ORBIT Changelog

1.0.8

Added explicit methods for adding custom design or install phases to ProjectManager.
Added WOMBAT compatibility for custom array system files.
Fixed bug in custom array cable system design that breaks for plants with more than two substations.

Added ability to directly prescribe weather downtime through the availability keyword
Added support for generating linear models using ParametricManager

Default behavior of ParametricManager has been changed. Input parameters are now zipped together and ran as a discrete set of configs. To use the past functionality (finding the product of all input parameters), use the option product=True
Bugfix: Added port costs to floating substructure installation modules.
Revised docs for running the Example notebooks and added link to a tutorial about working with jupyter notebooks.

New feature: ParametricManager for running parametric studies.
Added procurement cost inputs and total cost methods to installation phases. Design phases are now only used to fill in the design and do not return a cost associated with the design.
Refactored aggregation project level outputs in ProjectManager.
Revised Net Present Value calculation to utilize new project outputs.
Added load_config and save_config functions.
Moved ORBIT.library to OBRIT.core.library.
Centralized model defaults to ORBIT.core.defaults.
ProjectManager.project_actions renamed to ProjectManager.actions
ProjectManager.project_logs renamed to ProjectManager.logs
ProjectManager.run_project() renamed to ProjectManager.run()
Moved documentation hosting to gh-pages.

Process time kwargs should now be passed through ProjectManager in a dictionary named processes in the config.
Revised prep_for_site_operations and related processes to allow for dynamically positioned vessels.
Updated WISDEM API to include floating functionality.

Initial release of floating substructure functionality in ORBIT.
New design modules: MooringSystemDesign, SparDesign and SemiSubmersibleDesign.
New installation modules: MooringSystemInstallation and MooredSubInstallation
Cable design and installation modules modified to calculate catenary lengths of suspended cable at depths greater than 60m.

New feature: Cash flow and net present value calculation within ProjectManager.
Revised CustomArraySystemDesign module.
Revised assumptions in MonopileDesign module to bring results in line with industry numbers.

New feature: Phase dependencies in ProjectManager.
New feature: Windspeed constraints at multiple heights, including automatic interpolation/extrapolation of configured windspeed profiles.
Added option to define mobilization_days and mobilization_mult in a Vessel configuration file.
Added option for pre-installation trenching operations to ArrayCableInstallation and ExportCableInstallation.
Revised OffshoreSubstationDesign to scale the size of the substations with the user-configured number of substations.
Bugfix in the returned argument order of ProjectManager.run_install_phase where the cost of a prior phase would be incorrectly applied as the elapsed time.

Modified installation to require version of marmot-agents that has an internal copy of simpy.
Added/expanded detailed_outputs for all modules.
Standardized naming of weight/mass terms to mass throughout the model.
Cleanup in ProjectManager.

Vessel mobilization added to all vessels in all installation modules. Defaults to 7 days at 50% day-rate.
Cable lay, bury and simulataneous lay/bury methods are not flagged as suspendable to avoid unrealistic project delays.
Cost of onshore transmission construction added to ExportCableInstallation.
Simplified ArrayCableInstallation, ExportCableInstallation modules.
Removed pandas from the internals of the model, though it is still useful for tabulating the project logs.
Revised package structure. Functionally formerly in ORBIT.simulation or ORBIT.vessels has been moved to ORBIT.core.
InstallPhase cleaned up and slimmed down.
Environment and associated functionality has been replaced with marmot.Environment.
Logging functionality revised. No longer uses the base python logging module.
Vessel now inherits from marmot.Agent.
Tasks that were in ORBIT.vessels.tasks have been moved to their respective modules and restructured with marmot.process and Agent.tasks.
Modules inputs cleaned up. type parameters are no longer required for monopile, transition piece or turbine component definitions.
Removed old/irrelevant tests.

Added configuration to ProjectManager that allows exceptions to be caught within individual modules and allows the project as a whole to continue.
Fixed installation process when installing from GitHub.

Added configuration for multiple tower sections in TurbineInstallation.
Added configuration for seperate lay/burial in ArrayCableInstallation and ExportCableInstallation.
Overhauled test suite and associated library.
Bugfix in CableCarousel.
Expanded WISDEM Fixed API.

Initial release of fixed substructure WISDEM API
Material cost for monopiles and transition pieces added to MonopileDesign
Updated ProjectManager to allow user to override default DesignPhase results
Moved config validation to BasePhase and added call to self.validate_config for all current modules
Config validation logic reworked so dicts of optional values are not required
Added method to resolve project capacity in ProjectManager. A user can now input plant.num_turbines and turbine.turbine_rating and plant.capacity will be added to the config.
Added initial set of standardized inputs to ProjectManager:
- self.installation_capex
- self.installation_time
- self.project_days
- self.bos_capex
- self.turbine_capex
- self.total_capex