• KIEAE Journal
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.79-89
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the airtightness performance of New Han-ok and to supply fundamental data for standards establishment. Air leakage testings were accomplished by means of blower door test in 26 bedrooms of 16 Han-oks located in Jeonnam happy villages. Followings are results. 1) Air change per hour at 50 Pa(ACH50) is located on 8.42~78.38. 2) No correlation between ACH50 and volumes, floor area, above grade surface area. 3) The more wood structural elements are exposed, attached spaces, wooden sliding and casement windows, the less airtightness performance. 4) An Airtightness with ACH50/20(NL, Normalized leakage) is located on 0.42~3.92 and building leakage class following F(4%), G(11%, sufficiently leaky, No need mechanical ventilation), H(4%, Need of cost-effective tightening), I(31%), J(50%) by a single-story house the normalized leakage of ASHRAE.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.304-309
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• 2013

In chemical, medical or biology laboratories Fume Hoods are basic facilities which can protect researchers from dangerous gas as blowing the contaminated air outside. After the air inside the laboratory room is sucked into the hume hood, then, it is blew out by a fan rotated by an AC induction motor. In addition, a damper controls the inside opening of a duct, which the air flows through. The face velocity, air velocity through the front door, have to be kept constant as the set value even though the opening of the door is varied. However, conventional fume hood used to be operated by operator's manual switches. So that, in this paper an automatic control system is developed which controls the face velocity by adjusting the rotating speed of the blow motor and the opening of the damper. Experiments show that this developed system can be used at such laboratories.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.319-326
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• 2012

Han-green building is one of the modernized Korean traditional buildings developed by Korea Forest Research Institute. This building was developed to increase the competitiveness of Korean traditional building using state-of-art technologies; hence Han-green building has the inherent characteristics of traditional building such as exposed wood frame in wall. Because of discontinuity in wall by the exposed wood frame, there is a concern on heat-air leaking in terms of energy performance. In this study, air-tightness of Han-green building was evaluated to investigate the influence of gaps between frames and in-fill walls. Blower door test was carried out to evaluate the air-tightness, and air-change rate (ACH50) was evaluated by averaging four set of pressurization and depressurization test. The air-change rate of Han-green house was 5.91 $h^{-1}$. To improve energy performance of Han-green house, thermal infrared images of Han-green house were taken in winter with heating to find out where the heat loss occurred. It was found that the building lost more heat through gaps between frames and in-fill walls rather than through other parts of this building. After covering all the gaps by taping, the blower door test was performed again, and the air-change rate was improved to 5.25 $h^{-1}$. From this analysis, it was concluded that the heated air can leak through the gaps between frames and walls. Therefore, when one designs the post and beam building with exposed frame, the detail design between frame and wall needs to be carefully dealt. However, Han-green building showed relatively high air-tightness comparing with other country research results.

• Land and Housing Review
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.69-74
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• 2020

Since the design Standard for Energy Conservation in Building was implemented in 2008 for the first time, building elements such as window and door should satisfy the minimum criteria to apply for a building. Though its regulation does not cover the whole building yet, recent demand to reduce energy consumption in building sector grows rapidly year by year and also draws a lot of interest to ensure the whole building level. For example, a Zero energy building, one of low-energy buildings, requires a customized solution to resolve the air leakage issue to meet the standards in achieving the high level of air tightness. In this study, six non-residential buildings were tested by fan pressurization method to observe the air tightness of whole building to suggest the construction guideline for air tightness of low-energy building. Five out of six tested buildings showed 0.27 to 1.16 h^-1 of number of air changes except one community center. These buildings were carefully constructed not only for building planning but also for parts where there was a concern of air leakage, thereby securing high levels of air-tightness. The construction skills were developed as a checklist to manage and supervise the construction site. It is our suggestion to use this checklist at construction sites for ZEB with the high level of air-tightness.

• KIEAE Journal
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.55-61
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• 2011

Due to global warming issues caused by climate changes which are internationally being highlighted, recently, there are lots of efforts under way to reduce energy consumption in various fields. Currently, 25 percent of energy consumption in Korea are being generated from buildings and especially, nearly 54 percent of them are being consumed by households. This study, therefore, aims to consider energy consumption status in the existing rural houses and analyze structure system performance, window system performance and air-permeability of domestic passive-type buildings using PHPP which is an analysis program of building energy to improve energy consumption problems in rural areas. Then, energy reduction plans in rural houses were proposed, by comparing and analyzing energy reduction of the existing rural houses, based on these data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.296-297
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• 2013

