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A Study on the Application of the Solar Energy Seasonal Storage System Using Sea water Heat Source in the Buildings (해수냉열원을 이용한 태양열계간축열시스템의 건물냉방 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Myung-Rae;Yoon, Jae-Ock
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.56-61
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    • 2009
  • Paradigm depending only on fossil fuel for building heat source is rapidly changing. Accelerating the change, as it has been known, is obligation for reducing green house gas coming from use of fossil fuel, i.e. reaction to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In addition, factors such as high oil price, unstable supply, weapon of petroleum and oil peak, by replacing fossil fuel, contributes to advance of environmental friendly renewable energy which can be continuously reusable. Therefore, current new energy policies, beyond enhancing effectiveness of heat using equipments, are to make best efforts for national competitiveness. Our country supports 11 areas for new renewable energy including sun light, solar heat and wind power. Among those areas, ocean thermal energy specifies tidal power generation using tide of sea, wave and temperature differences, wave power generation and thermal power generation. But heat use of heat source from sea water itself has been excluded as non-utilized energy. In the future, sea water heat source which has not been used so far will be required to be specified as new renewable energy. This research is to survey local heating system in Europe using sea water, central solar heating plants, seasonal thermal energy store and to analyze large scale central solar heating plants in German. Seasonal thermal energy store necessarily need to be equipped with large scale thermal energy store. Currently operating central solar heating system is a effective method which significantly enhances sharing rate of solar heat in a way that stores excessive heat generating in summer and then replenish insufficient heat for winter. Construction cost for this system is primarily dependent on large scale seasonal heat store and this high priced heat store merely plays its role once per year. Since our country is faced with 3 directional sea, active research and development for using sea water heat as cooling and heating heat source is required for seashore villages and building units. This research suggests how to utilize new energy in a way that stores cooling heat of sea water into seasonal thermal energy store when temperature of sea water is its lowest temperature in February based on West Sea and then uses it as cooling heat source when cooling is necessary. Since this method utilizes seasonal thermal energy store from existing central solar heating plant for heating and cooling purpose respectively twice per year maximizing energy efficiency by achieving 2 seasonal thermal energy store, active research and development is necessarily required for the future.

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Small-Capacity Solar Cooling System by Desiccant Cooling Technology (태양열 이용 소용량 제습냉방시스템)

  • Lee, Dae-Young;Kwon, Chi-Ho
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.05a
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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.

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An Experimental Study on Low-Temperature Behavior of Stratified Fluids in a Square Cavity with Upper Cooling Surface (상부에 냉각면이 있는 정방형내 이종유체의 저온거동에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Lee, D.S.;Kim, B.C.
    • Solar Energy
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2000
  • An experimental study on the stratified fluids with water and silicon oil of same volume in the cavity with upper cooling surface was carried out to investigate the flow characteristics, heat transfer through the interface of fluids, and the applications of thermal behaviors in a square cavity. The experiments were performed with variation of initial temperature and cooling surface temperature. The temperature drop of oil was faster than that of water and freezing was initiated from the interface of oil and water and propagated downward. For the water above $4^{\circ}C$, the cooling rate was faster than that below $4^{\circ}C$ and showed almost same temperature distribution but for the water that of below $4^{\circ}C$, it showed the stable stratified temperature distribution. The lower the initial temperature and the higher the cooling surface temperature was, the longer the supercooling duration.

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Nocturnal Radiant Cooling during the Winter by the Plate Viewing the Sky (겨울 야간 하늘에 노출된 평판에 의한 복사냉각 실험)

  • Byun, Ki-Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2008
  • The radiant cooling(RC) effects are studied during the winter night. The plate was viewing the nighttime sky. The data were collected at the rooftop of the Engineering building at the Dongguk University in Seoul, Korea. As observed during the summer night, the plate temperature was lower than ambient temperature under the RC favorable conditions. The parameters under study are the wind velocity, cloud index, and visibility for given system size and surface condition. The results follow the same tendency with these parameters as observed from the previous study for the summer night. As long as the wind velocity is less than around 2 m/s, the radiant cooling was observed with the system under study. In some cases, the radiant cooling temperature differences (RCTD) are higher than those for the summer night. The larger the RCTD as the wind velocity decreases and as the sky becomes clear.

