• International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.147-155
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• 2007

Mobile air conditioning systems work under widely changing operating conditions. To understand the system behavior under such dynamic conditions, a test facility that can impose transient loads as well as conducting dynamic measurements is needed. To test mobile air conditioning systems including their dynamic performance under various drive cycle patterns without using full scale vehicles in a wind tunnel, a new test facility, called "dynamic simulator," is described. It can replicate real vehicle operating conditions by interacting with the system being tested based on the measured system performance and subsequently adjusting the air properties returning to the test system based on the results of a numerical cabin model. A new dynamic simulator has been designed, constructed, and verified for performing dynamic tests. It was successful in controlling the temperature and relative humidity of the air returning to the test unit within ${\pm}0.7^{\circ}C$ and ${\pm}4%$ of their respective intended values. The verification test under the New European Driving Cycle demonstrated that detailed transient behavior of the mobile air conditioning system could be measured by using this dynamic simulator.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.321-327
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• 2015

This study presents an HFC152a refrigerant air conditioner as an alternative to HFC134a, which is currently used in mobile air conditioning systems. Cool-down performance tests of an HFC152a air conditioning system were conducted and compared to a baseline HFC134a air conditioner. The experimental set-up consisted of a belt-driven compressor, a sub-cooled type condenser, an evaporator, and a block-type thermal expansion valve (TXV). A drop-in test was carried out on the mobile air conditioning system under various vehicle running speeds in a climate-controlled wind tunnel (CWT). Additionally, to optimize the HFC152a air conditioning system, the effects of the TXVs on the performance were studied. The results show that compared to the HFC134a air conditioning system, the refrigerant charge quantity was reduced by approximately 20%, the discharge pressure was reduced by about 350~430 kPa, and the air discharge temperature at vehicle running conditions was $0.5{\sim}1.5^{\circ}C$ lower. In addition, good compressor durability was expected due to the lower compression ratio.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.67-75
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• 2007

This paper deals with the research for the effects of the operating parameters that could be used for a transcritical $CO_2$ mobile air-conditioning system on the cooling performance. The experimental conditions of the performance tests for a system and components such as a gas cooler and an evaporator were suggested to compare the performance of each with the standardized test conditions. And this research presents experimental results for the performance characteristics of a $CO_2$ mobile air conditioning system with various operating conditions such as different gas cooler inlet pressures and frontal air velocities/temperatures passing through an evaporator and a gas cooler. Experimental results show that the cooling capacity was more than 5kW and coefficient of performance (COP) was more than 2.1, also. Therefore, we checked that the mobile air-conditioning system using $CO_2$ has good performance compared to that using HFC-134a.

• International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.44-50
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• 2008

This study presents test results of a mobile air-conditioning system using a potential alternative refrigerant, R152a. A series of performance tests have been carried out and cycle characteristics such as cooling capacity, energy efficiency ratio, suction and discharge pressures, and temperatures are presented, compared to those for the baseline R134a system. Tests were conducted with evaporation temperature of $5^{\circ}C$, condensation temperature of $45^{\circ}C$, subcooling temperature of $5^{\circ}C$, superheating temperature of $5^{\circ}C$, and compressor speed of 500-1500 rpm. The performance of R152a system with readjustment of an expansion valve showed better than those of R134a. The effect of oil on the pressure drop in the evaporator was also addressed.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.159-165
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• 2008

This paper deals with the optimum high pressure control algorithm for a transcritical $CO_2$ mobile air-conditioning system with belt-driven compressor to achieve the maximum COP. The experiments were performed to find out the maximum COP conditions with various operating conditions. The experimental results showed that the COP was increased and then decreased with increase of the refrigerant high pressure for the system. Therefore the value of high pressure which has maximum COP could be selected. Furthermore, the strong (linear) relation between the optimum high pressure and the gas cooler outlet temperature was revealed, which suggests the use of a simple controller with only one parameter for the transcritical $CO_2$ cycle.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2019

Purpose: As the improvement in quality of medical environment and the spatial consideration for the prevention of infection in the hospital have become increasingly important in the recent years, specific and practical planning for air conditioning room's area has become a major issue accordingly. However, the air conditioning room tends to be discussed focusing on technical factors such as air conditioning systems that are irrelevant to building plans, while discussions of most departments related to the medical functions have actively taken placed. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the factors influencing the planning for the air conditioning room area, and through subsequent analysis of the area of the air conditioning room, to propose a way to improve effective planning for the air conditioning room area. Methods: This study examines the case hospitals that fall into two types: each floor supply system and concentrated supply system, and compares and analyzes the air conditioning room area-related factors and the characteristics of changes in the interior of air conditioning room before and after remodeling through air conditioning floor plan of those case hospitals. Results: The air conditioning room can be classified into the net area of the functional space such as duct passages, and the public area such as aisle space, and of those the public area is an important factor in calculating the area of the air conditioning room. The public area of the air-conditioning room should not be planned considering only the spaces for mobile passage or maintenance activities, but should be planned taking into account internal changes such as expansion and replacement of equipment in the future from the beginning. Implications: When planning a medical facility, it is used as basic data for the planning of the air conditioning room area, which is a significant fixed factor in the initial setting.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.5457-5463
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• 2011

