• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.307-310
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• 2016

The operational cost for maintaining the superconductivity of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cables needs to be reduced for feasible operation. It depends on factors such as AC loss and heat transfer from the outside. Effective operation requires design optimization and suitable operational conditions. Generally, it is known that critical currents increase and AC losses decrease as the operational temperature of liquid nitrogen ($LN_2$) is lowered. However, the cryo-cooler consumes more power to lower the temperature. To determine the effective operational temperature of the HTS cable while considering the critical current and AC loss, critical currents of the HTS cable conductor were measured under various temperature conditions using sub-cooled $LN_2$ by Stirling cryo-cooler. Next, AC losses were measured under the same conditions and their variations were analyzed. We used the results to select suitable operating conditions while considering the cryo-cooler's power consumption. We then recommended the effective operating temperature for the HTS cable system installed in an actual power grid in KEPCO's 154/22.9 kV transformer substation.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.543-551
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• 2007

The performance characteristics of water-chilling heat pump using $CO_2$ with respect to variation of inlet temperature and mass flow rate of secondary fluid was investigated experimentally. An experimental apparatus is consisted of a compressor, a gas cooler, an expansion valve, an evaporator and a liquid receiver. All heat exchangers used in the test rig are counter-flow-type heat exchangers with concentric dual tubes, which ate made of copper. The gas cooler and the evaporator consist of 6 and 4 straight sections respectively arranged in parallel, each has 2.4 m length. The experimental results were summarized as the followings : As inlet temperature of secondary fluid in the gas cooler increases from $10^{\circ}C$ to $40^{\circ}C$, the compressor work, heating capacity and heating COP were varied to 37.8%, -13%, -35.9%, respectively. The heating capacity, compressor work, heating COP were turned into 23.3%, 6.42%, 13.1%, respectively when ass flow rate of secondary fluid in the evaporator increases from 70 g/s to 150 g/s. The above tendency is similar with performance variation with respect to temperature variation of secondary fluid in the conventional vapor compression cycle.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.133-135
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• 2003

Cryogenic systems are requirement for the operation of HTS power cables. In general, HTS power cables require temperature below 77K, a temperature that can be achieved from the liquid nitrogen at latm or sub-cooled LN2 above latm. HTS power cable needs sufficient refrigeration to overcome its low temperature heat loading. This loading typically cones in two forms : (1) heat leaks from the surroundings and (2) internal heat generation. This paper explains the cooling test system of 10m HTS power cable. This system is composed of storage dewar, auto fill system, core cryostat and cold-box. Storage dewar is a LN2 storage tank and auto fill system is a LN2 supply device to the sub-cooler, Core cryostat is a LN2 flow line. Cold box is a control unit of temperature and flow rate. It is composed of control valve, flow meter, sub-cooler and circulation pump, etc..

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.459-465
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• 2009

This paper considers the influence of internal heat exchangers to the efficiency of a refrigerating system. These internal heat exchangers(liquid-suction or suction-line heat exchangers) can, in some cases, yield improved system performance while in other cases they degrade system performance. A steady state mathematical model is used to analysis the performance characteristics of refrigeration system with internal heat exchanger. The influence of operating conditions, such as gas cooler pressure and evaporation temperatures, superheat in the evaporator and temperature of gas cooler outlet, to optimal dimensions of the heat exchanger is also analyzed in the paper. The main results were summarized as follows : the mass flowrate of R744, inner diameter tube and length of internal heat exchanger, and effectiveness have an effect on the cooling capacity, compressor work and RCI(Relative capacity index) of this system. With a thorough grasp of these effect, it is necessary to design the R744 compression refrigeration cycle using internal heat exchanger.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.61-67
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• 2017

소자의 트랜지스터 밀도가 급속히 높아짐에 따라 소자 내부에서 발생하는 열 유속(heat flux) 또한 빠르게 증가하고 있다. 소자의 고열 문제는 소자의 성능과 신뢰성 감소에 크게 영향을 미친다. 기존의 냉각방법들은 이러한 고열문제를 해결하기 위해선 한계점에 다다랐고, 그 대안으로 liquid heat pipe, thermoelectric cooler, thermal Si via, 등 여러 냉각방법이 연구되고 있다. 본 실험에서는 직선형 마이크로채널과 TSV(through Si via)를 이용한 액체 냉각시스템을 연구하였다. 두 종류의 냉매(DI water와 ethylene glycol(70 wt%))와 3 종류의 금속 범프(Ag, Cu, Cr/Au/Cu)의 영향을 분석하였으며, 대류, 복사 및 액체 냉각으로 인한 총 열 유속을 계산하여 비교하였다. 냉각 전후의 냉각시스템의 표면온도는 적외선현미경을 통해 측정하였고, 마이크로채널 내 액체 흐름은 형광현미경을 이용하여 측정하였다. 총 열 유속은 ethylene glycol(70 wt%)의 경우 가열 온도 $200^{\circ}C$에서 $2.42W/cm^2$로 나타났으며 대부분 액체 냉각 효과에 의한 결과로 확인되었다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.926-933
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• 2012

