Pack Calculation Pro

About the Software

Pack Calculation Pro is a simulation tool for calculating and comparing the yearly energy consumption of refrigeration systems and heat pumps. It uses load profiles and weather data to calculate the performance of different configurations of refrigeration systems. It is designed to compare different system designs, control strategies and refrigerants. Our comprehensive database of real compressors makes it possible to compare the performance of different products using a single definition for the operating conditions.

Pack Calculation Pro is developed based on Pack Calculation II. If you are still using Pack Calculation II, it is strongly recommended to update to Pack Calculation Pro.

Features / Functionality

Pack Calculation Pro helps you to get started with your refrrigeration and heat pump calculations by reducing the amount of required input data as much as possible. However, even though we select many well-proven default values for most of the coefficients and parameters, you can always customize the preferences to meet your specific needs. The manual also provides many of the calculation equations, if you would like to dive even deeper and study the way things are calculated.

Some of the highlights of the extensive feature set include:

• Calculate performance each hour of the year (= 8760 operating points)
• Use weather data for more than 3700 cities around the world
• Choose between 11 commonly used cycles – including transcritical cycles
• Choose from almost 10000 commercially available compressor to build your system
• Calculate Life Cycle Costs
• Get an overview of both energy consumption and carbon footprint
• Calculate payback time
• Switch between European and American units*
• Create reports in Word*
• Parallel Compression*
• And much more!

*: Only available with active license

Get a License

For personal use, use in a non-profit organization and for educational purposes, Pack Calculation Pro is being distributed as Freeware with limited functionality.

For commercial use, an annual subscription license has to be purchased.

• Please follow this link to buy your Pack Calculation Pro License.
• Note: Since December 5th 2018, the sales platform is changed from SWReg to MyCommerce Share-It.

If you need us to create an invoice, or wish to place a purchase order, please get in touch with us on ipu.freshdesk.com.

For further details regarding licensing, please refer to the End-User License Agreement.

Download Pack Calculation Pro

On May 3th 2019, we have released version v4.4.4, which among others brings over 3000 new weather data locations from the IWEC2 database, as well as a 64-bit version of the software.

• Download Pack Calculation Pro v4.4.4
• Changelog – v4.4.4
• User Manual – v4.4.4

If you need an older version, please get in touch.

You can help us …

…with feedback

For maintaining and improving the product, your feedback as a user is very important to us.

• User feedback (ipu.freshdesk.com)

…with translations

If you make a translation, we will keep you informed of new versions of Pack Calculation Pro before they are released, so that you are able to update any missing translations in the new version. Please check the following page for more information:

• Translations

We can help you …

…with answering your questions about Pack Calculation Pro

Visit our technical support helpdesk and browse through issues and frequently asked questions. This website is also the best way to get in contact with the right person at IPU, whether you would like to report a bug, you have a feature request or you would like to hear about the future development of Pack Calculation Pro.

…with providing tailored functionality

If you would like us to implement tailored functionality for your company in Pack Calculation Pro, we are glad to assist. Simply get in touch with any of the contacts listed below to discuss the possibilities for implementing a custom version or a modified feature for you and your company.

Read more about IPU and our services here.