Control systems are provided that provide thermodynamically decoupled control of temperature and relative humidity and/or reduce or prevent frost formation or remove previously-formed frost. The control systems herein may be included as a component of a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration system that includes a heat exchanger.

A power management system includes a power conditioner configured to condition and perform power factor correction on the electrical power supplied to the main circuit; an inverter, configured to receive direct current (DC) electrical power from a renewable source, and supply alternating current (AC) power to a main circuit that supplies power to an air conditioning system; and a controller configured to profile, using a power profiling meter, electrical power supplied to the main circuit; and modify operations of the air conditioning system or a battery management system based on the profiled electrical power available.

An air conditioner and a control method thereof. The air conditioner includes an indoor unit including an indoor heat exchanger and an indoor fan, an outdoor unit connected to the indoor unit and including an outdoor heat exchanger, an outdoor fan, a compressor, an expansion valve, and a four-way valve, and at least one processor configured to perform a test operation by controlling the indoor unit and the outdoor unit. Based on an outdoor temperature being less than a predetermined reference temperature, the at least one processor is configured to determine whether the indoor unit and the outdoor unit operate normally, by continuously performing a heating operation and a defrosting operation during the test operation.

The present disclosure relates to a climate management system having a control system configured to control climate characteristics of a building. The control system further includes a memory device and a processor. The memory device includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive, via a sensor, data indicative of an evaporator coil temperature of the climate management system, and operate an air mover of the climate management system to control supply of conditioned air to the building based on the evaporator coil temperature.

A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes an outdoor unit a plurality of indoor units a relay unit a refrigerant circuit and a controller The relay unit includes a plurality of high-pressure valves and a plurality of low-pressure valves The controller when an operation state of at least one of the indoor units is changed from a first state to a second state, judges, based on a degree of supercooling of an outlet of the outdoor heat exchanger or the indoor heat exchanger or based on a degree of superheating of a suction side of the compressor, whether an abnormality is present in the plurality of high-pressure valves or the plurality of low-pressure valves.

An air treatment unit includes: an imaging device configured to capture an image of an imaging target in a casing of an air treatment device and acquire image data of the imaging target; and a control unit configured to cause the imaging device to capture an image under a condition indicating that there are no mists or fewer mists in the casing, based on a state of the air treatment device.

An HVAC system includes a reversing valve configured to receive compressed refrigerant and direct the refrigerant based on an operating mode. One or more suction-side sensors measure suction-side properties associated with refrigerant, including a suction-side temperature and a suction-side pressure. One or more liquid-side sensors measure liquid-side properties associated with the refrigerant. A controller monitors the suction-side pressure and liquid-side pressure and determines a ratio of the liquid-side pressure to the suction-side pressure. The controller further determines whether the suction-side temperature has an increasing trend. If the suction-side temperature has the increasing trend, the reversing valve is determined to be in an equalizing configuration. The equalizing configuration corresponds to a configuration in which the refrigerant provided from the outlet of the compressor is directed to the inlet of the compressor without first being directed to other components of the HVAC system.

Disclosed herein are air conditioning systems including a refrigerant line configured to transport a refrigerant; a compressor in fluid communication with the suction line; and a controller in communication with a sensor configured to measure a characteristic of the refrigerant line. The compressor can be configured to move the refrigerant through the refrigerant line, and the refrigerant can have a first temperature at the outlet of the compressor. The controller can be configured to receive sensor data from the sensor indicating a current value associated with the characteristic of the refrigerant line; determine, based at least partially on the sensor data, that the characteristic of the refrigerant line is above a predetermined threshold; and output instructions for the compressor to perform one or more corrective actions.

An HVAC system includes a high-pressure subsystem and a low-pressure subsystem. After determining that refrigerant leak diagnostics should be performed, a controllable valve is closed between a condenser and compressor of the HVAC system. The compressor then operates until a predetermined input refrigerant pressure is reached. After the predetermined input refrigerant pressure is reached, operation of the compressor is stopped. After stopping operation of the compressor and waiting at least a predetermined wait time, the pressure in the low-pressure subsystem of the HVAC system is monitored. A rate of change of the pressure in the low-pressure subsystem is determined. If the rate of change is negative and a magnitude of the rate of change is greater than a threshold value, a leak location is determined to be in the low-pressure subsystem.

An air conditioner including: a compressor; a heat exchanger fluidly connected to the compressor; a pressure sensor provided in a first flow path connecting an outlet of the compressor to an inlet of the first heat exchanger; a temperature sensor provided in a second flow path connected to an outlet of the heat exchanger; and a processor connected to the compressor, the pressure sensor, and the temperature sensor. The processor configured to: acquire a reference index value based on a first reference pressure measured by the pressure sensor and a first reference temperature measured by the temperature sensor, acquire a measurement index value based on a first measurement pressure measured by the pressure sensor and a first measurement temperature measured by the temperature sensor, and display a shortage of a refrigerant of the air conditioner based on the reference index value and the measurement index value.