Method for Monitoring Performance of the Lubricant Cooler in Aircraft Auxiliary Power Unit
First Claim
1. A method for monitoring the performance of an aircraft auxiliary power unit APU lubricant cooler, comprising:
- acquiring APU messages within a time period;
obtaining the operation parameters of the APU lubricant cooler according to the APU messages, the operation parameters including lubricant temperature OTA and load compressor inlet temperature LCIT;
obtaining the revised lubricant temperature OT through the following formula;
revised lubricant temperature OT=lubricant temperature OTA−
load compressor inlet temperature LCIT; and
determining whether the performance of the APU lubricant cooler is in stable phase, decline phase or malfunction phase according to the change trend of the revised lubricant temperature OT with respect to time.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for detecting performance of the lubricant cooler in aircraft auxiliary power unit APU, comprising: acquiring APU-related messages within a time period; obtaining the operation parameters of the APU lubricant cooler, the operation parameters comprise: lubricant temperature OT and load compressor inlet temperature LCIT; the revised lubricant temperature OT is obtained by the following formula: the revised lubricant temperature=lubricant temperature OTA−the load compressor inlet temperature LCIT; determining the performance of the APU lubricant cooler is in stable phase, decline phase or malfunction phase according to the change trend of the revised lubricant temperature OT with respect to time.
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1. A method for monitoring the performance of an aircraft auxiliary power unit APU lubricant cooler, comprising:
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acquiring APU messages within a time period; obtaining the operation parameters of the APU lubricant cooler according to the APU messages, the operation parameters including lubricant temperature OTA and load compressor inlet temperature LCIT; obtaining the revised lubricant temperature OT through the following formula; revised lubricant temperature OT=lubricant temperature OTA−
load compressor inlet temperature LCIT; anddetermining whether the performance of the APU lubricant cooler is in stable phase, decline phase or malfunction phase according to the change trend of the revised lubricant temperature OT with respect to time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A device for monitoring the performance of the lubricant cooler in aircraft auxiliary power unit APU, comprising:
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message acquiring and analyzing unit, which acquires the APU messages within a time period, and obtains the operation parameters of the APU lubricant cooler, the operation parameters includes;
the time since installation TSR of APU, the lubricant temperature OTA and load compressor inlet temperature LCIT;temperature revised unit, which obtains the revised temperature of lubricant OT; revised temperature of lubricant OT=lubricant temperature OTA−
load compressor inlet temperature LCIT; andperformance monitoring unit, which determines that the performance of the APU lubricant cooler is in stable phase, decline phase, serious decline phase or malfunction phase according to the change trend of the revised lubricant cooler OT against the time since installation (TSR) of APU.
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22. A device for monitoring the performance of the lubricant cooler in aircraft auxiliary power unit APU, comprising:
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a processor; and a memory linked with the processor, which stores the computer-readable codes; the computer-readable codes run in the processor to execute the following steps; acquiring the APU messages within a time period; obtaining the operation parameters of the APU lubricant cooler, the operation parameters includes;
the time since installation TSR of APU, the lubricant temperature OTA and load compressor inlet temperature LCIT;the revised temperature of lubricant OT is obtained by the following formula; revised temperature of lubricant OT=lubricant temperature OTA−
load compressor inlet temperature LCIT;determining that the performance of the APU lubricant cooler is in stable phase, decline phase, serious decline phase or malfunction phase according to the change trend of the revised lubricant cooler OT against the time since installation (TSR) of APU.
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