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Fault Detection And Diagnosis For Air Conditioners And Heat Pumps Based On Virtual Sensors, Woohyun Kim
Fault Detection And Diagnosis For Air Conditioners And Heat Pumps Based On Virtual Sensors, Woohyun Kim
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The primary goal of this research is to develop and demonstrate an integrated, on-line performance monitoring and diagnostic system with low cost sensors for air conditioning and heat pump equipment. Automated fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) has the potential for improving energy efficiency along with reducing service costs and comfort complaints. To achieve this goal, virtual sensors with low cost measurements and simple models were developed to estimate quantities that would be expensive and or difficult to measure directly.
A virtual refrigerant charge sensor (VRC) was extended with three approaches for determining refrigerant charge for equipment having variable-speed compressors and …