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2.2.1 Heating 6
2.2.2 Ventilating 9
2.2.3 Air Conditioning 10
2.3 Central HVAC System Components
11 2.4
How an HVAC Works 13
CHAPTER 3 LITERATURE REVIEW
16 3.1
Wireless Condition Monitoring and Maintenance for Rooftop Packaged
Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning by Katipamula, S. and Brambley, M. R
16 3.1.1 Monitoring Plan, Automated Fault
Detection and Diagnostics 17
3.1.2 Costs of Package-Unit Monitoring Systems
22 3.2
Improved Thermal Building Management with the Aid of Integrated Dynamic HVAC
Simulation by Mathews, E.H. and Botha, C.P. 26 3.2.1 Case Study 26
3.2.2 Improved Building Management Through Simulation 28
3.2.2.1 Cooling Coil Fouling 28 3.2.2.2 Chiller Degradation 30
3.2.2.3 Control Strategy Adjustment 32
3.3 Model-Based Fault Detection and Diagnosis
of HVAC Systems Using Support Vector Machine Method by Liang, J. and Du, R 35
3.3.1 Design of MBFDD Scheme 35 3.3.2 Modeling of the HVAC System
37
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3 .3.3
Fault Diagnosis Results 38
CHAPTER 4 METHODOLGY 40
4.1 Do Research By Articles, Journals,
Reference Books, Etc. 42
4.2 Identify Problems Statements 42
4.3 Identify Systems Used 42
4.4 Find the Place to Do Research
43 4.5
Make Observation Research and Interview 43
4.6 Make on Documentation Research 43
4.7 Make Analysis and Discussion
44
CHAPTER 5 RESULT
45
5.1 Common Problems Occurred
46 5.2
Predictive Maintenance PdM on Chiller 48
5.3 Predictive Maintenance PdM on Air
Handling Unit AHU 48
5.4 Vibration Analysis
48 5.5
Oil Analysis 51
5.6 Building Automation System BAS
52
CHAPTER 6 DISCUSSION 56
6.1 Advantages and Disadvantages of Predictive
Maintenance 56
6.2 Others Predictive Maintenance Technologies
59 6.2.1 Eddy Current Testing
59 6.2.2 IR Thermography
60 6.2.3 Ultrasonics Testing
62 6.2.4 iSCADA Technology
63
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6.3 The Costs of Condition Monitoring
Technologies 64
CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION 66
REFERENCES 68 BIBLIOGRAPHIES 69
APPENDIXES 70
LIST OF TABLES
NO. TITLE PAGES 3.1
Costs for a Wired System for Monitoring Six HVAC Units
Source: Katipamula and Brambley, 2004 23
3.2 Costs for a Low-Cost Wireless System for
Monitoring HVAC Units Source: Katipamula and Brambley, 2004 25
3.3 Simulated indoor return temperatures of
lecture rooms when heatingelements are disabled due to coil fouling. The shaded
area indicates the rooms that are unoccupied. Source: Mathews and Botha, 2003 34
6.1 Advantages and Disadvantages of Predictive Maintenance
58 6.2
Approximate Costs to Start CBM in Various Technologies Source: Dennis, 2003
65
LIST OF FIGURES
NO. TITLE PAGES 2.1
Boiler Source: Internet reference, 23082008 7
2.2 Furnaces
Source: Internet reference, 23082008 8
2.3 Heating coils
Source: Internet reference, 23082008 9
3.1 Schematic of Condition Monitoring System
for Rooftop Packaged Units with Wireless Sensors Source: Katipamula and Brambley, 2004 18
3.2 Schematic Depiction of HVAC and Monitoring
Equipment Layout Source: Katipamula and Brambley, 2004 22
3.3 Prototype Integrated Wireless Data Collection
and Transmission Unit Source: Katipamula and Brambley, 2004 24
3.4 Schematic layout of the chilled water HVAC system
installed in the case study building Source: Mathews and Botha, 2003 27
3.5 Simulated effect of reduced cooling coil efficiency
on indoor temperatures in the building Source: Mathews and Botha, 2003 29
