Applications of Intelligent Electrical Load Monitoring

June 1999

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Applications of Intelligent Electrical Load Monitoring

Information is Valuable!

What makes electrical load monitoring intelligent?

Benefits to Customers and Service Providers

Benefits to Customers and Service Providers

Benefits to Customers and Service Providers

Benefits to Customers and Service Providers

Total Electric Power for an HVAC Plant 

Expanded view

Detection of pump on-off events from centralized electrical load monitor

Aggregated Fan Power

Detection of Fan Power Transitions

Detection of Chiller Cycling - Average Power Obscures Chiller

Detection of Chiller Cycling - High-Speed Data

Detection of Chiller Cycling- Filtered Data Show Chiller

Detection of Faults in HVAC Components

Pressure-Sensor Offset-Fan Power Under Normal Operation

Pressure-Sensor Offset-Fan Power Changes Under Fault

Stuck-Closed Recirculation Damper - Increase in Supply Fan Power

Slipping Fan Belt - Reduced Supply Fan Power

Unstable Supply-Air Pressure Controller - Power Oscillations

Unstable Supply-Air Pressure Controller -Detection by Change in Power Variance

Coil Capacity Fault - Chilled Water Power under Normal Conditions 

Coil Capacity Fault - Reduced Pump Power under Flow Restriction

Analysis of Start-up Transients

Equipment to Analyze Start-up Transients

MIT’s Current Activities

Next Steps

Author: Les Norford, Steve Leeb

Email: diagworkshop@poet.lbl.gov

Home Page: http://poet.lbl.gov/diagworkshop/proceedings/