• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.66-72
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• 2013

In this study, the thermal conductive characteristics and basic properties of the nine commercial products of bentonite grouts were studied. Six of the nine products for ground heat exchanger systems are imported and others for civil engineering are domestic. The thermal conductivities of all bentonite products are nearly similar among products. The free swell indexes, viscosities and filter losses of the ground heat exchanger grouts are lower than those of the civil engineering ones. These characteristics seem to increase of the fluidity to fill the bentonite slurry to bore-hall perfectly, rather than to prevent underground water penetration. Thus, the mixtures of bentonites and sands are recommended for high thermal conduction grouts.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.95-102
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• 2011

A ground loop heat exchanger in a ground source heat pump system is an important unit that determines the thermal performance of a system and its initial cost. A proper design requires certain site specific parameters, most importantly the ground effective thermal conductivity, the borehole thermal resistance and the undisturbed ground temperature. This study was performed to investigate the effect of some parameters such as borehole lengths, various grouting materials and U tube configurations on ground effective thermal conductivity and borehole thermal resistance. In this study, thermal response tests were conducted using a testing device to 9 different ground loop heat exchangers. From the experimental results, the length of ground loop heat exchanger affects to the effective thermal conductivity. The results of this experiment shows that higher thermal conductivity of grouting materials leads to the increase effective thermal conductivity from 22 to 32%. Also, mounting spacers have increased by 14%.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.25-30
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• 2012

Ground source heat pumps(GSHPs) are among the most efficient and comfortable heating and cooling technologies currently available, because they use the earth's natural heat to provide heating, cooling, and often, water heating. And Building Integrated Geothermal System(BIGS) is one of GSHPs which install ground heat exchanger(GHE) in energy pile without borehole to save the investment cost. Therefore, the experiment is to evaluate the heating performance of BIGS in Korea. The experimental results indicate that the average heat pump COP and overall system's COP values are approximately 4.4 and 3.0 in one week. This study shows that the BIGS could be used for heating in Korea.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.833-841
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• 2007

지하수열펌프시스템(GWHP)은 지원열펌프시스템(GSHP)가운데 성능이 가장 우수하며 저온의 천부지하수열을 이용하는 시스템이다. GWHP시스템은 지중연결 열펌프시스템(GCHP)에 비해 최대 블록부하와 전 시스템 성능에 부합되는 지하수유량을 기준으로 하여 설계를 하며 최적 지하수유량은 해당지역의 지하수온도, 판형열교환기의 규격과 전체펌프와 배관류의 전 양정고에 따라 결정한다. 대체적으로 전형적인 빌딩루프순환수의 필요유량은 1RT당 $9.5{\sim}11.4lpm$ 정도인데 비해 GWHP시스템이 필요로 하는 최적 지하수유량은 이보다 꿜씬 적은 $3.8{\sim}9.5lpm$정도이다.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.207-212
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• 2015

The use of groundwater and ground_heat is one of the ways to use natural and renewable energy, and it has been considered as a technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy-saving. There are a few researches on the optimum design for the open-loop geothermal system. In this study, to develop the optimal design method numerical simulation of the open-loop geothermal system with two-wells was performed by a groundwater and heat transfer model. In this paper, a study was performed to analyze the system performance according to well distance and pumping flow rate. In the result, average heat exchange rate and heat source temperature were calculated and it was found that they were dependent on the pumping rate.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.600-603
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• 2009

We compared relative importance of thermal conductivity and initial ground temperature in designing borehole heat exchanger network and also we test accuracy of ground temperature estimation in thermal response test using a proven 3-D T-H modeler. The effect of error in estimating ground temperature on calculated total length of borehole heat exchanger was more than 3 times larger than the case of thermal conductivity in maximum 20% error range. Considering 10% of error in estimating thermal conductivity is generally acceptable, we have to define the initial ground temperature within 5% confidence level. Utilizing the mean annual ground surface temperature and the geothermal gradient map compiled so far can be a economic way of estimating ground temperature with some caution. When performing thermal response test for estimating ground temperature as well as measuring thermal conductivity, minimum 100 minutes of ambient circulation is required, which should be even more in case of very cold and hot seasons.

• 지질공학
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.389-398
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• 2013

국내에서 열물성에 관한 연구는 지역별, 암종별 열물성 파악을 위주로 진행되었으나, 지열냉난방시스템 설계 시에 실시하는 TRT (thermal response test)의 열전도도와 차이가 크게 나타남에 따라 본 연구에서는 지하수 부존량이 풍부한 지역에서 시료를 통한 열전도도와 TRT를 통한 열전도도를 비교하였다. 토양 시료의 열전도도는 1.32 W/m-K, 암석 시료의 열전도도는 2.88 W/m-K로 나타났으며, TRT로 측정된 열전도도는 3.13 W/m-K로 나타나 암석 시료보다 약 10% 정도 높게 나타났다. 연구지역은 지하수가 풍부하고 0.01의 수리경사를 가지고 있어 이 차이는 지하수 흐름에 의한 영향이라고 판단된다. 라인소스(line source) 이론에 따르면 TRT는 지반의 순수한 열전도도를 산정하는 것이 목적이므로, 국내 SCW (standing column well)형의 TRT는 라인소스 이론에 적합하지 않으며 지열냉난방시스템 설계 시에는 시료를 통한 열전도도값을 사용하는 것이 타당하다고 판단된다.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.364-369
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• 2005

An experimental study was conducted on the thermal conductivity of various grouting materials for geothermal heat exchanger which is used as a heat sink or source in the heat pump system. The grouting of the vertical heat exchanger is important for environmental and heat transfer reasons and is generally accomplished by the placement of a low permeability material into the annular space between the borehole wall and the pipes suspended in the borehole. In this study, a lab scale test apparatus was made and measured the thermal conductivity of four grouting materials. As a result, the temperature rising tendency was similar among them, but the increasing rate was different. Thus the thermal conductivity showed a maximum difference of $27\%$ among grouting materials.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.186-194
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• 2018

A ground-source heat pump system (GSHP) is more energy efficient than other heat-source systems because it uses annual constant underground and water temperatures. Especially, two-well geothermal systems using groundwater as the heat source can achieve higher performance than closed-loop geothermal systems. However, performance of two-well geothermal systems is decreased by occurring overflow according to scale during long-term operations. Therefore, this study presents a two-well pairing geothermal system that controls the groundwater level of a diffusion well. In addition, a two-well pairing geothermal system and an SCW geothermal system were installed, and a comparative analysis of cooling performance depending on system operation under the same load conditions was conducted. The result was that the average heat pump coefficient of performance (COP) of the two-well pairing system was 6.5, and the entire system COP was 4.3.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.173-182
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• 2005

The Performance of U-tube ground heat exchanger for geothermal heat Pump systems depends on the thermal properties of the soil, as well as grout or backfill materials in the borehole. In-situ tests provide a means of estimating some of these properties. In this study, in-situ thermal response tests were completed on two vertical boreholes, 130 m deep with 62 mm diameter high density polyethylene U-tubes. The tests were conducted by adding a monitored amount of heat to water over a $17\~18$ hour period for each vertical boreholes. By monitoring the water temperatures entering and exiting the loop and heat load, overall thermal conductivity values of grout/soil formation were determined. Two parameter estimation models for evaluation of thermal response test data were compared when applied on the same temperature response data. One model is based on line-source theory and the other is a numerical one-dimensional finite difference model. The average thermal conductivity deviation between measured data and these models is of the magnitude $1\%$ to $5\%$.