Welcome to the Heat Balance Interest Group (HBIG). This forum is intended for discussions concerning the development and application of heat balance software, by which we mean software used for the design, analysis and optimization of power plants and other thermal, chemical and energy conversion systems. Discussions and questions relating to all available commercial and non-commercial heat balance software packages are encouraged, but a particular focus of HBIG will be the GateCycle(TM) software system.

GateCycle is a heat balance and power plant software design and simulation program for Microsoft Windows. This forum is moderated by Marco Dieleman, Michael Erbes, and Milton Venetos - core members of the original GateCycle development team and formerly with Enter Software and then General Electric (GE acquired Enter and therefore GateCycle in 1999). Through this forum, heat balance software users of all experience levels can post questions, list desired capabilities, discuss known issues and share models and best practices with one another. All are welcome.

This discussion forum is not in any way sponsored, moderated or endorsed by the General Electric Company.

We hope you will find it useful.

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