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An Experimental Study on the Performance Characteristics of Cooling System for Aircraft External Reconnaissance Stores (항공기 외장형 정찰 장비용 냉각 시스템의 성능 특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Jung, Daeyoon;Lee, Hang Bok
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.74-80
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we have proposed a vapor cycle refrigeration system as a cooling system to provide cooling air to the aircraft external reconnaissance stores. In the proposed vapor cycle system, receiver which prevents refrigerant from subcooling was eliminated and thermal expansion valve was replaced with electronic expansion valve. The vapor cycle refrigeration system is aimed to provide cooling air to the reconnaissance stores which is added to the aircraft in the form of external store. The wide temperature range of ambient air from the flight conditions can decrease the cooling performance and can make the refrigeration system unstable in low ambient temperature. Performance characteristics of the vapor cycle refrigeration system has been experimented under air conditions which is derived from the flight envelope. From the experiments, the vapor cycle refrigeration system has been proved to provide enough cooling air to the reconnaissance equipment and to be stable under all the flight conditions.

Research on fast cool-down of orifice pulse tube refrigerator by controlling orifice valve opening

  • Kim, Hyo-Bong;Park, Jong-Ho
    • Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.36-40
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, a noble method for rapid cooldown of pulse tube refrigerator (PTR) was proposed and experimentally investigated. An orifice pulse tube refrigerator generates refrigeration effect by expansion PV work at the cold-end, and its amount is affected by the orifice valve opening. There exists the optimum valve opening for maximum cooling capacity and it varies as cold-end temperature. It is verified from simulation results using isothermal model that the optimum valve opening increases as the cold-end temperature increases. In the experiments, a single stage orifice pulse tube refrigerator is fabricated and tested. The fabricated PTR shows 97.5 K of no-load temperature and 10 W at 110 K of cooling capacity with the fixed orifice valve opening. From experiments, the initial cooldown curve with four cases of valve opening control scenario are obtained. And it is experimentally verified that the initial cooldown time can be reduced through the control of orifice valve opening.

Effects of the electronic expansion valve and variable velocity compressor on the performance of a refrigeration system

  • Lago, Taynara G.S.;Ismail, Kamal A.R.;Nobrega, Claudia R.E.S.;Moura, Luiz F.M.
    • Advances in Energy Research
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1-19
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    • 2020
  • Energy consumption of air-conditioning and refrigeration systems is responsible for about 25 to 30% of the energy demand especially in hot seasons. This equipment is mostly electricity dependent and their use in principle affects negatively the environment. Enhancing the energy efficiency of the existing equipment is important as one of the measures to reduce environment impacts. This paper reports the results of an experimental study to evaluate the impacts of the use electronic expansion valve and variable velocity compressor on the performance of vapor compression refrigeration system. The experimental rig is composed of two independent circuits one for the vapor compression system and the other is the secondary fluid system. The vapor compression system is composed of a forced air condenser unit, evaporator, hermetic compressor and expansion elements, while the secondary system has a pump for circulating the secondary fluid, and an air conditioning heat exchanger. The manufacturer's data was used to determine the optimal points of operation of the system and consequently tests were done to evaluate the influence of variation of the compressor velocity and the opening of the expansion device on the performance of the refrigeration system. A fuzzy logic model was developed to control the rotational velocity of the compressor and the thermal load. Fuzzy control model was made in LabVIEW software with the objective of improving the system performance, stability and energy saving. The results showed that the use of fuzzy logic as a form of control strategy resulted in a better energy efficiency.

Characteristics of Performance and Back-Fire for External Mixture Hydrogen Fueled Engine without Valve Overlap Period (밸브 오버랩 기간이 없는 흡기관 분사식 수소기관의 성능 및 역화특성)

  • Lee, K.J.;Kang, J.K.;Cong, Huynh Thanh;Noh, K.C.;Lee, J.T.
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.374-381
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    • 2007
  • In order to verify the feasibility of expansion of back-fire limit equivalence ratio in the hydrogen-fueled engine with external mixture, the characteristics of performance and combustion are experimentally analyzed with change of intake/exhaust valve timings under the fixed valve overlap period of $0^{\circ}$ CA(non-valve overlap period). These characteristics are also tested for the change of exhaust valve closing timing while intake valve opening timing is fixed to clear the main cause of back-fire occurrence. As the results, the less valve overlap period center is retarded, the more back-fire limit equivalence ratio increases and back-fire does not occurred after TDC. In addition, it was shown that the control of back-fire is dependent on intake valve opening timing than valve overlap period.

Study of Valve Train Motion According to Valve Clearance (밸브 간극에 따른 밸브트레인 거동 연구)

  • Min, Sunki
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.8 no.10
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    • pp.193-199
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    • 2017
  • Mechanical tappet is used to reduce the cost and friction loss compared with hydraulic tappet. But the mechanical tappet doesn't have the ability to control the clearance between cams and valves and is selected by measuring the distance between valves and cams in order to minimize the clearance of valves by considering thermal expansion of valves. So, the valve clearance is nearly zero after fully warming-up periods, but there is valve clearance before warming-up. Especially at cold condition, the clearance is relatively large and can bring about some problems. In this study, the valve motions like lift, velocity, seating velocity and bouncing height were studied at various valve clearance conditions by experiment and analysis. As the valve clearance increases, the ramp area becomes shorten and it causes the valve train motion to have bad effects.