일반적으로 비료용 인산은 황산과 인광석의 분해반응에 의해 생산되는데 이 반응은 발열반응으로써 온도가 상승하게 되면 생산수율 저하의 문제점이 따른다. 이를 해결하기 위해 인산제조공정에서는 불산(HF)과 사불화규소(SiF4)가 함유된 증기(vapor, $80^{\circ}C$)를 배출시키는 진공냉각기(vacuum cooler)를 운영하고 있으나, 이 과정에서 냉매 및 폴리실리콘 원료로 활용가능한 귀중한 자원(불소 & 규소)들이 버려지고 있다. 본 연구는 인산제조공정 부산물인 규불산(H2SiF6)으로 회수하기 위한 기초 실험연구로서, 불소회수 후 인산슬러리 내 불소 농도변화를 분석하여 규불산 회수가능량을 예측하였다. 회수 후 불소농도는 약 0.12wt% 감소하였고, 대상 비료공장의 생산규모를 고려할 경우 불소 회수가능량은 약 5,509 톤/년이었다. 한편 현장에서, 규불산의 농도는 0.35wt%에서 7.33wt%까지 농축되었고, 진공냉각기로부터 배출되는 증기유량은 $51,000m^3/hr$이었다. 또한 Pilot실험을 통한 불소 회수효율은 76.74%로 나타나, 실제 회수할 수 있는 규불산량은 5,340 톤/년으로 추정되었다.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.141-144
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• 2015

The superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) is an electric power device that limits the fault current immediately in a power grid. Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) has been developing a 154 kV, 2 kA SFCL since 2011 to protect power grids from increasing fault current and improve the stability and quality of electric power. This SFCL adopts 2G YBCO wires and operates at 71 K and 5 bars. In this paper, a cooling system for the 154 kV SFCL and its cooling test results are reported. This cooling system uses a Stirling-type cooler to make sub-cooled liquid nitrogen ($LN_2$), which cools the superconductor modules of the SFCL. The $LN_2$ is circulated between the cooler and the cryostat that contains superconductor modules. The $LN_2$ also plays the role of a high voltage insulator between the modules and the cryostat, so the pressure was maintained at 5 bars for high insulation performance. After installation in a test site, the cooling characteristics of the system were tested. In this operation test, some important data were measured such as temperature distribution in $LN_2$, pressure change, performance of the heat exchanger, and cooling capacity of the total system. Consequently, the results indicate that the cooling system operates well as designed.

• International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.39-50
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• 2000

Thermodynamic cycle analysis is presented to estimate the maximum liquefaction rate of hydrogen for various systems using a Gifford-McMahon(GM) cryocooler. Since the present authors` previous experiments showed that the gaseous hydrogen was liquefied approximately at the rate of 5.1 mg/s from the direct contact with a commercial two-stage GM refrigerator, this study has been proposed to predict how much the liquefaction rate can be increased in different configurations using the GM cooler and with improved heat exchangers. The optimal operating conditions have been analytically sought with real properties of normal hydrogen for the Linde-Hampson(L-H) system precooled by single-stage GM, the direct-contact system with two-stage GM, the L-H system precooled by two-stage GM, and the direct-contact system with helium GM-JT (Joule-Thomson). The maximum liquefaction rate has been predicted to be only about 7 times greater than the previous experiment, even though the highly effective heat exchangers may be employed. It is concluded that the liquefaction rate is limited mainly because of the cooling capacity of the commercially available GM cryocoolers and a practical scale of hydrogen liquefaction is possible only if the GM cooler has a greater capacity at 70-100 K.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.558-566
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• 2007

The performance characteristics of water-chilling heat pump using $CO_2$ with respect to variation of refrigerant charge amount was investigated experimentally. An experimental apparatus is consisted of a compressor, a gas cooler, an expansion valve, an evaporator and a liquid receiver. All heat exchangers used in the test rig are counter-flow-type heat exchangers with concentric dual tubes, which are made of copper. The gas cooler and the evaporator consist of 6 and 4 straight sections respectively arranged in parallel, each has 2400 mm length. The experimental results summarize as the followings : As the refrigerant charge ratio of $CO_2$ heat pump system increases, the discharge pressure and compressor ratio increases, but mass flow rate of refrigerant decreases. Also the compressor work increases with the increase of refrigerant charge ratio. However, the heating and cooling capacity of $CO_2$ heat pump decreases as the refrigerant charge ratio increases. The maximum heating COP of $CO_2$ heat pump system presented at 0.25 refrigerant charge ratio. It is possible to confirm the optimum charge ratio of $CO_2$ heat pump system by the viewpoint of heating COP.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2015

전자소자의 다기능, 고밀도, 고성능, 그리고 소형화는 전자 패키지 기술에 초미세 피치 플립 칩, 3D 패키지, 유연 패키지, 등 새로운 기술 패러다임 전환을 가져왔으며, 이로 인해 패키지 된 칩의 열 관리는 소자의 성능을 좌우하는 중요한 요소로 대두되고 있다. Heat sink, heat spreader, TIM, 열전 냉각기, 등 많은 소자 냉각 방법들 중 본 연구에서는 냉매를 이용한 on-chip 액체 냉각 모듈을 Si 웨이퍼에 제작하고, 마이크로 채널 디자인에 따른 냉각 효과를 분석하였다. 마이크로 채널은 딥 반응성 이온 에칭을 이용하여 형성하였고, 3 종류 디자인(straight MC, serpentine MC, zigzag MC)으로 제작하여 마이크로 채널 디자인이 냉각 효율에 미치는 영향을 관찰하였다. 가열온도 $200^{\circ}C$, 냉매 유동속도 150 ml/min의 경우에서 straight MC가 약 $44^{\circ}C$의 높은 냉각 전후의 온도 차를 보였다. 냉매의 흐름과 상 변화는 형광현미경으로 관찰하였으며, 냉각 전후의 온도 차는 적외선현미경을 이용하여 분석하였다.