• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.123-130
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• 2017

The district heating system has been successfully implemented with higher efficiency levels of energy production and reduction of carbon emissions during heat generation. Traditionally the system consisted of small number of production and demand sites, but, recently it has evolved into a network with large number of sites interconnected each other. By connecting multiple sites into a network, heat from low-cost production sites can be supplied to distant demand sites so as to lower the total operation cost. In this study, we simulate and analyze distict heating networks focused on critical links. a critical link is defined as a link in which capacity is fully utilized. If a newtork has critical links, then those cricial links become bottlenecks and it is difficult to improve the overall network efficiency.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.144-151
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• 2012

A district heating system produces thermal energy and supplies it to a large region. District heating systems can provide higher efficiencies and better pollution control than localized boilers. The heat generated by a district heating system is distributed to the customer via a network of insulated pipes. For the optimal operation of a district heating system, it is important to predict the distributions of pressure, flow rate and temperature of heating fluid within the network of pipes at various operating conditions. In this work, a mathematical modeling was performed to predict the dynamic hydraulic-thermal behaviors of heating fluid in the network of pipes for a district heating system. The mathematical model accounts for the conservations of mass, momentum and energy. In order to verify the validity of modeling, the modeling results were compared with the monitoring data of Gang-nam Branch of District Heating.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.12
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• pp.1829-1836
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• 2010

The district heating system distributes the heat generated from a cogeneration plant to wider locations. In this process, the district heating pipe (DHP) is subjected to internal and external loadings. The internal loadings are generally caused by the operating conditions such as water temperature and internal pressure. Frictional interactions between the pipes and the soil contribute to the external loadings. Thus, investigation of the mechanisms of failure of DHPs will help to guarantee both mechanical stability and heating efficiency. In this study, we investigate the local buckling of DHPs using limit state design (LSD). Two methods are considered: the use of the limit state for the width-thickness ratio and the use of the limit state for the strain. The results are used to confirm that the DHP is stable under local buckling. Finally, we suggest a minimum preheating temperature for avoiding local buckling.

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.48-56
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• 2000

한국지역난방공사는 '87년 여의도에 최초 연공급을 시작한 이래 수도권 신도시 및 서울 강남 지역을 중심으로 지역난방 열공급을 지속적으로 확대하여 왔다. 안정적이고 경제적인 역공급을 위하여 분당, 고양 및 중앙의 CHP를 중심으로 연계배관망을 구성하였으며 '98년 기준 수도권 연계 공급량이 총 공급량의 61%를 차지하게 되었다. 또한 장기적으로 본 공사는 열공급의 신뢰성 및 경제성 향상을 위하여 급열센타 설치를 비롯하여 종합적인 네트워크를 구성하여 운영할 계획이며 분당과 고양의 CHP를 기저부하로 삼아 피크수요를 감당할 소규모 분산형 열원을 설치하여 수도권 열공급을 확대하여 전 수도권을 지역난방 배관으로 네트워크화할 계획을 가지고 있다. 따라서, 구체적인 세부계획을 수립하기 위하여는 수도권 네트워크 사업의 장기적인 경제성 분석이 필수적이며 이러한 분석은 기존의 열원 및 열배관시설은 물론 향후 건설될 열원 및 배관, 수요개발전망 등 제반요소를 고려하여 종합적으로 이루어져야 하다. 본 연구는 이에 앞서 분당과 일산CHP를 독립된 수용범위를 갖는 열원으로 간주하여 각각의 CHP를 중심으로 열공급량의 증가에 따라 피크용 열원인 HOB 건설을 증가시킬때의 경제성을 그 대상으로 하여 기본적인 모델을 제시하고 대략적인 추세를 파악하고자 하였다. 데이터는 본 공사 고양지사와 분당지사의 '98 운영실적으로 기준으로 하였으며, 수도권 전체 네트워크를 대상으로 하는 실제 경제성 분석은 다음 과제로 계속 추진될 것이다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.293-299
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• 2007

Intelligent pipeline inspection gauges (PIGs) are inspection vehicles that move along within a (gas or oil) pipeline and acquire signals (also called sensor data) from their surrounding rings of sensors. By analyzing the signals captured in intelligent PIGs, we can detect pipeline defects, such as holes and curvatures and other potential causes of gas explosions. There are two major data access patterns apparent when an analyzer accesses the pipeline signal data. The first is a sequential pattern where an analyst reads the sensor data one time only in a sequential fashion. The second is the repetitive pattern where an analyzer repeatedly reads the signal data within a fixed range; this is the dominant pattern in analyzing the signal data. The existing PIG software reads signal data directly from the server at every user#s request, requiring network transfer and disk access cost. It works well only for the sequential pattern, but not for the more dominant repetitive pattern. This problem becomes very serious in a client/server environment where several analysts analyze the signal data concurrently. To tackle this problem, we devise a fast in-memory cache manager, called T-Cache, by considering pipeline sensor data as multiple time-series data and by efficiently caching the time-series data at T-Cache. To the best of the authors# knowledge, this is the first research on caching pipeline signals on the client-side. We propose a new concept of the signal cache line as a caching unit, which is a set of time-series signal data for a fixed distance. We also provide the various data structures including smart cursors and algorithms used in T-Cache. Experimental results show that T-Cache performs much better for the repetitive pattern in terms of disk I/Os and the elapsed time. Even with the sequential pattern, T-Cache shows almost the same performance as a system that does not use any caching, indicating the caching overhead in T-Cache is negligible.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.18-25
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• 2019

In this study, in order to solve the problem of the program of calculating code input by experienced users in the power generation, the wide area energy network research group developed the local heating operation analysis program EntPLAN, which can be easily used by anyone, including scalability, with domestic technology. Therefore, the Commission intended to compare the heat sources, heat demand, and the results of operation of the combined heat plant (CHP) on the energy network through simulation with the EnetPLAN and the program A on the market. The results showed that the heat and power output on the energy network of the EnetPLAN and A programs were mostly similar in pattern in the simulation results of the heat supply and the operation method of the accumulator. This enabled the application of the simulation for the various operation modes of the cogeneration facilities existing on the energy network. It is expected that EntPLAN, which was developed with domestic technology, will be easily applied in the field in the future and will present efficient operation simulation results.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.1395-1402
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• 2015

An electric heat tracing system manages the temperature of pipes used in a plant. We propose a Zigbee-based wireless system so called the TESCON(: TEmperature Sensing and CONtrol) to monitor and control the electric heat tracing system in an integrated way. Simulations have been done to analyze the performance of the TESCON system. The performance of the TESCON system is validated by obtaining similar results via testbed operation. We also suggest an extension method of the TESCON system based on the hierarchical tree topology by adopting techniques such as network partition, channel reuse and frame aggregation.