본 연구의 목적은 이산화탄소를 적용한 자동차용 냉방시스템의 냉방 성능특성을 고찰하는 것이다. 특히 자동차의 실도로 운전 조건을 모사할 수 있도록 실험 조건을 선정하였으며 실제 자동차에 적용된 이산화탄소용 냉방시스템에 대하여 다양한 냉방성능 실험을 진행하였다. 결과적으로, 가스쿨러 입구 공기온도가 증가할수록 냉방용량과 COP는 감소하였고 증발기 입구 공기온도가 증가할수록 냉방용량과 COP는 증가하였다. 또한, 압축기 회전속도가 900 rev/min에서 1800 rev/min으로 증가할수록 냉방용량은 42.2% 증가였으나 냉방 COP는 55.4% 감소하였다.

• 한국기후변화학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.153-159
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• 2012

자동차 에어컨 냉매로 사용되어온 CFC-12는 1991년부터 1994년에 걸쳐 HFC 계열의 냉매인 R134a로 대체되었으며, R-134a는 현재자동차 에어컨 냉매로 널리 사용되고 있다. 그러나 R-134a는 지구온난화 지수(GWP)가 1,300으로 매우 높으며, 교토의정서에서 정한 6대 온실가스 중에 하나로 포함되어 누출량 관리 및 대체 냉매 개발이 필요한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 자동차에서 배출되는 $non-CO_2$ 온실가스 배출량 산출을 위한 기초연구로 실차 상태에서의 에어컨 냉매 누출량을 분석하기 위하여 가변온도밀폐실(VT shed)과 Running loss test shed를 이용하여 R-134a의 농도변화를 측정하였다. 대상차종에 대한 주차상태에서 R-134a 누출량을 분석한 결과, 연간 누출량이 6.46~13.28 g/yr 수준으로 기존의 에어컨 시스템을 이용한 누출량 분석결과와 유사한 수준으로 분석되었다. 동일 모델 차량에 단일증발기를 적용한 차량과 이중증발기를 적용한 차량에 대해 냉매 누출량을 비교한 결과, 단일증발기로 구성된 에어컨이 적용된 차량에 비하여 이중증발기가 적용된 에어컨이 장착된 차량에서 누출량이 높게 나타났다. 이는 이중증발기 적용에 따라 에어컨 시스템 구성시 연결부위(호스, 접합부 등)가 추가되면서 해당 부위에서의 누출이 증가된 것으로 보인다. 또한, 차속별 R-134a 농도변화를 분석한 결과, 고속주행시(100 km/hr) 냉매 누출이 증가하였으며, 송풍량 증가에 따른 누출량 변화는 나타나지 않았다.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.332-340
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• 2002

In these days, environmental concerns have been increased throughout the industry and community worldwide. To prevent the ozone depletion, ozone depletion potential of a refrigerant must be zero. Simultaneously, a refrigerant with low GWP (global warming potential) is very demanding to induce green house effect. Chlorine-free HFC-l34a is a refrigerant widely used for automotive air-conditioning system because its destruction potential is ecologically zero. Although HFC-l34a has no ozone depletion potential, its global warming potential is so high that it is not considered as a perfect alternative refrigerant that is acceptable for long-term use. In this paper, experimental measurement has been carried out to analyze the performance characteristics of automotive air-conditioning system using HFC-152a, which has low GWP and zero ODP. Also mixed refrigerant that is composed of HFC-152a and $CF_3$ was applied to investigate an alternative possibility for the automotive airconditioning system. As a result of this study, we could draw following conclusions; With respect to the variation of the rotational speed of compressor, outside air temperature and flow rate, the heat amount of evaporator and compressor and performance coefficient was varied.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.672-678
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to develop a stacking guidance system (SGS) of containers in the mobile harbor (MH). A mobile harbor is a floating structure especially designed for loading and unloading containers from and to a large container ship. A novel stacking guidance system was proposed for unloading the container in an effective way against possible vibrations of the floating body. The guidance system works as an aid for loading containers with a wider opening for easier stacking of a container into a moving storage cell due to waves. In order to determine the most effective inclination angle of the cell-guide, this study performed the dynamic analysis of the SGS equipped in the MH subject to fluctuations of the sea. The motions of the guidance system and a container loaded were calculated using ADAMS. The simulation results of the contact force between the two rigid bodies showed that a desirable angle of the cell-guide should be around 20 degrees from the vertical. This proposed SGS can considerably reduce the loading and unloading time, and will enhance the performance of the MH.