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Fault Detection and Diagnostics for Rooftop Air Conditioners

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Total Pressure Drop of Liquid-<br />

Line & Condenser (psi)<br />

60<br />

45<br />

30<br />

15<br />

0<br />

evapfoul condfoul refleak llrestr compnv<br />

Load level 1 Load level 2 Load level 3 Load level 4 Load level 5<br />

1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5<br />

<strong>Fault</strong> Level<br />

Figure 2-9 Decoupling liquid-line restriction using estimated pressure drop<br />

2.1.5 Refrigerant Leakage Decoupling<br />

Figure 2-10 shows the decoupling feature of<br />

∆ <strong>for</strong> the different fault <strong>and</strong><br />

Tsh<br />

− sc<br />

load levels. It can be seen that all the faults have impacts on this feature. However, since<br />

the refrigerant fault does not have an impact on the other decoupling features (from<br />

Figure 2-1 to Figure 2-9) <strong>and</strong> the value of this feature is proportional to refrigerant<br />

leakage fault levels, the unilateral decoupling is achieved successfully.<br />

It should be pointed out that this feature monotonically decreases slightly with<br />

load level. This is expected, because no model is used <strong>for</strong> this feature <strong>and</strong> a fixed orifice<br />

can not compensate <strong>for</strong> load level variations very well. Although these impacts are a little<br />

larger than those of a TXV system, they are still reasonably small. Anyway, it is still<br />

advisable to improve this feature furthermore by modifying it using load level.<br />

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