• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.196-203
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• 2012

Energy foundations and other thermo-active ground structure, energy wells, energy-slab, and pavement heating and cooling represent an innovative technology that contributes to environmental protection and provides substantial long-term cost savings and minimized maintenance. This paper focuses on earth-contact concrete elements that are already required for structural reasons, but which simultaneously work as heat exchangers. Pipes, energy slabs, filled with a heat carrier fluid are installed under conventional structural elements, forming the primary circuit of a geothermal energy system. The natural ground temperature is used as a heat source in winter and a heat sink in summer. The geothermal heat pump system with energy-slab represented very high heating and cooling performance due to the stability of EWT from energy slab. However, the performance of it seemed to be affected by the atmospheric air temperature.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.513-518
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• 2008

In the air-conditioning and refrigeration industry, the efforts to protect the environment have been made. One of them is to use carbon dioxide as an alternative refrigerant, however, several researches have shown that the transcritical heat pump system using $CO_2$ has relatively lower efficiency resulting in a degraded steady-state system performance. Capacity control with fuzzy controller was carried out for $CO_2$ heat pump system. Evaporator secondary fluid outlet temperature was suggested for the control variable of compressor speed modulation.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.1186-1190
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• 2006

Rising in important of alternative energy due to the recenfly high oil price and environment problem. Application of alternative energy has become higher than before. In this study, facility test of Geothermal energy to bankfiltration was examined appliying changwon pumping well. Initial installation cost was efficiently saved by connecting a heat pump system to pumping well in changwon bankfiltration site. A falling-off in efficiency of heat pump was free due to the bankfiltration that is rare for the temperature fluctuation. Therefore, Heat soure as bankfiltration system solve the existing facilities problems of geothermal heat pump system.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.661-666
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• 2003

Constant area expansion devices such as capillary tubes, short tube orifices are being gradually replaced with electronic expansion valves (EEVs) because of increasing focus on comfort and energy conservation. In this study, the performance of a water-to-water heat pump as a function of refrigerant charge is investigated in steady state, cooling mode operation with expansion devices of a capillary tube and an EEV. The performance of the capillary tube system varies drastically according to the change of refrigerant charge amount and inlet temperature of the secondary fluid in the condenser. Cooling capacity and COP of the EEV system show little dependence on the refrigerant charge, while those are strongly dependent on the secondary fluid temperature at the condenser inlet. In general, for a wide range of operating conditions the EEV system shows much higher performance as compared with the capillary tube system. The performance of the EEV system can be optimized by adjusting EEV opening to maintain a constant superheat at all test conditions.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.36 no.12
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• pp.1185-1192
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• 2012

The typical operating temperature of an automotive fuel cell is lower than that of an internal combustion engine, which necessitates a refined strategy for thermal management. In particular, the performance of the cooling module has to be higher for a fuel cell system because the temperature difference between the fuel cell and the surrounding is lower than in the case of the internal combustion engine. Even though the cooling system of an automotive fuel cell determines the operating temperature and temperature distribution of the fuel cell, it has attracted little research attention. This study presents the mathematical model of a cooling system for an automotive fuel cell system using Matlab/$Simulink^{(R)}$. In particular, a radiator model is developed for design optimization from the development stage to the operating stage for an automotive fuel cell. The cooling system model comprises a fan, pump, and radiator. The pump and fan model have an empirical relation, and the dynamics of the pump and fan are only explained by motor dynamics. The basic design study was conducted, and the geometric setup of the radiator was investigated. When the control logic was applied, the pump senses the coolant inlet temperature and the fan senses the coolant out temperature. Additionally, the cooling module is integrated with the fuel cell system model so that the performance of the cooling module can be investigated under realistic operating conditions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2002.02a
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• pp.139-144
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• 2002

본 연구에서 열발생탱크, 모타, 로타와 스탯, 순환펌프, 열교환기로 구성된 풍력-열변환시스템을 제작하여 열교환에 미치는 몇 가지 요인에 대하여 시험하였다. 주요결과는 다음과 같다. 가. 풍력열교환시스템은 발열부, 구동부, 열교환부로 구성하였다. 나. 열교환성능시험에서 열교환에 미치는 요인은 유체주입량 3수준, 점성유체의 종류 2수준, 로타의 졸류 3수준, 로타와 스텟의 간격 3수준으로 정하여 열교환시험을 하였다. 다. SAS GLM procedure를 사용하여 열교환량에 대한 각 처리의 효과에 대해 조사해본바 유체주입량이 열 교환량에 가장 큰 영향을 미친다는 것을 발견했다. 라. 최고열교환량은 처리조건 R3 로타, 유체주입량 110 L, 로타와 스텟의 간격 17mm, A 오일에서 발생했으며 7,800 kcal/h 가 되었다. 마. 열 변환효율을 극대화하려면 열발생탱크의 직경보다는 높이를 크게 하고 유체를 최대 높이까지 주입하는 것이 바람직하리라 사료된다.

• Transactions of the KSME C: Technology and Education
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.43-47
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• 2016

Ground source heat pump(GSHP) systems is known as environmental friendly and energy saving. Especially a ground heat exchanger is an important unit that determines the thermal performance of a system and initial cost. In design phase of vertical GSHP system, it is recommended that the effective borehole thermal resistance, be determined from in-situ thermal response test. In this study, ground effective thermal conductivity was categorized by a region. As a result of the study, the ground thermal conductivity of national average was analyzed as 2.56 W/mK. The highest regional average of thermal conductivity is 2.68 W/mK in Seoul, and the lowest is 2.28 W/mK in Busan. Also, the thermal conductivity on the coast has been analyzed approximately 30% lower than the average.

• 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.32-44
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• 2002

1989년 프레온계 냉매의 대체 가능한 물질로서 $CO_2$재 출연하게 되었고, 그 이후 관련 연구는 점차 증가하였다. 1996년 북미 지역에서 $CO_2$의 연구는 일리노이 대학내 ACRC (Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center)에서 최대로 시작되었다. 연구비의 90%는 산업체에 의해 지원되었고, 나머지는 미국 정부에 의해 지원되었다. 본 고는 자동차 및 가정용 에어컨 및 열펌프 시스템 및 구성부품 개선에 대한 전반적인 연구활동에 관해 기술하였다. 또한 시스템 성능 비교 결과는 열전달, 압력강하, 사이를 변환,냉매 분해에 대한 연구 지침을 제시하였고, 지속적인 연구 노력을 통하여 천연냉매를 이용하여 간접적인 지구온난화 가스 방출을 최소화하기 위한 시스템 효율을 증가시키고 빈다. $CO_2$의 고유 특징인 초임계 $CO_2$사이클, $CO_2$의 열역학 및 전달 물성치를 통한 효율 개선, 내부 열교환을 통한 사이클 성능 개선방안도 기술되었다.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.518-529
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• 1996

To develope chemical heat pump using available energy sources such as solar heat and many kinds of waste thermal energy we have studied the enhancement effect of inserted fins in cylindical packed bed reactor. Two dimensionnal(radial and circumferential) partial differential eqaetions, concerning heat and masstransfer in CaO packed bad, are solved numerically to describe the characteristics of the reaction of fins inserted reactor and heat transfer. The results obtained by numerical analysis about two dimensional profiles of temperature and conversion in the reactant in the packed bed and exothermic heat amount released from the reactor are follows; -. The insertion of fins in reactor can redue the reaction completion time by half. -. The rate of thermochemical reaction depends of the temperature and concentration and it is also governed by the boundary conditions and heat transfer rate in the particle packed bed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2009.08a
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• pp.63-63
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• 2009