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Development of Heating Technology for Greenhouse by Use of Ground Filtration Water Source Heat Pump (여과수열원 히트펌프를 이용한 온실난방기술 개발)

  • Moon, J.P.;Lee, S.H.;Kang, Y.K.;Lee, S.J.;Kim, K.W.
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.172.2-172.2
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    • 2010
  • This study was carried out in order to reduce the installation expense of heating system for greenhouse comparing to geothermal heat pump and develope the coefficient of performance (COP) for a heat pump. For getting plenty of heat flux from geothermal energy. Surface water in river channel was used for getting a lots of geothermal heat by penetrating water through underground soil layer of the river bank that make heat transmission to passing water. The range of water temperature after the process of Ground filtration is 13~18 degrees celsius which is very similar to low heat source of geothermal heat pump system and the plenty amount of heat source from that make the number of geothermal heat exchanging hole and the expense for geothermal heat exchanger construction reduced. Drainage well is also used for returning filtration water to the aquifer that keep the water good recirculation from losing geothermal heat and water resource. For the COP improvement of Heat pump, thermal storage tank with separating insulation plate according to the temperature difference make the COP of Heat pump that is similar to thermal storage tank with diffuser. Developed thermal storage tank make construction expense cheaper than customarily used one's. and that sand filter and oxidation sand (FELOX) are going to be used for improving ground filtration water quality that make heat exchanger efficiency better. All above developed component skill are going to be set on the Ground filtration water source heat pump system and applied for medium, large scale for protected greenhouse in riverside area and on-site experiment is going to do for optimizing the heating system function and overcome the problem happening in the process of on-site application afterward.

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Status and Outlook of Geothermal Energy Exploitation Technologies (지열에너지자원 개발, 활용 기술의 동향 및 전망)

  • Song, Yoon-Ho;Lee, Young-Min
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.20-23
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    • 2006
  • Geothermal energy is the natural heat of the Earth. Enormous amounts of thermal energy are continuously generated by the decay of radioactive isotopes of underground rocks and stored in the Earth's interior. Therefore, geothermal energy is one of the most important sustainable energy resources. Recent trends of geothermal energy exploitation technologies focus on the Earth scientific approach to geothermal heat pump system, enhanced geothermal system, aquifer thermal energy storage, underground thermal energy storage, and fluid/heat flow model ing for geothermal wells. Geothermal heat pump distribution in Korea is still in its starting phase in terms of areal utilization sense, we, however, expect to come up with national supply of over 1,000,000 toe by 2020

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Comparative Analysis of Energy Performance of Hydrothermal, Geothermal Source and Hybrid Heat Pump System According to Internal Heat Load for Office, School and Smart Farm (건축물 용도별 내부 발열부하에 따른 수열원, 지열원 및 하이브리드 히트펌프 시스템의 에너지 성능 비교 분석)

  • Park, Sihun;Min, Joonki
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.19-30
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    • 2022
  • In this study, comparative analysis of energy performance in Taebaek city, a test area, by applying hydrothermal, geothermal source and hybrid heat pump system to office, school and smart farms with different internal heat loads. The conclusion is as follows. In the load characteristics by use of buildings, it was found that office had a large cooling load compared to heating load, school had a large heating load compared to cooling load, and smart farm had only cooling load year-round. Performance analysis of the heat pump system in office shows that the cooling COP of the hydrothermal source is 5.12% and the heating COP is 3.22% lower based on the geothermal source, the cooling COP of the hybrid is 0.41% higher, and the heating COP is the difference in performance appeared sparsely. The performance analysis of the heat pump system in school showed that the cooling COP of the hydrothermal source was 10.44% and the heating COP 3.22% lower based on the geothermal source, and the performance difference between the hybrid cooling and heating COP was insignificant. Heat pump system performance analysis in smart farm only occurred with cooling load. Based on geothermal sources, the cooling COP of the hydrothermal source was 46% and the cooling COP of the hybrid was 19.65%, respectively.

