• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.522-529
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• 2004

In this study, external condensation heat transfer coefficients (HTCs) of flammable refrigerants of propylene, propane, isobutane, butane, DME, and HFC32 were measured on a horizontal plain tube, 26 fpi low fin tube, and Turbo-C tube. All data were taken at the temperature of 39$^{\circ}C$ with a wall subcooling of 3∼8$^{\circ}C$. Test results showed a typical trend that condensation HTCs of flammable refrigerants decrease with increasing wall subcooling. HFC32 had the highest HTCs among the tested refrigerants showing 44% higher HTCs than those of HCFC22 while DME showed 28% higher HTCs than those of HCFC22. HTCs of propylene and butane were similar to those of HCFC22 while those of propane and isobutane were similar to those of HFC134a. Based upon the tested data, Nusselt's equation is modified to predict the plain tube data within a deviation of 3%. For 26 fpi low fin tube, Beatty and Katz equation predicted the data within a deviation of 7.3% for all flammable refrigerants tested. The heat transfer enhancement factors for the 26 fpi low fin and Turbo-C tubes were 4.6∼5.7 and 4.7∼6.9 respectively for the refrigerants tested indicating that the performance of Turbo-C tube is the best among the tubes tested.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.115-122
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• 1996

Heat transfer characteristics of low temperature latent heat storage systems have been examined for the circular finned and unfinned tubes using Na$_2$B$_4$O$\_$7/10H$_2$O as a phase change material. In order to reduce the supercooling of PCM, 3 wt% of Na$_2$B$_4$O$\_$7/10H$_2$O was added as the nucleating agent and 2.2 wt% of acrylic acid sodium sulfate was used as the thickener. The heat storage vessel has dimension of 530 mm height, 74 mm 1.D. and inner heat transfer tube is 480 mm height and 13.5 mm O.D. Water was employed as the heat transfer fluid. During the heat recovery experiment, the heat recovery rate was affected by the flow rates and inlet temperature of heat transfer fluid. The enhancement of heat transfer by fins over the unfinned tube system was found to be negligible in the thin finned tube systems, whereas the heat transfer coefficient in the thick finned tube system is approximately 60% higher than that in the unfinned lobe system. The experimentally determined heat transfer coefficient for the unfinned tube and thick finned tube systems are 150-260 W/㎡$^{\circ}C$ and 230-530 W/㎡$^{\circ}C$, respectively. The fin efficiency based on the heat transfer coefficient and area increased by fins was found to be 0.05 and 0.26 for the thin and the thick finned tube systems.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.14 no.4 s.44
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• pp.241-247
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• 2005

Heat transfer enhancement and pressure loss penalty caused by three-row winglets built in three-row tube-bundles in an in-line arrangement, are compared between 'common flow up' and 'common flow down' winglet configurations. The 'common flow down' winglet-pairs recommended by the previous researchers bring about $10\%$ to $25\%$ increase in heat transfer enhancement and $20\%$ to $35\%$ increase in pressure loss penalty, in comparison with fin-tube bundles without winglets. For the 'common flow up' winglet-pairs, the spanwise distance between the trailing edges (${\Delta}y$) of winglet pairs was changed and investigated. Two types ot winglet are applied for triangular and rectangular shapes. In the triangular winglets with ${\Delta}y$=5 mm in in-line tube bundles, the heat transfer increased up to $10\%$, and simultaneously the pressure loss decreased by $8\%$ to $15\%$ for the Reynolds number (based on two times channel height) ranging from 300 to 2700, when the 'common flow up' winglets were built in. The performance of fin-tube bundles with triangular winglets is much superior to the rectangular one, because of the smaller pressure-loss penalty.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 1995.05a
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• pp.207-212
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• 1995

본 연구에서는 발전소 응축기를 시뮬레이션 할 수 있는 프로그램을 개발하였다. 관 내외 측 열전달계수의 계산에는 기존 상관식들과 응축 모델을 사용하였고 $\varepsilon$-NTU 방법을 사용하여 응축기를 해석하였다. 실제 응축기를 모사하기 위하여 관다발 보정계수 및 화울링 계수도 도입하였다. 이 프로그램을 사용하여 기존 평관을 대체할 전열촉진관의 형상을 도출하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 전열촉진관을 사용하면 증기 응축 온도를 6 - 8 $^{\circ}C$ 정도 낮출 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.195-201
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• 2016

