• 제목/요약/키워드: Efficiency enhancement

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Potential Performance Enhancement of Dual Heat Pump Systems through Series Operation (히트펌프 직렬운전에 의한 성능 향상 가능성에 관한 연구)

  • Baik, Young-Jin;Kim, Min-Sung;Chang, Ki-Chang;Lee, Young-Soo;Kim, Hyeon-Ju
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • 제36권8호
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    • pp.797-802
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    • 2012
  • In this study, the potential performance enhancement in a dual heat pump system through series operation was investigated by a comparison between the performance for parallel and series operation for a heating supply temperature of $60^{\circ}C$. To compare the performance of each configuration fairly, the heat transfer surface area of the heat exchangers was fixed. The inlet temperatures and the flow rates of the heat source and the load were also fixed. In addition, the heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of the working fluids were considered to achieve a more realistic comparison. The results show that the heating coefficient of performance (COP) of the series configuration is approximately 5% higher than that of the parallel configuration under the simulation conditions considered in the present study.

The Single-Side Textured Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Using Dielectric Coating Layer (절연막을 이용한 단면 표면조직화 결정질 실리콘 태양전지)

  • Do, Kyeom-Seon;Park, Seok-Gi;Myoung, Jae-Min;Yu, Gwon-Jong;Song, Hee-Eun
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국태양에너지학회 2011년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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    • pp.245-248
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    • 2011
  • Many researches have been carried out to improve light absorption in the crystalline silicon solar cell fabrication. The rear reflection is applied to increase the path length of light, resulting in the light absorption enhancement and thus the efficiency improvement mainly due to increase in short circuit current. In this paper, we manufactured the silicon solar cell using the mono crystalline silicon wafers with $156{\times}156mm^2$, 0.5~3.0 ${\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ of resistivity and p-type. After saw damage removal, the dielectric film ($SiN_x$)on the back surface was deposited, followed by surface texturing in the KOH solution. It resulted in single-side texturing wafer. Then the dielectric film was removed in the HF solution. The silicon wafers were doped with phosphorus by $POCl_3$ with the sheet resistance 50 ${\Omega}/{\Box}$ and then the silicon nitride was deposited on the front surface by the PECVD with 80nm thickness. The electrodes were formed by screen-printing with Ag and Al paste for front and back surface, respectively. The reflectance and transmittance for the single-sided and double-sided textured wafers were compared. The double-sided textured wafer showed higher reflectance and lower transmittance at the long wavelength region, compared to single-sided. The completed crystalline silicon solar cells with different back surface texture showed the conversion efficiency of 17.4% for the single sided and 17.3% for the double sided. The efficiency improvement with single-sided textured solar cell resulted from reflectance increase on back surface and light absorption enhancement.

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In-situ Methane Enrichment System Coupled with External $CO_2$ Stripper in Mesophilic Anaerobic Digestion (중온혐기성소화조에서 외부 $CO_2$ Stripping을 이용한 In-situ 고순도 메탄회수 공정 개발)

  • Kang, Ho;Jeong, Ji-Hyun;Lim, Seon-Ae;Lee, Hye-Mi
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • 제34권3호
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    • pp.155-161
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    • 2012
  • A simple in-situ methane enrichment system in mesophilic anaerobic digestion was developed to take advantage of the differing solubilities of $CO_2$ and methane. The methane enhancement systems consisted of low solids plug-flow maize digester coupled with a leachate recycle loop to an external $CO_2$ stripper. The effects of leachate recycle rate (LRR) and reactor alkalinity on the resulting offgas $CH_4$ contents, biogas productivity and TVS removal efficiency were quantitively evaluated. The results showed that offgas $CH_4$ contents of over 94% was achieved at 3 volume of leachate recycle per volume of reactor per day (3 v/v-d) and at the reactor alkalinity of 4 g/L as $CaCO_3$, as the optimum operating conditions. The TVS removal efficiency of the methane enhancement system was 79% which corresponds to 94% of the control reactor and the methane productivity appeared to be 0.71 v/v-d. Offgas methane contents correlated well with LRR. However excessively high LRR led to the decrease in TVS removal efficiency.

