• Journal of the KSME
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.154-166
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• 1995

냉동\ulcorner공조기의 성능을 높이기 위해서는 정상상태 운전시는 물론 증발기 열부하 등 각종 작동 조건의 변화에 대응하여 운전의 평형점(balance point) 추이를 적절하게 조정함과 동시에 냉동 사이클 각부의 냉매 상태량을 과도적으로도 제어해야 한다. 이 글에서는 냉동\ulcorner공조기의 자동 제어에 있어서 가장 중요한 요소중의 하나인 냉매계통의 모델화와 냉동 사이클의 응답 및 제어 등에 관해서 서술하고자 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.225-229
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• 1990

As a basic study of optimal design conditions of refrigeration systems, the reversed carnot cycle, including heat transfer processes through the finite temperature differences between heat sources and the working fluids, is analyzed with the capacity of heat exchanger as a design parameter. When the temperatures of heat sources and the input work are fixed as constants, the optimal design condition is obtained as an optimum ratio of capacities of heat exchangers, which is exactly unity when the exergy output and effectiveness are maximum. In addition, the optimum ratio is slightly increased from unity as the irreversibility of the cycle increases.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.353-362
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• 2019

Thermodynamic analysis of cascade refrigeration systems has attracted considerable research attention. On the other hand, a system evaluation based on thermodynamic analyses of the individual parts, including the evaporator, condenser, intercooler, expansion valve, etc., has received less attention. In this study, performance analysis was conducted on a cascade refrigeration system, which has an individual cooling and refrigeration evaporator, and equips the intercooler and air-cooled condenser in a series in a lower cycle. The thermo-fluid design was then performed on the major components of the system - upper condenser, lower condenser, cooling evaporator, refrigeration evaporator, intercooler, compressor, electronic expansion valve - of 15 kW refrigeration, and 8 kW cooling capacity using R-410A. A series of simulations were conducted on the designed system. The change in outdoor temperature from 26 C to 38 C resulted in the cooling capacity of the lower evaporator remaining approximately the same, whereas it decreased by 9% at the upper evaporator and by 63% at the intercooler. The COP decreased with increasing outdoor temperature. In addition, the COP of the cycle with the intercooler operation was higher that of the cycle without the intercooler operation. Furthermore, the increase in the upper condenser size by two fold increased the upper evaporator by 4%. On the other hand, the lower evaporator capacity remained the same. The COP of the upper cycle increased with increasing upper condenser size, whereas that of the lower cycle remained almost the same. When the size of the lower condenser was increased 2.8 fold, the intercooler capacity increased by 8%, whereas those of upper and the lower evaporator remained approximately the same. Furthermore, the COP of the lower cycle increased with an increase in the lower condenser. On the other hand, the change of the upper condenser was minimal.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.153-163
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• 2020

Compared to gaeous hydrogen, liquid hydrogen has approximately 1/800 volume, 800 times higher volumetric energy density at the same pressure, and the advantage of lower explosion risk and easier transportation than gaseous hydrogen. However, hydrogen liquefaction requires larger scale facility investment than simple compression storage method. Therefore, the research on energy-saving hydrogen liquefaction processes is highly necessary. In this study, helium/neon (mole ratio 80 : 20) refrigeration cycle was investigated as the main refrigeration process for hydrogen liquefaction. Process simulation for less energy consumption were carried out using PRO/II with PROVISION V10.2 of AVEVA. For hydrogen liquefaction, energy consumption was compared in three cases: Using a helium/neon refrigerant cycle, a SMR+helium/neon refrigerant cycle, and a C3-MR+helium/neon refrigerant cycle. As a result, the total power consumptions of compressors required to liquefy 1 kg of hydrogen are 16.3, 7.03 and 6.64 kWh, respectively. Therefore, it can be deduced that energy usage is greatly reduced in the hydrogen liquefaction process when the pre-cooling is performed using the SMR process or the C3MR process, which have already been commercialized, rather than using only the helium/neon refrigeration cycle for the hydrogen liquefaction process.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.756-761
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• 2012