Enhanced tubes are widely used in air-conditioning and process industries. Structural tubes having three-dimensional roughness are well known to be able to significantly enhance pool boiling heat transfer of refrigerants. In this study, five structural enhanced tubes having different fin density, fin height, and fin gap width were tested using R-134a. Results showed that the heat transfer coefficient was increased with increased fin density. Within test range, the effect of fin height on pool boiling heat transfer coefficient was insignificant. The heat transfer coefficients of the optimum configuration (2047 fpm, 0.21 mm gap width) tube were lower than those of other commercial enhanced tubes. This might be due to the larger fin gap width of the present enhanced tube.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.683-689
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• 2002

This paper is to present the results of a comprehensive study on heat transfer in annuli with spirally corrugated inner tubes in the turbulent regime. Tube surface-temperature measurements were used to explain the enhancement phenomena in the annuli with several different corrugated tubes. Nusselt numbers were between 1.1 and 2 times the smooth annulus values. These enhancement values can be used to determine the appropriate range of applicability for spirally corrugated annuli.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.202-211
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• 2000

본 연구는 다양한 각도를 가지는 와이어코일을 사용하여 관내 단상 열전달 촉진 및 압력강하 특성 실험을 수행하였다. 작동유체는 순수 물과 에틸렌글리콜을 체적비율로 50% 혼합하여 사용하였으며, 시험부 관지름은 11mm와 13.88mm이고, 시험부 길이는 760mm를 사용하였다. 평활관과 와이어코일을 삽입한 열전달촉진관에 대한 관내 열전달계수와 마찰계수는 실험에서 측정한 온도, 유량, 압력강하 값을 기초로 구하였다. 와이어코일에 대한 거친표면해석을 수행하였으며, 그 결과를 거칠기 래이놀즈수에 대한 운동량전송 거칠기함수와 열전달 거칠기함수로 표현하였으며 이에 대한 상관식을 제시하였다. 이 상관식들은 거칠기 레이놀즈수, 코일 각도, 프란틀수의 함수로 표현하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.487-488
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 풍력발전용 전력변환기 내부 소자의 방열에 사용되는 수냉식 방열판의 관 형상을 제안한다. 최근 대용량 전력변환기는 소형화 및 효율성이 중요시 되고 있으며, 이에 따라 기구의 안정적이고 장기적인 운영을 위한 수냉식 방열설계가 필수적이라 할 수 있다. 수냉식 방열판는 다수의 원형관으로 구성되며, 이 원형관의 형상은 방열판의 열전달 성능에 직접적인 영향을 주게 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 열전달 촉진을 위한 방열판의 관 형상들을 모델링하고 열해석 시뮬레이션을 진행하여 모델링된 방열판들의 방열특성을 비교/분석하였다.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.26 no.7
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• pp.315-321
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• 2014

In this study, external condensation heat transfer coefficients (HTCs) of two non-azeotropic refrigerant mixtures of HFC32/HFC152a at various compositions were measured on both 26 fpi low-fin and Turbo-C enhanced tubes, of 19.0 mm outside diameter. All data were taken at the vapor temperature of $39^{\circ}C$, with a wall subcooling of 3~8 K. Test results showed that the HTCs of the tested mixtures on the enhanced tubes were much lower than the ideal values calculated by mass fraction weighting of the pure component HTCs. Also, the reduction of HTCs due to the diffusion vapor film was much larger than that of a plain tube. Unlike HTCs of pure fluids, HTCs of the mixtures measured on enhanced tubes increased, as the wall subcooling increased, which was due to the sudden break-up of the vapor diffusion film with an increase in wall subcooling. Finally, the heat transfer enhancement ratios for mixtures were found to be much lower, than those of pure fluids.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.167-175
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• 2009

In this study, condensation heat transfer coefficients(HTCs) of R22, R123, R134a and R245fa are measured on both 26fpi low fin and Turbo-C tubes. All data are taken at the vapor temperature of $39^{\circ}C$ with a wall subcooling of $3{\sim}8^{\circ}C$. Test results show that HTCs of the newly developed low vapor pressure alternative refrigerant, R245fa, are $7.8{\sim}9.2%$ and $10.3{\sim}18.6%$ higher than those of R123 for 26fpi low fin tube and Turbo-C tube respectively. For all refrigerants tested, HTCs of Turbo-C enhanced tube are higher than those of 26fpi low fin tube. For the low fin tube, Beatty and Katz's prediction equation yielded 20% deviation for all fluids. The heat transfer enhancement ratio of R245fa on the Turbo-C tube is $5.9{\sim}6.4$ while that of R123 is $5.7{\sim}5.9$. From the view point of environmental safety and condensation heat transfer, R245fa is a long term candidate to replace R123 currently used in centrifugal chillers.