• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.48-52
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• 1988

For the refrigeration system using the reversed Carnot cycle, maximum conditions of effectiveness and available energy output are studied with taking into account of the heat transfer between heat sources and the cycle, and of the heat loss due to heat leakage into the cold heat source. The extremum of the effectiveness exists for variables T$_{l}$ and T$_{L}$. Therefore the desirable results in engineering applications that available energy output is not zero under maximum condition of the effectiveness are obtained. In addition, the extremum of the available energy output does not exist for the variable T$_{l}$ but does for the variable T$_{L}$. As the heat loss increases, the available energy output and the effectiveness decrease, the regions of T$_{l}$ and T$_{L}$ where the refrigeration system is possible to operate become smaller.aller.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.556-561
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• 2011

In this study, the theoretical maximum power of a heat engine was investigated by sequential Carnot cycle model, for a low-grade heat source of about $100^{\circ}C$. In contrast to conventional approaches, the pattern search algorithm was employed to optimize the two design variables to maximize power. Variations of the maximum power and the optimum values of design variables were investigated for a wide range of UA(overall heat transfer conductance) change. The results show that maximizing heat source utilization does not always maximize power.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.243-246
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• 2000

연료전지(Fuel Cell)는 carnot 과정을 거치지 않고 연료의 화학 에너지를 전기 에너지로 직접 전환시키는 고효율의 전기화학적 발전장치이다. 기존의 내연기관은 실제 효율이 20-45%이지만, 연료전지는 40-65%의 효율로 운전할 수 있고 공해물질의 발생도 거의 없는 장점이 있다. 또한 다양한 대체 연료를 사용할 수 있어 석유에너지 절감과 대체 에너지 개발에 기여할 수 있다는 장점이 있다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Applied Superconductivity and Cryogenics Conference
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• 1999.02a
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• pp.202-206
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• 1999

This paper presents operating process of the Stirling cryocooler and results obtained with the performance test for Signal Usfa UP 7075 Stirling cryocooler. An experimental study was carried out to develop the more reliable Stirling cryocooler. The cooldown characteristics and load characteristics are described. The lowest temperature measured in the Stirling cryocooler wa 62.5K and the cooling capacity at the optimum operating condition was 0.4W at 77K. At that time, carnot COP was 0.024.

• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.52-57
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• 2002

In this study, a thermoacoustic refrigerator, using a resonant standing acoustic wave. has been built. The refrigerant is helium gas. The description of thermoacoustic refrigerator was Presented. The temperature ratio (cold part temperature over hot part temperature) and the COP (Coefficient of Performance) that normalized by carnot's COP are plotted versus the thermal load applied to the cold end, for- various speaker power.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.89-93
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• 1999

연료전지는 전기화학 반응에 의해서 전기와 열을 생산하는 발전장치로서 Carnot's 효율에 제한 받는 기존 연소기관보다 높은 효율의 에너지를 얻을 수 있는 장점이 있어 이에 대한 연구가 전 세계적으로 활발하게 진행되어 오고 있다. 그 중에서도 특히 고분자 연료전지는 전해질 누출이 없고 낮은 온도에서 작동하며 부식이 없을 뿐 아니라 stack 디자인의 간편성, 큰 압력차에 대한 내구성, 긴 수명 등의 장점으로 인하여 자동차나 이동전원에 가장 적합한 장치로 평가되고 있다.(중략)

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.415-421
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• 2012

Stirling engine is an external combustion engine, whose efficiency approaches that of Carnot engine with the help of a regenerator. The regenerator is a heat exchanger composed of porous medium, whose performance is dependent on the pore structure. Three types of pore structures are considered in the present study. They are wire screen, random wire and composite structure, i.e. a combination of wire screens with different hydraulic diameters. The porosity more highly affects the performance of a regenerator compared to the hydraulic diameter. The random wire can yield high effectiveness even at a high porosity. The composite mesh gives better performance when the hydraulic diameter decreases in the direction from hot side to cold side.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.225-229
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• 1990

As a basic study of optimal design conditions of refrigeration systems, the reversed carnot cycle, including heat transfer processes through the finite temperature differences between heat sources and the working fluids, is analyzed with the capacity of heat exchanger as a design parameter. When the temperatures of heat sources and the input work are fixed as constants, the optimal design condition is obtained as an optimum ratio of capacities of heat exchangers, which is exactly unity when the exergy output and effectiveness are maximum. In addition, the optimum ratio is slightly increased from unity as the irreversibility of the cycle increases.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.1709-1716
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• 2003

Stirling engine is a heat engine with a high potential efficiency, multi-fuel capability, its low emission, quiet operation, very low maintenance requirement and long life. The Stirling cycle can ideally achieve optimum thermodynamic efficiency of the Carnot cycle. But the actual efficiency of practical reciprocating Stirling engine is much less than that of ideal Stirling cycle due to several mechanical limits. This paper presents a new-type Stirling engine employing the scroll mechanism superior to the reciprocating Stirling engine. The new-type Stirling engine is characterized as traits of continuous and wholly seperated compression and expansion, one-way flow, direct cooling and heating through the extensive surfaces of scroll wraps. By means of this traits, the new-type Stirling engine can achieve thermodynamic cycle closer to the ideal Stirling cycle and have many mechanical merits. Also, the new-type Stirling cycle can be applied as Stirling refrigerator and Duplex Stirling machine.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.150-156
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• 1986

A Rankine cycle including heat exchange processes in the steam generator has been analyzed by the concept of available energy. The operation condition of the cycle can be expressed with the evaporation temperature, and there exists an optimum power condition at which the thermal efficiency of the cycle is almost the same as that of the Carnot cycle at the maximum power condition. The mass flow rate of the working fluid increases sharply as the evaporation temperature approaches to the critical point, and the regenerative system is needed to operate the cycle at the maximum power condition.