• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.805-811
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• 2010

A numerical study has been performed to investigate the thermal performance of solar heating system with baffle type of storage tank by using the commercial code TRNSYS. As a result, the solar fraction depends strongly on the efficiency and heat loss coefficient of solar collector as well as the heating capacity of house and the water temperature supplied to the shower. In addition, the solar fraction has been basically ranked to higher level in baffle type of storage tank than typical type of single storage tank for the range of operation condition.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.330-335
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• 2012

A characteristic behavior of the thermal storage tank for varying thermal load in heat pump water heater was studied. The control method was suggested and applied. By measuring the temperature within the storage tank, the heat pump was ON/OFF controlled. The appropriate measuring position and the size of heat exchanger gives the minimized power consumption of heat pump. As the length of heat exchanger increases, the temperature measuring position goes down of the storage tank and the power consumption increases.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.58-66
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• 2019

Static compound parabolic collectors (CPCs) have advantages such as ease for fabrication and lower cost compared with other concentrating collectors. In this study, thermal performance analysis of CPC employing heat storage tank was carried out. The clearness index and capacity of heat storage tank are taken as the main parameters for numerical simulation. The effects of the parameters on the hourly and daily system performances ncluding the useful energy, heat loss, and collector efficiency were numerically investigated. Results showed that the system has a potential for efficient recovery of solar thermal energy.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.376-383
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• 2019

This paper presents of thermal performance analysis by using mathematical models for a compound parabolic collector (CPC) system employing heat storage tank. The thermal performance including insolation energy, heat loss from collector system, useful energy, collector efficiency, and temperature of storage tank were theoretically investigated through a year using monthly-average meteorological data at Seoul. The simulated results showed that the CPC systems are suitable for the applications of higher temperature than flat plate collector (FPC) systems.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.171-176
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• 2004

Heat regenerator attached in small-scale regenerative radiant tube burner was designed using the theoretical computation code and was confirmed the performance of waste heat recovery ratio. From the computation, when ceramic ball of 4-5kg was used, temperature efficiency and available waste heat recovery ratio were predicted 80% and 70%, respectively. Similar efficiencies were obtained from the experiments using LPG. However, since exhaust gas temperature entered into regenerator was below 85$0^{\circ}C$ which was much lower than that we expected, preheat air temperature was lowered below 80$0^{\circ}C$.

• The Magazine for Energy Service Companies
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• s.54
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• pp.64-69
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• 2008

야간의 잉여전력으로 열을 저장해두었다 주간에 이용하는 축열공조에는 50여년에 걸친 긴 역사가 있었다. 이 방식이 가지는 효용에 일찍부터 눈뜬 선각자들의 노력에도 불구하고 당초 보급은 늦어져 그다지 진전이 없었다고 한다. 이러한 정세가 일변한 것은 전력공급에 병목현상이 생겨 부하 평준화가 안정공급에 있어 필요불가결의 과제가 되었기 때문이다. 특히 공조는 피크성이 강한 수요이므로 공조용 전력을 야간으로 옮기는 작업의 이점이 큰 것은 당연하다. 비 수요시간대의 요금이 큰 폭으로 떨어짐으로써 수요자측에서 보아도 야간의 전력을 어떻게 활용할까하는 것은 매력적인 연구테마였다. 이리하여 축열공조가 관심을 불러 보급이 기도에 놓인 지 2O년 가까이 되었다. 처음에는 물을 사용한 축열이 대부분이었으나, 축열조 용량의 제약으로 얼음을 만들어 저장하는 빙축열방식이 도입되어 현재의 표준적인 축열방식이되었다. 그러나 빙축열에도 비용상의 문제가 있어 전면적인 보급에 이르기까지는 아직 연구의 여지가 더 남아있는 듯하다. 한편, 교토의정서의 발효 등에 의해 지구환경에 대한 관심이 높아지게 되었다. 이 같은 배경 속에 건물및 건축설비의 에너지절약 기술의 중요성이 대두되고, 특히 창 주변의 공조방식, 조광제어, 축열 공조시스템 등, 건물부하의 직접적인 저감과 전력부하 평준화에 의한 환경부하저감 및 운영비용의 저감을 목적으로 한 건물일체형 설비시스템을 적극적으로 도입하기에 이르렀다. 환경을 배려한 건축구조.설비시스템의 채택 사례가 증가하며 건축물 종합환경성능 평가시스템과 성능검증 등 건물설비의 평가.검증 수법도 연구되어 건물에 적합한 운용면에서의 사고가 중요함이 인식되었다. 이와 같이 건축구조와 설비시스템의 양면에서 에너지절약성 및 환경성, 쾌적성, 편리성의 추구가 적극적으로 도입되는 가운데, 슬래브축열시스템은 건축구조와 공조설비가 균형있게 융합됨으로써 초기비용의 삭감과 부하 평준화에 의한 경제성 향상, 복사에의한 실내환경의 향상 등의 효과를 기대할 수있는 시스템으로 추목받고 있다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.74-80
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• 1984

