• Solar Energy
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.28-36
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• 1992

The performance of a latent heat storage system using a thermosyphon as the heat transfer device between the heat source and the phase change material was investigated experimentally. In order to increase the effective conductivity of the phase change material, layers of copper wire mesh were immersed in the paraffin wax(Sunoco P-116) in such a way that they also may be considered as fins of the thermosyphon. The important results are as follows : (1) The void space of the wire mesh allowed the convection to occur, thus enhanced the performance of the system : (2) The increase of the number of layer of wire mesh increased the conduction heat transfer. However, it also had adverse effect of subduing convective motion of liquid wax : and (3) Overall heat transfer coefficient and thermosyphon conductance increased with the increase of the number of layer of wire mesh, whereas the heat transfer coefficient between the thermosyphon and the wax decreased.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.87-95
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• 1997

A chemical heat pump based on the reversible reactions between metal chlorides and ammonia gas is attractive alternative to compression system and liquid absorption systems in cooling and refrigerating fields. The advantages of chemical heat pump are no regulatory constants due to CFC refrigerants, utilization of gas, industrial waste heat, electricity, fuel oil etc. as heat sources and wide applications to energy storage system, large-scale energy managements for industrial process. The scale-up of chemical heat pump from laboratory prototype to pilot plants necessitates the interpretation of system performance and evaluation of dynamic behavior in the chemical reactor. This study contains the prediction of performance of chemical refrigerator according to operating condition, the dynamic simulations through reactor modelling, which is used for the calculation of reactive medium temperature and the conversion variation with reactor cooling temperature, and the effect survey of block parameters on the power of refrigerator.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.22-29
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• 2019

A heat pump system using wasted heat from thermal effluent to supply the heating energy can reduce energy consumption and emissions of greenhouse gases by greenhouse facilities nearby. The Jeju National University consortium constructed a heat pump system using the thermal effluent from the Jeju thermal power plant of KOMIPO to provide with cool or hot water to greenhouse facilities located 3 km from the power station. In this paper, the system configuration of the heat pump system was summarized, and the results of operations for demonstration of a heating performance carried out during the winter season in 2018 were investigated. The preoperational tests proved that the water temperature drop through the pipeline transporting extracted heat was less than $2^{\circ}C$. The COP (coefficient of performance) of the heat pump was higher than 4.0, and hot water with the maximum temperature of $50^{\circ}C$ could be supplied to greenhouse facilities by utilizing wasted heat from thermal effluent.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.102-110
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• 1999

The attenuation property of active noise control system is much dependent on the locations of transducers. It is very difficult to retermine the orfunal locations of transducers analytically, because the acoustic behaviors in active noise control systems are very complex and the acoustic parameters, fluid density, corqJlex propagation, coefficients, etc., are usually unknown. In this paper, effects of positions of transducers and of distances between transducers on attenuation properties of active noise control systems is investigated via computer simulations. Tbe transfer functions between the transducers are derived using the superposition principle for computer simulations. Computer simulations show that the acoustic monopole and dipole systems for duct noise attenuation are sensitive to variations of the transducer location.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.464-470
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• 2016

This paper presents a speech recognition database verification system using speech measures, and describes a speech measure extraction algorithm which is applied to this system. In our previous study, to produce an effective speech quality measure for the system, we propose a combination of various speech measures which are highly correlated with WER (Word Error Rate). The new combination of various types of speech quality measures in this study is more effective to predict the speech recognition performance compared to each speech measure alone. In this paper, we increase the system independency by employing GMM acoustic score instead of HMM score which is obtained by a secondary speech recognition system. The combination with GMM score shows a slightly lower correlation with WER compared to the combination with HMM score, however it presents a higher relative improvement in correlation with WER, which is calculated compared to the correlation of each speech measure alone.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.270-277
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• 1995

