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Fault Detection and Diagnostics for Rooftop Air Conditioners

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6 SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE WORK<br />

The following work was completed during this project:<br />

1. A literature review about FDD application in HVAC&R was conducted in order to<br />

enhance the underst<strong>and</strong>ing of FDD. (Chapter 1 <strong>and</strong> Deliverables 2.1.3 & 2.1.4)<br />

2. More than twenty field-sites, with unit one at Purdue <strong>and</strong> 20 units in Cali<strong>for</strong>nia,<br />

were set up. The Purdue field-setup is meant to mimic field-setups in Cali<strong>for</strong>nia in<br />

order to aid in the identification of installation <strong>and</strong> operational problems locally.<br />

The field-sites in Cali<strong>for</strong>nia have different building occupancies, climate<br />

conditions, <strong>and</strong> packaged air conditioning equipment from different manufacturers<br />

(Deliverables 2.1.1a & 2.1.1b).<br />

3. The FDD problem has been <strong>for</strong>mulated in a mathematical way <strong>and</strong> a decouplingbased<br />

unified FDD technique was proposed to h<strong>and</strong>le multiple-simultaneous faults<br />

<strong>and</strong> provide a more generic <strong>and</strong> system-independent method (Deliverables 2.1.5).<br />

The SRB method was re-examined in detail <strong>and</strong> then two new fault detection <strong>and</strong><br />

diagnostic classifiers were presented that are simpler to implement <strong>and</strong> provide<br />

improved FDD sensitivity as compared with the original SRB method (Deliverables<br />

2.1.3 & 2.1.4 <strong>and</strong> ASHRAE paper)<br />

4. Various component models <strong>and</strong> virtual sensors were proposed to estimate features<br />

<strong>and</strong> overall system per<strong>for</strong>mance indices at low cost. For situations where physical<br />

or map-based models are not practical, a Polynomial plus GRNN modeling<br />

approach was developed that provides both good interpolation <strong>and</strong> extrapolation<br />

per<strong>for</strong>mance when training data are readily available (Deliverable 2.1.2 <strong>and</strong> Li <strong>and</strong><br />

Braun (2002)).

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