Storage materials for a minimized storage system should be able to store much energy in small quantities, and to solve such a problem, salt hydrates such as CALCIUM CHLORIDE, SODIUM SULFATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATE etc. were considered as most suitable storage media in which phase change phenomena take place at low temperature. Therefore those salt hydrates were used as storage media in this study, and piped-storage tanks were manufactured vertically for the experiment. The characteristics of thermal storage media were investigated and the results are summarized as follows: 1. From the experiment of radial temperature distribution of vertical piped-storage system, the latent heat phenomenon did not occur in all storage media during heating process because of generations of heat due to the reduction in the number of water molecules. However, among those storage media CALCIUM CHLORIDE had most remarkable latent heat phenomenon during cooling process. Therefore CALCIUM CHLORIDE was considered as most suitable storage media. 2. Heat quantity transferred to the storage media was the largest in case of CALCIUM CHOLORIDE under the same conditions during heating and cooling process.

• Solar Energy
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.5-13
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• 1990

In the present investigation, experiments and numerical analysis during melting process of a phase change material were performed to research heat transfer phenomena generated by means of conduction and natural convection in the vertical tube at inward melting. The phase change material used in the experiments is 99 percent pure n-Docosane paraffin($C_{22}H_{46}$). In the results, it is found that the velocity of phase change interface at the top of tube is faster than at the bottom of tube because of the effect of natural convection, and the distribution of velocity at the liquid region is little affected by the initial temperature of phase change material. The velocity of phase change interface is slower as the initial temperature of phase change material is lower, and the effect of natural convection is larger as the aspect ratio of tube is larger. In tendency of heat transfer phenomena, the experimental results were well corresponded with numerical results. But there were a little disagrements between the results of experiment and numerical analysis because of the assumption of the constant volumetric expansion coefficient in numerical analysis.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.188-192
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• 2006

This study is conducted to improve efficiency of thermal storage tank. The thermal storage tank was designed to store heat energy that obtained from solar or the others heat sources. However, it has difficulties in storing heat with uniform temperature through the entire tank with respect to vertical direction. This kind of maldistribution of the supplied heat to the storage tank effects on the system performance. In this study is focused on utilization of the thermal stratification to improve thermal comfort for people in the house. To enhance temperature stratification of the tank, a distributor was designed and Installed in the middle of the tank. The distributor is supplies hottest water to the top side of the tank which is very close to inlet of the supply line to the heating load. The hottest water that is accumulated on top side of the tank is firstly supplied to the load with higher temperature. Reminder water takes a little time to warming up until desired supply temperature reached. This kind alternating selection of the supply temperature is improve thermal comfort with moderated system performance.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.291-295
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• 2004

Heat regenerator attached in small-scale regenerative radiant tube burner was designed using the theoretical computation code and was confirmed the performance of waste heat recovery ratio. From the computation, when ceramic ball of 4-5kg was used, temperature efficiency and available waste heat recovery ratio were predicted 80% and 70%, respectively. Similar efficiencies were obtained from the experiments using LPG. However, since exhaust gas temperature entered into regenerator was below 850$^{\circ}C$ which was moth lower than that we expected. air preheating temperature was lowered below 800$^{\circ}C$.