생활수준의 향상으로 따라 민생용 에너지의 소비량이 급격히 증가함에 따라 일상생활에서 발생되는 폐수의 양과 온도가 높아지면서 이들은 주요 에너지자원의 대상으로 부각되고 있다. 즉, 폐수열은 열원으로서의 경제성이 향상되어 에너지자원으로서의 잠재력이 높아지고 있으며, 또한 화석에너지의 과다 사용을 인한 환경오염이 심각한 사회문제로 부각되면서 이들 에너지의 유효이용에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 연구는 일상생활에서 발생되는 생활폐수를 대상으로 냉·난방에너지원으로서의 활용 가치를 평가히기 위한 열특성을 파악하고, 이 폐수열을 열원으로 하는 熱펌프시스템을 제작·설치하여 운전 성능을 파악하므로서 장차의 에너지수요에 대응하기 위한 기초자료를 제시하는데 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 아파트 단지를 대상으로 폐수열의 계절별 온도분포를 측정하고, 열원의 특성에 적합한 폐수열교환기, 세척장치 등 요소기기의 구조를 도출하였으며 이를 이용한 熱펌프시스템을 제작하여 성능실험을 수행하였다. 실험결과 난방기의 성적계수(COP)h를 3.5이상으로 유지할 수 있는 비교적 경제성이 높은 熱펌프시스템의 구성이 가능한 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.70-79
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• 2018

A heat pump system using the thermal effluent from the Jeju thermal power plant of KOMIPO was constructed with the capacity of 300 RT to supply cool or hot water to greenhouse facilities located 3 km from the power station. The way of transporting heat from the thermal effluent to greenhouses at a long distance was optimized, and a monitoring system to measure the water temperature and detect a leakage in a pipe conduit was also installed. This paper presents the system configuration of the constructed heat pump system for air conditioning and heating of greenhouse facilities in Jeju, and the characteristics of major components deployed in the system. The preoperational tests of the heat pump system were conducted during the summer season in 2018 for evaluation of its cooling performance. The operational stability and cooling performance of the heat pump system were confirmed by investigating the measured fluid temperature and flow rate, and COP of the heat pump in a cooling mode.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.5 s.51
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• pp.85-97
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• 2006

Capacity design is to guarantee ductile failure of whole bridge system by preventing brittle failure of columns and any other structural elements until the columns develope fully enough plastic deformation capacity. This concept has been explicitly regulated in most bridge design specifications of foreign countries except the current Korea Bridge Design Specifications. In the capacity design, the transformed shear force from flexural overstrength of reinforced concrete column is used as the design lateral shear force for shear design of columns and design of footings and piles. Different calculating methods are adopted by the design specifications, since the variability of material strength and construction circumstances of the local regions should be considered. This paper proposed material overstrength factors by investigating 3,407 reinforcing bar data and 5,405 concrete compressive strength data collected in Korean construction sites. It also proposed calculating procedures for flexural overstrength of reinforced concrete columns using the material overstrength. Finally, overstrength factor was proposed as 1.5 by investigating 1,500 column section data from moment-curvature analysis using the material overstrength.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.453-460
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• 2019

The SR-DCSK(Short Reference Differential Chaos Shift Keying) is a variant of DCSK that improves data transmission speed and energy efficiency without additional complexity. However, even when the reference signal of the optimum length is applied, the BER performance of the SR-DCSK is not better than that of the conventional DCSK. In this paper, we propose a scheme to improve the performance of SR-DCSK by applying two scale factors (scale coefficients) to the reference signal and the information signal, respectively. And the performance of the proposed method is analyzed by BER using Gaussian Approximation. Based on the derived BER expressions, we minimize the BER for a given system parameter to optimize the ratio of the two coefficients. Simulation results confirm that the BER of the proposed method is much improved over the SR-DCSK when we apply the optimal ratio of the two scale factors.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.105-112
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• 2023

In this study, structural analyses were conducted to analyze the performance of a bridge to which friction pendulum systems (FPSs) were applied using different friction models. A Coulomb friction model and a rate dependent friction model were constructed using the friction coefficient of a PVDF/MgO friction material to analyze the effect of different friction analysis models. The Coulomb friction model uses a single friction coefficient regardless of friction velocity, while the rate dependent friction model can reflect the change in the friction coefficient with friction velocity. Nonlinear time history and seismic fragility analyses were conducted to confirm responses of the bridge. The seismic responses of a deck and a column were used to evaluate the performance of the base isolated bridge, and a friction model that can effectively evaluate the performance of isolated bridges was analyzed.