Comparison of Heat Pump Performance and Energy Consumption Patterns according to Heat Sources for Optimal Control of Multi-Source Heat Pumps (복합열원 히트펌프 최적 제어를 위한 열원에 따른 히트펌프 성능 및 에너지 소요량 패턴 비교)

  • Ko, Yujin;Park, Sihun;Min, Joonki
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2020
  • The investment in the technology of using a combined heat source is insufficient, which utilizes the advantages of various heat sources to maximize the potential energy and at the same time increases the performance of the heat pump. In this study, as basic data for the development of a high-efficiency hybrid heat pump system that actively connects and uses various heat sources, simulations were conducted for the heat pumps in two cases where geothermal and hydrothermal heat were applied respectively. In May, COP increased by about 27.3% compared to geothermal heat. In February, the COP percentage decrease of hydrothermal heat compared to geothermal heat is -6.9%. In May, total energy consumption can be reduced by 21.1% when hydrothermal is applied compared to geothermal heat. In February, the total energy consumption increases by 3.4%.

A Study on the Energy Efficiency of a Geothermal Heat Pump System in use the Outdoor Reset Control Application (외기보상제어 적용에 따른 지열 히트펌프 시스템의 에너지 효율 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Young-Ju;Kim, Hyo-Jun;Lee, Yong-Ho;Hwang, Jung-Ha;Cho, Young-Hum
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.45-52
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    • 2015
  • The government is fostering a renewable energy industry as an alternative to handle the energy crisis. Among the renewable energy systems available, geothermal energy is being highlighted as being highly efficient and safely operable without the effect of outdoor air. Accordingly, a study on the geothermal heat pump is in progress in various worldwide perspective. However, Geothermal energy is only in charge of part load of the building due to the high initial installation cost in korea. Moreover, its efficiency is reduced due to the use of independent existing heat sources. In this study, after selecting the building containing the actual installed geothermal heat pump, the use of excellent geothermal heat pump systems was maximized in terms of the energy efficiency. The objective of this study is to show the operation method of geothermal heat pump system to improve energy efficiency through the TRNSYS simulation. This paper proposed operation methods of geothermal heat pump control according to outdoor air temperature. The result of this study is that existing operation method had some problems and if offered improvement is applied to real condition, energy consumption would be decreased.

Development of a Cooling and Heating System for Greenhouse using Geothermal Energy (지열을 이용한 온실용 냉난방시스템 개발)

  • Lee Yong-Beom;Cho Seong-In;Lee Jae-Han;Kim Tae-Won
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.688-692
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    • 2005
  • Importance of substitute energy has been increasing due to environmental issues and lack of fossil fuels. In addition, heating cost that occupies from 30 to $40\%$ of the total production cost in Korean protected cultivation needs to be reduced for profitability and global competition. But, studying on substitute energy to solve these problems has not been activated for Korean protected cultivation. Therefore, this study was conducted to develop a geothermal heat pump system for cool ing and heat ing of greenhouses at a lower cost than conventional hot air heater and air conditioner. Fundamental test of heat transfer characteristics in soil was conducted by computer simulation and controlled tests for its verification. Based on the results of the theoretical and empirical investigations, an optimum heat pump system was developed and the performance was evaluated for practical use in a greenhouse at the Pusan Horticultural Experiment Station. The system was compared with a conventional hot air heating system through a cucumber growing test and economic feasibility analysis. Results of the application test of the geothermal heat pump showed that with an initial setting of $15^{\circ}C$ the inside temperature of the greenhouse could be maintained between 15 and $17^{\circ}C$. Results of the cucumber growing test showed that there were no significant differences in average height, leaf length, leaf width, number of nods, leaf area, dry weight and yield between the plots wi th the geothermal heat pump system and a conventional hot air heater. Economic feasibility analysis indicated that the variable cost of the hot air heater could be saved $81.2\%$ using the geothermal heat pump system. It was concluded that the geothermal heat pump system might be a pertinent heating and cooling system for greenhouses because of the low operating cost and the use of environment-friendly geothermal energy.

