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Analysis on the Effect of Thermal Performance with Various Load Patterns for Solar Hot Water Heating System

  • Kim, Byoung-Gi;Jang, Hwan-Young;Chung, Kyung-Taek;Suh, Jeong-Se
    • International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.108-113
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    • 2007
  • The performance of a solar water heater incorporating evacuated tubes was evaluated using a transient simulation program, TRNSYS. Simulations were performed for $60^{\circ}C$ of hot water load temperature and for 280 liter of daily hot water volumes and three 400 liter of storage tank volumes. Three patterns of daily hot water consumption profile were used in the present study (morning, lunch and evening). The results show that the increase in solar fraction depends on the load profile, as well as the collector efficiency coefficient. Hot water draw profile has a large effect on the performance of the SDHWS, the morning load profile has the highest solar fraction. The annual solar fraction of the system, at the weather conditions of Jinju is approximately 84% at lunch load pattern, the 280 kg of load volume, 400 kg of tank volume and the $60^{\circ}C$ of load temperature.

A Study on the Thermal Characteristics of Vacuum Membrane Distillation Module (VMD 모듈의 열성능 특성 연구)

  • Joo, Hong-Jin;Yang, Yong-Woo;Kwak, Hee-Youl
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.23-31
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    • 2014
  • This study was accomplished to get the foundation design data of VMD(Vacuum Membrane Distillation) system for Solar Thermal VMD plant. VMD experiment was designed to evaluate thermal performance of VMD using PVDF(polyvinylidene fluoride) hollow fiber hydrophobic membranes. The total membrane surface area in a VMD module is $5.3m^2$. Experimental equipments to evaluate VMD system consists of various parts such as VMD module, heat exchanger, heater, storage tank, pump, flow meter, micro filter. The experimental conditions to evaluate VMD module were salt concentration, temperature, flow rate of feed sea water. Salt concentration of feed water were used by aqueous NaCl solutions of 25g/l, 35g/l and 45g/l concentration. As a result, increase in permeate flux of VMD module is due to the increasing feed water temperature and feed water flow rate. Also, decrease in permeate flux of VMD module is due to increasing salinity of feed water. VMD module required about 590 kWh/day of heating energy to produce $1m^3/day$ of fresh water.

Freeze Protection for Passive Solar Water Heating System (자연순환형 태양열온수기 동파방지기술)

  • Kim, Jong-Hyun;Hong, Hi-Ki;Chung, Jae-Dong
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.327-333
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    • 2011
  • In the present work, a new freeze protection method has been proposed for a natural circulation system of solar water heater. Though electrothermal wire is popularly used for the purpose, there are freezing troubles by wire cut-off and shortage of excessive electric power consumption. In the experimental device, hot water in storage tank was used to heat the outlet pipe from the tank if the pipe surface temperature falls lower than a set point. The cold water pipe to the storage tank was installed to directly contact the hot water pipe surface temperature rose by transferred heat.

Performance Evaluation of Solar Water Heating System Using Proof Test (태양열 온수기 실증연구를 통한 성능 평가)

  • Kim, Jae-Yeol;Kwac, Lee-Ku;Yang, Dong-Jo;Choi, Choul-Jun;Kim, Hong-Gun
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.597-601
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    • 2006
  • The advantages of solar energy are that it is renewable, infinite supplied and environmentally safe energy source. However, solar energy related products have the problems such as the limitation for installation, problems in maintenance and insufficient reliability which have been the barrier to consumers to satisfy the purchase need for solar heat related products. In this regard, in order to support the solar energy related companies the necessity for various technical information required for the commercialization of new products such as various performance test necessary for the certification of solar energy system, standardization for facilities and products, performance evaluation method and the measurement of performance is suggested. The purpose of this paper is to design the monitoring system for positive tests of system linked household hot water system using solar heat out of various solar energy systems, to establish an analysis and monitoring system for performance maintenance and operation technique, and to configure the centralized detection network by utilizing remote monitoring system. This research also aims at conducting monitoring for operation and performance evaluation in relation to database establishment and analytical evaluation and at describing the method of enhancing the reliability of solar energy system through the development of performance evaluation program.

