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Design and Performance Evaluation of Solar Air Receivers (공기식 태양열 흡수기의 설계 및 성능평가)

  • Cho, Hyun-Seok;Lee, Hyun-Jin;Kim, Jong-Kyu;Lee, Sang-Nam;Kang, Yong-Heack
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2012.03a
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    • pp.280-285
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    • 2012
  • It is important to produce the high temperature and high pressure air for the concentrated solar power system using the combined cycle. In this paper, based on the concept of tubular receiver, we designed two types with focus on radiation loss reduction. These two receivers were tested in the KIER solar furnace of 40kW thermal capacity. Performance of the two receivers were evaluated and compared.

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A Novel Current-fed Energy Recovery Sustaining Driver for Plasma Display Panel (PDP) (PDP를 위한 새로운 전류원 타입의 에너지 회수 및 방전유지 회로)

  • Han S.K.;Moon G.W.;Youn M.J.
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2003.07b
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    • pp.755-760
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    • 2003
  • A novel current-fed energy-recovery sustaining driver (CFERSD) for a PDP is proposed in this paper. Its main idea is to recover the energy stored in the PDP or to inject the input source energy to the PDP by using the current source built-up in the energy recovery inductor. This method provides zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) of all main power switches, the reduction of EMI, and more improved operational voltage margins with the aid of the discharge current compensation. In addition, since the current flowing through the energy recovery inductor can compensate the plasma discharge current flowing through the conducting power switches, the current stress through all main power switches can be considerably reduced. Furthermore, it features a low conduction loss and fast transient time. Operations, features and design considerations are presented and verified experimentally on a 1020X106mm sized PDP, 50kHz-switching frequency, and sustaining voltage 140V based prototype.

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Sound transmission of lightweight block walls and panels-Theory and Experiments

  • S Kandaswamy;A Ramachandraiah
    • Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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    • spring
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    • pp.235-239
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    • 2004
  • Sound transmission either as airborne or structure borne is a potential problem that occurs in buildings either from sources within or from outside. With the expansion of real estate activities in countries like India, the need to attend sound insulation requirements also assumes greater dimensions. The focus of this research is on studying the sound transmission characteristics of building structures made of hollow blocks, neocrete block, aerocon block and prefabricated panels such as Ferrocement panel. The tests were carried out the blocks with and without plastering and their sound reduction index was measured at one-third octave frequencies. In the case of ferrocement panels, different types of systems were tested in the TL suite. Panels with cavity, with cavity ties, with insulation, with stiffeners and with plasterboard were investigated. Sound reduction index of these panels was measured with additional quantities like longitudinal wavespeed, and loss factors (internal and total loss factor). Tests were also conducted on Cypcrete wall panel and Sandwiched wooden panel in a similar way. Theoretical investigations were carried out using Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) for the above systems. Sound reduction index was then compared between the predicted and the measured values.

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Performance Evaluations of Mock-up Tests for ALC Panel Curtain Wall in Building Exterior (ALC 패널을 활용한 건축물 외장 커튼월에 대한 Mock-up Test 성능 평가 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Ho;Lee, Yong-Soo
    • Journal of The Korean Digital Architecture Interior Association
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.25-32
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    • 2013
  • The green building is one of biggest factors to go the goal of energy saving and environmental conservation, reduction of energy consumption, friendly energy technology, recycling of resource, and environmental pollution reduction technology. The purpose of these green buildings realized by the energy-saving technology such as the exterior materials or curtain wall system. The curtain wall system is a element that come to insulated portions of building envelope that results in heat loss. The purpose of this paper is to carried out mock-up tests for exterior wall used in autoclaved lightweight concrete panels in green building practices. Mock-up test execute a mixed process between standard test procedure and complex test procedure based on AAMA 501(American Society for Testing and Materials) and ASTM 283, ASTM 330(American Society for Testing and Materials). In results, tests meet the requirements that grant values in steps of procedures provided on ASTM and AAMA. ALC panel is suitable for a exterior wall product to be gratified thermal cycling performance and structural capacity, deflection(H/200) and lateral displacement(H/50), for curtain walls.

