• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.40 no.9
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• pp.589-596
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• 2016

Recently organic flash cycle (OFC) has been proposed which is a vapor power cycle where heat addition occurs with the working fluid remaining in the liquid state. This study proposes a modified OFC with regeneration and carries out thermodynamic performance analysis of the system utilizing low-temperature heat source in the form of sensible energy. Effects of working fluid and flash temperature are systemically investigated on the system performance such as net power production and thermal efficiency. Results show that the net power production has a peak value with respect to the flash temperature but the thermal efficiency increases with the flash temperature. The regenerative system shows higher thermal efficiency compared to the original OFC and improved potential for recovery of low-temperature heat sources.

• Plant Journal
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.45-51
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• 2014

This study performs several experiments on a newly developed temperature safety system that can be used for residential building heating systems, the heat source of which is derived from a conventional fuel cell. Prior to this, the hot water made from a fuel cell was not used in residential housing but just went to waste. The present safety system is installed in the current underfloor heating system. At first we used the CFD technique to develop a new heat exchanger. The fuel cell must satisfy the thermal conditions of the inlet temperature being $55^{\circ}C$ and the outlet temperature being $60^{\circ}C$. But variations in weather cause fluctuations in the heating water temperature. The experimental results show our new system capable of maintaining the temperature difference within a ${\pm}0.5^{\circ}C$ range. So we believe that our new PFMFC fuel cell stack array is a good candidate for being used in residential heating systems.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.352-357
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• 2007

The objective of this study is to find the optimal set-point of a hybrid Plant, which is combined by renewable energy plant of the GSHP(Ground Source Heat Pump) and the conventional plant(chiller, boiler). The work presented in this study was carried out by using the EnergyPlus(Version 2.0). In order to validate the simulation model, field data were measured from a building. The GSHP was used as a base plant and the conventional plant as the assistant plant. Various temperatures were controlled (zone summer set-point, zone winter set-point, chilled water temperature, hot water temperature) to find the optimal set-point temperature of the system. The influence of the various set-points were analyzed seasonally.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.470-476
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• 2010

The thermodynamic performance of closed ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) cycle with 1 MW gross power was evaluated to obtain the basic data for the optimal design of OTEC. The basic thermodynamic model for OTEC is Rankine cycle and the thermal effluent from power plant was used for the heat source of evaporator. The cycle performance such as efficiency, heat exchanger capacity, etc. was analyzed on the temperature variation of thermal effluent. The saturated pressure of evaporator increased with respect to the increase of thermal effluent temperature, so the cycle efficiency increased and necessary capacity of evaporator and condenser decreased under 1 MW gross power. As the thermal effluent temperature increases about $15^{\circ}C$, the cycle efficiency increased approximately 44%. So, it was revealed that thermal effluent from power plant is important heat source for OTEC plant. Also, if there is an available waste heat, it can be transferred heat to the working fluid form the evaporator through heat exchanger and cycle efficiency will be increased.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.172-180
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to observe the heat transfer process in in-vivo human muscle based on Proton Resonance Frequency(PRF) method in Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI). MRI was obtained to measure the temperature variation according to the heat transfer in phantom and in-vivo human calf muscle. A phantom(2% agarose gel) was used in this experiment. MR temperature measurement was compared with the direct temperature measurement using a T-type thermocouple. After heating agarose gel to more than 5$0^{\circ}C$ in boiling hot water, raw data were acquired every 3 minutes during one hour cooling period for a phantom case. For human study heat was forced to deliver into volunteer's calf muscle using hot pack. Reference data were once acquired before a hot pack emits heat and raw data were acquired every 2 minutes during 30minutes. Acquired raw data were reconstructed to phase-difference images with reference image to observe the temperature change. Phase-difference of the phantom was linearly proportional to the temperature change in the range of 34.2$^{\circ}C$ and 50.2$^{\circ}C$. Temperature resolution was 0.0457 radian /$^{\circ}C$(0.0038 ppm/$^{\circ}C$) in phantom case. In vivo-case, mean phase-difference in near region from the hot pack is smaller than that in far region. Different temperature distribution was observed in proportion to a distance from heat source.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1992.11a
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• pp.50-56
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• 1992

