• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.299-323
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• 2016

Cylindrical parabolic solar concentrators of small concentration ratio are attractive options for working temperatures around $120^{\circ}C$. The heat gained can be utilized in many applications such as air conditioning, space heating, heating water and many others. These collectors can be easily manufactured and do not need to track the sun continuously. Using a heat pipe as a solar absorber makes the system more compact and easy to install. This study is devoted to modeling a system of cylindrical parabolic solar concentrators of small concentration ratio (around 5) fitted with a heat pipe absorber with a porous wick. The heat pipe is surrounded by evacuated glass tube to reduce thermal losses from the heat pipe. The liquid and vapor flow equations, energy equation, the internal and external boundary conditions were taken into consideration. The system of equations was solved and the numerical results were validated against available experimental and numerical results. The validated heat pipe model was inserted in an evacuated transparent glass tube as the absorber of the cylindrical parabolic collector. A calculation procedure was developed for the system, a computer program was developed and tested and numerical simulations were realized for the whole system. An experimental solar collector of small concentration, fitted with evacuated tube heat pipe absorber was constructed and instrumented. Experiments were realized with the concentrator axis along the E-W direction. Results of the instantaneous efficiency and heat gain were compared with numerical simulations realized under the same conditions and reasonably good agreement was found.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.197.1-197.1
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• 2010

This study was carried out to evaluate the operating performances of the evaporation desalination system with solar energy. This system was designed to use evacuated solar collector as the heat source, supplying the required heat energy and photovoltaic power as the electric source, supplying required power to pumps in the desalination system. The 5kW photovoltaic power generation system to make the electricity, the single-stage fresh water generator with plate heat exchanger, and remote control and monitoring system. Solar desalination system was designed and installed in Jeju-island, Korea in 2006, after about 4 years of operation, usability and stability of solar desalination system was guaranteed. The system comprises of the desalination unit which was designed to have daily fresh water capacity of $2m^3$, a $120m^2$ evacuated tubular solar collector to supply the heat, a $6m^3$ heat storage tank, and a 5.2kW photovoltaic power generation to supply the electricity to hydraulic pumps for the heat medium fluids. On a clear day, average daily solar irradiance in Jeju-island was measured to be $500W/m^2$ and the daily fresh water yield showed to be more than 500 liters under this condition. After around three years of a long term operation of the system from January 2007 to August 2009, average daily freshwater yield was analyzed to be around $330{\ell}$. The relationship equation between solar irradiance and freshwater yield was found to be y=1.1806x - 107.89.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.19-27
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• 2007

The previous study was conducted to develop an air source multi heat pump system that could be operated with the solar collector and air source heat exchangers as heat source of the system. There is a winter-sowing problems in air source multi heat pump system when the outdoor temperature goes down under freezing point. The winter-sowing problem was solved by adapting R-22 refrigerant as working fluid in the previous study. However, when the system operated at high temperature, another problems are come out such as overheating of the solar collector outlet which lead to the superheat of the compressor inlet of the heat pump system. The condition could deteriorates a compressor in some case. In this study, we installed the anti-superheating devices on the previously developed system. As results of system performance test, COP of the system with anti-superheating technique is 2.4. It is a little improved COP compare to previous study's 2.23. In the results of multi heat source heating system, during operating solar collector, COP is relatively high between $200\;W/m^2$ and $400\;W/m^2$ solar intensity. It is recommended to extend the study on performance optimization with balancing the solar collect and capacity of compressor at higher solar irradiation conditions.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.1237-1245
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• 1993

본 연구에서는 그 동안 본 실험실에서 태양열 집열기용으로 개발한 에탄올 열파이프를 집열판에 설치하여 집열기 모델을 설계 제작하였다. 그리고 실제 태양 복사하에서 집열기의 집열과 열이송과정에 대한 특성을 검토함으로써 열파이프의 적 응성을 확인하였다. 특히 열파이프의 시동 및 작동상태, 집열판내의 열유동과정 그리고 집열기의 집열효율에 관하여 고찰하였다.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.328-333
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• 2011

The influence of Al-doped ZnO (AZO) thin films degraded under high temperature and damp heat on the performance deterioration of Cu(In,Ga)$Se_2$ (CIGS) solar cells was investigated. CIGS solar cells with AZO/CdS/CIGS/Mo structure were prepared on glass substrate and exposed to high temperature ($85^{\circ}C$) and damp heat ($85^{\circ}C$/85% RH) for 1000 h. As-prepared CIGS solar cells had 64.91% in fill factor (FF) and 12.04% in conversion efficiency. After exposed to high temperature, CIGS solar cell had 59.14% in FF and 9.78% in efficiency, while after exposed to damp heat, it had 54.00% in FF and 8.78% in efficiency. AZO thin films in the deteriorated CIGS solar cells showed increases in resistivity up to 3.1 times and 4.4 times compared to their initial resistivity after 1000 h of high temperature and damp heat exposure, respectively. These results can be explained by the decreases in carrier concentration and mobility due to diffusion or adsorption of oxygen and moisture in AZO thin films. It can be inferred that decreases in FF and conversion efficiency were caused by an increase in series resistance, which resulted from an increase in resistivity of AZO thin films degraded under high temperature and damp heat.

