GAS-FUELED ENGINE-DRIVEN AIR CONDITIONING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS FOR COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS Bruce B. Lindsay Project Manager commercial Space conditioning Gas Research Institute 8600 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue Chicago, IL 60631 Since 1985, the author has been involved in a program to develop a nominal 150 ton gas-fueled engine-driven water chiller for commercial buildings. The packaged system has bee...

During extremely hot summer days, air conditioning systems are known as major electricity consumers in residential, commercial and industrial sectors. Moreover, high energy requirement of multiple-chiller plants may cause an interconnected power grid be faced with annual on-peak electrical demand, load-generation mismatch, voltage collapse and catastrophic wide area blackout. Therefore, this pa...

Shrinkage defect in an alloy steel casting for marine engine cylinder cover was estimated by numerical analysis with reference to casting variables such as riser and chiller. Retained melt modulus was employed as a prediction parameter in this study. Shrinkage defects were developed at the final solidification region. This is associated with hot spots, which could be controlled more effectively...

We present a data mining approach to model the cooling infrastructure in data centers, particularly the chiller ensemble. These infrastructures are poorly understood due to the lack of “first principles” models of chiller systems. At the same time, they abound in data due to instrumentation by modern sensor networks. We present a multi-level framework to transduce sensor streams into an actiona...

Color of broiler skin was evaluated after exposure to organic acids under various concentrations and simulated potential plant application conditions. Breast skin from chilled broiler carcasses was treated with acetic (AA), citric (CA), lactic (LA), malic (ML), mandelic (MN), propionic (PA), or tartaric (TA) acids at 0.5, 1, 2, 4, and 6% concentrations. Each acid and concentration was applied i...

AirConditioning Engineers (ASHRAE RP-1462). It is a three years' research, including the literature review, labs construction, experiments and data analysis. In this thesis, first of all, we conducted literature review of mechanism motion influence on heat and mass transfer and additive effect in absorption chiller. This part helps us understand the basic idea of how mechanism motion affects th...

This thesis investigates the problem of regulating the temperature of a conditioned space using a Solar Assisted Air Conditioning Systems (SAACS) prototype located at Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. The SAACS Prototype consists of a 66 flat plate solar collector array with 115.4 m 2 of selective surface area, a 35 kW single-effect lithium-bromide absorption chiller, a 84 kW cooling tower, a 50 kW auxil...

This paper presents a semi-empirical steady-state model of an air-cooled water chiller. The first part of the paper shows how the model is built by associating a scroll compressor and two heat exchanger sub-models. The second part of the paper presents the parameters identification process based on published manufacturer data (for the compressor and the whole chiller models). The only encounter...

Dynamic models of vapor compression systems are important tools for HVAC engineers in the development and evaluation feedback control and fault detection and diagnostic (FDD) algorithms. Significant literature exists on dynamic models of vapor compression systems. Much of it is restricted to air-to-air systems and few papers deal with liquid chillers. Most of existing liquid chiller models revi...

Dynamic models of liquid chillers are gaining importance in recent years as tools for evaluating feedback controllers and to study transient system performance in general. Such system models consist of component models for the heat-exchangers, the compressor and the expansion device. The modeling of the heat-exchangers is particularly significant as they constitute the largest thermal capacitan...