Project Prioritization. |
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development of innovative software for
a Project Prioritization System, which
develops a new methodology and accompanying
software to help evaluate the hundreds
of candidate projects distribution managers
typically need to compare. |
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| Aging
Assets/ Repair Replace. |
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| Development
of software for a Repair/Replace strategy
for Aging Assets. The objective is to
produce a least cost strategy for utilities
to help increase reliability and reduce
financial risks as equipment reaches
the end of expected life. |
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| Area
Investment Strategy Model. |
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Development
of software and methodology for an Area
Investment Strategy Model to help utilities
define a capacity expansion plan given
uncertain load growth in an area.
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| Delta
Model. |
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| Development
of software to help analyze the impact
of deferral by using distributed generation
capacity. |
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| Using
PROLOG for EPRIGEMS. |
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The
project involved developing a Prolog
based platform for Electric Power Research
Institute’s EPRIGEMS platform.
The user interface is fast, attractive,
easy to use and has some intelligence
to direct the user on what to do next.
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| FOWL/H.E.L.P.–EPRIGEMS
Interface. |
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SBSI developed an attractive and an
easy to use EPRIGEMS interface that
integrated Battelle’s
FOWL code with H.E.L.P. H.E.L.P. develops
rainfall information and FOWL is a Fossil
Waste
Leaching Model. In addition, the original
H.E.L.P. Fortran code was completely
rewritten in C. |
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| EPRIGEMS
TOOLS. |
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| Various
tools were developed for use by EPRIGEMS
developers. The tools allowed the developers
to display bit-mapped graphics, provide
high level routines coupled with IMAGINE
to quickly develop EPRIGEMS applications,
and provide a clipboard under DOS. |
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| GWQA
– Groundwater Quality Advisor
(EPRIGEMS). |
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This EPRIGEMS software package released
by EPRI integrates EPRI’s FOWL
and MYGRT software. Besides the modeling
capabilities it has extensive hypertext
help incorporating graphics. It was
one of the first released EPRIGEMS software
packages.
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| CHROMAT–EPRIGEMS
Interface and New Numerical Routines. |
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| SBSI
developed an attractive and easy-to-use
user EPRIGEMS interface integrated with
the original Fortran code for examining
Chromat Attenuation. The interface includes
a database for keeping track of samples. |
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| SITES
– EPRIGEMS Interface. |
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| An
EPRIGEMS interface was added to EPRI’s
SITES model. |
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| SEMODEL–EPRIGEMS
Interface. |
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SBSI developed an attractive and easy-to-use
user EPRIGEMS interface combined with
a database, report, and graphing modules
to work with the Electric Power Research
Institute’s (EPRI’s) Selenium
Model code. The original code was translated
from Fortran to C. |
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| UFIM
– EPRI’s Utility Fuel Inventory
Model. |
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SBSI
transferred EPRI’s mainframe Utility
Fuel Inventory Model to the IBM PC/AT.
For better
performance in the PC environment, the
following were done:
- Sections
of the model code were rewritten
to be numerically stable.
- The Linear
Equation Solver was replaced by
a new version that is numerically
stable, fast and uses less memory.
- The mainframe
code requires approximately 4 megabytes
to run. The code was modified so
that it can run on a microcomputer
with 640 Kbytes.
- A front
end was added to the model so that
the model works through a screen
oriented user interface that accesses
the model data through a database
rather than through file names.
On a new contract,
UFIM was completely recorded so that
it works more efficiently on both
mainframes and PCs. The original contract
was to “hack” around the
original existing code and speed it
up some. The recording of EPRI’s
UFIM model has resulted in:
- Faster executing
code.
- Better structured
code.
- Numerically
stable code.
- Memory efficient
code.
In addition
to the recording, an EPRIGEMS interface
was added to the code. |
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| TCM
– EPRI’s Technology Choice
Model. |
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| An
attractive and easy-to-use interface
was developed in Pascal for EPRI’s
Technology Choice Model on the PC. The
interface displays and requests complex
information about tree structures in
a simple, consistent way. Once all the
data has been entered the user can interactively
execute sections of the model, which
uses multi-attribute utility function
theory to analyze decision alternatives.
The model is currently being Beta-tested
at selected sites. A full production
version from EPRI will be available
shortly.
The TCMPC model has a number of nice
capabilities:
- It provides
for a smooth interaction between
user entered data and analysis of
results.
- Includes
a database as well as allows multiple
databases.
- Incorporates
graphics.
- And, incorporates
attractive reports.
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| PCBFIRE
– PCB Fire Simulation Model. |
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| This
is a simulation model that is designed
to simulate PCB leakage in a building.
The model helps in the assessment of
exposure to PCB fire. SBSI developed
the Ordinary Differential Equation solver
and added an attractive and easy-to-use
user-interface.
The model makes use of the Runge-Kutta
fourth order adaptive method to solve
the PCB Fire model ordinary differential
equations. The user can override this
and choose from the following methods:
Runge-Kutta second order fixed step,
Runge-Kutta fourth order, Runge-Kutta
fourth order adaptive methods and
the Burlisch-Stoer method. The default
method is Runge-Kutta second order
fixed step.
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| REPGEN–A
Report Generator for EPRIGEMS. |
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| REPGEN
is a report generator developed for
EPRIGEMS to allow easy generation of
the script files used as input by the
r-tree report writer. The software enables
the user to create r-tree script files
without having to learn the details
of r-tree syntax. |
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| PCGNIM. |
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| SBSI
developed an attractive and easy-to-use
Net Impression Model for Pacific Consulting
Group(PCG). The model is used by PCG
in a large part of their consulting
work. |
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