idaholab / HERON

Holistic Energy Resource Optimization Network (HERON) is a modeling toolset and plugin for RAVEN to accelerate stochastic technoeconomic assessment of the economic viability of various grid-energy system configurations, especially with application to electrical grids and integrated energy systems (IES).
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[TASK] NE Case Study in HERD could be faster by cutting out redundant build steps #248

Closed GabrielSoto-INL closed 1 year ago

GabrielSoto-INL commented 1 year ago

Issue Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Building the Multiperiod model for the nuclear energy case study in HERD takes a while.

Describe the solution you'd like In the DISPATCHES repo, the renewables case study has a way of speeding up construction of the full model. Instead of calling the flowsheet directly, it calls an intermediate function (e.g., "wind_battery_pem_tank_turb_mp_block" from here) that calls on the flowsheet once to create the model and on subsequent calls will clone the original model. It then proceeds to propagate any states using data pertaining to that timestep.

We can implement something similar for the nuclear case study in HERD to speed up the build process and the overall run time. It would also bring HERD closer to a more standardized structure (overall goal being to run any flowsheet in a generalized way). The intermediate function in DISPATCHES is made specifically for one case study, so HERD would need to create a more generalizable intermediate function instead.


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