The present disclosure provides for hyperloop vapor cycle environmental control systems (ECS) and related methods. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for hyperloop vapor cycle environmental control systems and methods, with the hyperloop vapor cycle environmental control systems and methods configured without a compressor needed to pump a refrigerant through the system and configured without a condenser heat exchanger needed to condense gas refrigerant to a liquid to reject the heat of compression of a compressor to the ambient atmosphere. Since there is no need for a compressor, the example hyperloop ECS of the present disclosure requires only a small fraction of the electrical power of a standard vapor cycle air conditioning system. Power is needed substantially only for the ECS controller and some various valves.

A vehicle air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit including a heat exchanger, a fan which sends air to the heat exchanger, and a controller which controls the refrigerant circuit and the fan. The vehicle air-conditioning apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The controller acquires a physical quantity correlated with a clogging amount of the heat exchanger when a position or a speed of the vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition, and determine whether or not clogging occurs in the heat exchanger based on the physical quantity.

An arrangement for drying air, particularly for a compressed air installation of a rail vehicle, includes an air dryer that receives air that is to be dried, via an air dryer inlet. In order to optimize the arrangement with regard to external conditions prevailing in the region of a rail bound transportation route to be travelled, an air conditioning installation is provided that supplies air to an air conditioning installation outlet, the air dryer inlet being connected, by way of an air channel particularly designed as an air conduit, to the air conditioning installation outlet such that at least one portion of the air supplied from the air conditioning installation forms the air that is to be dried. The invention also relates to a rail vehicle that includes such an arrangement, and also to a method for drying air.

A vehicle air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigeration cycle that performs air-conditioning in a vehicle interior of a vehicle; a controller that includes a plurality of operation modes with different continuous operation times for a compressor, and that selects one operation mode from among the plurality of operation modes according to an air-conditioning load in the vehicle interior and executes the one operation mode, during travel operation of the vehicle; a storage unit; and a fault diagnosis unit. The fault diagnosis unit performs, during travel operation of the vehicle, fault diagnosis for the refrigeration cycle, after the high-load operation mode from among the plurality of operation modes, in which the continuous operation time is equal to or longer than a time that is set in advance is selected and executed by the controller at the timing stored in advance in the storage unit and while the refrigeration cycle is stable.

A railway vehicle air conditioning management system according to the present invention includes a railway vehicle air-conditioning device installed in a railway vehicle, having a refrigerant circuit configured by including at least a compressor, a heat source side heat exchanger, a decompression device and a load side heat exchanger, and air-conditions an inside of the railway vehicle by circulating refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit, and a management device having a recording device in which vehicle air conditioning data including data showing operating states of the railway vehicle air-conditioning devices in a plurality of the railway vehicles are recorded, the railway vehicle air-conditioning device performs a special operation of operating in a pattern set in advance, in a state without humans in the railway vehicle, and the management device causes the recording device to record the vehicle air conditioning data including data showing the operating state in the special operation.

A ventilation port is formed in a casing of an air conditioner for railway car use, and communicates with a passenger compartment to be air conditioned. An indoor heat exchanger housed in the casing performs heat exchange with air flowing in and out of the casing through the ventilation port. A return hole cover serving as a ventilation port cover has rigid portions that are rigid and bending portions that bend more easily than the rigid portions, and thus the return hole cover is transformable between a first form and a second form folded more compactly than the first form, the first form being a form in which the return hole cover is detachably fixed to the casing in a state in which the return hole cover covers the ventilation port from an interior of the casing.

A vehicle cooling system may include a cooling circuit for cooling at least one main component of a vehicle. The cooling circuit may include at least one cooler through which cooling air is flowable and at least two fan chambers adjoined to an outlet side of the at least one cooler. The at least two fan chambers may each include a respective fan arranged therein, a respective main outlet and a respective ancillary outlet. The vehicle cooling system may also include at least one waste air channel that may be connected to the respective ancillary outlets of the at least two fan chambers. The vehicle cooling system may further include at least one control device configured to control a cross-section of each of the respective ancillary outlets and to enable operation of the vehicle cooling system in a normal operating state and in at least two emergency operating states.

An air-conditioning system for a vehicle has an air treatment part with an evaporator, past which an air stream to be conditioned is conducted by a supply air fan. A condensate collection trough collects the condensate which forms on the evaporator. The condensate collection trough is connected to an outlet opening to its surroundings in order to discharge collected condensate. A discharge of condensate from the condensate collection trough through the outlet opening is assisted by way of a compressed air device which is arranged in such a way that it acts on the collected condensate in the direction of the surroundings of the condensate collection trough.

The present disclosure provides for hyperloop vapor cycle environmental control systems (ECS) and related methods. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for hyperloop vapor cycle environmental control systems and methods, with the hyperloop vapor cycle environmental control systems and methods configured without a compressor needed to pump a refrigerant through the system and configured without a condenser heat exchanger needed to condense gas refrigerant to a liquid to reject the heat of compression of a compressor to the ambient atmosphere. Since there is no need for a compressor, the example hyperloop ECS of the present disclosure requires only a small fraction of the electrical power of a standard vapor cycle air conditioning system. Power is needed substantially only for the ECS controller and some various valves.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides an interior decoration structure and a railway vehicle with the interior decoration structure. The interior decoration structure is located inside a vehicle body. The interior decoration structure includes: a plurality of interior decoration components, the plurality of interior decoration components being spliced inside the vehicle body in sequence, wherein at least one pair of two adjacent interior decoration components are connected by an inserted-connected structure. The interior decoration structure in the present disclosure solves the problem in the related art that interior decoration parts are prone to unstable connection due to a mounting mode of an interior decoration structure.