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Fault Detection and Diagnostics for Rooftop Air Conditioners

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Relative error of mass flow<br />

rate<br />

0.15<br />

0.1<br />

0.05<br />

0<br />

-0.05<br />

-0.1<br />

Nonlinear Linear Todd-Harms<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21<br />

Experimenta data point<br />

Figure A1-11 Comparison of TXV modeling error<br />

Table A1-2 Comparison of TXV modeling error<br />

Nonlinear Global Linear Harms Results<br />

Estimation Estimation<br />

Mean 0.0096 0.0043 0.0235<br />

Std. 0.0291 0.0460 0.0352<br />

Spread 0.0967 0.1647 0.1329<br />

Although Harms’ gray-box method may be good <strong>for</strong> interpolation, it can not be<br />

expected to extrapolate well. Mathematically, his method is equivalent to making a local<br />

linear assumption (see Figure A1-12). If the experimental data range is limited,<br />

parameters C<br />

1<br />

<strong>and</strong> C<br />

2<br />

will be unreasonable. For example, in his method parameter C2<br />

of<br />

the 5-tos RTU, which is supposed to be the static superheat setting, is equal to<br />

the upper boundary of opening superheat is set at<br />

st<strong>and</strong>ards, static superheat should be far larger than<br />

1 o C , while<br />

8 o C . According to ARI <strong>and</strong> ASHRAE<br />

1 o C , <strong>and</strong> o C<br />

8 of upper boundary <strong>for</strong><br />

opening superheat (indicating a 50% of reserve capacity ) is too large. For a 7.5 ton RTU<br />

considered by Harms, parameter C<br />

2<br />

was correlated to be a negative value,<br />

which is impossible physically.<br />

− 4.4<br />

o C ,<br />

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