• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.108-114
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• 1996

It is one of the most important factors to enhance the efficiency of the solar collectors by in-creasing collecting efficiency and decreasing heat loss. The pulse electrodeposition method has been involved in this study to improve characteristics of the solar selective coating on 230cm${\times}$60cm substrates and electrical efficiency of the process. The composition of the electrolyte was 280 g/$\ell$ chromic acid, 15 g/$\ell$ propionic acid, and 10 g/$\ell$ appropriate additive. 230cm${\times}$60cm copper and aluminium sheets were utilized as the substrates. It has been observed that the black chrome coatings exhibited reasonable optical properties for commercialization when the plating parameters were properly controlled; the absorptance was 0.98 and 0.97 and omittance was 0.17 and 0.23 for copper and aluminium substrate, respectively. This study implies that the pulse current electrolysis method could be applied to the large scale substrates, and the various products can be avilable after the consideration of the thermal conductivity, heat transfer efficiency and cost problems of the substrates.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bio-Environment Control Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.61-67
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• 1998

1973년과 1978년의 1,2차 Oil Shock로 인하여 정부는 대체에너지 개발을 입법화하여 태양열의 이용을 촉진시켜왔다. 그 후 약 20년간 태양열 이용에 대한 효과적인 집열과 축열기술의 개발에 연구가 추진되었으며, 집열판(Flat-plate collector)의 개발과 열교환기, 축열장치의 설계 등 효율향상을 통하여 건축의 난방, 온수급탕 등이 주종을 이루었다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06d
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• pp.642-647
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• 2001

This study represents numerical analysis on the thermal and fluid flow of the air layer in a solar collector. The boundary conditions was assumed that the top and bottom wall of the air layer have a heating and cooling surface. respectively. and this calculation model have a solid body with a cooling temperature of $20^{\circ}C$. As the results of simulations. the magnitudes of the velocity vectors and isotherms are increased proportionally to the tilt angles. As the tilt angle is increased. the mean Nusselt numbers are increased and the maximum value of the mean Nusselt number was appeared at tilt angle ${\theta}=75^{\circ}$.

• Solar Energy
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.15-24
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• 1998

There are mainly 3 heat losses from solar collector; top, bottom, and edge heat loss. Usually edge heat loss is small so that could be neglected. Of the total thermal losses occurring in a flat plate solar collector, top loss heat losses are dominant. Therefore it is necessary to calculate the top loss coefficient accurately in order to find out performance of solar collector. The flat plate solar collector(regenerator in summer) used in this study was made for year-round all conditioning. In order to find out collector efficiency for heating in winter without a system change, outdoor experiment was done. The top loss coefficient of this collector was about 3 to $4.5W/m^2^{\circ}C$. Futhermore use of selective coating in trickling surface can improve a performance of flat plate solar collector.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.249-254
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• 2000

Heating supply system using solar energy-collecting plate was examined for 20 farmers. Some problems, resolution, future energy system, and basic information were discussed, Installation cost was approximately 18 million won/20a. Main crops cultured were tomato(30%) and floricultural crop(40%). Minor crops cultured were grape, red pepper, cucumber, lettuce, and strawberry. Information was mostly obtained from agricultural service agents. 75% of farm house hold reported that energy reduction effect was below 20%, showing some different result compared with over 20% that was totalized from agricultural service agents. Cost of installation was excessive in considering energy reduction effect. Another problem was insufficient technical proficiency of solar energy company.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.479-484
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• 1986

Two different types of solar collector for farm dryer- the flatplate type and the modified tubular type-were constructed and analyzed on their performances. The transparent plastic film, black painted galvanized iron sheet and black vinyl film were used for the cover and absorber of the flat-plate types. The simplified tubular type was constructed with transparent films for the cover and black vinyl films for the absorber Two elliptical iron rings were used to form a tubular shape through which air could pass. No remarkable differences were found in thermal efficiences between the absorbers made with galvanized iron sheet and black vinyl film. The average thermal efficiencies of the solar collectors were 42.8%(max.48.2%, min.38.2%) for flat plate type and 22.971 (max. 25.4%, min. 14.8%)) for tubular one. The empirical equations were proved to be applicable to the prediction of temperature elevation. The tubular solar heat collector was successfully applied to red peppers drying as a practical farm dryer. The drying rate was almost doubled compared to a conventional sun drying.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.61-61
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• 2006

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.229-234
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• 1997

밀폐공간내에서 일어나는 자연대류 열전달은 태양열 집열판, 연료탱크, 원자로의 핵반응로, 초전도 자성체의 냉각 및 건물이나 방의 효율적인 열설계, 화재시의 안전대책등 공업적으로 그 응용성이 매우 광범위하고 다양하게 생활주변에서 흔히 볼 수 있다. 밀폐공간내에 경계층 유동이 존재할 경우, 이 경계층 흐름은 일반적으로 외부유동에서의 경계층 유동과는 달리 코어영역(Core region)에서의 흐름과 서로 밀접한 관계가 있다. (중략)

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.43-49
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• 2013

The use of ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) to generate electricity is one of the methods proposed to utilize renewable energy and to protect the environment. In this study, simulations were performed to investigate the effect of weather conditions in the Ulsan region, Korea, on the efficiency of a solar-heating OTEC (SH-OTEC) system. This system utilizes solar thermal energy as the secondary heat source. Various working fluids were also simulated to select one that is suitable for this system. The results showed that R152A, R600, and R600A, in that order, were the most suitable working fluids. The effective area of the solar collector for a $20^{\circ}C$ increase in the collector outlet temperature fluctuated from 50 to $97m^2$ owing to the change in the monthly average solar gain. The annual average efficiency of the SH-OTEC increases to 6.23%, compared to that of a typical conventional OTEC, which is 2-4%.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.616-622
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• 2016

The heating load using solar hot water is lower in summer than in the other seasons. This decreased heating load leads to the overheating solar collectors and related components. To prevent overheating of the solar collectors, air cooling and shading shields were used. On the other hand, it requires additional mechanical components, and reduces the system reliability. The geothermal heat dump system to release the high temperature heat (over $150^{\circ}C$) transferred from the heat pipe solar collectors was investigated in the present study. Research on the heat dump to cool the solar collector is rare. Therefore, the present study was carried out to collect possible data of a geothermal heat dump to cool the solar collector. A helical type geothermal heat exchanger was buried at a 1.2m depth. Experimentally and numerically, the geothermal heat dump was investigated in terms of the effects of parameters, such as the quantity of solar radiation, aperture area of the collector and the mass flow rate. A pipe length of 50m on the geothermal heat exchanger was suitable with a 0.33 kg/s flow rate. The water reservoir was a possible co-operation solution linked to the geothermal heat exchanger.