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Daily Cooling Performance Comparison of a Geothermal Heat Pump System between Energy-Pile and Energy-Slab (에너지파일과 에너지슬래브 적용 지열원 열펌프 시스템의 일일 냉방 운전 특성 비교)

  • Choi, Jong-Min;Park, Yong-Jung;Kang, Shin-Hyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2012
  • Geothermal heat pump system has been spotlighted as an efficient building energy system, because it has great potentials for reducing energy in building air conditioning and reducing $CO_2$ emissions. However, higher initial cost is a barrier to the promotion of its use. Energy-pile and energy-slab are known as low cost ground heat exchangers comparing with conventional ground heat exchangers, because they utilize building structures as ground heat exchangers. This paper presents the daily cooling performance of a geothermal heat pump system with energy-pile and energy-slab. The energy-piles and the energy-slabs are connected to heat pump units in parallel. The cooling capacity of the system was nearly constant due to the stability of the ground heat exchangers. The stability of the energy-pile was a little higher than that of the energy-stab as a heat sink.

Evaluation on the Cooling Performance of Geothermal-energy Using Heat Pump System in Mixed-use Residential Building (주상복합 건축물에 적용된 지열이용 히트펌프 시스템의 냉방성능 평가)

  • Kim, Yong-Shik;Kim, Jung-Heon;Hwang, Kwang-Il
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2006
  • Geothermal-energy has been getting popular as a natural energy source for green buildings these days. Public building with gross area more than $3000m^2$, planned after March, 2005, should spend about 5% of total building cost for equipment run by natural energy source (e.g. geothermal, solar heat, solar power, etc) according to renewable energy promotion law in Korea. As a result geothermal-energy using heat pump system is emerging as a effective alternative for realistic and economic plan although design guidelines and construction code for the system is in progress and technical data is far from sufficient. The quantitative analysis on the performance of geothermal-energy using heat pump system is insufficient for appropriate design of it. In this paper, cooling performance of geothermal-energy using heat pump system of residential and retail etc. mixed-use building has been analyzed on the basis of temperature comparison between inlet and outlet of heat exchangers of the operating system. Additionally, dry-bulb temperature and relative humidity have been measured and analyzed together as an index of indoor thermal environment.

A Study on the description of Horizontal Geothermal Heat pump Type on Small Residential House (소규모 주택에 대한 수평형 지열 히트펌프 형태 결정에 관한 연구)

  • Yun, Jang-Ryeol;Cho, Sung-Woo;Choi, Jung-Min
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.328-332
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    • 2011
  • The conclusion is derived from the arranged results and using a simulation by determining the shape of an optimum heat pump which is appropriate for small scale houses. It is concluded as 3 meters long for the laying depth of underground piping of the horizontal type geothermal heat pump system in regard to the 5 RT capacity standard that is suitable for a small scale house. The shape of the horizontal type geothermal heat pump system for a small scale house is theThree pipe shape whose trench length is short and pipe length laid in a trench is short. It is 9 for the number of laying pipes that is most appropriate to system.

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Performance Characteristics and Economic Assessment of Heat Pump Systems with the Various Heat Source (열원에 따른 열펌프의 성능 비교 및 경제성 평가)

  • Park, Cha-Sik;Park, Kyoung-Woo;Kwon, Oh-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.23-31
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    • 2011
  • The objectives of this study are to analyze the performance of a heat pump system with the various heat source and to carry out economic assessment for the heat pump system. The COP of the river water and ground source heat pump system was 20% higher than that of the air source heat pump system because river water and geothermal provide stable operating temperature compared with air temperature throughout the year. In addition, the economic assessment of a heat pump system using air, river water, and geothermal as a heat source was carried out. The ratio of the life cycle operating cost to the life cycle cost increased with the increase of building capacity. The payback period was found to be less than 3.3 and 4.5 years, respectively when the capacity of the river water and ground source heat pump was larger than 10 RT.