Journal
CONTROL ENGINEERING PRACTICE
Volume 53, Issue -, Pages 79-91Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2016.04.018
Keywords
Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD); Heating; Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC); Chiller; Data-Driven; Principal Component Analysis (PCA); Statistical Process Monitoring (SPM)
Funding
- Geoclima S.r.l
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Faulty operations of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) chiller systems can lead to discomfort for the users, energy wastage, system unreliability and shorter equipment life. Faults need to be early diagnosed to prevent further deterioration of the system behaviour and energy losses. Since it is not a common practice to collect historical data regarding unforeseen phenomena and abnormal behaviours for HVAC installations, in this paper, a semi-supervised data-driven approach is employed for fault detection and isolation that makes no use of a priori knowledge about abnormal phenomena. The proposed method exploits Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to distinguish anomalies from normal operation variability and a reconstruction-based contribution approach to isolate variables related to faults. The diagnosis task is then tackled by means of a decision table that associates the influence of faults to certain characteristic features. The Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) algorithm performance is assessed by exploiting experimental datasets from two types of water chiller systems. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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