• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.30-36
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• 2007

Geothermal heat pump systems use the earth as a heat source in heating mode and a heat sink in cooling mode. These systems can be used for heating or cooling systems in farm facilities such as greenhouses for protected horticulture, cattle sheds, mushroom house, etc. A horizontal type means that a geothermal heat exchanger is laid in the trench buried in 1.2 to 1.8 m depth. Because a horizontal type has advantages of low installation, operation and maintenance costs compared to a vertical type, it is easy to be adopted to agriculture. In this study, to heat and cool farm facilities and obtain basic data for practical application of horizontal geothermal heat pump systems in agriculture, a horizontal geothermal heat pump system of 10 RT scale was installed in greenhouse. Heating performance of this system was estimated. The horizontal geothermal heat pump used in this study had heating COP of 4.57 at soil temperature of 14$^{\circ}C$ for depth of 1.75m and heating COP of 3.75 at soil temperature of 7$^{\circ}C$ for the same depth. The stratification of water temperature in heat tank appeared during the whole heat rejection period.

• 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.35-42
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• 2018

Among the various ground source heat pump systems, vertical-type heat pump systems have been distributed greatly. Most of the vertical-type ground source heat pump systems have been designed based on the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy Announcement in Korea. In this study, the design process of the vertical-type ground source heat pump system in the announcement was analyzed, and the effects of the design parameters on the ground loop heat exchanger were investigated. Borehole thermal conductivity was the highest dominant design parameter for ground loop heat exchangers. The borehole thermal conductivity was changed according to the pipe and grout thermal conductivity. For optimal design of the ground heat pump system, it is highly recommended that the design process in the announcement will be revised to adopt the various tubes and grout which have higher thermal conductivity. In addition, the certification standard for heat pump unit should be revised to develop the heat pump with a small flow rate.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.117-125
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• 2007

This study proposes a CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics) analysis as a method of verification of the designed-data and a supplement of the insufficient experiences in geothermal system, which shows a rapid growth among the renewable energies. The followings are the results. FLUENT 6.2.12 is used as a CFD tool on this study, with the equations of continuity, motion, energy for unsteady flow through pipes and k-epsilon turbulent model. S-type model which has one borehole with diameter 12m by depth 206m and T-type model which has 3 boreholes with $12m{\times}20m{\times}206m$ are proposed, and also the boundary conditions are described. The temperature differences between temperatures by CFD analysis and by on-site measurement are less than 1.5%, this shows a high reliability of CFD analysis process which this study proposes. After 11 days simulation operated 12 hours interval On/Off mode, it is clearly predicted that the outlet temperatures of geothermal pipes are increased by $1.2^{\circ}C$, and $2.2^{\circ}C$ after 4 months. And the outlet temperatures of geothermal pipes increased with increase of the mass flow rates through the pipes. T-type model shows that the 4m distance between boreholes are reasonable because the temperatures at 2m and 6m from boreholes are nearly same.

• 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2017

The energy slab is a ground coupled heat exchanger equipped in building slab structures, which represents a layout similar to the horizontal ground heat exchanger (GHEX). The energy slab is installed as one component of the floor slab layers in order to utilize the underground structure as a hybrid energy structure. However, as the energy slab is horizontally arranged, its thermal performance is inevitably less than the conventional vertical GHEXs. Therefore, stainless steel (STS) pipes are alternatively considered as a heat exchanger instead of high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes in order to enhance thermal performance of GHEXs. Moreover, not only a floor slab but also a wall slab can be utilized as a heat-exchangeable energy slab in order to maximize the use of underground space effectively. In this paper, four field-scale energy slabs were constructed in a test bed, which consist of the STS and HDPE pipe, and a series of thermal response tests (TRTs) was conducted to evaluate relative heat exchange efficiency per unit pipe length according to the pipe material and the configuration of energy slabs. The energy slab equipped with the STS pipe shows higher thermal performance than the energy slab with the HDPE pipe. In addition, thermal performance of the wall-type energy slab is almost equivalent to the floor-type energy slab.

• 대한건축학회논문집:구조계
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.87-93
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• 2018

Ground source heat pump(GSHP) system is one of the high efficiency heat source systems which utilizes the constant geothermal energy of a underground water or soil. However, the design of conventional GSHP system in the domestic market is dependent on the experience of the designer and the installer, and it causes increase of initial installation cost or degradation of system performance. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a guideline and the optimal design method to maintain stable performance of the system and reduce installation cost. In this study, in order to optimize the GSHP system, design factors according to ground heat exchanger(GHX) type have been examine by simulation tool. Furthermore, the design factors and the correlation of a single U-tube and a double U-tube were analyzed quantitatively through sensitivity analysis. Results indicated that, the length of the ground heat exchanger was greatly influenced by grout thermal conductivity for single U-tube and pipe spacing for double U-tube.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2013

The temperatures with the ground depth, the positions of circulation water in ground heat exchanger were measured and thermal diffusion characteristics with the distances of the direction normal to the borehole was analysed. The deeper the depth of ground, the less the influences of outdoor temperature, but below 10m of ground, there was no influences of ground temperature. When the depth of trench pipe was below the depth of 2m, there was no influence. In the ground of 10m when the distances between the pipe and the other places were above 0.5m, the variations of temperature were less than $1.6^{\circ}C$ and above 2.5m they were less than $0.1^{\circ}C$. When the distances of bore hole were above 5m, there were no. influences of the nearest ground heat exchanger.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.90-95
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• 2008

