• 설비공학논문집
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.417-423
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• 2009

Air curtains are widely used for gates of shopping mall, warehouse, cold stores and refrigerated display cabinets. The purpose of the air curtain is to reduce the infiltration of outdoor air and heat loss from the air conditioning space to ambient air. Design data for the air curtain given by previous researchers do not mention the influence of wind speed. Thus, this paper presents a performance of single jet air curtain in heating space when the wind blows toward the opening space of the building. A numerical simulation is used to study the influence of various parameters on the efficiency of the downward-blowing air curtain device which is installed inside of the wall above the door. The performance of the air curtain is evaluated by sealing efficiency which provides the assessment of the energy savings. A new safety factor is also proposed for determination of air curtain jet velocity under the various wind conditions.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.806-812
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• 2012

Air curtains are widely used in commercial and public buildings to replace solid doors where traffic of people is predicted. At doorways where the solid door is open continuously or intermittently, an air curtain may be installed in order to reduce the flow of heat and moisture from the enclosed space to the outside. The purpose of this paper is to predict isolation performance of the single-sided air curtain when the wind is blowing. For the study, a numerical simulation is used to find the influence of various jet velocities on the efficiency of the single-sided air curtain device which is mounted at the side of the doorway. The isolation performance of the single-sided air curtain is evaluated by sealing efficiency which provides the assessment of the infiltration air ratio. According to the result of this study, the single-sided air curtain has lower sealing efficiency than downward-blowing air curtain. Therefore, for energy conservation in heating space, the single-sided air curtain is not recommended because of its low effectiveness.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2016

화재발생시 가장 큰 인명피해를 유발시키는 연기의 안전한 구역으로 유입을 차단하기 위해 방화문 등 출입구 상부에 설치되는 에어커튼 노즐의 최적 설계를 수행하였다. 연기의 유입을 차단을 목적으로 개구부 상부에 설치되는 에어커튼 노즐의 슬릿에서 유동이 편심되지 않고 외부로 균일하게 배출되어야 한다. 유입 풍량, 내부 슬릿 형상, 외부 슬릿 두께 등을 변수로 고려하여 다양한 조건별로 수치해석을 수행하여 최종 형상을 선정하였다. 최종 형상을 시제품으로 제작하여 수치해석 결과와 비교 검증한바 모든 슬릿의 평균 속도에 대한 시험과 수치해석 결과의 상대오차는 1% 미만으로 매우 일치하는 경향을 보였다.