• 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.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.2198-2204
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• 2003

In order to make a match of the insufficient direct solar radiation, in this study, the target output is lowered to 9 kW smaller than 25 kW in former studies. It is also necessary to match the collector/receiver with engine/generator systems to accomplish the power level of a system. The simulation analyses of a dish solar power system with stirling engine are totally carried out to predict the system performance with the designed values. In addition, an influence of direct solar radiation on system performance and operation control is discussed in simulation. It is found that the diameter of concentrator could be made small to 8 m regardless of slope errors with 2.5 and 5.0 mrad radiation, and the operation range of mean pressure control. is wide even if the direct solar radiation is a quit low.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.454-459
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• 2017

In this study, a thermal system was designed using a 3-way valve and PTC attached to a solar module. This design could help solve the problem of rising fossil fuel costs caused by limited reserves and environmental problems resulting from fossil fuel use. The thermal system is a hot-air and heating control system composed of a temperature sensor part, mode setting part (for hot air and heating modes), supply part, and thermal system control part. The temperature sensor part has piping and an indoor temperature display, and the temperature setting part has multiple monitoring functions. The mode setting part switches between hot air and heating modes and can be used to set the temperature. The thermal system control part performs functions such as PTC control and temperature setting, PTC day and night and time selection, hot air and heating control, and three-way valve selection. The results verify that the system operates with stable response speeds of $680{\mu}s$ in the temperature sensor part, $700{\mu}s$ in the mode setting part, and $610{\mu}s$ in the thermal system control part.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.45-54
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• 2007

For a conventional natural-circulation type solar water heater, the pressure head is limited by the height between the storage tank and hot water tap. Therefore, it is difficult to provide sufficient hot water flow rate for general usage. This study deals with a design modification of the storage tank to utilize the tap-water pressure to increase hot-water supply Based on fluid dynamic and heat transfer theories, a series of modeling and simulation is conducted to achieve practical design requirements. An experimental setup is built and tested and the results are compared with theoretical simulation model. The storage tank capacity is 240 l and the outer diameter of piping was 15 mm. Number of tube turns tested are 5, 10, and 15. Starting with initial storage tank temperature of $80^{\circ}C$, the temperature variation of the supply hot water is investigated against time, while maintaining minimum flow rate of 10 1/min. Typical results show that the hot water supply of minimum $30^{\circ}C$ can be maintained for 34 min with tap-water supply pressure of 2.5 atm, The relative errors between modeling and experiments coincide well within 10% in most cases.

• Solar Energy
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.3-11
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• 1995

This paper reports the performance of solar domestic hot water systems manufactured with heat pipes. A series of tests were conducted on a number of systems to elicit the most suitable configuration of the system for possible commercialization in Korea. The heat pipe is made with a copper tube and the respective length of the evaporator, adiabatic, and condenser sections are 1700mm, 100mm and 200mm. The evaportor section is finned with a copper plate to increase solar input for its proper operation as a heat pipe. Results show quite an interesting performance data stemming from the difference in working fluids, presence of wick, and other various design parameters associated with the collection and utilization of solar energy.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.53-62
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• 2011

Heliostat in the tower type solar thermal power plant is a sun tracking mirror system to reflect the solar energy to the receiver and the optical performance of it affects to the efficiency of whole power plant most significantly. Thus a proper design of structure of the heliostat reflective surface could be the most important step in the construction of such power plant. The work presented here is a design of structure of optical surface of heliostat, which will be used in 200kW solar thermal power plant. The receiver located at 43(m) high from ground in tower has $2{\times}2$(m) rectangular shape. We first developed the software tool to simulate the energy concentration characteristics of heliostat using the ray tracing technique. Then, the shape of heliostat reflective surface is designed with the consideration of heliostat's energy concentration characteristics, production cost and productivity. The designed heliostat's reflective surface has a structure formed by canting four of $1{\times}1$(m) rectangular flat plate mirror facet and the center of each mirror facet is located on the spherical surface, where the spherical surface is formulated by the mirror facet mounting frame.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2015.01a
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• pp.95-98
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• 2015

