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Fault Detection and Diagnostics for Rooftop Air Conditioners

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2.3 Results <strong>for</strong> Cali<strong>for</strong>nia Field Sites<br />

Section 2.1 validated the decoupling scheme using laboratory data <strong>and</strong> section 2.2<br />

demonstrated the whole approach by artificially introducing faults at the Purdue field<br />

emulation site. This section applies the FDD approach to Cali<strong>for</strong>nia field sites. Section<br />

2.3.1 presents detailed results <strong>for</strong> one example site, Milpitas McDonalds restaurant, <strong>and</strong><br />

section 2.3.2 summarizes the FDD results <strong>for</strong> other sites.<br />

2.3.1 Milpitas McDonalds Field Site<br />

This site is located in Oakl<strong>and</strong>, Cali<strong>for</strong>nia. A 6-ton York rooftop unit<br />

(D1CG072N09923C) is installed <strong>for</strong> this McDonalds restaurant. A Copel<strong>and</strong> scroll<br />

compressor (ZR72KC-TF3) <strong>and</strong> a TXV are used in this RTU. Data collected from April<br />

to October in 2002 were used to do FDD. After filtering the transient data by a steadystate<br />

detector <strong>and</strong> removing the bad data corrupted by the acquisition equipment, 1119<br />

data points (one data point every five minutes) were retained.<br />

Since the RTU has been installed <strong>for</strong> several years, faults have been fully<br />

developed. Unlike the Purdue field emulation site, results of this site are presented in the<br />

statistical sense. That is, histogram bar plots are used to present the results.<br />

Figure 2-21 plots the normalized fault indicator <strong>for</strong> a liquid-line restriction fault.<br />

It can be seen that all the steady-state data points are located at the right of the red dotted<br />

line, FDD threshold (0.2) <strong>and</strong> the mean value is around 0.8. That is, all steady-state points<br />

indicate that the liquid-line is restricted. Most likely the filter or drier is clogged by debris.<br />

If this fault happened individually, it would result in about a 16% cooling capacity<br />

degradation.<br />

Figure 2-22 plots the normalized fault indicator <strong>for</strong> refrigerant charge faults.<br />

Similar to Figure 2-21, all the steady-state data points are located at the right of the FDD<br />

threshold <strong>and</strong> the mean value is about 1.6, which means that the system charge is very<br />

low. If this fault happened individually, it would result in about 32% cooling capacity<br />

degradation. However, since refrigerant charge faults are system level faults, their<br />

indicator is impacted by other faults.<br />

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