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Fault Detection and Diagnostics for Rooftop Air Conditioners

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Figure 2-14 Outputs of the FDD demonstration after introduction of condenser fouling<br />

fault<br />

Figure 2-15 shows one frame after the liquid line restriction fault was introduced<br />

by closing the restriction valve until a twenty psi pressure drop was caused (step 3 of<br />

section 2.2.1). The final position of the restriction valve can be seen from the FFSW (see<br />

Figure 2-18 <strong>for</strong> the fully opening position). FDDW indicates that there existed three<br />

simultaneous faults: refrigerant low charge with the fault severity over 1.0, condenser<br />

fouling with the fault severity around 0.5 <strong>and</strong> liquid line restriction fault with the severity<br />

around 0.35. Since refrigerant charge fault is a system-level fault whose indicator was<br />

impacted by other faults, the refrigerant low charge indicator value increased after the<br />

liquid line restriction fault was introduced. Since the COP was degraded 21% at this<br />

moment (see SPSDW <strong>and</strong> FDDRW), FDDRW recommended that: the system requires<br />

more refrigerant, the condenser requires cleaning <strong>and</strong> the filter/drier requires replacement.<br />

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