공업재료의 표면은 수많은 돌기들로 구성되어 있으며 이러한 돌기들의 접촉으로 진실접촉이 이루어진다. 그러므로 마찰은 겉보기 접촉면적과는 무관하며 진실접촉면에서 일어난다. 표면의 한 돌기가 접촉면과 상대운동을 함으로 인하여 마찰열이 발생된다. 이러한 마찰에너지 발산의 결과로서 진실접촉면적 주위의 국부적인 표면 온도가 상승되며 따라서 표면의 평균온도가 상승된다. 이러한 표면온도를 결정하기 위한 이론적 및 실험적인 방법이 많이 제시되어왔다. 정적상태에서의 표면온도는 Block(1937)과 Jaeger(1942)에 의해 이론적으로 소개하였다. Jaeger는 열원의 위치와 상대적인 접촉운동 그리고 크기 및 경계조건 등의 특정한 조건 하에서 진실접촉점의 온도를 계산하였다. 이에 Bany와 Baber(1984)는 그들의 경계조건이 잘목 정의되었음을 지적하고 더욱 세분화된 경계조건으로 온도분포를 유도한 바 있다. Ling(1969)은 접촉점에서의 온도가 주변의 겉보기 접촉면적의 온도보다 훨씬 높다는 것을 수치해석으로 밝혀냈다. 본 연구는 고속정밀촬영기를 이용하여 진실접촉점에서 발생하는 Hot spot의 온도분포를 실험을 통하여 규명하고 그 결과를 Geoim과 Winer의 이론식에 적용하므로 식의 유용성을 검증하는데 그 목적이 있다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.1137-1145
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• 2013

In this study, exergy analysis of a thermally activated refrigeration cycle, a combined organic Rankine cycle (ORC), and a vapor compression cycle (VCC) were conducted. It is considered that a system uses a low-temperature heat source in the form of sensible heat, such as various renewable energy sources or waste heat from industries, and one of eight working fluids: R143a, R22, R134a, propane, isobutane, butane, R245fa, or R123. The effects of turbine inlet pressure and the working fluid selected on the exergy destructions (anergies) at various system components as well as the COP and exergy efficiency of the system were analyzed and discussed. The results show that the component of the greatest exergy destruction in the system varies sensitively with the turbine inlet pressure and/or working fluid.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.356-361
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• 2012

Recently, even though the researches on renewable energy like geothermal, wind, solar energy have been performed widely, its use-rate in total energy is still low. This study was carried out to investigate the performance of hybrid heating system, which consisted of solar collector of thermosyphon tube type and X-L pipe boiler. Especially, new type of solar collector was tried and compared with double tube type and, futhermore, performance and safety on X-L pipe boiler were investigated. As the results, efficiency of solar collector of thermosyphon tube type was higher 20.7% than that of double tube type, mainly due to its structural characteristics. It was also confirmed that temperature of special heat medium used X-L pipe boiler rose up about 20% rapidly in comparison with that of pure water.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 1995.11a
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• pp.82-87
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• 1995

국내 지역난방의 역사는 서구의 역사와 비교하여 짧기 때문에 아직 기술 도입의 의존도가 높고 설계에 있어서도 서구의 설계기준을 그대로 도입하여 지역난방 시스템을 운전하고 있다. 따라서 우리나라 실정에 맞는 시스템설계가 필요하다고 하겠다. 특히 열원시설과 수용가 시설사이에서 열을 운송하는 열운송시설, 즉 배관망(이후 배관망으로 칭한다.)에서의 공급 및 회수온도가 유럽의 대류난방방식에 따라 설계되어 높게 설정되어 있다. 공급 및 회수온도가 높다는 것은 열운송시 열손실이 많다는 것을 의미한다. 이에 이 연구에서는 일정 배관망 모델을 선정하여 공급 및 회수온도를 낮추어 운전할 때 발생되는 비용변화를 기초로 공급 및 회수온도 저하운전 가능성을 제시하고자 하였다. 그 결과 배관망에서 공급 및 회수온도를 동일 구배로 낮추는 것이 년간 총 비용을 감소시키므로, 운전온도의 저하가 가능함을 알 수 있었다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.455-467
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• 2017

In this study, a finite element analysis of a cylindrical multi-pass weldment for dissimilar metals was performed. The effects of the heat input method and weld bead generation method were considered. We compared two heat input methods: the heat flux method and the temperature method. We also compared two weld bead generation methods: the element birth method and the quiet element method. Although the results of the thermal analysis show deviations between the two heat input methods, the welding residual stresses were similar. Because the areas exposed to high temperature were similar and the strength of the material was very low in high temperature (above the $1000^{\circ}C$), the effects of the weld bead temperature were insignificant. The distributions of the welding residual stress were similar to each other. However, gaps and overlaps occurred on the welding boundary surfaces when the element birth method was applied. The quiet element method is more suitable for a large deformation model in order to simulate a more accurate weld shape.