• 대한설비공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한설비공학회 2006년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.621-626
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• 2006

Regenerative evaporative cooling is known as an environment-friendly and energy efficient cooling method. A regenerative evaporative cooler (REC) consisting of dry and wet channels is able to cool down the air stream below the inlet wet-bulb temperature. In the regenerative evaporative cooler, the cooling effect is achieved by redirecting a portion of the air flown out of the dry channel into the wet channel and spraying water onto the redirected air. In this study, a horizontal regenerative cooler is considered. In the horizontal regenerative cooler, the flow direction of evaporating water has a right angle to the flow direction of supply air. This difference was investigated with visualization technique and simplified 2-module performance test was done in a thermo-environment chamber. Optimum design configuration is changed due to the wet channel which are easily fully covered with evaporating water and block the air flow inside the channel. Applying the optimized fin configuration design with the highly wetting surface treatment, a regenerative evaporative cooler was fabricated and tested to Identify the cooling performance improvement and operation characteristics. From the experimental results at the intake condition of $32^{\circ}C$ and 50% RH, the supply temperature was measured to be around $23.4^{\circ}C$. The cooling effectiveness based on the inlet dewpoint temperature was evaluated 73% which is almost close to the design expectation.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.39-47
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• 2005

재생냉각형 액체로켓 연소기 챔버 냉각 채널부의 상온상태의 구조해석과 검증시험을 수행하였다. 재생냉각 연소기 냉각 채널부에 사용하는 구리 합금의 상온 인장시험을 수행하여 재료의 탄소성 물성 값을 확보하였으며 냉각 채널의 탄-소성해석은 이 물성 값을 이용하여 수행하였다. 해석결과의 검증을 위해서 평판형태의 냉각채널 시편을 제작하여 강도시험을 수행하였다. 탄-소성 구조해석 결과와 시편의 수압시험 결과 사이에 약간의 차이는 있지만 비교적 잘 일치하였으며 채널의 단면 두께가 작기 때문에 제작상의 가공오차가 채널의 구조적인 안정성에 큰 영향을 미치는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2005년도 제24회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.134-138
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• 2005

재생냉각형 액체로켓 연소기 챔버의 냉각 채널부의 상온상태의 구조설계와 검증시험을 수행하였다. 재생냉각 연소기 냉각 채널부에 사용하는 크롬동 합금의 상온 인장시험을 수행하여 재료의 탄소성 물성치를 확보하였으며 냉각 채널의 탄소성해석은 이 물성치를 이용하여 수행하였다. 해석결과의 검증을 위해서 평판형태의 냉각채널 시편을 제작하여 강도시험을 수행하였다. 탄소성 구조해석과 결과와 시편의 수압시험 데이터를 비교한 결과 구조해석과 시험이 약간의 차이는 있지만 비교적 잘 일치하였으며 채널의 단면 두께가 작기 때문에 제작상의 가공오차가 채널의 구조적인 안정성에 큰 영향을 미치는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.154-156
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• 2008

A prototype of the desiccant cooling system with a regenerative evaporative cooler was built and tested for the performance evaluation. The regenerative evaporative cooler is to cool a stream of air using evaporative cooling effect without an inc6rease in the humidity ratio. It is comprised of multiple pairs of dry and wet channels and the evaporation water is supplied only to the wet channels. By redirecting a portion of the air flown out of the dry channel into the wet channel, the air can be cooled down to a temperature lower than its inlet wet-bulb temperature at the outlet end of the dry channels. Incorporating a regenerative evaporative cooler eliminates the need for deep dehumidification in the desiccant rotor that is necessary to achieve low air temperature in the system with a direct evaporative cooler. Subsequently, the regenerative evaporative cooler enables the use of low temperature heat source to regenerate the dehumidifier permitting the desiccant cooling system more beneficial compared with other thermal driven air conditioners. At the ARI condition with the regeneration temperature of $60^{\circ}C$, the prototype showed the cooling capacity of 4.4 kW and COP of 0.75.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.447-454
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• 2008

The regenerative evaporative cooler(REC) is to cool a stream of air using evaporative cooling effect without an increase in the humidity ratio. In the regenerative evaporative cooler, the air can be cooled down to a temperature lower than its inlet wet-bulb temperature. Besides the cooling performance, for practical application of the regenerative evaporative cooler, the compactness of the system is also a very important factor to be considered. In this respect, three different configurations, i.e., the flat plate type, the corrugated plate type, and the finned channel type are investigated and compared for the most compact configuration. The optimal structure of each configuration is obtained individually to minimize the volume for a given effectiveness within a limit of the pressure drop. Comparing the three optimal structures, the finned channel type is found to give the most compact structure among the considered configurations. The volume of the regenerative cooler can be reduced to 1/8 by adopting the finned channel type as compared to that of the flat plate type.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제31권10호
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• pp.1046-1052
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• 2007

