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1. A device used to vary the volume of air passing through an air outlet, inlet, or duct; it does not significantly affect the shape of the delivery pattern.
2. A pivoted cast-iron plate at fireplace throat, i.e., between fireplace and smoke chamber, to regulate draft.
3. Same as fireplace damper.
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When the unit is in economizer mode, the relief air damper is fully open and the coil path return damper is fully closed, such that all of the air traversing the cooling coil is outdoor air.
Coil Bypass AHUs: Avoiding Reheat in Health-Care Applications
[H.sub.2]O) Q = airflow through each path, [m.sup.3]/s (cfm) R = relief air damper control signal for BPP and BPA damper controls S = path resistance factor [omega] = relative fan speed based on design speed [theta] = damper blade position (1 for fully open and 0 for fully closed) Subscripts d = design EF = exhaust air fan ex = exhaust air (path) inf = envelope infiltration (path) MA = mixed air plenum (node) oa = outdoor air (path) OAD = outdoor air damper ra = return air (path) RCD = recirculating air damper RE = relief or return air plenum (node) rec = recirculating air (path) rel = relief air (path) RF = return air fan RLD = relief air damper RM = room air or space (node) sa = supply air (path) SF = supply air fan TB = terminal box REFERENCES
Reverse relief airflow prevention and building pressurization with a decoupled relief air damper in air-handling units
* recirculation air damper stuck open, stuck closed, stuck 50% open
Integrated control and fault detection of air-handling units
Because the outdoor air dampers modulate to maintain supply air temperature, they are often at minimum, and the supply air temperature setpoint will often reset above the 55[degrees]F (13[degrees]C) minimum setpoint.
An Alternate Take on Airside Economizing
When the chillers stop on cold days, I open the outside air dampers to 100% and open the precool deck to 60%.
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At a minimum, these units include a fan, a two-pipe chilled/ hot coil and an outside/return air damper. Air dampers provide minimum ventilation and are capable of delivering 100% outside air in economizer mode.
Controlling Summer Mold Growth in Schools
It was found that when the sensor noise standard deviation is 0.1[degrees]C, the maximum CUSUM score is comparable with the value when fresh air damper leakage is 0.005 and 0.01.
Using CUSUM method to detect faults in secondary HVAC systems
is always the difference between the supply airflow and the return airflow through path PL-1 to PL-2, and, therefore, the [outdoor air] damper size and type have no effect on the amount of outdoor air." Fully opening the outdoor air damper rather than tracking the other dampers reduces pressure drop and fan energy, and it ensures there is no backflow through the relief damper for systems using Airflow Tracking control (see Reference 3 for more details).
Select & control economizer dampers in VAV systems
Stuck Exhaust Air Damper. Figure 4 shows the detection results for this fault.
A dynamic machine learning-based technique for automated fault detection in HVAC systems
Note: Variable Air Volume (VAV) systems with fixed outdoor air damper positions must comply with this requirement at minimum system primary airflow"
Ventilation control in terminal units with variable speed fan control
During the summer season, when the cooling coil is in use, the outdoor air damper is either maintained at a minimum position when outdoor air conditions do not satisfy the economizer control conditions; or the outdoor air damper is maintained at 100% open position when outdoor air conditions satisfy the economizer control conditions.
Development and validation of a dynamic air handling unit model, Part 2
Most VAV economizer systems modulate the outdoor air and return air dampers simultaneously, the same as constant volume systems.
High-performance VAV systems

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