Common faults and their impacts for rooftop air conditioners
This paper identifies important faults and their performance impacts for rooftop air conditioners. The frequencies of occurrence and the relative costs of service for different faults were estimated through analysis of service records. Several of the important and difficult to diagnose refrigeration cycle faults were simulated in the laboratory. Also, the impacts on several performance indices were quantified through transient testing for a range of conditions and fault levels. The transient test results indicated that fault detection and diagnostics could be performed using methods that incorporate steady-state assumptions and models. Furthermore, the fault testing led to a set of generic rules for the impacts of faults on measurements that could be used for fault diagnoses. The average impacts of the faults on cooling capacity and coefficient of performance (COP) were also evaluated. Based upon the results, all of the faults are significant at the levels introduced, and should be detected and diagnosed by an FDD system. The data set obtained during this work was very comprehensive, and was used to design and evaluate the performance of an FDD method that will be reported in a future paper.
- Research Organization:
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 20002322
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-990102-; ISSN 0001-2505; TRN: IM200002%%322
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ASHRAE Winter Meeting, Chicago, IL (US), 01/23/1999--01/27/1999; Other Information: PBD: 1999; Related Information: In: ASHRAE transactions 1999: Technical and symposium papers. Volume 105, Part 1, 1387 pages.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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