• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.26 no.9
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• pp.401-408
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• 2014

This paper proposes an optimum operation method for open type ground heat exchangers. A series of TRTs and artificial heating/cooling operations were carried out while monitoring temperature in the hole of SCW. The ground temperature naturally increases with depth, but a switch between the cooling/heating mode results in a change in the distribution of ground temperature. The effect of the mode change was evaluated by performing LMTD and COMSOL multiphysics analysis for a reduced model with the depth of 150 m. As a result, in the cooling mode, the upstream operation is more efficient than the downstream operation and reduces EWT by $2.26^{\circ}C$. On the other hand, in the heating mode, the downstream operation is advantageous over the upstream operation and increases EWT by $3.19^{\circ}C$. The merit of the optimum operation will be enhanced for the typical dimension of SCW with a depth of 400~500 m. In the future, an open type ground heat exchanger system adopting the optimum operation with variation in the ground temperature will be used in practice.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.48.2-48.2
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• 2011

열전재료는 열과 전기에너지의 상호 변환이 가능한 재료로 이를 이용한 응용제품의 개발이 크게 주목을 받고 있으며, 특히 $Bi_2Te_3$계 합금의 경우 상온에서 가장 우수한 성능지수를 가지는 재료로 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 그러나 기존의 $Bi_2Te_3$계 합금은 일방향응고법으로 제조되어 많은 시간과 비용을 필요로 하고, 특히 C축의 Van der Waals 결합으로 인해 기계적 강도가 약하다는 단점이 있었다. 최근 분말야금법을 이용하여 기계적강도를 높이고, 격자산란에 의한 열전도도의 감소로 성능지수를 높일수 있는 방법들이 제시되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 급속응고공정인 가스분무법을 이용하여 n-type의 $95%Bi_2Te_3-5%Bi_2Se_3$분말을 제조하였고, 이 재료의 경우 성형조건에 따라 조직이 쉽게 변하기 때문에 이를 제어하기 위해 단시간동안 고압으로 성형가능한 자기펄스압축성형법(Magnetic Pulsed Compaction)을 이용하여 성형체를 제조하였다. 제조된 성형체는 밀도를 증가시키고 결정립성장을 억제시킬수 있는 방전플라즈마소결법(Spark Plasma Sintering)을 이용하여 소결체로 제조되었으며, 각각의 공정이 열전성능에 미치는 영향을 고찰하였다. OM (Optical Microscope) 및 SEM (Scaning Electric Microscope)을 이용하여 미세구조를 관찰하였고 XRD (X-Ray Diffraction)를 이용하여 상의 변화를 분석하였으며, 상온에서 경도를 측정함으로서 공정조건에 따른 기계적강도를 비교하였다. Seebeck계수는 시편의 양단에 온도차를 주어 발생하는 기전압을 측정하여 계산하였고, 전기비저항은 4point probe방법으로 측정하였다. 전하이동도 및 전하농도는 Hall측정으로부터 구하였고 열전도도를 측정하여 종합적인 열전성능을 평가하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.189-196
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• 1988

This study investigates the effect of fuel pellet eccentricity on fuel rod thermal performance under the steady state condition. The governing equations in the fuel pellet and the cladding region are set up in 2-dimensional cylindrical coordinate (r, $\theta$) and are solved by finite element method. The angular-dependent heat transfer coefficient in the gap region is used in order to account for the asymmetry of gap width. Material propeties are used as a function of temperature and volumetric heat generation as a function of radial position. The results show the increase of maximum local heat flux at the cladding outer surface and the decrease of maximum and average fuel temperatures due to eccentricity. The former is expected to affect the uncertainties in the minimum DNBR calculation. The latter two are expected to reduce the possibility of fuel melting and the fuel stored energy. Also, the fuel pellet eccentricity introduces asymmetry in fuel pellet temperature and movement of the location of maximum fuel pellet temperature.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.499-505
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• 2006

Field emission of GaN and GaP nanowires, synthesized by thermal chemical vapor deposition, and their emission stabilities under oxygen and argon environments were investigated. The field emission current of GaN nanowires was seriously deteriorated under oxygen environment, while that of GaP was not. Both wires did not show any noticeable change under argon environment. The existence of oxide outer shell layers in the GaP nanowires was proposed to be a main reason for this emission stability behavior. Field emission energy distributions of electrons from these nanowires revealed that field emission mechanism of the semiconductor nanowires were different from that of carbon nanotubes.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.110-115
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• 2000

Deposition conditions of diamond thin films were optimized using hot-filament chemical vapor deposition (HFCVD). Boron-doped diamond thin films with varying boron densities were then fabricated using B4C solid pellets. Current-voltage responses and field emission currents were measured to test the characteristics of field emission display (FED). With the increase of boron doping, the crystal size of diamond decreased slightly, but its quality was not changed significantly in case of small doping. The I-V characterization was performed for Al/diamond/p-Si, and the current of doped diamond film was increased $10^4\sim10^5$ times as compared with that of undoped film. In the field emission properties, the electrons were emitted with low electric field with the increase of doping, while the emission current increased. The onset-field of electron emission was 15.5 V/$\mu\textrm{m}$ for 2 pellets, 13.6 V/$\mu\textrm{m}$ for 3 pellets and 11.1 V/$\mu\textrm{m}$ for 4 pellets. With the incorporation of boron, the slope of Fowler-Nordheim graph was decreased, revealing that the electron emission behavior was improved with the decrease of the effective barrier energy.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.187-197
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• 1979

