• Geosystem Engineering
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.309-317
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• 2018

We employ a three-dimensional indirect boundary element method (BEM) to simulate temperature change around an underground liquefied natural gas storage cavern. The indirect BEM (IBEM) uses fictitious heat source strength on boundary elements as basic variables which are solved from equations of boundary conditions and then used to compute the temperature change at other points in the considered problem domain. The IBEM requires evaluation of singular integration for temperature change due to heat conduction from a constant heat source on a planar (triangular) region. The singularity can be eliminated by a semi-analytical integration scheme. However, it is found that the semi-analytical integration scheme yields sharp temperature gradient for points close to vertices of triangle. This affects the accuracy of heat flux, if they are evaluated by finite difference method at these points. This difficulty can be overcome by a combination of using a direct numerical integration for these points and the semi-analytical scheme for other points distance away from the vertices. The IBEM and the hybrid integration scheme have been verified with an analytic solution and then used to the application of the underground storage.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.313-327
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• 2008

Thermo-mechanical coupled behavior of an underground structure during a fire accident have not been fully understood yet. Moreover, when such a thermo-mechanical coupled behavior is not considered in numerical analyses based on conventional heat transfer theory, fire-induced damage zone in an underground structure can be considerably underestimated. This study aims to develop a FEM-based numerical technique to simulate the thermo-mechanical coupled behavior of an underground structure in a fire accident. Especially, an element elimination model is newly proposed to simulate fire-induced structural loss together with a convective boundary condition. In the proposed model, an element where the maximum temperature calculated from heat transfer analysis is over a prescribed critical temperature is eliminated. Then, the proposed numerical technique is verified by comparing numerical results with experimental results from real fire model tests. From a series of parametric studies, the key parameters such as critical temperature, element size and temperature-dependent convection coefficients are optimized for the RABT and the RWS fire scenarios.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.36-41
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• 2001

It is often said that the supply of fossil fuels in use for energy source will last only for 40 years. Futhermore, statistics shows that most of the fuels are imported from outside and that 30-40% of total cost for housing in Korea. One of those methods for reducing the energy cost for housing is to use underground space. Being used well, it may bring a considerable saving of energy since the underground space keeps its air cool in summer and warm in winter. To use underground space, we need to analyse its temperature first. For this purpose, what is generally used is the numerical analysis with the use of nodal system. That is, we can calculate a specific underground temperature with the matrix of thermal resistance after we make a nodal system. However, the existing numerical analysis programs need usually high cost and require a computer with large capacity. So they are seldom used in practice. Considering such problems, this study seeks to find a method for making the matrix of thermal resistance operatable on PC level.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.172.1-172.1
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• 2010

In Jeju, underground air is used for heating greenhouse and fertilizing natural $CO_2$ gas by suppling directly into greenhouse. But greenhouse heating method by direct supply of underground air has several problems as like low temperature below $20^{\circ}C$ or high relative humidity over 90%. The underground air is inadequate in heating of crops such as mangos, oranges with the growing temperature over $20^{\circ}C$. Also if the relative humidity of greenhouse is kept with over 90%, diseases can strike almost of the crops. And also the ventilation loss becomes larger because the air pressure of inside greenhouse by direct supply of underground air is higher. In this study the heat pump system using underground air as heat source was developed and heating performance of the system was analyzed. Heating COP of the system was 2.5~5.0 and rejecting heat into greenhouse and extracting heat from underground air in this heat pump system were 46.5~31.4 kW, 34.9~20.9 kW respectively.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.30-35
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• 2012

The geothermal energy is one of the renewable energy sources which can contribute in accomplishing a vision and goal of the national plan on energy for a government suggestion. Especially, the geothermal energy is evaluated as the nearly unlimited resources. The yearly underground temperature distribution by depth is very important to the design of air-conditioning system which uses a geothermal energy. Furthermore, there has no data for comparisons to numerical analysis. In this study, the yearly underground temperature is measured under the depth of 2 m in Tongyeong, and these data are compared with numerical analysis results for checking the accuracy. The results showed that the experimental temperature and numerical results had a good agreements and these results will be utilized to predict a performance of air-conditioning system for using a geothermal energy.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.61-68
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• 2007

