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Reliability and Functional Availability of HVAC Systems
Abstract
This paper presents a model to calculate the reliability and availability of heating, ventilation
and air conditioning systems. The reliability is expressed in the terms of reliability,
maintainability and decision capability. These terms are a function of the mean time between
failure, mean time to repair and decision time.
The availability is expressed as an operational and functional availability of the systems.
These terms are a function of both the technical and human characteristics to maintain the
systems in correct operational state.
The result is based on a large amount data from operational organisations, the compulsory
inspection of ventilation systems and momentary and continuous measurements made in
HVAC-systems.
Citation
Myrefelt, S. (2004). Reliability and Functional Availability of HVAC Systems. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /5031.