• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.179-184
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• 2010

This experimental study investigated the effect of tip clearance and bypass flow on the cooling performance of a straight fin heat sink. Both the horizontal and vertical directions of the bypass flow were studied by using a mass flow controller and test sections. The thermal resistance of a heat sink was obtained to elucidate the response of the cooling performance to tip clearance and bypass flow. The thermal resistance of a straight fin heat sink gradually increases with increasing tip clearance. A flow guide unit was employed to reduce the bypass flow. An optimal distance from the leading edge of the heat sink to the flow guide unit was found for the fixed volume flow rate. The contribution of the flow guide unit to the thermal performance of a heat sink increases with increasing volume flow rate.

• Solar Energy
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.16-26
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• 1991

This paper studies development of a solar thermosyphon hot water system which is suitable to korean climate and life style, to save energy consumed for domestic water heating. The system consists of two flat plate collectors(or three flat plate collectors) connected in parallel and a storage tank of 300 liter capacity with heat exchanger and the optimum system was designed through the comparative measurements of five different storage tanks. The developed system manufactured with domestic materials were installed in residential buildings in seven cities(Seoul, Pusan, Taegu, Kwangju, Taejeon, Kangneung, Cheju) for demonstration and field test and results show possibility for commercialization.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1609-1620
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• 1993

A Study on the trombe wall system, a kind of passive solar systems, has been performed numerically. The system is treated as a two-dimensional steady turbulent natural convection including constant heat source per unit area. The numerical code, "PHOENICS, " was employed to analyze this conduction-convection conjugated heat transfer. The general mode of the flow field was examined, and the exchange of mass between two recirculating flows is found to be the major mechanism of the heat transfer. It is shown that the performance is affected by the changes in the geometrical factors-the thickness of the wall, the width between the windowand the wall, and size of the vents. Further analysis has been performed to show the optimal geometry with regard to the last two factors.o factors.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.143-147
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• 2011

On-off differential controller is one of the very important component which has influence on the system performance of the solar hot water system. In this study, it was analysed the influence of "on-off" setting temperature on the system efficiency and the electrical consumption by circulation pump. This study was performed by computer simulation using TRNSYS program. The simulation system was developed in this study was verified the its reliability by the experimental results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.847-856
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• 2013

In this study, thermal performance of recuperators with plain and offset strip fins is investigated to enhance the thermal efficiency of a micro gas turbine. Thermal cycle analysis is conducted to determine major design parameters of a single-pass counterflow recuperator. In order to evaluate the performance of the recuperator, the effectiveness and the pressure drop in the recuperators are chosen as the objective function and the design constraint, respectively. The optimized geometries for internal structure of the recuperators with plain and offset strip fins are obtained with varying the fin spacing and height. From the result, the recuperator with offset strip fins has better thermal performance when the fin spacing, s, is smaller than 1.45mm and the thermal performance of the recuperator with plain rectangular fins is higher than that with offset strip fins in the region of $s{\geq}1.45mm$. In addition, it is found that the entrance region effect and the longitudinal wall heat conduction effect should be taken into account for accurately predicting the thermal performance of the recuperators with both plain and offset strip fins.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.45-48
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• 1999

석탄가스화복합발전(Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle)기술은 우수한 환경성능과 열성능을 지니고 있어 장래 미분탄화력을 대신할 수 있는 대체기술로서 각광을 받고 있다. IGCC는 석탄가스화, 정제, 복합발전계통 및 공기분리계통 등 그 구성요소가 복잡하여 이들간의 시스템 최적화 정도에 따라 경제성 및 플랜트 성능이 크게 좌우된다. 최근에 가스터빈과 공기분리설비(Air Separation Unit)를 연계시켜 IGCC플랜트 성능을 향상시키는 연구가 다수 진행되었다[1],[2],[3]. 본 연구에서는 가스터빈과 ASU 간의 연계시 공기추출량을 결정하는 인자들을 검토하고 Texaco quench 가스화공정을 채용한 IGCC 플랜트에 대해 GatecCyle code등 상용코드를 이용하여 모델링하고 가스터빈 압축기 공기추출량에 따른 IGCC 플랜트 성능을 분석하였다. 본 연구 결과를 통하여 대상 IGCC 플랜트의 적정 공기추출량을 결정하고 플랜트 성능을 계산하였다. 본 연구 결과는 전력연구원에서 수행중인 300MW급 IGCC 예비기본설계에 활용될 것이다.(중략)

• Solar Energy
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.51-61
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• 1992

A numerical study on the Trombe wall system, a kind of passive solar systems, has been peformed. The system is modelled as the 2-dimensional steady laminar flow with the natural convection. The PHOENICS code was employed to analyse the performance variation due to the change in the geometrical factor. The mass flow rate and the maximum temperature are changed by the variations in the width of the vents, the width between the window and the wall, and the location of the vents. And there exists the optimal condition to maximize the utilization factor. Further precise analysis has been performed to show the optimal geometry with regard to the above three factors.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.81-89
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• 2002

IGCC (Integrated Coal Gasification Combined Cycle) is a technology that generates electric power using coal gasification and gasified fuel. Carbon conversion value of IGCC is higher and the influence on the environment is lower than the pulverized coal power plant. Especially, in the nations where the weight of fossil fuel for power generation is remarkably high like in Korea, IGCC stands out as an alternative plan to cope with sudden limitation for the emissions. In this paper, system design study for the commercial IGCC system which the introduction is imminent to Korea was performed. Two cases of entrained gasification process are adapted, one is FHR(full heat recovery) type IGCC system for high efficiency and the other is Quench type IGCC system for low cost. System simulations using common codes like AspenPlus were performed for each system. In the case of Quench system, system option study and sensitivity analysis of the air extraction rate was performed. Thermal performance result for the FHR system is 42.6% (HHV, Net) and for the quench system is 40% (HHV, net) when 75% air is extracted.