What is Gestar
PERFORMANCES
DATA BASES
Pipes: Interior Diameter, Roughness and cost per ml by manufacturer (or any other category), Material, pressure rating and DN.
Singular losses: dimensionless Coefficient according to the type of singularity and an associated parameter.
Properties of fluids: Dynamic Viscosity, Density and Vapour Pressure at working temperatures.
Throttle valves: Discharge coefficient Cd for computing singular losses according to type of valve, subtype and degree of closure.
Automatic regulating valves: Singular losses for completely open hydraulic regulation valves according to type and size.
Electricity prices and bands: Price per kWh and installed kW, according to type of band and considering bonuses and surcharges.
Pumps: Performance curves of pump head, power consumed and NPSHR according to flow rate, by manufacturer (or any other parameter) and model.
Sprinklers: Emitted flow rate, reach and pluviometry according to feed pressure, by manufacturer (or any other parameter) and model.
Emitter Lines: Emitted flow rate, reach and pluviometry according to feed pressure, by manufacturer (or any other parameter) and model, inserted in drip feed tubes by manufacturer, material and nominal diameter.
COMMUNICATIONS
GESTAR can exchange information in various formats (Office documents: EXCEL, ACCESS, WORD and text files) and communicate directly with various programmes.
Most of its information is structured in tables compatible with EXCEL, and various files of final and intermediate results are saved or dumped automatically to EXCEL files.
Programming irrigation and modulations of demand in analyses over time, the definition of alarms and the list of warnings from alarms found are exported and/or imported in ACCESS format, permitting information to be exchanged with other environments and the later processing of results. These databases are compatible with the TELEGESTAR architecture, which reuses the format, avoiding the need for remote control and management systems backed up by TELEGESTAR functions to create specific forms.
