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A Dynamic Test Facility for Mobile Air Conditioning Systems  

Gado, Amr (Center for Environmental Energy Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park)
Hwang, Yun-Ho (Center for Environmental Energy Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park)
Radermacher, Reinhard (Center for Environmental Energy Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park)
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International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration / v.15, no.4, 2007 , pp. 147-155 More about this Journal
Abstract
Mobile air conditioning systems work under widely changing operating conditions. To understand the system behavior under such dynamic conditions, a test facility that can impose transient loads as well as conducting dynamic measurements is needed. To test mobile air conditioning systems including their dynamic performance under various drive cycle patterns without using full scale vehicles in a wind tunnel, a new test facility, called "dynamic simulator," is described. It can replicate real vehicle operating conditions by interacting with the system being tested based on the measured system performance and subsequently adjusting the air properties returning to the test system based on the results of a numerical cabin model. A new dynamic simulator has been designed, constructed, and verified for performing dynamic tests. It was successful in controlling the temperature and relative humidity of the air returning to the test unit within ${\pm}0.7^{\circ}C$ and ${\pm}4%$ of their respective intended values. The verification test under the New European Driving Cycle demonstrated that detailed transient behavior of the mobile air conditioning system could be measured by using this dynamic simulator.
Keywords
Dynamic; Simulator; Mobile; Air conditioning system; Cabin model;
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