Elastic-plastic structural analysis for regenerative cooling chamber of gas generator was performed. Uniaxial tension test was conducted for STS316L at room and high temperature conditions to get the material data necessary for the structural analysis of the chamber which was operated under thermal load and high internal pressure. Physical properties including thermal conductivity, specific heat and thermal expansion were also measured. The structural analysis for four different types of regenerative cooling chamber of gas generator revealed that increased cooling performance decreased the thermal load and strain of the cooling channel structure. The results propose that in order for the regenerative cooling gas generator chamber to have high structural stability with endurance to high mechanical and thermal loads, it is important for the chamber to be designed to have high cooling performance.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회A
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• pp.802-807
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• 2007

Elastic-plastic structural analysis for regenerative cooling chamber of gas generator was performed. Uniaxial tension test was also conducted for STS316L at room and high temperature conditions to get the material data necessary for the structural analysis of the chamber which is operated under thermal load and high internal pressure. Physical properties including thermal conductivity, specific heat and thermal expansion data were also measured. The structural analysis for four different types of regenerative cooling chamber of gas generator revealed that increased cooling performance decreases the thermal load and strain of the cooling channel. The results propose that in order for the regenerative cooling gas generator chamber to have high structural stability with endurance to high mechanical and thermal loads, it is important for the chamber to be designed to have high cooling performance.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.462-469
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• 2008

A regenerative evaporative cooler has been fabricated and tested for the evaluation of cooling performance. The regenerative evaporative cooler is a kind of indirect evaporative cooler comprised of multiple pairs of dry and wet channels. The air flowing through the dry channels is cooled without any change in the humidity and at the outlet of the dry channel a part of air is redirected to the wet channel where the evaporative cooling takes place. The regenerative evaporative cooler fabricated in this study consists of the multiple pairs of finned channels in counterflow arrangement. The fins and heat transfer plates were made of aluminum and brazed for good thermal connection. Thin porous layer coating was applied to the internal surface of the wet channel to improve surface wettability. The regenerative evaporative cooler was placed in a climate chamber and tested at various operation condition. The cooling performance is found greatly influenced by the evaporation water flow rate. To improve the cooling performance, the evaporation water flow rate needs to be minimized as far as the even distribution of the evaporation water is secured. At the inlet condition of $32^{\circ}C$ and 50%RH, the outlet temperature was measured at $22^{\circ}C$ which is well below the inlet wet-bulb temperature of $23.7^{\circ}C$.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2011년도 제37회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.163-170
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• 2011

2,500 N급 과산화수소/케로신 이원 추력기의 성능 향상 및 다양한 임무에 적용하기 위하여 재생냉각의 적용가능성을 검토하였다. 1-D 계산을 통해 과산화수소를 냉각제로 하는 경우에 대한 계산을 수행하였다. 설계된 재생냉각 연소기의 노즐 목에서의 열 유속은 18~20 $MW/m^2$ 로 예측되었으며, 그에 따른 유로의 너비는 2.5 mm 높이는 0.45 mm로 설계 되었다. 설계된 유로형상을 바탕으로 냉각 유로 내에서의 압력강하를 예측하기 위한 평판형 모델을 제작하여 실험을 진행하였고, 수치해석결과와 비교를 수행하였다. 그 결과, 수치해석과 실험결과와의 최대 오차는 약 13%, 평균 오차는 약 5%로 계산되었다.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.25-35
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 액체로켓의 엔진조건에 부합하는 재생냉각 시스템을 설계하는 방법을 다루었다. 정상상태에서 로켓 추력실에서의 열전달 과정은 연소가스로부터 벽면으로 대류와 복사가 이루어지고, 다시 연소실 벽을 통해 전도된 후 마지막으로 냉각제로 대류열전달 된다. criterial method와 integral method를 이용하여 열전달량을 구하고, 이를 이용하여 냉각채널을 설계하였으며, 러시아 냉각 시스템 설계 코드의 결과와 비교하였다. 복잡한 설계과정을 정형화된 logic을 구현하여 냉각 시스템 설계를 용이하게 하였으며, 설계변수를 변화시켜 얻어진 계산결과를 통하여 각 인자의 영향을 정성적으로 살펴보았다.