IfcEnergyConversionDeviceType

Definition from IAI: The element type IfcEnergyConversionType defines a list of commonly shared property set definitions of an energy conversion device and an optional set of product representations. It is used to define an energy conversion device specification (i.e. the specific product information, that is common to all occurrences of that product type).

> NOTE: The product representations are defined as representation maps (at the level of the supertype IfcTypeProduct, which get assigned by an element occurrence instance through the IfcShapeRepresentation.Item[1] being an IfcMappedItem.

A energy conversion type is used to define the common properties of a energy conversion device that may be applied to many occurrences of that type. An energy conversion device is a building systems device that converts energy from one form into another such as a boiler (i.e., combusting gas to heat water), chiller (i.e., using a refrigeration cycle to cool a liquid), or a cooling coil (i.e., using the phase-change characteristics of a refrigerant to cool air). Energy conversion types (or the instantiable subtypes) may be exchanged without being already assigned to occurrences.

The occurrences of the IfcEnergyConversionType are represented by instances of IfcEnergyConversion or its subtypes.

> HISTORY: New entity in IFC Release 2x2.

EXPRESS specification:

ENTITY IfcEnergyConversionDeviceType
ABSTRACT SUPERTYPE |
SUBTYPE OF ( | IfcDistributionFlowElementType);
END_ENTITY;

Inheritance graph

ENTITY IfcEnergyConversionDeviceType;
ENTITY IfcRoot;
GlobalId | : | IfcGloballyUniqueId;
OwnerHistory | : | IfcOwnerHistory;
Name | : | OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
Description | : | OPTIONAL IfcText;
ENTITY IfcObjectDefinition;
INVERSE
HasAssignments | : | SET OF IfcRelAssigns FOR RelatedObjects;
IsDecomposedBy | : | SET OF IfcRelDecomposes FOR RelatingObject;
Decomposes | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelDecomposes FOR RelatedObjects;
HasAssociations | : | SET OF IfcRelAssociates FOR RelatedObjects;
ENTITY IfcTypeObject;
ApplicableOccurrence | : | OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
HasPropertySets | : | OPTIONAL SET [1:?] OF IfcPropertySetDefinition;
INVERSE
ObjectTypeOf | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelDefinesByType FOR RelatingType;
ENTITY IfcTypeProduct;
RepresentationMaps | : | OPTIONAL LIST [1:?] OF UNIQUE IfcRepresentationMap;
Tag | : | OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
ENTITY IfcElementType;
ElementType | : | OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
ENTITY IfcDistributionElementType;
ENTITY IfcDistributionFlowElementType;
ENTITY IfcEnergyConversionDeviceType;
END_ENTITY;