Natural gas is converted in to LNG by chilling and liquefying the gas to the temperature of $-162^{\circ}C$, when liquefied, the volume of natural gas is reduced to 1/600 of its standard volume. This gives LNG the advantage in transportation. In this study, the effects of the pressure drop of refrigerant and natural gas in the LNG heat exchanger of cryogenic cascade refrigeration cycle were investigated and then the design criteria for the pressure drop of refrigerant and natural gas of the LNG heat exchanger were proposed. The pressure drop of the cascade liquefaction cycle was investigated and simulated using HYSYS software. The simulation results showed that the pressure drop in the LNG heat exchanger is set to 50 kPa considering the increase in the compressor work and COP of cryogenic cascade liquefaction cycle.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.164-164
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• 2003

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.3106-3111
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• 2010

In this study, a comparative study was performed between one- and two-stage refrigeration system to cool the natural gas temperature down to $-40^{\circ}C$ using propane as a chilling medium. As a thermodynamic model, Peng-Robinson equation of state equation was applied and PRO/II with PROVISION release 8.3 at Invensys company was utilized for the simulation of the refrigeration system. Through this study, optimization work showed that two-stage refrigeration system was proven to save about 33.5% refrigeration power consumption compared to the one-stage refrigeration cycle.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.2565-2571
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• 2009

In this paper, cycle performance analysis of cascade refrigeration system using $NH_3-CO_2$(R717-R744) is presented to offer the basic design data for the operating parameters of the system. The operating parameters considered in this study include subcooling and superheating degree and condensing and evaporating temperature in the ammonia(R717) high temperature cycle and the carbon dioxide low temperature cycle. The COP of cascade refrigeration system increases with the increasing superheating degree, but decreases with the increasing subcooling degree. The COP of cascade refrigeration system increases with the increasing condensing temperature, but decreases with the increasing evaporating temperature. Therefore, superheating and subcoolng degree, evaporating and condensing temperature of cascade refrigeration system using $NH_3-CO_2$ have an effect on the COP of this system. A multilinear regression analysis was employed in terms of subcooling, superheating, evaporating, condensing, and cascade heat exchanger temperature difference in order to develop mathematical expressions for maximum COP and an optimum evaporating temperature.

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.31 no.7
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• pp.4-9
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• 2002

환경문제에 대한 관심이 높아짐에 따라, 냉동공조 산업에서 다양하게 이용되는 냉매에 대하여도 많운 시각이 집중되고 있다. 특히, 몬트리얼 의정서와 교토의정서에 의한 지구온난화 물질에 대한 규제로 CFCs와 HCFCs 냉매를 사용하지 못하게 펌에 따라 냉동공조업계에서는 열역학적 물성치가 우수하고 환경친화적인 대체냉매의 개발에 관한 연구를 활발히 진행하고 있다. 이러한 문제의 근본적인 해결책은 자연상태로 존재하는 자연냉매를 이용하는 것이디. 이산화탄소, 암모니아, 탄화수소계열, 물, 공기 등이 대표적으로 거론되고 있는 자연냉매이다. 이 중에서 도 이산화탄소는 인체에 무해하며, 독성이 없고, 화 학적으로 안정하며,기존의 냉동기 재료를 그대로 사용할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 또한 열역학적 성질 및 전달물성이 우수하고, 냉통기에 적용할 때 성능이 개선될 가능성이 많다는 점도 매우 고무적이다. 본 고에서는 최근 가장 주목을 받고 있는 이산화탄소를 이용한 냉동사이클의 특성과 성능향상 방안에 대하여 기존 연구결과를 정리하여 설명하고자 한다.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.33 no.11
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• pp.979-984
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• 1993

압축기는 냉동 . 공조 사이클에서 냉매를 압축하여 순환시키는 기능을 한다. 냉동 . 공조 사이클 에서 압축기의 효율 COP는 압축기 모터 입력에 대한 증발기에서의 냉각 능력의 비로서 정의 된다. 따라서 압축기 자체의 특성도 중요하지만 냉매의 열역학적 물성도 중요한 역할을 한다. 압축기의 효율향상문제가 최근에 대두되게 된 것은 첫 째, 몬트리올 협정에 의해 CFC의 사용이 제한되면서 새로 검토하게 된 대체냉매들의 열물성이 CFC보다 불리한 점과 둘째, 에너지 소비를 줄이려는 인식이 환경 측면에서 확산되고 있기 때문이다. 이 글에서는 압축기 효율을 결정하는 주요요소에 대하여 알아보고 최근 국내외에서 이루어지고 있는 효율향상 성과에 대하여 소개하 기로 한다.