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3.6 Simulated effect of reduced cooling coil
efficiency on chiller power consumption Source: Mathews and Botha, 2003 30
3.7 Simulated effect of reduced chiller efficiency
on indoor temperatures in the building Source: Mathews and Botha, 2003 31
3.8 Simulated effect of reduced chiller efficiency
on chiller power consumption Source: Mathews and Botha, 2003 32
3.9 Schematic layout of the air flow through the
reheating system currently used in the case study building
Source: Mathews and Botha, 2003 33
3.10 The block diagram of the MBFDD method
Source: Liang and Du, 2006 34
3.11 Illustration of a single zone HVAC system model
Source: Liang and Du, 2006 36
3.12 Design of the SVM classifier
Source: Liang and Du, 2006 38
3.13 Flow chart of the four-layer SVM classifier
Source: Liang and Du, 2006 39
4.1 Flow Chart of Research Procedure 41 5.1 Chiller
45 5.2 AHU
45 5.3 Typical Vibration Transducers
Source: www.eere.energy.govfemp, 27032009 49
5.4 Typical Hand-held Vibration Sensing Meters Source: www.eere.energy.govfemp, 27032009
50
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5.5 Typical Vibration Analyzer Source: www.eere.energy.govfemp, 27032009
50 5.6 Oil Analysis Work and Typical Oil Analysis Equipment
Source: Carrier Corp., 2002 52
5.7 Chiller Plant Diagram Source: JKR, 2009
54 5.8 DDC Controller Panel
55 6.1 Doing Eddy Current Testing
Source: Carrier Corp., 2002 59
6.2 Example Thermogram Showing Misalignment
Source: www.eere.energy.govfemp, 27032009 61
6.3 Typical IR Spot Thermometer
Source: www.eere.energy.govfemp, 27032009 61
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, SYMBOLS UNIT
HVAC Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning
IAQ Indoor Air Quality
ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers
Percentage °F Fahrenheit Degree
LPG Liquid Petroleum Gas cfm cubic feet per minute
OA Outside Air MUA Make-up air
fpm
feet per minute CT
Cooling Tower CWP Condenser Water Pump
CWS Condenser Water Supply CWR
Condenser Water Return CH
Chiller CHWP
Chilled Water Pump CHWS Chilled Water Supply
CHWR Chilled Water Return CC Cooling Coil
HC Heating Coil HWS Heating Water Supply
HWR Heating Water Return HWP Heating Water Pump
HHWS Heating Hot Water Supply
B Boiler SAF
Supply Air Fan SAD
Supply Air Duct MVD
Manual Volume Damper CD
Ceiling Diffuser RA
Return Air Inlet RAF
Return Air Fan RA
Return Air Dampers ATC
Automatic Temperature Control Damper EA
Exhaust Air Dampers F
Filters ATC
Automatic Temperature Control Valve MBV
Manual Balancing Valve AHU
Air Handling Unit RTU
Roof Top Unit Btuhr
British thermal unit per Hour MVD
Manual Volume Dampers TR
Ton of Refrigeration FDD
Fault Detection and Diagnostic m
2
meter square mm
milimeter FCU
Fan Coil Units COP
Coefficient of Performance MBFDD
Model-Based Fault Detection and Diagnosis SVM
Support Vector Machine SMO
Sequential Minimal Optimization Hz
Hertz AC
Alternating Current DC
Direct Current JKR
Jabatan Kerja Raya
PM Preventive Maintenance
PdM Predictive Maintenance
PaM Proactive Maintenance
FBM Failure Based Maintenance
BAS Building Automation System
DDC Direct Digital Control
CBM Condition Based Monitoring
MCSA Motor Current Signature Analysis
IR Infrared
FAM Facilities and Asset Management
SMS Short Messaging System
LIST OF APPENDIXES
NUM. TITLE PAGES
A Gantt Chart 70
B Carrier Hermetic Screw Liquid Chiller 71
C ASIC Building Monitoring Software 74
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background