• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.240-253
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• 1996

The refrigeration cycle of automobile air-conditioners is simulated in an effort to provide a computational tool for optimum thermodynamic design. In the simulation, thermodynamic and heat transfer analysis was performed for the four major components : evaporator, condenser, compressor, and expansion valve. Effectiveness-NTU method was used for modeling both evaporator and condenser. The evaporator was divied into many subgrids and simultaneous cooling and dehumidifying analysis was performed for each grid to predict the performance accurately. Blance equations were used to model the compressor instead of using the compressor map. The performance of each component was checked against the measured data with CFC-12. Then, all the components were combined to yield the total system performance. Predicted cycle points were compared against the measured data with HFC-134a and the deviation was found to be less than 5% for all data. Finally, the system model was used to predict the performance of CFC-12 and HFC-134a for comparison. The results were very reasonable as compared to the trend deduced from the measured data.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.1089-1096
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• 2001

The cool-down performance after soaking is very important in an automotive air-conditioning system and is considered as the key design variable. Therefore, understanding of the overall transient characteristics of the system is essential to the preliminary design as well as steady-state characteristics. The objective of this study is to develop a computer simulation model and estimate theoretical1y the transient performance of an automotive air-conditioning system. To accomplish this, a mathematical modelling of each component, such as compressor, condenser, expansion valve, and evaporator, is presented first of all. For a detailed calculation, condenser and evaporator are divided into many subsections. Each sub-section is an elemental volume for modelling. In models of expansion valve and compressor, dynamic behaviors are not considered in an attempt to simplify the ana1ysis, but the quasi-static ones are just considered, such as the relation between mass flow rate and pressure drop in expansion device, polytropic process in compressor, etc. The developed simulation model is validated with a comparison to laboratory test data of an automotive air-conditioning system. The overall time-tracing properties of each component agreed fairly well wish those of test data in this case.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.588-595
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• 2016

This paper is a study on head bolts that are used in A/C compressors to reduce production cost and solve leak problems on the head bolt seat area that causes massive intermittent malfunctioning during production. In this study, the pre-heat treated steel, which was used as a material in the head bolt, eliminated the heat treatment process after forging. The pre-heat treated steel head bolts, which have 10 % lower tensile strength than the conventional SCM 435 head bolts, were selected after considering the results of creeping rupture properties, axial force, and stress concentration per tensile strength variation. Then, the performance test and the durability test with the A/C compressor that was assembled with the pre-heat treated steel head bolts were performed and verified. Based on the results, the pre-heat treated steel head bolts developed in this study saved 7.3 % in production cost by eliminating the heat treatment process and the logistics process. Furthermore, the leak problem on the head bolt seat area in the A/C compressor was addressed significantly on the mass production assembly line.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.18-24
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• 2015

In this study, a $CO_2$ air-conditioning system was investigated with different types of electrically driven compressors, parallel flow type gas cooler, four-pass type evaporator, internal heat exchanger integrated with accumulator, and electric expansion valve. The experimental study was conducted under various operating conditions (ie., different rotational compressor speeds, air inlet temperatures and air velocity coming into heat exchangers). The experimental results showed the cooling capacity was 3.5kW at $35^{\circ}C$ ambient temperature when the vehicle was idle (ie., the worst condition for cooling off the gas cooler). In terms of performance effect of the compressor, the e-RP model had a slightly better cooling capacity and coefficient of performance than the e-GR model under the same test conditions. An experimental equation for optimum cooling-performance control was also suggested based on the results. A high-pressure control algorithm for the super critical cycle was determined to achieve both maximum cooling performance and efficient energy consumption. The results from the experimental equation coincided with those of previous experimental studies.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.155-160
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• 2020

In this study, the pleasant driving environment of the driver and passenger in the summer was investigated through the internal flow analysis of air due to the opening and closing of the car windows. The conditions on the entrance of the air conditioner with the opening and closing status of vehicle window were applied to the flow analysis by taking into consideration the actual driving environment. The automotive air conditioning outlet, the seat and the inside of car were modeled. As the air flow inside the car was analyzed, the air flow configuration and the temperature distribution were examined. In this analysis, the results were taken in consideration of only the effects of internal air and the opening and closing of window, assuming the interior of the vehicle as insulation. The analysis of each condition shows that these models maintain a pleasant environment. It is seen that this analysis result on the internal flow analysis according to the opening and closing of vehicle window can be applied by converging with the field of design.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.294-300
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• 2014

In this study, we investigated and evaluated the air conditioning operation of the driver according to the temperature difference between the inside and outside of a car parked outside during the summer. We suggest including a comfort mode to the car air conditioning system to improve the thermal comfort of the driver, in which the comfort can be maintained for a longer time. For the a result of our experiment, in the cases with temperature of above $45^{\circ}C$ inside of the car, the subjects preferred strong air blow with the face and the arms in the direction of the blow. In the cases with temperature of below $40^{\circ}C$ inside of the car, the subjects preferred lower volume of air blow. In the temperature below $28.1^{\circ}C$ inside of the car, the mean temperature on the skin of the driver reached the comfort zone.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.136-142
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• 2002