Performance Characteristics of a Liquid-Metal Heat Pipe for igh-temperature Solar Thermal Devices Depending on the Operating Conditions (고온 태양열기기용 액체금속 히트파이프의 작동조건에 따른 성능 특성)

  • Park, Cheol-Min;Lee, Jung-Ryun;Boo, Joon-Hong;Kang, Yong-Heack
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.247-250
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    • 2009
  • Sodium heat pipe for high-temperature solar thermal application was manufactured and tested for transient and steady-state operations. Total length of the heat pipe was 650 mm and the outer diameter was 12.7 mm. Thermal performance was compared experimentally for two different cooling methods of the forced and the natural convection cooling in the heat pipe condenser. During the experiment, the maximum temperature was about 1300K, and different cooling methods were applied to the condenser region to charge the operating temperature. The effective thermal conductivity and the thermal resistance were investigated as a function of heat flux, heat transport length, and operating temperature.

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Design and Manufacture of Linear Fresnel Reflector Solar Thermal System (선형 프레넬 반사판 태양열 발전시스템의 설계 및 제작)

  • Kim, Haneol;Kim, Jongkyu
    • Journal of Institute of Convergence Technology
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.1-4
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    • 2018
  • In this study, design and manufacture of LFR (Linerar Fresnel Reflector) system was performed for solar thermal absorption cooling. The LFR system was designed considering the expansion and convenience to be installed according to the cooling capacity of the applicable building. Twelve LFR modules with a total reflection area of $204m^2$ were installed. The automatic tracking system was applied to track the sun during the daytime.

Economic Analysis of Cooling-Heating System Using Ground Source Heat in Horticultural Greenhouse (시설원예의 지열냉·난방시스템 경제성 분석)

  • Ryoo, Yeon-Su;Joo, Hye-Jin;Kim, Jin-Wook;Park, Mi-Lan
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.60-67
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    • 2012
  • Government Geothermal Cooling-Heating Projects has made efforts to reduce GHG(Greenhouse Gas) emissions and to manage cost of greenhouse farm households. This study evaluated the economic benefits of heating load rate of change by comparing Geothermal Cooling-Heating System with the existing system(greenhouse diesel heating) in the Government Geothermal Cooling-Heating Projects. Economic analysis results shows that, 1) When installing the Cooling-Heating system according to the ratio of 70% heating load in policy standards, the geothermal cooling-heating system has economic efficiency with greenhouse type or scale independent because the investment cost is recovered within 7 years. And It was more economic efficiency the ratio of 50% heating load than70% heating load. 2) When installing the Cooling-Heating system according to the glass greenhouse of the ratio of 90% heating load, pay period of investment cost is recovered within 5 years. Therefore it is necessary to apply flexible heating sharing according to greenhouse type or scale.

Performance Evaluation of Fixed-concentrated Photovoltaic/Thermal Hybrid Panel using Reflector (반사판을 이용한 고정식 집속형 태양광.열복합패널의 성능평가)

  • Seo, Yu-Jin;Huh, Chang-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.85-92
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    • 2005
  • One of the most effective methods for utilizing solar energy is to combine thermal solar and optical energy simultaneously using a hybrid panel. Many systems using various kinds of photovoltaic panels have already been constructed. But utilizing solar energy by means of a hybrid panel with concentrator has not been to be attempted yet. Normally if sunlight is directed on the solar cell, and there is no increase in temperature, the absorption energy of each cell will increase per unit area. In a silicon solar cell. however, cell conversion efficiency decreases according to the increasing temperature. Therefore, to maintain cell conversion efficiency under normal condition, it is necessary to keep the cell at operating temperature. we design and make new hybrid panel with cooling system to prevent increasing of temperature on cell, collect effectively thermal energy. We compared performance of new hybrid panel with PV module and thermal panel. We also evaluated conversion efficiency, electric power and thermal capacity and confirmed cooling effect from thermal absorption efficiency.

Study on Characteristics Comparison of Unpowered Cooling and Heating Combined Device using Solar Heat (태양열을 이용한 무동력 냉난방 겸용장치의 특성 비교 연구)

  • Lee, Jaehan;Chun, Taekyu;Yang, Youngjoon
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.20-26
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    • 2018
  • As the global warming due to greenhouse effect has become serious problem, it is necessary to introduce the technology, for instance, such as diversity or saving of energy to reduce the use of fossil fuel. The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics on materials of absorption plate, unpowered and minimum use of power in cooling and heating combined device. As the results, it was observed that, in case of summer, since temperature of absorption device of solar heat(ADSH) was lower than that of no ADSH, cooling effect was insignificant in case of being not installed cold-reservoir. However, in case of winter, heating effect was certified even though the power was not used. At secondhand, the performance of ADSH with Cu was higher 2 times than that of ADSH with Al.