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Fault Detection and Diagnostics for Rooftop Air Conditioners

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Table E-5 Conservative Lifetime Total Savings per RTU <strong>for</strong> Automated FDD<br />

Location<br />

North<br />

Cali<strong>for</strong>nia<br />

South<br />

Cali<strong>for</strong>nia<br />

Building<br />

Type<br />

Net<br />

Savings<br />

($)<br />

Modular<br />

School<br />

4,328<br />

Restaurant 4,800<br />

Retail<br />

Store<br />

5,804<br />

Modular<br />

School<br />

5,496<br />

Restaurant 6,772<br />

Retail<br />

Store<br />

9,756<br />

Research on further improvements <strong>and</strong> evaluations of the FDD methodology will<br />

continue as follows:<br />

1. Obtain more detailed in<strong>for</strong>mation on the rooftop units <strong>for</strong> all the Cali<strong>for</strong>nia field<br />

sites <strong>and</strong> apply the proposed FDD technique more completely to these sites.<br />

2. Further improve the per<strong>for</strong>mance of the unified FDD technique by improving the<br />

modeling approach that is based on manufacturers’ data <strong>and</strong> find an efficient <strong>and</strong><br />

practical way to tune these models using low-cost sensors. Improve other virtual<br />

sensors’ per<strong>for</strong>mance <strong>and</strong> consider trying to remove pressure <strong>and</strong> humidity sensors.<br />

3. Improve the overall per<strong>for</strong>mance model <strong>for</strong> assessing per<strong>for</strong>mance degradations of<br />

packaged air conditioning equipment under faulty operation using limited sensor<br />

<strong>and</strong> manufacturers’ rating data.<br />

4. Exp<strong>and</strong> the service cost database <strong>and</strong> build a more detailed economic assessment<br />

model to more accurately evaluate the potential savings associated with the FDD<br />

technique <strong>and</strong> to provide guidelines <strong>for</strong> the fault evaluation <strong>and</strong> decision step.<br />

5. Conduct more field tests under multiple-simultaneous faults <strong>and</strong>, if necessary,<br />

conduct more laboratory tests to test the proposed decoupling-based FDD<br />

technique.<br />

6. Consider additional control related diagnoses, such as economizer <strong>and</strong> controller<br />

diagnoses.

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