- Patent Title: Fault detection and diagnostic system for a refrigeration circuit
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Application No.: US14572375Application Date: 2014-12-16
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Publication No.: US09696073B2Publication Date: 2017-07-04
- Inventor: Homero L. Noboa , Andrew J. Boettcher , Saman Beyhaghi
- Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
- Applicant Address: US MI Holland
- Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
- Current Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Holland
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Main IPC: F25B49/02
- IPC: F25B49/02 ; F25B49/00 ; F25B13/00 ; F25B25/00

Abstract:
A fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) system is provided for a refrigeration circuit having an evaporator and a compressor configured to circulate a refrigerant through the evaporator. The FDD system includes a communications interface configured to receive a measurement of a thermodynamic property affected by the refrigeration circuit and a processing circuit having a processor and memory. The processing circuit is configured to use the measured thermodynamic property to determine an expected suction entropy of the refrigerant at a suction of the compressor, use the expected suction entropy to determine an expected thermodynamic discharge property of the refrigerant at a discharge of the compressor, determine an actual thermodynamic discharge property of the refrigerant at the discharge of the compressor, and detect a fault in the refrigeration circuit by comparing the expected thermodynamic discharge property with the actual thermodynamic discharge property.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160169572A1 FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR A REFRIGERATION CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2016-06-16
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