEND for various power cycles with my FPROPS code and more recently have added a new model for heat exchanger pinch analysis. So far the heat exchanger model is quite crude, but I think we can improve on it, and perhaps you would like to be involved in that, especially if you have had exposure to methods for doing this in industry.
ASCEND should be find with any 2.x version of Python, you should use whatever is provided on your system. We haven't yet tried to updated to Python 3, although that's probably going to need to be done quite soon. On Debian you should probably try building from source. It shouldn't be too hard, and there are some instructions on the wiki, and although they're more specific to Ubuntu, I wouldn't expect too many difficulties except possibly having to change the version of some dependency packages, perhaps. Happy to talk on or off list about some of your specific modelling tasks, if you're interested. Cheers JP On 12/08/12 21:03, Martin Lemmen wrote: > Hello all! > > I'd like to try & learn ascend, and I'm experiencing trouble with the > installation. ascend depends on python2.7, for some reason aptitude > doesn't want to install that. So obviously this isn't an ascend issue, > but maybe one that other debian-users have run into. > > I'd be grateful for any pointers to success stories. > > btw, as this is my first mail to the list as a short introduction - I > work as an engineer designing biogas plants, while >90% of the > calculations I have to are solved by spreadsheets, I want to expand my > abilities a bit. I'd be mostly interested in modeling heat exchangers, > piping networks and the like, my understanding is that ascend can work > with a lot of systems as long as the model is accurate. > > Regards, Martin. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Ascend-sim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ascend-sim-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Ascend-sim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ascend-sim-users
