• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1993년도 Proceedings of International Conference for Agricultural Machinery and Process Engineering
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• pp.877-885
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• 1993

Three types of solar grain dryers, namely , the solar grain bin dryer, the solar greenhouse rotary drum dryer and small scale solar green house tray dryer, have been tested. The results showed that each type of solar grain dryer has its feature. These solar drying units have three main advantages : (1) Required commercial energy to remove 1Kg moist from rough rice is only 5.3% to 15.8% of the energy consumed by common heated dryer : 2) The area of solar drying system is only about 10% of the area of the sunny ground to give equal drying capacity ; (3) There are good drying quality in the moisture uniform , germination percentage, and grain color.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.153-158
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• 2014

The food waste that occurs in one year is very high in our country and disposal is expensive. However, disposers for food waste are not used wisely at real life. This is because most of them some kind of problem, for example big volume, complicated construction, high cost, lots of troubles, low energy efficiency and so on. In this study, we propose the new dryer system to decrease drying times by injecting hot air in down the side of the drying bucket. The designed drying bucket has inclined inlet holes down both sides. The inlet holes have variable gradients, we adjust the inlet velocity of the hot air to find a suitable vortex in the drying bucket. We verify the properties of the proposed system though simulation. The results show the proposed dryer system can improve the drying time and save energy for food waste disposal.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제31권10호
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• pp.860-867
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• 2007

Heat pump drying has a great potential for energy saving due to its high energy efficiency in comparison with conventional air drying. In the present study, the performance simulation for the basic design of a heat pump dryer has been carried out. The simulation includes one-stage heat pump cycle, simple drying process using the drying efficiency. As an example, the heat pump cycle with Refrigerant 134a has been investigated. For the operating conditions such as the average temperature of the condenser, the heat rate released in the condenser, the flow rate of drying air, and drying efficiency, the simulation has been carried out to figure out the performance of the dryer. The parameters considered in the design of the dryer are COP, MER, SMER, the rate of dehumidification, the temperature and humidity of drying air and those parameters are compared for different conditions after carrying out the simulation.

• 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2015

In this study, energy performance of two types of food dryers which are electric heater and heat pump is studied experimentally. With drying chamber temperatures controlled at 45, 50 and $55^{\circ}C$, sliced radish is dried from an initial mass of 90 to final 7 kg. Moisture content, drying time, total power consumption, MER (moisture extraction rate, kg/h) and SMER (specific moisture extraction rate, kg/kWh) are measured and analyzed. As the drying chamber temperature is increased, drying time is shortened but energy efficiency is reduced for both types. For an electric heater dryer, the effect of chamber temperature on drying time is significant but less significant on energy efficiency. For a heat pump dryer, the dependence of chamber temperature on drying time is weak but strong on energy efficiency. Temperature levels have little effect on electric heater dryer performance but strong effect on heat pump dryer which operates on a vapor compression refrigeration cycle. The energy performance of the heat pump dryer is superior with an average SMER of 2.175 kg/kWh which is 2.22 times greater than that of the electric heater dryer with SMER of 1.224 kg/kWh.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.36-41
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• 2022

Drying process is involved in the production of various products including food, textiles, paper, pharmaceuticals, and batteries. Phase change of liquid to vapor generally requires enormous thermal energy, so in order to save energy, it is advantageous to develop an appropriate drier and use it under appropriate operating conditions, depending on the characteristics of materials. However, due to the complex, multiscale heat and mass transfer occurring during drying processes, predictions of appropriate drying conditions before actual operation are not easily achieved, leading to challenges in designing driers. Here, we developed a lab-scale experimental setup to evaluate the performance of band dries. The experimental setup was used to measure the moisture content and temperature change in the materials being dried in a belt dryer. Experimental results obtained using our lab-scale setup allow us to predict the performance of a full-scale band drier, thus suggesting a practical framework for predicting the drying process of various materials and developing band driers.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2010

에너지 위기로 인하여 석탄에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 그 중에서도 저등급석탄에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있는데, 저등급석탄은 수분함량이 30~60%갱도로 수분함량이 높다. 이러한 저등급 석탄을 발전용 연료로 사용하기 위해서는 건조공정이 선행적으로 이루어져야 한다. 본 연구에서는 고정층 반응기를 이용하여 저등급석탄의 건조 반응속도론을 도출하였다. 건조반응속도는 입자크기, 주입가스 온도, 가스 유속, L/D의 영향을 변수로 하여 도출하였다. Reynold's number는 가스 유속과 석탄업자의 크기, L/D는 반응기 직경과 대상탄의 충진양을 보정하기 위해 고려하였다. 석탄의 건조 특성에서도 알 수 있듯이, 고정층 반응기를 이용한 저등급석탄의 건조에 있어서도 표면수분의 건조가 원활하며, 상 경계 반응이 적합한 메커니즘임을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.72-76
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• 1991

• 공업화학
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.313-317
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• 2017

지속적인 에너지 수요의 증가로 인하여 저등급 석탄이 새로운 에너지 자원으로서 인정받고 있다. 그러나 저등급 석탄의 높은 수분 함량으로 인하여 저등급 석탄의 이용 효율은 기존의 석탄 이용 플랜트들에서 이용하기에 부족하다. 따라서 저등급 석탄의 수분 함량을 낮추는 건조 공정이 요구되고 있다. 비록 다양한 건조 실험들이 진행되었으나, 고압조건에서의 건조 특성은 크게 연구되지 않았다. 이에 본 연구에서는 높은 수분 함량을 지닌 저등급 석탄(수분 함량: 21.5 wt%)의 급속 건조 특성을 가압 마이크로 상승관을 이용하여 고찰하였다. 압력(1-40 bar), 건조 온도($200-600^{\circ}C$), 마이크로 상승관 길이(2-6 m) 등의 운전 조건 변화에 따른 저등급 석탄의 건조 특성을 분석하였다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.385-397
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• 2012

Purpose: Drying characteristics of sawdust was studied under batch mode using lab scale microwave dryer. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of material load and microwave output power on drying characteristics of sawdust. Methods: Material load and microwave output power were varied from 23 to 186 g and 530 to 370 W respectively. Different kinetic models were tested to fit the drying rates of sawdust. Similarly, the activation energy was calculated by employing the Arrhenius equation. Results: The drying efficiency increased considerably, whereas the specific energy consumption significantly decreased with increase in material load and microwave output power. The cumulative energy efficiency increased by 9%, and the specific energy consumption decreased by 8% when the material load was increased from 23 to 186 g. The effective diffusivity increased with decrease in material load and increase in microwave output power. The previously published model gave the best fit for data points with $R^2$ and RMSE values of 0.999 and 0.01, respectively. Conclusions: The data obtained from this study could be used as a basis for modeling of large scale industrial microwave dryers for the pellet production.

• 태양에너지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.21-30
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• 1991

곡물 bin을 이용한 벼의 건조실험을 수행하여 상온통풍건조 시스템과 태양열 건조 시스템의 건조 특성을 비교하여 분석하였다. 태양열 건조의 시뮬레이션 모형에 대한 컴퓨터 프로그램을 개발하였으며 시뮬레이션 모형에 의한 함수율의 예측치는 실측치와 전체적으로 일치하였다. 또한, inverter를 사용하여 벼의 건조 상태에 따라 송풍량을 적절하게 제어하는 송풍량 제어 시스템을 개발하였으며, 개발된 송풍량 제어 시스템을 통하여 에너지 절약 효과를 얻을 수 있었다.