• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.215-222
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• 2012

Lighting represents a significant component of commercial buildings, particularly office buildings. Fluorescent lighting is invariably used in all commercial, industrial and residential areas. A significant amount of lighting energy is wasted every day by leaving the lights on and not utilizing daylight energy. However, if daylight illuminance can be harnessed, this will reduce the electricity consumption of fluorescent lamps and save energy. This paper explains possible significant savings in lighting energy consumption and hence in costs, without reducing the performance and visual satisfaction in office or industrial buildings. It is proposed to obtain energy saving by reducing the supply voltage without degradation in lighting performance. Experimental results confirm that as much as 20% of electrical energy can be saved by reducing about 9% of the supply voltage, without noticeably affecting light output while complying with lighting standard limits.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2005년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.781-784
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• 2005

This paper is aimed at presenting a proton exchange membrane ( PEM ) fuel cell stack. The fuel cell electrical output voltage and current (V-I) characteristic is described for the first time by a simplified closed form suitable. The characteristics obtained from the simulation are compared with the experimental results on a Ballard commercial fuel cell stack as well as to the manufacturer given data.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.137-144
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• 2016

Commercial buildings account for a significant proportion of the total building energy use in Korea, and cooling energy, in turn, accounts for the largest proportion of total energy consumption in commercial buildings. Under this circumstance, chiller staging is considered to be a reasonable and practical solution for cooling energy saving. In this study, the part-load ratio and the operating characteristics of a vapor compression chiller were analysed within an office building. In addition, energy consumption among different chiller staging schemes was comparatively analysed. As a result, significant proportions of total operating hours, cooling load and energy consumption turned out to be in the part load ratio range from 0% through 50%, and thus energy consumption was significantly affected by the chiller COP at low part-load conditions, indicating that the chiller operation at the part-load is an important factor in commercial buildings. In addition, utilizing a sequential chiller staging scheme can reduce the annual cooling energy usage by more than 10.3% compared to operating a single chiller.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.343-350
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• 2012

The major goal of building energy management is to minimize the energy consumption while maintaining the comfortable environment condition. Nowadays building energy management to save HVAC energy and so on is the most critical issue for existing building service branch with high efficiency equipments and their optimal operation. The effects on the building energy savings of the building equipment retrofit and the improvement of its operation method, especially in the field of HVAC system, were analyzed in this study for domestic small and/or medium sized buildings. Over 8.8% of energy saving was achieved compared withe total energy consumption in commercial building. These results could be used for reasonable maintenance and efficient management of the various building service equipments and related systems.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.474-479
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• 2016

친환경에너지에 대한 요구가 높아지면서 전기에너지의 사용은 계속 증가하고 있다. 최근 친환경, 에너지 절약을 위해서 유도가열을 이용한 여러 가지 가열방식에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 전자유도현상을 이용한 유도가 열방식을 이용하여 보다 친환경적이고 에너지 절약이 가능한 전기온풍기를 설게 제작하였다. 온풍기는 송풍부, 유도가열부 및 전력변환부 등 3부분으로 구성하였다. 유도가열부는 송풍부에 결합되어 송풍부로부터 발생된 바람이 가열되어 분출되며, 전력변환부는 고주파를 인가하여 자속을 발생시킴으로써 유도가열부의 내부를 가열시킨다. 발열방식은 유도가열의 원리를 적용하고, 전력변환효율성을 높이기 위해 공진형 인버터를 사용하였다. 공진형 인버터는 풀브리지 전압형 직렬부하 공진형 인버터를 사용하였다. 유도가열부는 세라믹 계열의 절연체와 SUS40계열의 금속체를 사용했으며, 전력변환부는 정류부, 필터부 및 공진형 인버터부 등으로 구성 하였다. 본 연구에서 제안한 전기온풍기는 기존의 전기히터와 가스히터 등과 비교한 결과, 온도 상승속도가 빠르고, 사용에너지 비용이 절감되는 등 경제성도 있음을 보였다. 개발된 전기온풍기는 가정용, 상업용 및 농업용 등 여러 분야에 친환경 에너지절감형 온풍기로의 적용 가능성이 있다.

• Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.48-58
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• 2014

Energy efficiency is vital to improve energy security, environmental and social sustainability, and economic performance. Improved energy efficiency also mitigates climate change by lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Buildings are the single largest industrial consumer of energy and are therefore key to understanding and analyzing energy consumption patterns and the opportunities for saving energy at the district level in urban environments. This study focused on two representative boroughs in the major metropolitan area of Seoul, South Korea as a case study: Gandong-gu, a typical residential district, and Jung-gu, a typical commercial district. The sources of the energy supplied to the boroughs were determined and consumption patterns in different industry sectors in Seoul used to identify current patterns of energy consumption. The study analyzed the energy consumption patterns for five different building categories and four different sectors in the building using a bottom-up energy modeling approach. Electricity and gas consumption patterns were recorded for different building categories and monthly ambient temperatures in the two boroughs. Finally, a logarithmic equation was developed to describe the correlation between commercial activity and cooling energy intensity in Jung-gu, the commercial district. Based on these results, recommendations are made regarding the current energy consumption patterns at the district level and government energy policies are suggested to reduce energy consumption and, hence, greenhouse gas emissions, in both commercial and residential buildings.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2018

The most crucial point of reducing building energy is application of high performance envelope. The amount of heat exchange through window is highest in comparison of other envelopes so that heat exchange through window influence directly with building energy consumption. The window energy performance can be define with thermal, leakage and optical performance. In previous study we can confirmed that not only thermal performance but also optical performance are considered, 11% to 15% of building energy consumption can be reduced. Smart window system has potential of energy saving so that many industry field use smart window system including architectural area and these aspect causes smart window market continuous growth year by year. In this study, building energy consumption has been analyzed which consist of smart window that dynamically control optical states. The consideration of standard commercial building model for research, the reference medium size commercial building model of DOE (Department Of Energy, USA) has been used. The building energy simulation result of 4 axis in 8 regions in Korea shows 8% to 22% reduction of building energy consumption by application of smart window system.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권2호
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• pp.164-170
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• 2013

The commercial buildings are consuming about 30% of total energy used in Korea. And a large amount of energy consumption in commercial buildings is consumed by HVAC(Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning) system. Therefore, if we can reduce the energy consumption in HVAC or air-conditioning system in commercial buildings, the overall energy consumption in Korea can be reduced. Currently, an electricity charge called Time of Use (TOU) is applied to typical commercial buildings. This paper proposes the novel energy management method where the temperature setting of air-conditioning system are adjusted to minimize the use of electrical energy while indoor comfort level is retained. The simulation test for a typical commercial building shows that the proposed method gives over 10% savings in electricity bills and electricity consumption compared to the conventional air-conditioning method.

• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• 제5B권2호
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• pp.181-188
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• 2005

In this paper, a DC smoothing filterless soft switching pulse modulated high frequency AC power conversion circuit connected to utility. frequency AC power source is proposed for consumer induction heating hot water producer, steamer and super heated steamer. The operating principle of DC link filterless utility frequency AC-high frequency AC (HF AC) power conversion circuit defined as high frequency cycloinverter is described, which can operate under a principle of ZVS/AVT and power regulation based on alternate asymmetrical PWM in synchronization with the utility frequency single phase AC positive or negative half wave voltage. The dual mode modulation control scheme based on high frequency PWM and commercial frequency AC voltage PDM for the proposed high frequency cycloinverter are discussed to enlarge its soft switching commutation operating range for wide HF AC power regulation. This high frequency cycloinverter is developed for high frequency IH Dual Packs Heater (DPH) type boiler used in consumer and industrial fluid pipeline systems. Based on the experiment and simulation results, this high frequency cycloinverter is proved to be suitable for the consumer use IH-DPH boiler and hot water producers. The cycloinverter power regulation and power conversion efficiency characteristics are evaluated and discussed.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.2588-2595
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• 2013

기존의 유압식 엘리베이터에서 엘리베이터 카의 하강행정 동안 손실 되는 유압 에너지를 회수하여 재사용하기 위하여 개발한 유압식 엘리베이터용 하이브리드 형 에너지 저감 장치에 대한 성능 특성에 관하여 연구하였다. 회수된 에너지는 축전지에 저장하여 재사용할 수 있도록 구성되어 있으며, 엘리베이터의 구동 조건에 따른 에너지 저감장치의 출력 특성, 효율 및 에너지 회수율 등에 관하여 실험을 통하여 규명하고자 하였다. 본 연구의 결과들은 하강행정 동안 버려지는 에너지의 회수율이 최대 약 54%로 에너지 저감 장치의 압력, 유량, 출력 전압과 전류, 효율 및 에너지 회수율 등과 같은 성능 특성들이 안정적이고 양호하다는 것을 보여주고 있으며, 본 연구를 통하여 유압식 엘리베이터의 에너지 저감 장치를 통하여 하강행정 동안 회수된 에너지를 재사용하데 매우 유용하며, 상용화 가능성이 충분하다는 것을 확인하였다.