A Investigation of Back Fire Control with Valve Overlap Period Change In the Same Supply Energy (동일열량공급하의 밸브오버랩기간 변화에 대한 역화억제 검토)

  • Kang, J.K.;Huynh, Thanh Cong;Noh, K.C.;Lee, J.T.
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.348-355
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    • 2007
  • To grasp a feasibility of back fire control by valve overlap period, back fire limit equivalence ratio was estimated with valve overlap period which has the same supply energy and positive intake pressure as valve overlap period $300^{\circ}\;CA$. As the result, it was shown that the smaller valve overlap period has the higher back fire limit equivalence ratio under valve overlap period $300^{\circ}\;CA$ as well as VOP $0^{\circ}\;CA$. This result means that expansion of back fire equivalence ratio by decreasing valve overlap period was caused by decrease of back flow duration of flame from in-cylinder to intake port than decrease of lower supply energy.

Flux Analysis of Air-conditioner Coupling (에어컨디셔너의 냉매배관을 연결하는 커플링의 유동해석)

  • Lee, Su-Yul;Kim, Woo-Seung;Cho, Soo;Sung, Uk-Joo;Park, Hee-Mun;Sim, Kyung-Jong
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.1031-1036
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    • 2009
  • This study is intended to identify how quick disconnect coupling which connects with refrigerant piping of air-conditioner using R-22 refrigerant has effect on characteristics of flux. in the case where the air-conditioner installs utilizes quick disconnect coupling, COP has an effect on the quantity of cooling load because of changing flow rate and physical properties of refrigerant which flow into an entrance of expansion valve from coupling. Variation of flow rate can be regulated by changing expansion-contraction angle; $\alpha$ of an entrance and an exit of coupling. In this study, quick disconnect coupling is presented flow of coupling by using FLUENT as heat flow program. To have an effect on the expansion entrance valve, and by changing expansion-contraction angle; $\alpha$ of an entrance and an exit

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A Study on Safety Engineering & System Optimization in the Closed Piping System (밀폐배관계에 있어서의 열팽창에 대한 안전설계 및 시스템 최적 설정에 관한 고찰)

  • Char, Soon-Chul;Hwang, Soon-Yong;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2007
  • To improve the practical application of the thermal expansion of closed long pipeline exposing to external heating sources such as solar energy, safety engineering and system optimization for relief valve in the closed piping system are suggested through theoretical approach, correlation in view of temperature and pressure increase caused by external solar energy in the closed piping system. The profile for thermal relief valve including relieving capacity, influx heat energy, sizing criteria, set pressure, selection against back pressure is also presented. It is noted that following topic on solar relief valve should be applied to engineering, installation and commissioning.

A Study on the Composition of Atkinson Cycle and Thermodynamically Analysis for a Diesel Engine (디젤기관에 대한 앳킨슨사이클 구성과 사이클의 열역학적 해석에 관한 연구)

  • Kim Chul Soo;Jung Young Guan;Jang Tae lk
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.185-193
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    • 2005
  • The present study composed a diesel-atkinson cycle of high expansion as a method of achieving high efficiency in diesel cycle engines. It also interpreted the cycle engine thermodynamically analysis to determine the possibility of the improvement of thermal efficiency and clarified the characteristics of several factors . According to the result of theoretical analysis, heat efficiency was highest when expansion-compression ratio Reど:1. In addition. diesel engines with high apparent compression ratio had higher expansion-compression ratio than otto engines and consequently their effect of high expansion was high. which in turn enhanced thermal efficiency. When the atkinson cycle was implemented in a real diesel engine by applying the miller cycle through the variation of the closing time of the intake valve, the effective compression ratio and the quantify of intake air decreased and as a result, the effect of high expansion was not observed. Accordingly. the atkinson cycle can be implemented when the quantity of intake air is compensated by supercharge and the effective compression ratio is maintained at its initial level through the reduction of the clearance volume. In this case. heat efficiency increased by $4.1\%$ at the same expansion-compression ratio when the apparent compression ratio was 20 and the fuel cut off ratio was 2. As explained above, when the atkinson cycle was used for diesel cycle. heat efficiency was improved. In order to realize high expansion through retarding the intake value closing time, the engine needs to be equipped with variable valve timing equipment, variable compression ratio equipment and supercharged Pressure equipment. Then a diesel-atkinson cycle engine is realized.

Flow Structure Interaction 3-D Reciprocating Compressor and Impact Analyses of Compressor Discharge Valve (압축기 토출벨브의 유체-구조 연계해석 및 충돌해석)

  • Octavianty, Ressa;Kim, Dong-Hyun;Park, Kang-Gyun;Jung, Won-Hyun;Ahn, Jae-Woo;Moon, Kyeong-Ho;Ko, Young-Pil;Kim, Hyeong-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.633-640
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, 3-D reciprocating compressor is taken into flow-structure interaction analysis. The full cycle process consisted of cylinder expansion and compression has been modeled without considering flow leakage through cylinder wall. Fully-coupled FSI analysis of this compressor model was iteratively solved and gives sufficient result with the experimental test. The study is emphasized to thoroughly investigate discharge valve motion, opening and closing, in order to determine discharge valve region which is prone to have high effective stress. The cylinder pressure is successfully validated before conducting impact analyses between discharge valve and other susceptible supported structure. Velocity profile has been obtained in FSI analysis is used as initial condition to carry out further impact analyses. Stress result of discharge valve and valve spring gives preliminary estimation of higher stress area due to its impact phenomena.

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