• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.195-206
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• 2003

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells(PEMFC) are very interesting power source due to high power density, simple construction and operation at low temperature. But they have problems such as high cost, improvement of performance and effect of temperature. This problems can be approached using mathematical models which are useful tools for analysis and optimization of fuel cell performance and for heat and water management, in this paper, transient model consists of various energy terms associated with fuel cell operation using the mass and energy balance equation. And water transfer in the membrane is composed of back diffusion and electro-osmotic drag. The temperature calculated by transient model approximately agreed with the temperature measured by experiment in constant current condition.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.38-41
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• 2008

The relation between surface emissivity and temperature distribution is experimentally and analytically investigated for a conduction-cooled metal plate in vacuum. Experimental set-up consists of a rectangular metal plate placed vertically in a cryostat and thermally anchored to the coldhead of a GM cryocooler at the top. Temperature is measured at a number of locations over the plate with platinum resistors mounted on the plate. A parallel analysis on the balance of heat conduction through the plate and thermal radiation on its surface is performed to numerically calculate the temperature distribution having the same boundary conditions as experiment. By comparing the two results, an average emissivity of the plate is roughly estimated for different metal plates and different surface conditions. The estimated emissivity in present study is less than the listed values for highly polished stainless steel, and meets a fairly good agreement for oxidized copper surface.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.78-82
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• 2011

온실의 환기설계 기준 설정 및 단동 플라스틱 온실의 원형 천창 설치 가이드라인 제정을 위한 기초자료를 제공할 목적으로 천창이 설치된 토마토 재배 단동 온실에서 환기실험을 통하여 자연환기 성능을 분석하고, 열평형 모델을 이용하여 온실 재배 토마토의 증발 추정하였다. 직경 60cm의 원형 천창을 지붕의 중앙에 8m 간격으로 설치한 단동온실의 자연환기 성능을 실험한 결과 환기회수는 분당 0.02~0.32회(평균 0.17회 $min^{-1}$)의 범위를 보여 상당히 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 상업용 온실의 권장환기율과 비교하면 6m 간격으로 설치할 경우에는 봄이나 가을철에 필요한 환기량을 충족할 수 있을 것으로 판단되며, 여름철 권장환기를 위해서는 2m 정도의 간격으로 설치한 해야만 가능할 것으로 판단되므로 광투과를 저해하지 않으면서 지붕의 개구면적을 확대할 수 있는 방안을 찾아야 할 것으로 생각된다. 실험에 사용한 단동 온실은 인접 동 간격이 1.2m에 불과한 밀집된 단지 내에 위치하고 있어서 측창 주변의 외부 풍속이 최대 $0.9m{\cdot}s^{-1}$(평균 $0.4m{\cdot}s^{-1}$에 불과하고 풍력에 의한 환기효과를 기대하기가 어려웠다. 환기량과 풍속 및 실내외 온도차와의 관계를 비교 분석해 본 결과 중력환기가 우세함을 확인 할 수 있었다. 본 환기실험 자료를 온실의 환기설계를 위한 열평형모델에 적용하여 증발산계수를 추정해 본 결과 0.39~0.85의 범위(평균 0.62)를 보였고, 다른 연구자들이 제시하는 일반적인 온실의 설계 권장 값과 유사한 경향을 나타냈다. 따라서 토마토 재배 단동 플라스틱 온실의 환기설계에서 증발산계수는 0.6 정도를 사용하면 적당할 것으로 판단된다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2008

The last stage blade of the low pressure steam turbine remarkably affects turbine plant performance and availability Turbine manufacturers are continuously developing the low pressure last stage blades using the latest technology in order to achieve higher reliability and improved efficiency. They tend to lengthen the last stage blade and apply shrouds at the blades to enhance turbine efficiency. The long blades increase the blade tip circumferential speed and water droplet erosion at shroud is anticipated. Parts of integral shrouds of the last stage 40 inch blades were cracked and liberated recently in a combined cycle power plant. In order to analyze the root cause of the last stage blades shroud cracks, we investigated operational history, heat balance diagram, damaged blades shape, fractured surface of damaged blades, microstructure examination and design data, etc. Root causes were analyzed as the improper material and design of the blade. Notches induced by erosion and blade shroud were failed eventually by high cycle fatigue. This paper describes the root cause analysis and countermeasures for the steam turbine last stage blade shroud cracks of the combined cycle power plant.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2010

