STRANDED_CAP_CALC

Stranded capacity — the free power that cannot be sold because cooling or space binds first, with the binding resource named.

Validated application blockDCIM · MetricsIEC 61131-3IEC 61499v1.0.0

When to use it

Use STRANDED_CAP_CALC when power, cooling and white space are tracked as three separate capacity pools and the site needs to know how much of its free power is unsellable, and which resource to invest in to release it.

Interface

The published port signature. This is the whole of what the block exposes to your program — the implementation body is not shown here and ships with the download.

Inputs

PortTypeUnit
ENABLEBOOL
PWR_FREEREALkW
COOL_FREEREALkW
SPACE_FREEREALkW
DATA_OKBOOL
STRANDED_LIMREALkW
STRANDED_DBREALkW
ACKBOOL

Outputs

PortTypeUnit
STRANDED_KWREALkW
BINDINGUSINT
USABLE_KWREALkW
STRANDED_PCTREAL%
VALIDBOOL
ALM_DATA_FAULTBOOL
ALM_OVER_COMMITBOOL
ALM_STRANDEDBOOL

IEC 61499 event interface

EI INIT, REQ·EO INITO, CNF

Validation evidence

Tests
8
Simulated scans
48
Simulator
v0.1.0

Complete IEC 61131-3 implementation with a published test suite that runs on the vplant simulator. The counts above are that suite, executed on this build.

  • Conforms to IEC 61131-3
  • Conforms to IEC 61499

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