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Estimation of Indoor Environment using CFD of Multi-Purpose System with a Solar Collector -Part 1, focused on floor area and number of ventilation- (태양열온수기 적용 냉난방시스템의 CFD를 이용한 실내환경 평가 -제1보 바닥면적과 환기횟수를 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Jong-Ryeol;Choi, Kyang-Hyan
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.55-61
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    • 2007
  • This paper has been conducted to estimate cooling capacity of the dehumidification tower using hot water from a solar water heating system as a energy source of regeneration process when the dehumidification and drying system is applied to room cooling. A solar water heating system was operated and indoor temperature distributions were simulated according to weather conditions when the concerned solution was used to dehumidify room air in the dehumidification tower. Through this simulation researches we found th following results ; It was found that air velocity through supply and return diffusers should be controlled because it can cause uncomfort in dwelling area. It was found that in the sunny morning temperatures of dwelling area 1 and 2 are higher than those of dwelling area 3 and 4. In this research all the calculation results of heating and cooling system supported by solar water heater have confirmed that its cooling capacity could not reach PMV 0, thermal comfort.

Development of f-chart for the Design of Solar Heating Systems (태양열난방장치 설계를 위한 f-chart 개발)

  • Song Dal-Sun;Yoo Seong-Yeon
    • The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.292-298
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    • 1986
  • The new f-chart capable of estimating long-term thermal performance of solar space and water heating systems was developed. The system comprise a flat plate solar collector, heat exchanger, storage tank filled with water, auxiliary fuel fired heater, and a house structure. The information obtained from many simulations of solar heating systems has been used to develop this f-chart. Actual hourly meteorological data collected in Seoul, Daejeon, Kwangju and Daegu, Korea from 1979 to 1983 have been utilized in these simulations. The new f-equation is as follows: $$f=1.034Y_{-}0.0968X_{-}0.2235Y^2+0.0043X^2+0.0144Y^3$$. The system performance estimates obtained from the developed f-chart are in close agreement with the results of experiment.

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Fixed Bed Drying of Sugarcane Bagasse Using Solar Energy

  • Hyoung-Woo LEE;Hyun-Ook KIM;Dong-Hoon LEE;Don-Ha CHOI;Seung-Gyu KIM
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.52 no.1
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    • pp.47-57
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    • 2024
  • Solar energy is one of the most promising options for renewable energy and biomass is one of them. One of the main biomass sources, sugarcane bagasse, is produced annually in more than hundreds of nations worldwide exceeding 4.25 billion tons. To dry a 900-mm deep fixed bed of wet sugarcane bagasse, a solar air heater with a collector area of 2 m2 was installed. Between October 10th to 19th in Gwangju, South Korea, a 9-day drying period, the solar collector received a total of 496,145 kJ of solar radiation. During this time, 54.5 kg of water was extracted from 133 kg of wet sugarcane bagasse (average green moisture content of 47.6%w.b.). The estimated net heat from the evaporation of water removed during the dying period accounted for approximately 27% of the total solar radiation on the solar collector.

A Numerical Study on the Thermal Characteristics of Double Skin Vacuum Tubes with Coaxial Fluid Conduit (등축 유로 장착 이중 태양열 진공관의 열적 특성에 관한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Hyun, Jun-Ho;Park, Youn-Cheol;Chun, Won-Gee;Lee, Sang-Jin
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.567-570
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    • 2006
  • A numerical study has been carried out for a solar water heater which consists of double skin solar vacuum tubes. Water is heated as it flows through the coaxial fluid conduit inserted in each tube. The space between the exterior of the fluid conduit and the glass tube is tilled with antifreeze solution. This is to facilitate heat transfer from the solar heated absorber surface to water and to prevent the functional problems due to freezing in frigid weather conditions. A one-dimensional steady state model is fully described which will be used to develop three-dimensional model using STAR-CD. These models could be used efficiently in designing double skin solar collector tubes with different geometrical parameters other than those considered in the present analysis. Results show a good agreement when compared with other experimental data demonstrating the reliability of the one-dimensional model employed.

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Heat Transfer Performance of Plate Type Absorber with Surfactant

  • Yoon, Jung-In;M. M. A. Sarker;Moon, Choon-Geun
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.243-251
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    • 2004
  • Absorption chiller/heater can utilize the unused energy of the daily life waste heat, the industry waste heat. the solar energy and the earth energy. These can contribute to energy savings. But the absorption chiller/heater has a demerit that the size of absorption chiller/heater is larger than that of the vapor compression type based on same capacity. In this study. the experimental apparatus of an absorber is manufactured as a plate. which is newly applied in an absorber. The experimental apparatus is composed of a plate type absorber. which can increase the heat exchange area per unit volume and thus facilitating to deeply investigate more detail features instead of that done by the existing type. i.e.. horizontal tube bundle type. The characteristics of heat transfer and refrigeration capacity are studied experimentally. The absorption enhancement by using surfactant is closely examined through the experiment and comparative figures are presented in quantitative and qualitative analysis.