The purpose of this study analyzes heat flows and fire behavior through a reduced-scale model experiments about change of wind velocity in underground life space. When the wind velocity is increased the temperature rise time of the fire room was risen fast. And temperature of fire room was increased. And increase of wind velocity displayed maximum temperature at an opening of the fire room. Heat flows by fire spread increase size of smoke occurrence and flame, and displayed high temperature distribution in passageway than inside of neighborhood department promoting eddy flow spread as wind velocity increases. Finally, heat flows are decided by wind and wind velocity at fire of underground life space, and Wind velocity increases, temperature increase and decrease could confirm that is gone fast.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.157-166
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• 2021

This paper aims at the temperature and slenderness ratio effects on physical and mechanical properties of Beishan granite. A series of uniaxial compression tests with various slenderness ratios and temperatures were carried out, and the acoustic emission signal was also collected. As the temperature increases, the fracture aperture of intercrystalline cracks gradually increases, and obvious transcrystalline cracks occurs when T > 600℃. The failure patterns change from tensile failure mode to ductile failure mode with the increasing temperature. The elastic modulus decreases with the temperature and increases with slenderness ratio, then tends to be a constant value when T = 1000℃. However, the peak strain has the opposite evolution as the elastic modulus under the effects of temperature and slenderness ratio. The uniaxial compression strength (UCS) changes a little for the low-temperature specimens of T < 400℃, but a significant decrease happens when T = 400℃ and 800℃ due to phase transitions of mineral. The evolution denotes that the critical brittle-ductile transition temperature increases with slenderness ratio, and the critical slenderness ratio corresponding to the characteristic mechanical behavior tends to be smaller with the increasing temperature. Additionally, the AE quantity also increases with temperature in an exponential function.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.57-64
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• 2016

Power demand has continuously increased with technological and economical development. The load density is also growing in the center of downtown area. In particular, underground facilities have been increased on the purpose of the prevention of urban disasters and pedestrian environment improvement. Based on this situation, the underground space in urban surroundings has gradually decreased because of the limited space. The ampacity of buried cables is affected by various factors such as cable size, soil thermal resistance, burial depth and filling material. The thermal capacity of the facilities is determined by the absorb heat surrounding the cable and the soil. The maximum operating temperature of cable is the highest temperature when the insulator of cable is not damaged in the case of high enough temperature. In this paper, the most effective cabling configuration is suggested using the duct array adjustment. It was also considered to increase the number of cable line. This underground distribution system was simulated by using ETAP(Electrical Transient Analysis Program).

• Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Structure & Construction
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.43-50
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• 2018

The temperature of underground water generally remains constant regardless of the season. therefore, it is possible to get plenty of energy if we use characteristics of underground water for both cooling and heating. This study evaluates efficiency of real size coaxial and U-tube type complex geothermal system which is combined with underground water well. This study also evaluates relative efficiency/adaptability through comparison with existing geothermal systems(vertical closed loop system, open loop system(SCW)). The heat exchange capacity of complex geothermal system according to temperature difference between circulating water and underground water shows very high significance by increasing proportionally. The temperature change of underground water according to injection energy, shows very high linear growth aspect as injection thermal volume heightens. As a result of evaluation of heat exchange volume between complex geothermal system and comparative geothermal system, coaxial type has 26.1 times greater efficiency than comparative vertical closed type and 2.8 times greater efficiency than SCW type. U-tube type has 26.5 tims greater efficiency than comparative vertical closed type and 2.8 times greater than SCW type as well. This means complex geothermal system has extremely outstanding performance.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.20 no.4 s.72
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• pp.9-13
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• 2005

A underground room fire was simulated to investigate the effects of smoke exhaust on temperature visibility, soot etc. in the room. A room of $6m{\times}6m{\times}2.5m$ with a door of $0.9{\times}2.0m$ and a 0.5MW polystyrene fire in the room were considered. Temperature, visibility, CO volume fraction and soot were compared for the exhaust velocity at a vent located at the ceiling, 0, 1.2, and 2.4m/s, respectively. Results showed that increasing exhaust velocity decreased room temperature, CO and soot and increased visibility.