• 에너지공학
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.189-195
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• 2014

신재생에너지 분야 중 특히 태양에너지를 이용하는 분야는 자원의 무한 및 청정성 때문에 그 사용량이 증가 추세에 있다. 우리나라에서 태양열에너지의 이용률이 전체 에너지 사용량 중 아직 미미한 실정이지만, 근래 정부의 정책적 지원에 힘입어 이 분야에 대한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 본 연구는 태양열집열기의 형상 변화에 따른 집열효율을 조사하기 위하여 단일진공관 태양열집열기를 이용한 실험 및 이중진공관 태양열집열기와의 비교 실험을 수행하였다. 그 결과, 본 실험장치에서 히트 파이프의 최고온도의 차이로부터 태양열집열기 형상 변화에 따른 집열효율의 변화를 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 본 연구대상 태양열집열기의 히트파이프의 온도가 비교대상 태양열집열기보다 높음에도 불구하고 방열핀의 온도가 낮게 관측되었다. 이것은 본 연구대상의 태양열집열기는 히트파이프 방열부인 헤드부와 방열핀 사이의 접촉저항이 비교대상의 접촉저항보다 크다는 것을 나타내며, 집열효율을 높이기 위해서는 태양열집열기의 여러 부분의 성능개선뿐만 아니라 접촉저항에 의한 집열손실도 감소시켜야 함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.14-20
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• 1992

For the high quality and low cost agricultural crops in greenhouse cultivation, it is necessary to use natural energy as much as possible. In order to reduce the fossil fuel consumption and maximize the solar energy utilization in greenhouse heating, a latent heat storage material was developed as a relatively highly concentrative solar energy storage medium. And a solar energy-latent heat storage system was designed and constructed. The experimental research on greenhouse heating effect of the system was performed.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.616-622
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• 2016

하절기 줄어드는 온수부하는 태양열 집열기 과열의 주된 원인이다. 과열방지목적으로 공냉 또는 차단막이 사용되는데 이는 추가적인 기계적요소를 필요하게 되고 장기 운용 시 파손 등의 우려에 따라 그 신뢰도도 크게 저하된다. 지중열교환기는 지열을 열원으로 방열 또는 흡열을 진행하는데, 지열을 고 열원으로 하여 흡열을 목적으로 하는 연구가 대다수이며 지열원이 저열원으로 이용하는 방열에 대한 연구는 부족한 편이다. 그리하여 본 연구에서는 태양열집열판의 과열방지를 목적으로 하는 지중열교환기의 가능성 및 그 성능에 대한 연구를 진행하였다. 여름철 최대 $150^{\circ}C$이상의 고온을 유지하는 태양열집열판의 열을 방출하기 위하여 1.2m의 하부 깊이를 갖는 50m 나선형 지중열교환기를 설치하였고 이를 통해 순간 냉각이 가능한 것으로 확인되었으며, 태양열집열판의 여름철 과열에 의한 파손을 방지할 수 있었다. 그리고 다양한 변수에 대한 이론적인 계산을 통하여 0.33kg/s의 최저 순환유량만 유지해주면 지열 열교환기의 길이에 따른 방열효과에 큰 영향을 미치지 않음을 판단할 수 있다. 또한 축열조와의 공동 사용시 냉각효과는 여름철 과열시 충분한 과열방지 제어가 가능한 것으로 조사되었다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회B
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• pp.2310-2315
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• 2008

In this paper, study on performance analysis of bubble pump on the domestic solar water heater system is presented. Device of this experiment is consisted of bubble pump, solar collector and heat exchanger. At the mean time, this system have attached temperature sensors and pressure sensors at bubble pump. In addition, the flow meter was installed at outlet of heat exchanger. And then result of experimental study, average value of the heat exchange amount in heat exchanger was about 7.9kcal/hr, the maximum value of the heat amount in water tank($0.4m^3$) was 489.7kcal/hr and the maximum value of the mass flow rate in bubble pump was about $0.5{\ell}/min$.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2015

This study was conducted to develop a heat pump system to utilize waste heat within the greenhouse during the daytime in winter season. The system runs at 8 am to 6 pm for the heat storage operation, and from 6 pm to 8 am of the next day for the heat radiant work. In the case of the heat storage operation, the average solar radiation was $168.3W/m^2$ with $16.3^{\circ}C$ outside temperature. The $COP_s$ of the system shows 4.59 in this operation mode. When the temperature goes up to $18.6^{\circ}C$, the system $COP_s$ reached at 5.10. On the other hand, the $COP_h$ of the system in heat radiation mode shows 2.63. In this case, the inside of the greenhouse temperature was reaches at $24.7^{\circ}C$ when the outside temperature was $12.9^{\circ}C$.