Power generation systems based on the oxy-coal combustion with carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) capability are being proposed and discussed lately. Although a large number of lab scale studies for oxy-coal power plant have been made, studies of pilot scale or commercial scale power plant are not enough. Only a few demonstration projects for oxy-coal power plant are publicized recently. The proposed systems are evolving and various alternatives are to be comparatively evaluated. This paper presents a proposed approach for performance evaluation of a commercial 100 MWe class power plant, which is currently being considered for 'retrofitting' for the demonstration of the concept. The system is configurated based on design and operating conditions with proper assumptions. System components to be included in the discussion are listed. Evaluation criteria in terms of performance are summarized based on the system heat and mass balance and simple performance parameters, such as the fuel to power efficiency and brief introduction of the second law analysis. Also, gas composition is identified for additional analysis to impurities in the system including the purity of oxygen and unwanted gaseous components of nitrogen, argon and oxygen in air separation unit and $CO_2$ processing unit.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.372-376
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• 2022

Since the ZnO varistor is a semiconductor device, the internal thermal distribution during the varistor operation is recognized as an important factor in the performance and deterioration of the varistor. For an optimal varistor structure design, the thermal runaway phenomenon during the varistor operation was interpreted using the Comsol 5.2 analysis program by a finite element analysis. The maximum temperature of the center measured in the cross section of the ZnO varistor was confirmed to increase as the temperature moved from the lower electrode to the center towards the upper electrode up to 572.6 K. The electrodes are thinned so that the influence of the Schottky barrier is not great. The heat gradient balance is determined to be improved when the electrode of the hybrid form is introduced. The thickness, density, pore distribution, impurity uniformity, and particle size of the ZnO varistor are required, and it is determined that the pyrolysis gradient will be improved regardless of the electrode thickness. When these results are applied to design the ZnO varistor, the optimal structure of the ZnO varistor can be obtained.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.53-66
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• 1980

The research work is concerned with the analytical and experimental studies on the heat transfer phenomenon around the underground concrete digester used for biogas production Systems. A mathematical and computational method was developed to estimate heat losses from underground cylindrical concrete digester used for biogas production systems. To test its feasibility and to evaluate thermal parameters of materials related, the method was applied to six physical model digesters. The cylindrical concrete digester was taken as a physical model, to which the model,atical model of heat balance can be applied. The mathematical model was transformed by means of finite element method and used to analyze temperature distribution with respect to several boundary conditions and design parameters. The design parameters of experimental digesters were selected as; three different sizes 40cm by 80cm, 80cm by 160cm and l00cm by 200cm in diameter and height; two different levels of insulation materials-plain concrete and vermiculite mixing in concrete; and two different types of installation-underground and half-exposed. In order to carry out a particular aim of this study, the liquid within the digester was substituted by water, and its temperature was controlled in five levels-35。 C, 30。 C, 25。 C, 20。C and 15。C; and the ambient air temperature and ground temperature were checked out of the system under natural winter climate conditions. The following results were drawn from the study. 1.The analytical method, by which the estimated values of temperature distribution around a cylindrical digester were obtained, was able to be generally accepted from the comparison of the estimated values with the measured. However, the difference between the estimated and measured temperature had a trend to be considerably increased when the ambient temperature was relatively low. This was mainly related variations of input parameters including the thermal conductivity of soil, applied to the numerical analysis. Consequently, the improvement of these input data for the simulated operation of the numerical analysis is expected as an approach to obtain better refined estimation. 2.The difference between estimated and measured heat losses was shown to have the similar trend to that of temperature distribution discussed above. 3.It was found that a map of isothermal lines drawn from the estimated temperature distribution was very useful for a general observation of the direction and rate of heat transfer within the boundary. From this analysis, it was interpreted that most of heat losses is passed through the triangular section bounded within 45 degrees toward the wall at the bottom edge of the digesten Therefore, any effective insulation should be considered within this region. 4.It was verified by experiment that heat loss per unit volume of liquid was reduced as the size of the digester became larger For instance, at the liquid temperature of 35˚ C, the heat loss per unit volume from the 0. 1m$^3$ digester was 1, 050 Kcal/hr m$^3$, while at for 1. 57m$^3$ digester was 150 Kcal/hr m$^3$. 5.In the light of insulation, the vermiculite concrete was consistently shown to be superior to the plain concrete. At the liquid temperature ranging from 15。 C to 350 C, the reduction of heat loss was ranged from 5% to 25% for the half-exposed digester, while from 10% to 28% for the fully underground digester. 6.In the comparison of heat loss between the half-exposed and underground digesters, the heat loss from the former was fr6m 1,6 to 2, 6 times as much as that from the latter. This leads to the evidence that the underground digester takes advantage of heat conservation during winter.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.136-146
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• 2019

