• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.129-137
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• 2012

This thesis introduced an azimuth tracking prismatic daylighting system. The system improved several issues of the previous passive prismatic daylighting system: low efficiency at sunrise and sunset, glare effect and polarized. The system was developed to track the movement of sun with azimuth tracking device, and it has its own power from the attached solar cells. We compared the with previous passive one in terms with system efficiency and daylighting factors(DF).

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.56-63
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• 2013

Daylighting system is an alternative lighting system using daylight collecting device, light transformer and light diffuser. In this paper, we developed a daylighting system in which the collecting device composed by dual parabolic reflectors, the silica optical fiber adapted to the light transformer and light diffuser made of the polyglass square sheet. We have estimated the system efficiency and general color rendering index(Ra) of the developed system. The system efficiency measured to 23.8% and Ra was revealed as 95. Ra number of the developed system is bigger than the number(65) of the previous fresnel lens based sunlight collector.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.129-136
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• 2007

자연광의 이용은 큰 어려움 없이 지속 가능한 에너지 기술을 구현할 수 있는 방안으로 고려되고 있다. 여러 개의 작은 반사경을 적용한 태양 추적식 자연채광 시스템은 비교적 단순한 메카니즘을 적용하여 그 성능과 효용성의 극대화를 꾀할 수 있으며, 또한 그 제작, 설치 작동 그리고 활용성에서 상당한 이점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 작은 mini-dish형 반사경(직경<30cm 이하)을 이용한 화이버 광학 집광기의 설계, 제작 및 작동 특성에 대하여 소개하고, 아울러 광추적 프로그램인 Photopia를 이용하여 그 성능에 대한 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 주요 구성 요소에서의 광추적에 의한 시뮬레이션 결과치는 실제 시스템의 설계 및 성능 예측에 중요한 기술적 데이터를 제공하며, 특히 실측이 곤란한 측정 면에서의 빛의 경로 해석에 유용하게 적용될 수 있다.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.62-73
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• 2016

Daylighting systems offer substantial advantages over conventional ones in illuminating the building interior. Especially, considering that lighting accounts for about 28% of total energy consumption in buildings, the use of daylighting systems deem very important in lessening the dependency on artificial lighting. This work has carried out a survey and analysis to explore the characteristics and current status of various daylighting systems with solar tracking features recently introduced in Korea.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.777-784
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• 2017

Energy harvesting through a thermoelectric module normally makes use of the temperature gradient in the system's operational environment. Therefore, it is difficult to obtain the desired output power when the system is subjected to an environment in which a low temperature gradient is generated across the module, because the power generation efficiency of the thermoelectric device is not optimized. The utilization of solar energy, which is a form of renewable energy abundant in nature, has mostly been limited to photovoltaic solar cells and solar thermal energy generation. However, photovoltaic power generation is capable of utilizing only a narrow wavelength band from the sunlight and, thus, the power generation efficiency might be lowered by light scattering. In the case of solar thermal energy generation, the system usually requires large-scale facilities. In this study, a simple and small size thermoelectric power generation system with a solar concentrator was designed to create a large temperature gradient for enhanced performance. A solar tracking system was used to concentrate the solar thermal energy during the experiments and a liquid circulating chiller was installed to maintain a large temperature gradient in order to avoid heat transfer to the bottom of the thermoelectric module. Then, the setup was tested through a series of experiments and the performance of the system was analyzed for the purpose of evaluating its feasibility and validity.