요즘 현대사회는 주거생활을 윤택하게 하기 위해 많은 노력을 기울이고 있다. 특히, 런던협약에 의해 음식물 쓰레기에 대한 대안은 분명히 필요한 부분이다. 런던 협약은 세계 각국의 폐기물 투기로 오염이 심각해짐에 따라 1972년 2월 유럽국가들이 모여 체결한 협약으로, 런던 협약에 가입한 국가는 매년 자국이 해양에 버리고 있는 폐기물 현황을 협약사무국에 보고할 의무가 있고 해양투기 금지를 저준위 방사성 물질을 포함한 모든 방사성 폐기물과 산업폐기물의 해양투기를 금지하기로 결의한 협약이다. 본 논문에서는 태양열 집열판을 이용해 자체적인 전원사용이 가능하도록 하여 음식물처리기 제어를 :LCD를 통한 GUI(Graphic User Interface)시스템으로 접근성이 쉽게 조작하도록 하여 사용자 편의에 중점을 두어 설계하였다.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.170.2-170.2
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• 2012

위성의 열진공 환경 시험은 고진공 극저온의 우주 환경을 모사하여 열제어 기능 및 임무 수행 능력을 검증하는 시험이다. 이 시험에서는 위성 주위에 부착한 방열판으로 위성 외각 온도를 변화 시켜 위성의 태양 지향 자세 또는 심우주 지향 자세를 모사하며, 이에 따른 위성의 온도 변화에 따라 지상 시험 장비로 위성의 히터 설정, 유닛 전원 형상의 변경 등을 해야한다. 또한 극고온 또는 극저온의 환경에 장시간 연속적으로 노출된 상태에서 위성의 기본적인 기능부터 영상 미션까지 검토하는 CPT 시험을 수행하며, 이 CPT 시험은 극한의 위성 상태의 시험이기 때문에 온도를 고려한 전자 시험 설계 및 24시간 위성 모니터링 시스템, 위험상황 발생 시 대처 방안 등에 대한 준비가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 열진공 시험 시의 전자시험의 형상과 설계에 대해서 설명하고, 시험 결과에 대해서 정리하였다.

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.547-550
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• 2008

이 논문은 유비쿼터스 환경을 고려하여 실제 프로젝트를 통해 신재생에너지시스템을 개발한 사례를 토대로 기술하였다. 20세기 초까지 인류의 중요 에너지 자원은 석탄이었으나 곧 석유와 천연가스에 의한 유체(流體) 에너지로 대체되었다. 이 논문에서는 현재 심각한 문제를 안고 있는 지구 온난화와 그 주원인인 화석 연료 사용에 대해 논의 하였고 그 해결 방안으로 태양열을 비롯한 여러 대체 사업을 제시하였다. 태양열 발전이 미래지향적이고 무공해, 무한한 에너지인 것만은 사실이지만 에너지 밀도가 낮고 생산의 기후적 영향을 많이 받는다. 또 계속적인 수요에 대해 안정적 공급이 어렵다는 단점을 안고 있다. 그렇기에 한국형 지리에 적합하고 기후에 맞게끔 지속적으로 설계 고안하여 고유가, 온난화에 대비해야 할 것이다.

• Solar Energy
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.44-52
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• 1991

The benefits of thermal stratification in sensible heat storage systems has been considered and studying by several investigators. In this paper, the basic data which is hard to obtain normally through the experiment were obtainable through the computer simulation. The major objectives of the study were to assess the benefits of stratified storage in residential solar water heating application and to suggest the optimum design parameters. From the computer simulation, following results were obtained. 1. The solar load fraction increases with increasing the number of tank segments. In these simulation, the magnitude of the improvement was about 10%. 2. The solar load fraction increases when the ratio of diameter to height of the tank(H/D) increases to 3, but H/D exceed 3 then, the solar load fraction decreases. In these simulation, the magnitude of the improvement was about 3%. 3. Increasing the collector flow rate slightly improved the performance of the mixed storage system(Node=1). But, for the stratified storage system(Node=N), the solar load fraction increases with decreasing flow rate until the point is reached at which the collector outlet temperature reaches the boiloff limit of $100^{\circ}C$ over some portion of the simulation period.