Correlation of airflow delivery devices and air movers
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAbdlmonem Beitelmal, Cullen E. Bash, Chandrakant D. Patel, Ratnesh K. Sharma
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Abstract
In a method for correlating airflow delivery devices with air conditioning (AC) units having actuators for varying flow rates of air supplied by the air movers, flow rates of air supplied through the airflow delivery devices at a plurality of settings of the actuators are determined. Coefficients that relate the flow rates of air supplied by the air movers to the flow rates of air supplied through the airflow delivery devices based upon the flow rates determined at the plurality of actuator settings is calculated and the airflow delivery devices are correlated with the air movers using the calculated coefficients.
Claims15
A method for correlating airflow delivery devices with air movers having actuators for varying flow rates of air supplied by the air movers, said method comprising:
- (a) setting the actuators of the air movers to at least one setting;
- (b) determining flow rates of air supplied through the airflow delivery devices at the at least one setting of the actuators, each airflow delivery device being served by a plurality of air movers discretely located relative to the airflow delivery device;
- (c) setting the actuator of one of the air movers to another setting;
- (d) determining flow rates of air supplied through each of the airflow delivery devices at the second setting of the actuator;
- (e) calculating coefficients that relate the flow rates of air supplied by each of the air movers to the flow rates of air supplied through each of the airflow delivery devices based upon the flow rates determined at a plurality of actuator settings using a microprocessor;
- and
- (f) determining a level of influence each of the air movers has over each of the airflow delivery devices based upon a correlation between the air movers and respective airflow delivery devices determined through use of the calculated coefficients.
A tangible computer readable storage medium on which is embedded one or more computer programs, said one or more computer programs implementing a method for correlating airflow delivery devices with air movers having actuators for varying flow rates of air supplied by the air movers, said one or more computer programs comprising a set of instructions for:
- setting the actuators of the air movers to at least one setting;
- determining flow rates of air supplied through the airflow delivery devices at the at least one setting of the actuators each airflow delivery device being served by a plurality of air movers discretely located relative to the airflow delivery device;
- setting the actuator of one of the air movers to another setting;
- determining flow rates of air supplied through each of the airflow delivery devices at the second setting of the actuator;
- calculating coefficients that relate the flow rates of air supplied by each of the air movers to the flow rates of airflow supplied through each of the airflow delivery devices at a plurality of settings of the air mover actuators;
- and
- determining a level of influence each of the air movers has over each of the airflow delivery devices based upon a correlation between the air movers and respective airflow delivery devices through use of the calculated coefficients.
A method for correlating airflow delivery devices with air movers having actuators for varying flow rates of air supplied by the air movers, said method comprising:
- (a) determining flow rates of air supplied through each of the airflow delivery devices at a plurality of settings of the actuators each airflow delivery device being served by a plurality of air movers discretely located relative to the airflow delivery device;
- (b) calculating coefficients that relate the flow rates of air supplied by each of the air movers to the flow rates of air supplied through each of the airflow delivery devices based upon the flow rates determined at the plurality of actuator settings using a microprocessor, wherein the coefficients (αji) for each of the airflow delivery devices (j) is calculated according to the following equation:
- α
- ji
- =
- V
- .
- j
- ∑
- i
- =
- 1
- n
-
-
- (
- Q
- i
- )
- .
- ,
- wherein {dot over (V)}j is the flow rate from airflow delivery device (j) and {dot over (Q)}i is the flow rate of air mover (i);
- and
- (c) correlating the airflow delivery devices with the air movers using the calculated coefficients.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.