• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.175-182
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• 2009

This study was conducted to investigate the drying characteristics of tissue cultured mountain ginseng roots. The far infrared rays dryer of a double blast system used for this experiment can control the drying parameters such as far infrared heater temperature and air velocity. The far infrared rays drying tests of tissue cultured mountain ginseng roots were performed at air velocity of 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 m/s, under drying air temperature of 50, 60, and $70^{circ}C$, respectively. The results were compared with one obtained by the heated air drying method. The drying characteristics such as drying rate, color, energy consumption, saponin components and antioxidant activities were analyzed. The results showed that the drying rate of far infrared rays drying was faster than that of heated air drying and due to high temperature of drying air and fast air velocity, the far infrared rays drying of double blast type was superior to the heated air drying. The value of the color difference for heated air drying was 10.11${\sim}$12.99 and that of far infrared rays drying was in the range of 7.05${\sim}$7.54, which was in the same drying condition, also energy consumption of far infrared rays drying was in the range of 3575${\sim}$6898 kJ/kg-water. At the same time, the antioxidant activities using far infrared rays drying were higher than those using heated air drying.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제34권12호
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• pp.821-827
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• 2012

슬러지 공기건조장치는 외기로부터 공기를 흡입/송풍하여 이젝터(Ejector) 및 다단 사이클론(Multi-Cyclone)에서 슬러지를 건조하는 시스템이다. 즉 공기건조장치는 외기의 조건에 따라 시스템 성능 변화가 클 뿐 아니라 개루프(Open-Loop) 구조로 되어 있어 에너지 소모량이 큰 단점이 있다. 이를 해결하기 위한 방안으로 공기건조장치의 분리기 후단에 응축기(Condenser), 냉각기(Cooler), 압축기(Compressor)로 구성된 제습기를 장착하여 송풍-건조-제습-송풍으로 순환하는 폐루프(Closed-Loop) 공기건조 기술을 개발하였다. 기존의 공기건조와 비교하여 본 기술의 특성을 비교 분석한 결과, 본 시스템의 공기는 외기에 비하여 약 50% 이상의 에너지를 더 많이 함유하고 있었다. 또한 공기가 시스템 내에서 순환하기 때문에 슬러지 건조에 공급하는 공기의 질을 일정하게 유지할 수 있어 시스템을 안정적으로 운용할 수 있을 것으로 분석되었다. 그리고 경제성을 분석한 결과, 폐루프 공기건조장치를 이용하여 슬러지 1톤을 건조하는데 소요되는 비용은 기존의 건조장치에 비하여 약 35% 절감되는 것으로 파악되었다. 따라서 본 기술은 에너지 소모량이 적고, 일정한 품질의 공기를 송풍할 수 있어 시스템의 안정적으로 운전할 수 있는 기술로 평가된다.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2004

Near Infrared Ray (NIR) are primarily of interest to the high energy physicist. It is the intermediate portion of the spectrum, which extends from approximately 0.8 to 1.5 ${\mu}m$ and include a portion of the all of infrared, that is thermal radiation and is pertinent to heat transfer. It is important to study that temperature distribution of the drying materials by surface encompasses a range of NIR wave lengths. This study is to investigate the characteristics of NIR dryer by experimental results. it was made a comparison with various textiles, velocity ratio and distance of lamp and textiles. In case of spongy type textile the drying performance is the superior of all. The 0.15m distance drying effect of improvement 30% more than 0.26m distance between lamp and textiles. As the contained water increases, the drying speed for textile can be increased.

• 플랜트 저널
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.73-79
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• 2009

Increase of consumption in limited coal reserves leads prices surging. As a result, iron works which produce products with coal are in difficulties. Accordingly, it is required a lot of research of using non-caking coal that is relatively low cost and has abundant reserves. Direct drying and indirect drying are two major methods of drying the coal. Recently, to minimize the needed calories and to save energy, using fluidbed or fluidizing method is a recent main trend of minimizing the size of the facility and maximizing energy efficiency. However there is also disadvantage such as increasing facility investment because of installing additional facilities in the latter part. In this study, we will have theoretical researches on the indirect drying method with heat exchange system which have been traditionally used. As a result it is expected to increase the efficiency of the facility operation.

• 대한설비공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한설비공학회 2008년도 동계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.636-641
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• 2008

Heat pump drying has a great potential for energy saving due to its high energy efficiency in comparison to conventional air drying. The heat pump dryer is usually operated at the temperature less than $50^{\circ}C$ and the drying temperature is limited to the operating temperature of the heat pump system. In order to increase the drying temperature, the special box-type heat pump dryer has been developed. The dryer uses the two-cycle heat pump system which has the two heat pump cycles for high and low temperature heating. The high temperature cycle uses the refrigerant 124 to get the temperature greater than $80^{\circ}C$ and the low temperature cycle uses the refrigerant 134a. The drying experiment has been carried out to figure out the performance of the dryer with the selected drying material.

