ECS AND MATLAB

WHAT IS AN ECS?

The environmental control system (ECS) of an aircraft provides air
supply, thermal control and cabin pressurization& humidity control for
the crew and passengers.
It modulates and controls the ventilation rates which are necessary
and essential for cabin safety and comfort

The ECS functions to provide ideal environmental conditions in the:

1. Cabins
2. Cockpit
3. Avionics compartment
4. Cargo compartment
5. It also serves to detect smoke & suppress fires and thus assists to
prevent any calamity.

REQUIREMENTS.

The ECS system must provide comfort conditions (i.e. some 24degree, 90-
100 KPa, 50 -70% RH)
A sudden change in cabin pressure p>3 KPa (equivalent to z=300m near
sea level) can cause pain and vertigo
Human comfort demands relative humidity in the range 50-70%, but this is
not maintained aboard aircraft to avoid condensation problems on cold walls
and equipment, which tends to corrode metals and boost micro-organism
growth. Hence Relative humidity is kept in the very low range, 10-20% RH.
The normal pressure conditions are pair>75 KPa and the Partial pressure of
oxygen pO2 >18.40 KPa
The ECS should also take into consideration structural constraints which
impose limitation on the supply pressure.
Safety overpressure and underpressure needs to be limited for structural
reasons.



AIR SOURCES

ENGINES
APU
LOW PRESSURE GROUND CART (LPGC)

THE AIR CONDITIONING PACK
7
SYSTEM SCHEMATIC
OPERATION


TASK DESCRIPTION


The \Ground Cart Performance analysis requires the utilization of MATLAB performance
codes to evaluate the capacity of the Ground Cart to provide comfort conditions in cabin with given
predefined aircraft conditions.


Sr. No

Cases

Performance Criteria

1 Pull Down

Evolution of Average cabin and mixer temperatures with time
2 Passenger Boarding

Evolution of Average cabin and mixer temperatures with time
3 Steady state

LPGC inlet Temperature needed to achieve a desired cabin temperature for
different mass flows.

4 Heating and cooling

Time needed to reach 27C and 21C in the cabin for cooling and heating
respectively
MODEL STRUCTURE
Cases
Lib
Model
Result
Run files

0.8
1.0
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
2.0
2.2
2.4
30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240
F
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A
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F
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F
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g
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TIME TO COOL CABIN TO 27 DEG ON GROUND
[minutes]
GC Cooling Performance
OC1(ISA+30 /
2 deg)
OC2(ISA+30 /
-10 deg)
OC3(ISA+30 /
-20 deg)
OC4(ISA+23 /
2 deg)
LOOP FILE
Functions
Initialize CASE_TYPE
CASE NOS
Initiates loop sequence
Initialize model type
Output result file
MATLAB
WORKSPACE
VARIABLES
CASE FILES
CASE_TYPE
PT
PB
OC
OS
OH
LIB FILES
LIB functions
RESULT FILE
.mat & .xls files
MODEL AS A WHOLE
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