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Design and Verification of Ceramic Heating Element-based Tankless Instant Electric Water Heater

세라믹 발열체기반 비저장식 순간 전기 온수기 개발 및 검증

  • Ahn, Sung-Su (Machinery & Robot Research Division, Daegu Mechatronics & Materials Institute) ;
  • Kim, Woo-Hyun (Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, Yeungnam University College)
  • 안성수 ((재)대구기계부품연구원 기계로봇연구본부) ;
  • 김우현 (영남이공대학교 기계계열)
  • Received : 2016.08.23
  • Accepted : 2016.11.02
  • Published : 2016.11.25
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Abstract

This paper proposes a ceramic heating element-based tankless instant electric water heater for hand/face washing that does not require a lot of hot water. The heating module, which heats the input water and outputs hot water, operates the ceramic heating element detecting input water using a flow sensor. Inside of the heating module is designed to form one flow path in order to get almost $15^{\circ}C$ increased heated water compared to the input water temperature within 2 second after 1.5 liter per minute water supply. The design validity is verified using a heat flow analysis of the water flow and temperature variations inside of the heating module also. Based on the design data, the heating module is constructed including a single rod-type ceramic heating element. After that, a prototype system having temperature setting function by three steps were constructed. The prototype system is connected to a 1.5 liter per minute water supply line, and the water output temperature and time measurement experiments confirmed that the proposed system output the heated water increased by $18.3^{\circ}C$ in case of third step setting within 2 second after water supply. And standby power is under 1 W and peak power does not exceed the permissible range for the general house usage. Several performance results verify that the proposed tankless instant electric water heater is applicable for the washstand of the house, highway rest area and factory so on as winter-time hand/face washing.

본 논문에서는 다량의 온수가 필요하지 않는 세면을 목적으로 개발된 세라믹 발열체 기반 비저장식 순간 전기온수기를 제안한다. 입력되는 물을 가열하여 온수로 출수시키는 히팅모듈은 유량센서를 이용하여 입력되는 물을 감지하고 세라믹 히팅 모듈을 동작시킨다. 히팅 모듈 내부는 분당 1.5리터로 입수되는 물의 온도 대비 약 $15^{\circ}C$정도로 가열된 온수로 입수 2초 내에 출수시키기 위해 1 path 유로로 설계하였고 또한 설계의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 히팅모듈 내부 물의 흐름과 온도변화에 대한 열유동해석을 수행하였다. 기본 설계를 기초로 내부에 막대형 세라믹 발열체 1개가 내장된 히팅모듈을 제작하였다. 히팅모듈 제작 후 3단계로 온도 세팅 기능을 가지는 온수기 시제품을 제작하였다. 제작된 시제품을 분당 1.5리터의 물을 공급하는 상수도관에 연결하고 출수되는 물의 온도 및 시간을 측정한 실험에서 물 공급 후 2초 후에 온수기 3단 기준으로 공급되는 물 온도 대비 $18.3^{\circ}C$로 가열된 온수를 출수할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 그리고 대기전력 1w 미만, 순간 전력도 일반가정에서의 허용범위를 넘지 않는다. 성능 측정 결과들을 통해 제안된 비저장식 순간 전기온수기가 겨울철 세면용으로 가정, 고속도로휴게소, 공장 등의 세면대에 적용이 가능함을 확인하였다.

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