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Experimental Study on the Heating Performance Improvement of R134a Heat Pump System for Zero Emission Vehicles (무공해자동차용 R134a 히트펌프 시스템의 난방성능 향상에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Lee, Dae-Woong
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.257-262
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    • 2014
  • This paper describes an experimental study for heating performance that can be used in R-134a automobile heat pump systems. The heat pump system is widely studied for heating system in zero-emission vehicles to attain both the small power consumption and the effective heating of the cabin. This paper presents the experimental results of the influence on heating capacity and coefficient of performance of heat pump system. Tests were performed with different sizes of internal and external heat exchangers, and refrigerant flow rate was also considered in two-way flow devices. In addition, the heat, air, and water sources with the heat pump system were examined. The experimental results with the heat pump system were used to analyze the impact on performances. The best combination of performance was A-inside heat exchanger, B-outside heat exchanger, and B-flow device, respectively. In addition, a water heat-source was found to give roughly 40% of better performance than an air heat-source heat pump system.

An Experimental Study on the Metal Surface Temperature and Heat Transfer by Improving Gasoline Engine Cooling Passages (가솔린엔진의 냉각계 유로 변경을 통한 금속면 온도 및 전열에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 이재헌;류택용;신승용;최재권
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2002
  • Metal surface temperatures around the combustion chamber in a gasoline engine directly affect thermal durability and performance of the engine. Metal surface temperatures are influenced by many cooling factors such as drilled water passage, deflector, combustion chamber wall thickness, pillar, and coolant flow pattern. The object of this study is to learn how the coolant passages and coolant flow pattern in an engine influence to the engine metal surface temperature at engine full load and speed. From the test result, it is suggested a plan to reinforce the engine stiffness and to reduce the thermal stress simultaneously. Also, approaches are introduced to reduce the thermal load on the engine by adjusting the discharging direction from the water pump and by optimizing the water transfer holes in the cylinder head gasket. These methods and the optimized engine cooling system, which were suggested in this paper, were adapted for an engine in progress to eliminate the exhaust valve seat wear.

Comparison of three small-break loss-of-coolant accident tests with different break locations using the system-integrated modular advanced reactor-integral test loop facility to estimate the safety of the smart design

  • Bae, Hwang;Kim, Dong Eok;Ryu, Sung-Uk;Yi, Sung-Jae;Park, Hyun-Sik
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.49 no.5
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    • pp.968-978
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    • 2017
  • Three small-break loss-of-coolant accident (SBLOCA) tests with safety injection pumps were carried out using the integral-effect test loop for SMART (System-integrated Modular Advanced ReacTor), i.e., the SMART-ITL facility. The types of break are a safety injection system line break, shutdown cooling system line break, and pressurizer safety valve line break. The thermal-hydraulic phenomena show a traditional behavior to decrease the temperature and pressure whereas the local phenomena are slightly different during the early stage of the transient after a break simulation. A safety injection using a high-pressure pump effectively cools down and recovers the inventory of a reactor coolant system. The global trends show reproducible results for an SBLOCA scenario with three different break locations. It was confirmed that the safety injection system is robustly safe enough to protect from a core uncovery.