• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.65-72
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• 2012

Rankine cycle using ammonia-water mixture as a working fluid has attracted much attention, since it may be a very useful device to extract power from low-temperature heat source. In this work, the thermodynamic performance of regenerative ammonia-water Rankine cycle is thoroughly investigated based on the second law of thermodynamics and exergy analysis, when the energy source is low-temperature heat source in the form of sensible energy. In analyzing the power cycle, several key system parameters such as ammonia mass concentration in the mixture and turbine inlet pressure are studied to examine their effects on the system performance including exergy destructions or anergies of system components, efficiencies based on the first and second laws of thermodynamics. The results show that as the ammonia concentration increases, exergy exhaust increases but exergy destruction at the heat exchanger increases. The second-law efficiency has an optimum value with respect to the ammonia concentration.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.243-248
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• 2013

Internal combustion engines typically expel 30%-40% of the energy supplied by fuel to the environment through their exhaust system. Therefore, further significant improvements in the thermal efficiency of IC engines are possible by recovering the waste heat from the engine exhaust gas. With this fact in mind, a numerical simulation was carried out to investigate the potential of using thermoelectric generation with an internal combustion engine for waste heat recovery. Physical parameters such as the exhaust temperature and mass flow rate were evaluated in the exhaust system, and the optimum location for inserting a thermoelectric generator (TEG) into the system was determined. The TEG will be located in the exhaust system and will use the energy flow between the warmer exhaust gas and the external environment. The optimum position of the temperature distribution and the TEG performance were predicted through numerical analysis. The experimental results obtained showed that the power output significantly increases with the temperature difference between the cold and hot sides of the TEG.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.1137-1145
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• 2013

In this study, exergy analysis of a thermally activated refrigeration cycle, a combined organic Rankine cycle (ORC), and a vapor compression cycle (VCC) were conducted. It is considered that a system uses a low-temperature heat source in the form of sensible heat, such as various renewable energy sources or waste heat from industries, and one of eight working fluids: R143a, R22, R134a, propane, isobutane, butane, R245fa, or R123. The effects of turbine inlet pressure and the working fluid selected on the exergy destructions (anergies) at various system components as well as the COP and exergy efficiency of the system were analyzed and discussed. The results show that the component of the greatest exergy destruction in the system varies sensitively with the turbine inlet pressure and/or working fluid.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.699-707
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• 2017

This study presents a comparative thermodynamic analysis of subcritical and transcritical organic Rankine cycles for the recovery of low-temperature heat sources considering nine substances as the working fluids. The effects of the turbine inlet pressure, source temperature, and working fluid on system performance were all investigated with respect to metrics such as the temperature distribution of the fluids and pinch point in the heat exchanger, mass flow rate, and net power production, as well as the thermal efficiency. Results show that as the turbine inlet pressure increases from the subcritical to the supercritical range, the mismatch between hot and cold streams in the heat exchanger decreases, and the net power production and thermal efficiency increase; however, the turbine size per unit power production decreases.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.413-420
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• 2011

Thermodynamic cycles using binary mixtures as working fluids offer a high potential for utilization of low-temperature heat sources. This paper presents a thermodynamic performance analysis of Goswami cycle which was recently suggested to produce power and cooling simultaneously and combines the Rankine cycle and absorption refrigeration cycle by using ammoniawater mixture as working fluid. Effects of the system parameters such as concentration of ammonia and turbine inlet pressure on the system are parametrically investigated. Results show that refrigeration capacity or thermal efficiency has an optimum value with respect to ammonia concentration as well as to turbine inlet pressure.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.1-2
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• 2004

강구조물 제작시 용접프로세스에 의해 용접부 근방에서는 용접열원에 의해 급속가열ㆍ급속냉각의 열 사이클을 받으며, 열원의 이동과 함께 온도장이 변화하므로 용접부에 불균일한 온도분포가 발생된다. 이러한 불균일한 온도분포에 의한 용접부 근방의 열팽창ㆍ수축을 용접부로부터 떨어져 있는 저온상태의 부재가 이를 구속하여 결과적으로 용접변형과 잔류응력이 발생한다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.165-170
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• 1999

기계적 증기재압축(Mechanical Vapor Recompression) 시스템은 증기를 압축하여 압력을 올리면 온도가 상승하는 원리를 이용한 것으로서 시스템의 최종 증발관에서 발생한 저온의 증발증기를 전량 증기압축기로 압축ㆍ승온하여 자신의 최초 증발관의 가열 열원으로 재사용 하는 방식이다. 따라서 이 사이클에 필요한 보충열원은 가열측과 증발측과의 온도상승분 만큼만 증기의 포화온도를 올리면 되므로 에너지절약 효과가 매우 크다.(중략)

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.36-43
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• 2013

• Korea Journal of Geothermal Energy
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.5-10
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• 2008

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.1343-1349
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• 2011

In this study, the power enhancement potential of a Rankine power cycle by transcritical operation was investigated by comparing the power of an HFC-134a subcritical cycle with that of an HFC-125 transcritical cycle, for a low-grade heat source with a temperature of about $100^{\circ}C$. For a fair comparison using different working fluids, each cycle was optimized by three design parameters from the viewpoint of power. In contrast to conventional approaches, the working fluid's heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics were considered in the present approach, with the aim of ensuring a more realistic comparison. The results showed that the HFC-125 transcritical cycle yields 9.4% more power than does the HFC-134a subcritical cycle under the simulation conditions considered in the present study.