HFC-134a is currently used as the refrigerant in automobile air-conditioner, replacing the ozone depleting refrigerant CFC-12. Although HFC-l34a has no ozone depletion potential, it has a relatively high global warming potential, approximately 1300 tins that of CO$_2$ over a 100 year time horizon. Therefore, HFC- l34a does not seem to be a perfect alternative refrigerant due to high GWP. For this reason, non-azeotrope refrigerant mixture have been proposed as a long-term and drop-in alternative to HFC-l34a in the automobile air-conditioning system which has variable operating conditions with changes in RPM and pressure ratio. In this study,OS-l2a of which thermodynamic properties are similar to those of HFC-l34a is selected among the mixed refrigerant. HFC-l34a and OS-l2a are examined experimently by the performance test in the same automobile air-conditioning system.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.50-59
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• 1996

The computer simulation program that calculates the transient heat load transferred to a passenger vehicle has been developed. Method for modeling mathematically various kinds of the heat load was presented and the derived equations were solved numerically. To find out the accuracy of the simulation program, the correlation of experimental and analytical results was demonstrated. By using this program, the typical characteristics about temperature distribution and instantaneous or of vehicle body color, material of glass, air-conditioning capacity, driving direction, and speed. Under a steady-state condition, the ratios of the heat load, resulting form vehicle body, glass, and interior part, were 35%, 29%, and 36%, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.144-148
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• 2001

자동차의 발전과 함께 유지 보수를 위한 사용자의 요구는 급증하고 있으나 정비사의 부족으로 인해 경제성 및 신속성 등 이 문제가 되고 있고 이를 해결하기 위해 현재 개발되고 있는 장치들은 대부분 전자 제어 유닛에서 발생시키는 신호를 분석하거나 운전자와의 대화를 통하여 진단하는 방식으로 고장으로 인한 소음이나 진동등 운전자들의 주관적인 평가대상에 대해서는 적절한 해결책으로 제시해 주지 못하고 있다. 그러므로 계측에 의한 소음과 진동 데이터를 이용하여 전문가의 판단을 가지고 고장의 원인을 규명하며 운전자를 위한 오디오적인 표현을 해 줄 수 있는 진단 전문가 시스템이 필요하게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 자동차의 여러 단품중 쇼크 옵서버와 에어컨에 대하여 소음 진동 현상의 정상 및 이상 증상과 신호 계측 방법을 연구하였고 계측된 신호에 대해 패턴 화하여 인공 신경 회로망과 퍼지 추론을 통한 진단을 할 수 있는 알고리즘을 개발하였으며 차후 계속되는 연구에 사용될 정상 및 이상신호에 대한 기본적인 데이터 베이스를 구축하였다.

• The Safety technology
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• no.155
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• pp.18-19
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• 2010

(주)고산(1996년 제일공조부품(주)에서 상호변경)은 국내외에서 알아주는 자동차 및 가전기기 부품 생산업체다. 국내외 대형 공조기 업체들의 협력시인 이곳은 국내 5대 자동차 회사는 물론 해외 주요 자동차 회사에 자동차용 Radiator, Condenser, Cooling module을 생산 납품하고 있다. 또한 국내 2대 가전회사에는 에어컨 Condenser를 생산해 공급하고 있다. 1988년 설립이후 꾸준한 기술개발과 판로 개척을 해 온 이곳은 그간 성장에 성장을 거듭 현재는 미국 중국 등지에 8개의 법인을 가진 중견기업으로 우뚝 섰다. 실제 지난해 매출만도 1,455억원(해외법인 포함)에 달할 정도이다. 이처럼 업력 20년을 갓 넘긴 기업이 알짜기업으로 거듭날 수 있었던 이유는 무엇일까? 이에 대해 이곳의 임직원들은 철저한 안전관리를 일순위로 꼽는다. '사고 없는 안전한 작업환경'과 '건강한 근로자라는 인프라가 회사의 성장을 이끌고 있다는 것 이런 우수한 환경이 조성된 데에는 안전 환경 등의 업무를 맡고 있는 경영지원팀의 힘이 크다. 특히 그중에서도 일등공신은 팀을 이끌고 있는 장혁 팀장이라 할 수 있다. 일반시설안전관리자 방화관리 1급 등 다양한 환경안전분야 자격증을 가지고 있는 그는 전문가로서의 폭넓은 지식과 풍부한 경험을 바탕으로 회사의 안전을 선두에서 진두지휘하고 있다 안전을 통해 회사의 청사진을 그려내고 있는 그를 만나봤다.