Overall efficiency enhancement and cost optimization of semitransparent photovoltaic thermal air collector

  • Beniwal, Ruby;Tiwari, Gopal Nath;Gupta, Hari Om
    • ETRI Journal
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    • 제42권1호
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    • pp.118-128
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    • 2020
  • A semitransparent photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) air collector can produce electricity and heat simultaneously. To maximize the thermal and overall efficiency of the semitransparent PV/T air collector, its availability should be maximum; this can be determined through a Markov analysis. In this paper, a Markov model is developed to select an optimized number of semitransparent PV modules in service with five states and two states by considering two parameters, namely failure rate (λ) and repair rate (μ). Three artificial neural network (ANN) models are developed to obtain the minimum cost, minimum temperature, and maximum thermal efficiency of the semitransparent PV/T air collector by setting its type appropriately and optimizing the number of photovoltaic modules and cost. An attempt is also made to achieve maximum thermal and overall efficiency for the semitransparent PV/T air collector by using ANN after obtaining its minimum temperature and available solar radiation.

Enhancement of Photoelectric Efficiency in a Dye-sensitized Solar Cell Using Hollow TiO2 Nanoparticles as an Overlayer

  • Lee, Kyoung-No;Kim, Woo-Byoung;Lee, Caroline Sunyong;Lee, Jai-Sung
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제34권6호
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    • pp.1853-1856
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    • 2013
  • $TiO_2$ hollow nanoparticles (HNPs) and their light scattering effect which influences on the photoelectric conversion efficiency of a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) were investigated. When only HNPs were employed in DSSC as the anode layer material, the conversion efficiency (e.g., 0.96%) was the lowest, possibly due to scattering loss of incident light. However, DSSC fabricated by using HNPs as a scattering overlayer on the $TiO_2$ nanoparticles (P-25), showed higher conversion efficiency (4.02%) than that without using HNPs (3.36%).

Performance Evaluation of National R&D Investment in Information Technology Areas

  • Kim, Heung-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • 제22권2호
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    • pp.119-125
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we propose an approach to evaluating the performance of the national R&D investment in IT(Information Technology) areas in terms of paper, patent and commercialization, and seeking ways to improve the efficiency of the national R&D investment. This is because the government has focused the national R&D investment on IT areas for some time. For that purpose, we gather data on investments, papers, patents, and commercializations for the government sponsored R&D projects in IT areas through National Science & Technology Information Service. From which, we summarize the investment and performance in terms of papers, patents, and commercializations for each IT area, evaluate efficiency per R&D investment for each IT area, and compare the efficiencies among IT areas. Finally, we drive implications for efficiency enhancement and strategic R&D budget allocation for each IT area.

Enhancement of Emission Efficiency of Multilayer White Light Organic Electroluminescent Device (다층구조를 적용한 백색 전계발광소자의 발광효율 향상)

  • Kim, Ju-Seung;Gu, Hal-Bon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 한국전기전자재료학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 센서 박막재료
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    • pp.27-31
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    • 2001
  • We fabricated organic electroluminescent(EL) devices with mixed emitting layer of poly(N-vinylcarbazole)(PVK), 2,5-bis(5'-tert-butyl-2-benzoxazoly)thiophene(BBOT), N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-(3-methyphenyl)-1,1'-biphenyl-4, 4'-diarnine(TPD) and poly(3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT). To improve the external quantum efficiency of EL devices, we added the functional layer to the devices such as LiF insulating layer, carrier confinement layer(BBOT) and hole injection layer(CuPc). In the ITO/emitting layer/Al device, the maximum quantum efficiency at 15V was $1.88{\times}10^{-5}%$. And then, it is increased by a factor of 27 to $5.2{\times}10^{-3}%$ in ITO/CuPc/emitting layer/BBOT/LiF/Al device at 15V.

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