• 태양에너지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.9-20
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• 1991

무우절편의 태양열건조 및 천일건조 실험을 수행하여 건조 특성 및 품질 변화 특성을 비교하여 분석하였다. 무우절편의 태양열 건조 시스템은 공기 가열식 태양열 집열기와 터널 건조실로 구성된다. 태양열 집열기의 구성 요소에 에너지 평형식을 적용하여 일사량과 송풍량의 변화에 따른 집열기의 집열성능을 분석할 수 있는 시뮬레이션 모형을 개발하였다.

• 임산에너지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.10-17
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• 2002

본 연구는 단소용 대나무 악기재를 효과적으로 건조하기 위하여 열처리 및 몇 가지 스케줄에 의한 건조를 실시하였다. 평균 직경 2.2cm, 길이 60cm정도의 솜대를 이용하였다. 열처리 효과를 평가하기 위하여 무처리 및 열처리재로 구분하였으며 적당한 건조 조건 조사를 위해서 20℃, 65%와 40℃, 40% 그리고 대기상태의 3가지 조건으로 실시하였다. 탄화와 재색의 결함이 발생하지 않는 열처리의 최적 온도 조건은 180℃정도가 적당하였으며 열처리가 할렬의 수와 할렬 크기의 발생을 줄였으며 건조결함을 발생하지 않는 최적의 조건은 온도 20℃, 관계습도 65%이지만 건조를 할 때 기간이 너무 많이 소요되는 단점이 있기 때문에 40℃, 40%에서 건조시키는 것이 더욱 효율적이었다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.351-357
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• 2009

This study was conducted to verify the simulation model through the drying test, and investigate effect of factors, such as temperature of drying air, airflow rate, and velocity of the airflow, on the drying. The low temperature drying simulation model was developed based on the circulation dry simulation model presented by Keum et al. (1987), and by modifying low temperature thin layer drying model, equilibrium moisture content model, latent heat of vaporization model, and crack ratio prediction model. The heat pump and experimental dryer with a capacity of 150kg were used for the test. The RMSE between the predicted and measured value was 0.27% (drying temperature), 0.15% (crack ratio), and 2.08% (relative humidity), so the relevance of the model was verified. In addition, the effect of drying temperature, airflow rate, and velocity of the airflow on the drying was examined. The experimental results showed that the crack ratio at drying temperature of $25{\sim}40^{\circ}C$ was allowable. Moreover, at below $30^{\circ}C$, variation of the crack ratio was slight, but drying time was delayed. Given these results, the drying temperature of over $30^{\circ}C$ was effective. As the airflow rate increased, required energy dramatically increased. Whereas drying rate slowly increased, so loss of drying efficiency was caused. Considering these results, the dryer needed to be designed and adjusted to lower than $30\;m^3/min{\cdot}ton$. As velocity of the airflow increased, required drying energy increased when the velocity of the airflow was over $5\;m^3$/hr, while crack ratio and drying rate showed little variation.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2024

Betung bamboo (Dendrocalamus asper) is used as a building and handicraft material in Indonesia; however, bamboo needs to be dried to increase its stability. This study aimed to evaluate the efficiency of drying bamboo using solar energy and different drying oven designs. The betung bamboo pieces were dried using a direct solar dryer (direct drying) and an indirect solar dryer (indirect drying) and then the decrease in levels that occurred based on the relative humidity (RH) and temperature values achieved in the two dryers were compared. The highest average temperature in the direct indirect drying oven compartment was 60.1 ± 13.1℃ with 19.9 ± 16.4% RH and 60.2 ± 11.9℃ with 19.5 ± 15.5% RH, respectively. The drying defect in indirect drying was lower than that in direct drying, and indirect drying had a 61.7% greater average water loss than direct drying with significant difference (95%, analysis of variance) based on water loss/compartment volume parameters. Thus, the solar drying oven can be used to air-dry bamboo (14%) for 7 d from an initial moisture content of 70%-80% in bamboo strips. The results of this research can be used for small-scale bamboo processing industries that have limited use of electrical energy with quite good results.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.821-827
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• 2016

This study evaluates the economic feasibility of industrializing fluidized bed dryer for wood particles. The theoretically required heat energy and energy efficiency were evaluated using a pilot scale fluidized bed dryer. When Mongolian Oak wood particles with 50% initial moisture content were dried in the fluidized bed dryer with air of $70^{\circ}C$ air circulating at 1.1-1.3 m/s for 30 minutes, the total theoretically required heat energy was 2,177 kJ. Of this, 1,763 kJ (approximately 81.0%) was used to heat the air flowing in from outside the dryer and 386 kJ (approximately 17.7%) was used to heat and remove water from the wood particles. Actual energy consumed was 7,560 kJ, giving energy efficiency of 28.8%. Thus, to industrialize a drying method such as fluidized bed drying, where the dryer volume is significantly larger than the volume of wood particles, it is necessary to minimize energy loss and maximize energy efficiency by designing the dryer size considering the amount of wood particles and choosing a suitable air circulation rate.