• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.15-20
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• 2017

The summer climate is very hot and humid in Korea. The humidity is an important factor in determining thermal comfort. Recently, the research for dehumidification device development has been attempted to save energy that is required for the operation of the current dehumidifiers on the market. Existing dehumidification systems have disadvantages such as wasting energy to drive a compressor. Meanwhile, dehumidification systems with membranes can dehumidify humid air without increasing the dry bulb temperature so it doesn't have to consume cooling energy. In this paper, the cooling energy savings was studied when a dehumidification system was applied in a model building instead of a chiller. The sensible heat load was almost the same result, but the latent heat load was decreased by 38.9% and the total heat load was decreased by 8.5%. As a result, electric energy used to drive the compressor in a chiller was saved by applying a membrane air-conditioning system instead.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.128-136
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• 2008

It is necessary to estimate the cooling load of the next day for effective control of ice thermal storage system. In this paper, new methodology is proposed to estimate the cooling load using design parameters of building and predicted weather data. Only six input parameters such as sensible heat coefficient and constant, latent heat coefficient and constant, maximum and minimum temperature are necessary to obtain hourly distribution of cooling load for the next day. Two benchmarking buildings(hospital and research institute) are selected to validate the performance of the proposed method, and the estimated cooling loads in hourly and daily bases are calculated and compared with the measured data for E hospital. The estimated results show fairly good agreement with the measured data for both buildings.

• Plant Journal
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.42-47
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• 2021

In terms of district heating operation, efficient production and supply of heat by alleviating the peak load at a specific time require an application technology that can solve the inconvenience of the user and the difficulties of the supplier. In this study, a 78 ℃ class PCM heat storage tank suitable among the technologies that can solve these problems was manufactured and applied to the hot water supply facility for apartments in district heating users. As a result of the application of this system, it was confirmed that the supply temperature was constant to the user compared to the existing supply method. In addition, it was confirmed that the reduction of the peak load due to load equalization reduced the heat supply margin of 10% in the existing heat supply facility. And the construction cost of the new heat supply facility and the construction cost of heat users is decreased by 5% and 10%, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.9-16
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• 2013

In this research, the effect of a heating system, which is powered by direct solar energy accumulated in phase change material (PCM) as heat storage material installed on the floor surface, on the cooling load was studied. Cooling load of a test building designed for this research was measured with fan coil unit and factors affecting it were also estimated. Experiments were performed with and without PCM installed on the building floor to understand the effect of the PCM on the cooling load. Additionally, to confirm the experiments results, the prediction calculation formula by average outside temperature and integrated solar radiation was composed using multivariate regression model. The results suggested that the heating system with PCM on the floor surface has the potential to shift electric power peak by radiating heat, stored during the daytime in it, at night, not increasing the total cooling load much.

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.533-540
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• 1998

최근에 국내외 에너지 이용 효율성 증대 문제, CFCs등으로 인한 오존층 파괴문제, $CO_2$ 등으로 인한 지구온난화 문제, 실내공기질(IAQ)과 관련된 건물 환기량 증대요구로 인한 건물용 공조시스템(HVAC)의 설계변경 문제 등으로 인해 다양한 종류의 대체 냉방기기가 연구되어 오고 있다. 현재 미국에서는 ASHRAE Standard 62-1989에 의해 실내거주자의 필요한 IAQ와 쾌적함을 유지하기 위해 환기량을 기존의 경우보다 약 3배 이상이 되도록 권장하고 있고 또한 대다수의 미국 주 정부에서 건물설계에 관련된 조례로 ASHRAE Standard 62-1989를 적용하고 있다. 따라서 빌딩공조 설비관계자들은 늘어난 환기 요구량에 따라 잠열냉방용량이 크게 증대되므로 이를 처리하기 위한 새로운 냉방공조기기 시스템기술에 대해 관심이 증대하고 있다. 이에 따라 건조제를 x이용한 냉방 및 제습 시스템이 대체 냉방시스템 또는 기존의 냉방 시스템과 더불어 잠열부하를 처리하는 복합 시스템으로 최근에 다시 상당한 주목을 받고 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.2344-2349
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• 2015

In Korea, summer is hot and humid, and air-conditioners consume too much electricity due to large amount of latent heat. Simultaneous usage of dehumidifier may reduce the latent heat and save the electricity. In this study, dehumidification performance was measured in a constant temperature and humidity chamber for a small-sized dehumdification rotor made of inorganic fiber impregnated with metallic silicate. Variables were rotor speed, room temperature, regeneration temperature, room relative humidity and frontal velocity to the rotor. Results showed that there existed optimum rotor speed (1.0 rpm), and optimum regeneration temperature ($100^{\circ}C$). Above the optimum rotor speed, incomplete regeneration is responsible for reduced dehumidification. Above the optimum regeneration temperature, increased temperature difference between regeneration and dehumidification process is responsible for reduced dehumidification. The amount of dehumidification also increases with the increase of relative humidity, dehumidification temperature and flow velocity into the rotor.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.27-34
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• 1978