A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) based hybrid desiccant cooling system model is developed to study the effect of fuel utilization rate of the SOFC on the reduction of energy consumption and $CO_2$ emission. The SOFC-based hybrid desiccant cooling system consists of an SOFC system and a Hybrid desiccant cooling system (HDCS). The SOFC system includes a stack and balance of plant (BOP), and HDCS. The HDCS consists of desiccant rotor, indirect evaporative cooler, electric heat pump (EHP), and heat exchangers. In this study, using energy load data of a commercial office building and SOFC-based HDCS model, the amount of ton of oil equivalent (TOE) and ton of $CO_2$ ($tCO_2$) are calculated and compared with the TOE and $tCO_2$ generation of the EHP using grid electricity.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.2276-2296
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• 2022

This study validates the applicability of the CUPID code for simulating subcooled wall boiling under high-pressure conditions against number of DEBORA tests. In addition, a new numerical technique in which the interfacial momentum non-drag forces are calculated at the cell faces rather than the center is presented. This method reduced the numerical instability often triggered by calculating these terms at the cell center. Simulation results showed good agreement against the experimental data except for the bubble sizes in the bulk. Thus, a new model to calculate the Sauter mean diameter is proposed. Next, the effect of the relationship between the bubble departure diameter (D_dep) and the nucleation site density (N) on the performance of the Wall Heat Flux Partitioning (WHFP) model is investigated. Three correlations for D_dep and two for N are grouped into six combinations. Results by the different combinations show that despite the significant difference in the calculated D_dep, most combinations reasonably predict vapor distribution and liquid temperature. Analysis of the axial propagations of wall boiling parameters shows that the N term stabilizes the inconsistences in D_dep values by following a behavior reflective of D_dep to keep the total energy balance. Moreover, ratio of the heat flux components vary widely along the flow depending on the combinations. These results suggest that separate validation of D_dep correlations may be insufficient since its performance relies on the accompanying N correlations.

• 한국토양환경학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.137-147
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• 1999

Cahn-balance에 의한 TGA(thermal gravimetric analysis)와 heat pipe가 내삽된 유동상 탈착 시스템을 이용한 실험 및 이론적 고찰을 통해 유동상 열탈착조에서 디젤오염토양의 열탈착 모델링을 확립하였다. 유류에 오염된 토양의 탈착 특성을 살펴본 결과, 비다공성(nonporous)토양("soil A")의 경우 유류 탈착 빠르게 진행되는데 반해서 다공성(porous)토양("soil B")의 경우 탈착이 지연되는 현상을 관측하였는데 이는 내부 기공에서 탈착된 유류성분이 외부로 빠져 나오는데 걸리는 시간이 비다공성 토양에 비해 상대적으로 길기 때문으로 사료된다. 또한, 확산지배 탈착 영역에서는 탈착속도는 탈착가스의 유속과는 거의 상관없는 경향을 보였다. 연속식 유동상에서의 탈착효율에 영향을 미치는 변수는 탈착조 온도, 유속, 토양 공급량 이였다. 모든 온도 범위 내에서, 유동화속도가 클수록 잔류오일의 양이 감소하는, 즉 탈착효율이 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 특히 낮은 탈착온도 일수록 유동화 유속의 증가에 따라 뚜렷한 탈착효율의 증가효과를 관측할 수 있었다. 반면에 일정한 유속 하에서 토양공급 속도의 증가에 따라 탈착 효율은 감소하였다. 공급속도가 높을 때에는 온도와는 상관없이 잔류오염물의 농도가 대체적으로 높았는데, 이는 screw feeder를 통해 유입되는 오염토양이 충분한 체류시간을 거치지 않고 빠져나감으로써 충분한 열적 교환 및 물질이동이 이루어지지 않았음을 나타내주고 있다. 본 연구에서는 Fickian 확산계수를 결합시킨 Kunii-Levenspiel 모델을 통하여 유동화 속도에 따른 오염토양의 탈착 경향을 살퍼본 결과 탈착 효율 $A_X$는 전체 물질전달계수 (${K_d}_f$)와 유체유속과 기포상 승속도의 비($u_o$$u_b$)의 변화에 크게 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다. 모델링의 예측 결과로부터 유동층내의 확산 지배에 의한 오염토양의 탈착효율은 여러 조업변수의 조합에 의해 최적화 할 수 있음을 알 수 있었고, 아주 낮은 최소 유동화속도에서도 높은 탈착효율을 얻을 수 있다는 사실을 확인하였다. 얻을 수 있다는 사실을 확인하였다.