Investigation and Analysis of Patents for the Thermal Bridge Breaker in Green Buildings (그린건축을 위한 열교차단 특허기술의 조사 및 분석 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Ho;Kim, Hyung-Joon;Lee, Hee-Young
    • Journal of The Korean Digital Architecture Interior Association
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2013
  • The green building is one of biggest factors to go the goal of energy saving and environmental conservation, "reduction of energy consumption, friendly energy technology, recycling of resource, and environmental pollution reduction technology. The purpose of these green buildings realized by the energy-saving technology such as the thermal bridge breaker(or thermal bridge block). Thermal bridges are localized elements that penetrate insulated portions of building envelope that results in heat loss. The purpose of this paper is to describe the technical interactions for patents of a thermal bridge breaker(TTB) used in green building practices, and be subject to investigation to TTB in the leading countries, that is, United State, Europe Union, Japan, and Korea. As a result, there are four TTB categories(roof, wall-slab connection, opening, footing) in house or building. The TTB categories is remarkable technology that is apparatus in slab-wall joints and sealing element of opening frame in walls.

Cross-Layer Reduction of Wireless Network Card Idle Time to Optimize Energy Consumption of Pull Thin Client Protocols

  • Simoens, Pieter;Ali, Farhan Azmat;Vankeirsbilck, Bert;Deboosere, Lien;Turck, Filip De;Dhoedt, Bart;Demeester, Piet;Torrea-Duran, Rodolfo;Perre, Liesbet Van der;Dejonghe, Antoine
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.75-90
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    • 2012
  • Thin client computing trades local processing for network bandwidth consumption by offloading application logic to remote servers. User input and display updates are exchanged between client and server through a thin client protocol. On wireless devices, the thin client protocol traffic can lead to a significantly higher power consumption of the radio interface. In this article, a cross-layer framework is presented that transitions the wireless network interface card (WNIC) to the energy-conserving sleep mode when no traffic from the server is expected. The approach is validated for different wireless channel conditions, such as path loss and available bandwidth, as well as for different network roundtrip time values. Using this cross-layer algorithm for sample scenario with a remote text editor, and through experiments based on actual user traces, a reduction of the WNIC energy consumption of up to 36.82% is obtained, without degrading the application's reactivity.

Reaction Characteristics of Five Kinds of Oxygen Carrier Particles for Chemical-Looping Combustor (매체순환식 가스연소기 적용을 위한 5가지 산소공여입자들의 반응특성)

  • Ryu, Ho-Jung;Kim, Gyoung-Tae;Lim, Nam-Yun;Bae, Seong-Youl
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.24-34
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    • 2003
  • For gaseous fuel combustion with inherent $CO_2$ capture and low NOx emission, chemical-looping combustion may yield great advantages for the savings of energy to $CO_2$ separation and suppressing the effect on environment, In chemical-looping combustor, fuel is oxidized by metal oxide medium in a reduction reactor. Reduced particles are transported to oxidation reactor and oxidized by air and recycled to reduction reactor. The fuel and the air are never mixed, and the gases from reduction reactor, $CO_2$ and $H_2O$, leave the system as separate stream. The $H_2O$ can be easily separated by condensation and pure $CO_2$ is obtained without any loss of energy for separation. In this study, five oxygen carrier particles such as NiO/bentonite, NiO/YSZ, $(NiO+Fe_2O_3)VYSZ$, $NiO/NiAl_2O_4$, and $Co_{\chi}O_y/CoAl_2O_4$ were examined &om the viewpoints of reaction kinetics, oxygen transfer capacity, and carbon deposition characteristics. Among five oxygen particles, NiO/YSZ particle is superior in reaction rate, oxygen carrier capacity, and carbon deposition to other particles. However, at high temperature ($>900^{\circ}C$), NiO/bentonite particle also shows enough reactivity and oxygen carrier capacity to be applied in a practical system.