We have investigated correlation between airtightness measured by blower door and airborne sound insulation measured in the upper and lower units. We consist of two cases : all windows sealed(CASE 1) and not sealed(CASE 2). As a result, CASE 1 is tighter than CASE 2 in airtightness, but CASE 1 is lower than CASE 2 in sound level difference. This is because of big wind on measuring CASE 1. Thus we are going to measure them at another fields considering this factor. Finally we ought to find out the correlation between airtightness and sound insulation.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.493-498
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to find the infiltration of detached houses, for energy consumption analyses. The pressurization and depressurization method is used to determine infiltration. Blower door tests are expressed in terms of ACH 50, which stands for the hourly air change rate at 50 Pa of fan pressure. The ACH 50 of existing Detached Houses ranges from 5 to 50. Air infiltration is related to construction year and accuracy, maintenance conditions, and so on. When estimating the infiltration of random detached houses, the year used can be the base value of the infiltration rate from 0.25 to 2.0 times/h. The maintenance conditions, construction accuracy and repair affect the air infiltration 0 to 0.5 times/h, 0 to 0.3 times/h, 0 to 1 times/h, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.464-469
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• 2019

A remote monitoring panel and control system was developed to control various valves and access control chambers, including gas shutoff valves used in CBR(Chemical, Biological and Radiological) facilities. The remote monitoring panel consisted of a main panel installed in the NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) control room and auxiliary panel installed in the clean room, and the size was divided into pure control and control including CCTV. This system can be monitored and controlled remotely according to the situation where an explosion door and gas barrier door can occur during war and during normal times. This system is divided into normal mode and war mode. In particular, it periodically senses the operation status of various valves, sensors, and filters in the CBR facilities to determine if each apparatus and equipment is in normal operation, and remotely alerts situation workers when repair or replacement is necessary. Damage due to the abnormal operation of each device in the situation can be prevented. This enables control of the blower, supply and exhaust damper, emergency generator, and coolant pump according to the state of shutoff valve and positive pressure valve in the occurrence of NBC, and prevents damage caused by abrupt inflow of conventional weapons and nuclear explosions.

• 월간 기계설비
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• s.46
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• pp.74-89
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• 1994

현재 범국가적 차원에서 지속적인 국가 경제 발전과 국제수지 개선을 위하여 추진되고 있는 정부의 에너지 절약사업에서 건물부문이 차지하는 에너지절약 효과는 막중하다. 특히 전체주택에서 공동주택이 차지하는 비율은 1990년에 32.1$\%$, 서울시의 경우 51.3$\%$로 전체 주택의 과반수를 넘어섰으며, 수도권의 대단위 아파트단지의 개발과 함께 공동주택의 증가추세는 당분간 지속될 전망이다. 본 연구는 공동주택의 최적난방 운전기법 개발을 위한 1차년도의 연구로서 현행 공동주택의 난방운전 실태를 조사, 분석하고 각 난방법에 따른 문제점 및 최적제어 알고리즘의 개발을 위한 자료 도출을 주 목적으로 진행되었다. 1차년도에 수행된 연구의 주요 내용을 살펴보면 다음과 같다. 공동주택의 난방에너지 소비현상은 단지에 따라 최대 3배이상의 열사용량에 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 열사용량의 차이는 건축의 기본 열성능, 설비시설의 수준 및 노후화정도에 영향을 받으나 동일 연대의 단지들에서도 최대 80$\%$이상의 열사용량이 차이를 보이고 있었으며 이는 기계실 및 각 세대의 난방운전방법 및 제어수준에 따른 것으로 평가되었다. 세대의 층별, 위치별 열사용량 분석에 의하면 층별 열사용량차이가 큰 것으로 분석되었으며, 특히 최상층부와 최하층부의 열사용량이 뚜렷이 많이 나타나 단열성능의 강화가 요구되는 것으로 나타났다. 한편 샘플단지에 대한 측정 데이터를 통해 적정 열량공급시간대의 설정과 외기온의 변화에 따른 적정 온수공급온도의 설정조건 및 유량제어 효과등에 대한 분석 및 검토를 하였으며, 이를 통해 2차년도의 개발목표인 최적운전제어 방안의 제시를 위한 자료를 구축하였다. 또한 각 세대의 기밀성능이 공동주택의 열성능에 미치는 영향을 도출하기 위하여 샘플단지에 대해 트레스가스 측정법과 Blower Door법에 의하여 환기 및 기밀상태를 평가 하였으며 측정주호에 대한 환기를 예측할 수 있는 환기예측평가식을 제시하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.89-100
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• 2014

Energy consumption statistics in 2005 from the Korea Energy Management Corporation show that building energy usage was about 24.2% of total domestic energy consumption, and 64% of total building energy usage was consumed by residential buildings. Thus, about 10% of total domestic energy consumption is due to the heating of residential buildings. Building energy can be calculated by the configuration of the building envelope and the rate of infiltration (the volume of the infiltration of outdoor air and the leakage of indoor air), and by doing so, the annual energy usage for heating and cooling. Therefore, air-tightness is an important factor in building energy conservation. This investigate air infiltration and various factors that decrease it in timber frame buildings and suggest ways to improve air-tightness for several structural types. Timber frame buildings can be classified into light frame, post and beam, and log house. Post and beam includes Han-ok (a Korean traditional building). Six light frame buildings, three post and beam buildings, one Korean traditional Han-ok and a log house were selected as specimens. Blower door tests were performed following ASTM E779-03. The light frame buildings showed the highest air-tightness, followed by post and beam structures, and last, log houses.