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Fault Detection and Diagnostics for Rooftop Air Conditioners

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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 />

Although every individual fault was not severe enough to cause more than a 20%<br />

per<strong>for</strong>mance degradation, the combination of three simultaneous faults aggravated overall<br />

system per<strong>for</strong>mance degradations.<br />

Figure 4-17 Outputs of the FDD demonstration after introduction of liquid line restriction<br />

fault

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