The molar optical rotation of poly(cis-5-methylproline) was measured in solvent mixtures of chloroform and chloroethanol. After proper allowance for time-dependent mutarota-tions, equilibrium states between form A and form B were observed to occur with a solvent composition of 0.5~10 % chloroethanol in chloroform by volume. From the equilibrium constants, which were calculated by optical rotations at equilibrium measured at three different temperatures (5, 25, and 45 $^{circ}$C), the thermodynamic parameters-free enthalpy, enthalpy and entropy changes for the mutarotation-were evaluated. It was found that starting with equimolar concentrations of form A and form B, the forward mutarotation occurred in the solvent compositions of chloroethanol greater than 3 % by volume, whereas the reverse mutarotation resulted in solvent compositions of chloroethanol less than 3 % by volume. The changes in enthalpy and entropy for the forward mutarotation were found to be positive, while those were for the reverse mutarotation were negative. The driving forces for the forward mutarotation were found to be the increase in entropy, whereas that for the reverse mutarotation was the negative enthalpy change. The thermodynamic data were explained by the interaction between polymer and solvent, i.e., preferential hydrogen bonding of chloroethanol with the carbonyl group in form B over form A, and by difference in conformational energies between form A and form B.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.76-89
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a MAC(Media Access Control) protocol based on flexible RWT(RTS Waiting Time) for underwater mobile ad-hoc networks with a three-way handshaking mechanism. This protocol can solve a problem of collision between RTS(Request-To-Send) and CTS(Clear-To-Send) packets in existing MACA(Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) protocol. This proposed MAC protocol is also an effective protocol which can apply to underwater mobile ad-hoc networks in a real field by using implementable technologies. We set flexible RTS Waiting Time called RWT, considering various characteristics of underwater environment. It is possible to support variable network size according to node mobility. Finally, we conduct a performance evaluation between proposed MAC protocol and existing MACA based MAC protocol through practical implementation and experiment. As a result, we verify the superiority of our proposed MAC protocol in terms of throughput, packet drop rate, average transmission time, energy consumption and channel utilization.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.12 no.1 s.34
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• pp.53-58
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• 2005

We researched damage formation and failure mechanism under DC(direct current) and AC(alternative current) in order to estimate reliability of Cu interconnects in ULSI. Higher current density and temperature induces more short TTF(time to failure) during interconnects carry DC. Measurement reveals that Cu electromigration has activation energy of 0.96eV and current density exponent value of 4. Thermal fatigue is occurred under DC, and higher frequency and ${\Delta}$T value gives more severe damage during interconnects carry AC Through failure morphology analysis with respect to texture, we observed that damages had grown widely and facetted grains had appeared in (100)grain but damages in (111) had grown thickness direction of line and had induced a failure rapidly.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.403-408
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• 2016

Lithium-ion batteries are commonly employed in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), and achieving high energy density in the battery has been one of the most critical issues in the automotive industry. Because liquid cooling containing antifreeze is important in automotive batteries to enable cold starts, an effective geometric configuration for high-cooling performance should be carefully investigated. Battery cooling with antifreeze has also been considered to realize successful cold starts. In this article, we theoretically investigate a specific property of an antifreeze cooling battery system, and we perform numerical modeling to satisfy the required thermal specifications. Because a typical battery system in HEVs consists of multiple stacked battery cells, the cooling performance is determined mainly by the special properties of antifreeze in the coolant passage, which dissipates heat generated from the battery cells. We propose that the required cooling performance can be realized by performing numerical simulations of different geometric configurations for battery cooling. Furthermore, we perform a theoretical analysis as a design guideline to optimize the cooling performance with minimum power consumption by the cooling pump.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.1159-1165
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• 2010

Indirect calorimetry is the measurement of the amount of heat generated in an oxidation reaction by determining the intake or consumption of oxygen or by measuring the amount of carbon dioxide or nitrogen released and translating these quantities into a heat equivalent. In the last 20 years there has been significant development in both laboratory and computerized metabolic systems used in indirect calorimetry. In addition, there has been increased use of breath-by-breath EGAIC. Several researchers have suggested that breath-by-breath analysis, because of their practicality, could fulfill this need for a valid and reliable expired gas analysis indirect calorimetry instrument. It was hoped this investigation would determine the best validation for a precise measurement of breath-by-breath expired gas analysis indirect calorimetry. The problem with the available research is that few studies have examined the validity and reliability of all these different systems for breath-by-breath expired gas analysis indirect calorimetry. Therefore, there is a need to find out the most valid, reliable, and precise measurement of the breath-by-breath expired gas analysis indirect calorimetry.