Hot Corrosion Behavior of Plasma-Sprayed Partially Stabilized Zirconia Coatings in a Lithium Molten Salt (리튬용융염에서 플라즈마 용사된 부분안정화 지르코니아 코팅층의 고온부식 거동)

  • Cho, Soo-Haeng;Hong, Sun-Seok;Kang, Dae-Seong;Park, Byung-Heong;Hur, Jin-Mok;Lee, Han-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Metals and Materials
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    • v.46 no.10
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    • pp.646-651
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    • 2008
  • The electrolytic reduction of spent oxide fuel involves the liberation of oxygen in a molten LiCl electrolyte, which results in a chemically aggressive environment that is too corrosive for typical structural materials. It is essential to choose the optimum material for the process equipment handling molten salt. IN713LC is one of the candidate materials proposed for application in electrolytic reduction process. In this study, yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) top coat was applied to a surface of IN713LC with an aluminized metallic bond coat by an optimized plasma spray process, and were investigated the corrosion behavior at $675^{\circ}C$ for 216 hours in the molten salt $LiCl-Li_2O$ under an oxidizing atmosphere. The as-coated and tested specimens were examined by OM, SEM/EDS and XRD, respectively. The bare superalloy reveals obvious weight loss, and the corrosion layer formed on the surface of the bare superalloy was spalled due to the rapid scale growth and thermal stress. The top coatings showed a much better hot-corrosion resistance in the presence of $LiCl-Li_2O$ molten salt when compared to those of the uncoated superalloy and the aluminized bond coatings. These coatings have been found to be beneficial for increasing to the hot-corrosion resistance of the structural materials for handling high temperature lithium molten salts.

Damage detection in jacket type offshore platforms using modal strain energy

  • Asgarian, B.;Amiri, M.;Ghafooripour, A.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.325-337
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    • 2009
  • Structural damage detection, damage localization and severity estimation of jacket platforms, based on calculating modal strain energy is presented in this paper. In the structure, damage often causes a loss of stiffness in some elements, so modal parameters; mode shapes and natural frequencies, in the damaged structure are different from the undamaged state. Geometrical location of damage is detected by computing modal strain energy change ratio (MSECR) for each structural element, which elements with higher MSECR are suspected to be damaged. For each suspected damaged element, by computing cross-modal strain energy (CMSE), damage severity as the stiffness reduction factor -that represented the ratios between the element stiffness changes to the undamaged element stiffness- is estimated. Numerical studies are demonstrated for a three dimensional, single bay, four stories frame of the existing jacket platform, based on the synthetic data that generated from finite element model. It is observed that this method can be used for damage detection of this kind of structures.

An Experimental Study for Estimation of Head Loss Coefficients at Surcharged Circular Manhole (과부하 원형맨홀에서의 손실계수 산정을 위한 실험적 연구)

  • Kim, Jung-Soo;Song, Ju-Il;Jang, Suk-Jin;Yoon, Sei-Eui
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.305-314
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    • 2008
  • Urban sewer systems are designed to operate in open-channel flow regime and energy loss at circular manholes are usually not significant. However, the energy loss at manholes, often exceeding the friction loss of pipes under surcharge flow, is considered as one of the major causes of inundation in urban area. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the head loss associated with manholes, especially in surcharge flow. Hydraulic experimental apparatus which can be changed the invert type(CASE A, B, C) and step height(CASE I, II, III) was installed for this study. The range of the experimental discharges were from $1.0{\ell}/sec$ to $5.6\;{\ell}/sec$. As the manhole diameter ratio($D_m/D_{in}$) increases, head loss coefficient increases due to strong horizontal swirl motion. Head loss coefficient was maximum because of strong oscillation of water surface when the range of manhole depth ratios($h_m/D_{in}$) were from 1.0 to 1.5. The average head loss coefficients for CASE A, B, and C were 0.45, 0.37, and 0.30, respectively. Accordingly, U-invert is most effective for energy loss reduction at circular manhole. This head loss coefficients could be available to design the urban sewer system with surcharge flow.