열에너지의 저장시스템은 축열채조, 열전달기기와 용기 및 보온재의 3개 주요부로 이루어진다. 축열재료는 현열계의 경우 온도가 상승하거나 잠열이용의 경우 상변화가 생기는 재료를 말한다. 열전달기기는 열에너지를 열원으로부터 축열재로 건열시키거나 축열재로부터 열부하측으로 열에 너지를 전달시키는 역할을 한다. 보온이 된 용기는 축열재를 외부로부터 열차단이 되도록 하여 외부로의 에너지 손실이 없도록한다. 열에너지저장시스템의 주성능득성은 용량, 에너지전달원, 저장온도에 의하여 주어진다. 여기서 용량은 축열재가 저장할 수 있는 에너지의 양을 뜻하고 열 전달율은 에너지원으로부터 축열재료로 또는 반대로 축열재료로부터 에너지부하측으로 전달시킬 수 있는율을 의미한다. 축열온도는 현열계에서는 축열재의 온도가 된다. 이 해설에서는 최근 발간 된 수 개의 자료를 발췌하여 간략히 그 내용을 알리고자 한다.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.522-526
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• 2010

Heat storage application techniques can be categorized into the sensible heat storage and the latent heat storage according to the method of heat storage. Heat storage is the way of saving remaining heat when heating and cooling loads are light, and then using it when the heating and cooling loads are heavy. Latent heat storage is defined as the method of saving heat by using substances which have high potential heat when phase change is in the range of a certain temperature and when heat storage space is small, compared to those of sensible heat storage and it is possible that absorption and emission of heat at a certain temperature. This study is conducted to save energy when either air-conditioning or heating is operated in a building. We have tried to find out the essential properties of matter and the optimum mixing rate about cement and gypsum for building materials, which have been widely used for proper phase change materials (PCM), when thermal environment property is applied. So we obtained the result of the cooling delay effect about 19% with heat storage mortar containing 3 wt% of PCM.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.147-152
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• 2015

In order to develop the cooling load estimation method in the greenhouse, the cooling load calculation formula based on the heat balance method was constructed and verified by the actual cooling load measured in the fog cooling greenhouse. To examine the ventilation heat transfer in the cooling load calculation formula, we measured ventilation rates in the experimental greenhouse which a cooling system was not operated. The ventilation heat transfer by a heat balance method showed a relatively good agreement. Evaporation efficiencies of the two-fluid fogging system were a range of 0.3 to 0.94, average 0.67, and it showed that they increased as the ventilation rate increased. We measured thermal environments in a fog cooling greenhouse, and calculated cooling load by heat balance equation. Also we calculated evaporative cooling energy by measuring the sprayed amount in the fogging system. And by comparing those two results, we could verify that the calculated and the measured cooling load showed a relatively similar trend. When the cooling load was low, the measured value was slightly larger than calculated, when the cooling load was high, it has been found to be smaller than calculated. In designing the greenhouse cooling system, the capacity of cooling equipment is determined by the maximum cooling load. We have to consider the safety factor when installed capacity is estimated, so a cooling load calculation method presented in this study could be applied to the greenhouse environmental design.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF PACKAGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 2023

An optimized design of the transportation insulated box must be considered to control the thermal damage in order to maintain the fresh condition for temperature-sensitive medicine and frozen food safety. The inside temperature of the insulated box is a natural convection enclosure state, thermal stratification naturally occurs as time passes in case of with outside heat load. The latent heat material (LHM) placement inside the box maintains the target temperature of the product for temperature fluctuations during transport, and LHM application is a common and efficient method. In this work, inside temperature stratification in an insulated box depending on the LHM pack position is numerically simulated and experimented. The insulated box is made up of vacuum insulation panel (VIP), and LHM modules are placed over six faces inside the box, with the same weight. The temperature curves for 72 hrs as experiment results clearly show the temperature stratification in the upper, middle, and lower at the LHM melting time region. However, the temperature stratification state is uniformly changed in accordance with the condition of the upper and lower placement weight of the LHM pack. And also, the temperature uniformity by changed placement weight of LHM has an effect on maintaining time for target air temperature inside the box. These results provide information on the optimized design of the insulated box with LHM.