• Journal of the KSME
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• v.33 no.11
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• pp.951-956
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• 1993

우리나라 자동차 공업의 성장과 더불어 자동차용 공조기기 산업도 빠른 속도로 양적인 성장을 하여, 특히 자동차용 공조장치는 1992년 공조 관련 기기 총생산액의 약 40%를 차지했다. 자동 차용 공조장치는 압축기, 열교환기, 송풍팬 등의 주요 요소로 구성되어 있으며 이중에서 열교환 기는 공조 공간인 차실내의 쾌적성 향상, 구성 기기의 에너지 효율 향상등과 밀접한 관계가 있다. 이러한 자동차용 열교환기는 에너지 파동 이후 에너지와 자원의 절약에 대한 사회적인 요구에 부응하여 보다 고성능, 소형화, 경량화를 요구하게 되었다. 최근에는 전세계적으로 지구 환경문 제에 대한 관심이 고조되어 에너지 자원의 효율적인 이용, 환경 보호 등을 포함하는 광범위한 열문제를 고려할 필요가 있게 되었다. 특히 자동차용 열교환기는 산업용이나 가정용 고조 시스 템의 열교환기와는 달리 설치공간의 제약, 부하 변동폭의 증대 등으로 인해 고성능, 소형화가 요구되며 또한 자동차의 연비향상을 목적으로 경량화가 요구됨과 동시에 환경 문제의 발단인 대체 프레온 대응 등 해결해야 할 기술적인 과제가 많다. 이러한 상황을 감안하여 대표적인 자 동차용 열교환기의 기술 동향을 소개하고자 한다.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.297-305
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• 1991

Recently, automotive air conditioning system manufacturers have been made a great efforts on the system compactness and high efficiency. This growing interest comes improvements in evaporator thermal performance, one of the most important factors affecting the performance of air conditioning system. In order to improve design of compact type evaporator, this study executes performs to develop a computer program for evaporator thermal performance prediction of automotive air conditioning system. The brief summaries of this study are as follows: 1) To predict the overall thermal performance of serpentine type evaporator, the new simulating method is developed. 2) The calculations are performed as functions of oil mass concentration and refrigerant two-phase distribution at inlet manifold of evaporator. 3) The validity of this simulating program is confirmed by comparing the predicted thermal performance results to experimental results of practical available evaporator. 4) Based on these results, suggestions are made to improve the thermal performance of evaporator.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.732-736
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• 2016

Air conditioning part designs are moving towards higher efficiency and productivity. The expansion device is one of the core parts of an air conditioning system and controls the refrigerant quantity, evaporation load, compression capacity, and condensation capacity. In this study, an electronic expansion valve for two working fluids ($CO_2$ and R134a) was developed for air conditioning systems in vehicles. The valve uses an eccentric cam driving structure instead of a lead screw to decrease manufacturing costs and increase productivity. The pressure resistance and flow rate performance was evaluated using numerical analysis. At maximum operation conditions and burst pressure conditions with $CO_2$, the maximum stresses on the valve model were about 98 MPa and 223 MPa, respectively. The maximum flow rates of $CO_2$ and R134a with different orifice openings were about 550 kg/h and 386 kg/h, respectively. The performance with R134a was verified by experiments.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.31-36
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• 2021

Recently, automobile air conditioning systems have applied an alternative refrigerant that can replace the high GWP refrigerant R134a due to the global warming problem. This study simulated the performance of an automobile climate control system with an internal heat exchanger and TXV. Refrigerant R1234yf was applied as the working fluid. Amesim, a commercial software program, was used to model the main components of the compressor, condenser, TXV, evaporator, and internal heat exchanger. As the outside temperature increased from 30℃ to 40℃, the cooling capacity of the system decreased by 3.1%, and the power consumption of the compressor increased by 17.1%. In addition, The performance characteristics of the refrigeration cycle were simulated by increasing the fin pitch of the condenser from 0.8 mm to 1.4 mm. When the fin pitch was larger than 1.0 mm, the condenser capacity decreased, and the system COP was lowered by 5.9%. When the fin pitch of the condenser was 0.8 mm, which was smaller than 1.0 mm, there was no significant change in the system performance. Hence, the optimal performance was observed at a fin pitch of 1.0 mm.