수직형에 비해 비교적 가격이 저렴하고 냉난방을 동시에 할 수 있는 농업시설에 적합한 10RT 규모의 수평형 지열히트펌프 시스템을 $240m^2$ 면적의 온실에 설치하고, 이 시스템의 냉방성능을 분석하였다. 응축기 출구온도가 $40^{\circ}C$에서 $58^{\circ}C$로 상승함에 따라 소비전력은 11.5kW에서 15kw로 상승하였으며, 고압이 1,617kpa에서 2,450kPa로 변화하였다. 냉방성능계수는 지중온도 $25.5^{\circ}C$에서 2.7 수준이었으며 지온이 상승함에 따라 하강하여 $33.5^{\circ}C$에서 2.0 수준이었다. 또한 온실 내부로부터 흡수하는 열량(냉방열량)은 같은 지중온도 수준에서 각각 28.8kW, 26.5kW이었다. 가동 8시간 후 지열교환기가 설치된 60cm깊이의 지온은 $14.3^{\circ}C$가 상승하였으며 150cm는 $15.3^{\circ}C$가 상승하였다. 반면 지열교환기가 매설되지 않은 60cm 깊이는 2.4, 150cm 깊이는 $4.3^{\circ}C$의 지온상승을 보였다. 열매 체유가 지열교환기를 통과한 후 평균 $7.5^{\circ}C$의 온포가 하강하였으며, 토양온도가 평균 $27.5^{\circ}C$ 수준에서 토양으로 방출하는 열량은 평균 46kw로 지중열교환기의 단위 길이 당 약 36.8W의 열량을 방출하는 것으로 분석되었다. 팬코일 유닛이 온실로부터 흡수하는 냉방 열량은 평균 28.2kW이었으며, 열매체유의 온도는 $4.2^{\circ}C$ 상승하였다. 축열조내 열전달매체유의 온도가 $26.0^{\circ}C$에서 $2.0^{\circ}C$까지 하강하는데 3시간이 소요되었으며, 평균 축열율은 29.7kW, 총 축열량은 321MJ이었다. 또한 $2.0^{\circ}C$까지 냉열을 축열한 후 $25.4^{\circ}C$까지 방열되는 시간은 외기온이 평균 $28.5^{\circ}C$일 때 4시간이었고, 총 313.0MJ의 에너지가 방열되었으며, 이때 평균 방열율은 21.7kW인 것으로 분석되었다.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.453-459
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• 2014

This paper presents an analysis on the initial ignoring time of SCW type GHX using Mean Square Error method. Line source method is a useful method for estimating the ground thermal conductivity for the vertical type and SCW type GHX in Korea. The line source method for ground thermal conductivity of geothermal in-site test is the basis of linear approximation between the temperature of a borehole and logarithmic time in a GHX. To apply the line source method to the estimation of SCW type GHX, it is necessary to ignore the initial time of data at the stage of a linear approximation. This paper proposed a new initial ignoring time of SCW type GHX among various initial ignoring time at the time for reaching MSE of $0.02^{\circ}C^2$.

• 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2022

Ground source heat pump (GSHP) system is highly efficient and environment-friendly and supplies heating, cooling and hot water to buildings. For an optimal design of the GSHP system, the ground thermal properties should be determined to estimate the heat exchange rate between ground and borehole heat exchangers (BHE) and the system performance during long-term operating periods. However, the process increases the initial cost and construction period, which causes the system to be hindered in distribution. On the other hand, much research has been applied to the artificial neural network (ANN) to solve problems based on data efficiently and stably. This research proposes the predictive performance model utilizing ANN considering local characteristics and weather data for the predictive performance model. The ANN model predicts the entering water temperature (EWT) from the GHEs to the heat pump for the modular GHEs, which were developed to reduce the cost and spatial disadvantages of the vertical-type GHEs. As a result, the temperature error between the data and predicted results was 3.52%. The proposed approach was validated to predict the system performance and EWT of the GSHP system.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.28-35
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• 2016

지열원 히트펌프 시스템에서 지중 열교환기 설계를 위해 수행하는 현장 열응답 시험은 많은 시간과 비용이 수반되기 때문에 조건 변화에 따른 출구온도 예측이 어려운 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 국내에서 주로 사용하는 수직형 지중 열교환기의 열전달 성능을 예측하기 위한 방안으로 3차원 CFD 해석 기법을 제안하고, 2개소의 현장 열응답 시험의 출구온도와 기울기 값을 비교하여 CFD 해석 방법의 신뢰성을 확인하였다. CFD 해석 결과, 2개소의 현장 열응답 시험의 출구온도는 $0.5^{\circ}C$ 이내에서 예측하였고, 기울기 값은 1.6% 이내에서 적절히 예측하였다. 이를 통해 CFD 해석 방법의 신뢰성을 확인하고, 2개소의 현장 열응답 시험의 유량 및 지중 유효 열전도도 조건을 각각 ${\pm}20%$ 변화시키면서 현장 열응답 시험의 출구온도를 예측하였다. 첫 번째 현장(Case 1)의 경우 유량 변화에 따라 $28.0^{\circ}C$(-20%)와 $29.6^{\circ}C$(+20%), 지중 유효 열전도도 변화에 따라 $29.6^{\circ}C$(-20%)와 $28.0^{\circ}C$(+20%)로 현장 열응답 시험의 출구온도를 예측하였으며, 두 번째 현장(Case 2)의 경우 유량 변화에 따라 $28.4^{\circ}C$(-20%)와 $29.8^{\circ}C$(+20%), 지중 유효 열전도도 변화에 따라 $29.7^{\circ}C$(-20%)와 $28.4^{\circ}C$(+20%)로 현장 열응답 시험의 출구온도를 각각 예측하였다.