• 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.8-15
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• 2019

In order to design coaxial-type Ground Heat Exchangers (GHEXs) efficiently, the effect of components (i.e, heat exchange pipe and grouting material) on the thermal performance of coaxial-type GHEXs should be identified in advance. In this paper, three coaxial-type GHEXs with different configurations were constructed in a test bed. Then, the effect of heat exchange pipes and grouting materials on the thermal performance of coaxial-type GHEXs was investigated by performing in-situ thermal response tests (TRTs) and thermal performance tests (TPTs). In the TRTs, the effective thermal conductivities of the coaxial-type GHEXs with concrete grouting and STS pipes were improved by 6.15 and 22.7%, respectively compared to those of bentonite grouting and HDPE pipes. Additionally, in the TPTs, the use of concrete grouting and STS pipes in the coaxial-type GHEXs enhanced the in-situ thermal performance by 15 and 33.8%, respectively.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제26권9호
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• pp.401-408
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• 2014

This paper proposes an optimum operation method for open type ground heat exchangers. A series of TRTs and artificial heating/cooling operations were carried out while monitoring temperature in the hole of SCW. The ground temperature naturally increases with depth, but a switch between the cooling/heating mode results in a change in the distribution of ground temperature. The effect of the mode change was evaluated by performing LMTD and COMSOL multiphysics analysis for a reduced model with the depth of 150 m. As a result, in the cooling mode, the upstream operation is more efficient than the downstream operation and reduces EWT by $2.26^{\circ}C$. On the other hand, in the heating mode, the downstream operation is advantageous over the upstream operation and increases EWT by $3.19^{\circ}C$. The merit of the optimum operation will be enhanced for the typical dimension of SCW with a depth of 400~500 m. In the future, an open type ground heat exchanger system adopting the optimum operation with variation in the ground temperature will be used in practice.

• 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.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제30권7호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2014

최근 들어 경제적이고 친환경적인 에너지 활용을 위하여 지열에너지 필요성이 증대되고 있다. 수평형 지중 열교환기는 설치 비용이 저렴하여 비용 대비 효율면에서 우수하다. 수평형 지중 열교환기의 타입에는 여러 가지가 있으나 이 중 슬링키형과 코일형이 우수한 것으로 알려져 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 $5m{\times}1m{\times}1m$ 크기의 모형 토조내에 수평 슬링키형과 코일형 지중 열교환기를 각각 설치한 후 열교환율을 실험적으로 측정하였다. 모형 토조 내에는 건조 상태의 주문진 모래가 조성되었으며 수평 슬링키형과 코일형의 피치 간격에 따라 열교환율을 측정하기 위해 30시간 동안 연속으로 열응답 시험을 실시하였다. 실험 결과 코일형 지중 열교환기 이용시 수평 슬링키형 보다 약 30, 40% 정도의 높은 파이프 단위 길이당 열교환율을 보였다. 또한 수평 슬링키형과 코일형 이용시 피치 간격이 넓을 때(피치/직경 = 1)가 좁을 때(피치/직경 = 0.2)보다 약 200, 250% 정도의 높은 파이프 단위 길이당 열교환율을 나타냈다.