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Area of Science:

  • Building energy systems
  • HVAC fault detection and diagnostics
  • Sensor networks

Background:

  • Buildings account for significant global energy consumption, with ventilation units being major energy consumers.
  • Faults in ventilation systems degrade building energy efficiency and occupant comfort.
  • Traditional hardware redundancy for fault detection increases costs and space requirements.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel method for fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) in ventilation units by creating virtual sensors.
  • To introduce redundancy into ventilation systems using physical relationships between existing sensor data.
  • To reduce the need for costly hardware redundancy in FDD.

Main Methods:

  • Exploiting physical relations within ventilation units to derive virtual sensor readings from existing sensor data.
  • Developing virtual sensors for temperature, airflow, and fan speed.
  • Utilizing coefficient of determination (linear models) and acceptable range as deviation measures.
  • Employing linear regression, statistical, and non-linear regression models for analysis.
  • Testing the method on a real-world building at the University of Southern Denmark.

Main Results:

  • The developed virtual sensors successfully detected anomalous oscillations in temperature readings.
  • Deviations were identified when sensor readings fell outside acceptable ranges and the coefficient of determination decreased.
  • The proposed method demonstrated promising results in introducing system redundancy for FDD.

Conclusions:

  • Virtual sensors offer a cost-effective approach to enhance redundancy for fault detection and diagnostics in ventilation systems.
  • This method has potential applications in fault-tolerant control and improving building energy management.
  • Further research is needed to establish optimal thresholds for automated fault detection and diagnostics.