• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.1068-1076
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• 2006

A plate-fin type recuperator for a gas turbine/fuel cell hybrid power generation system was designed, manufactured, and tested. Performance analysis shows that the performance of the system is directly affected by the performance of the recuperator. Therefore, the recuperator should be designed and manufactured carefully, and its performance should be tested and verified before it is integrated into the system. In this paper, the developing procedure including designing, manufacturing, and testing of a cross flow plate-fin type recuperator was presented. Performance test results showed that the design requirements of the recuperator were almost satisfied. Based on the test results, improved design to reduce the size of the recuperator was suggested.

• 에너지공학
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.72-78
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 가스 터빈의 효율을 증대시키는데 사용되는 리큐퍼레이터의 성능에 대한 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. 본 연구에서 채택한 리큐퍼레이터는 오프셋 스트립 휜을 가지는 대항류 열교환기이다. 기존에 제시된 상관식 및 이상상태 사이클 해석을 통하여 최적화된 리큐퍼레이터의 형상을 결정하였다. 리큐퍼레이터의 성능을 평가하기 위해 실험연구를 수행하였다. 특히 리큐퍼레이터의 고온부 입구 온도를 변화시키면서 실험을 수행하였다. 또한 실험 결과를 기존에 제시되어 있던 상관식들과 비교를 하였다. 그 결과 압력강하는 실험결과와 상관식이 잘 맞지 않았지만 유용도는 실험결과와 상관식이 잘 일치하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1178-1185
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• 2011

In the present study, a recuperator is suggested to improve the thermal efficiency of a micro gas turbine. Primary design parameters of the recuperator are determined from the ideal cycle analysis. The counter flow plate-fin heat exchanger with offset strip fins is chosen as the type of the recuperator. In order to satisfy the design constraints which are the minimum effectiveness and the maximum pressure drop, the optimization for the internal structure of the recuperator is performed with varying the fin spacing and the fin height of offset strip fins. Also the effects of the thermal conductivity of fins and separation plates and the longitudinal heat conduction on the thermal performance of the recuperator are investigated.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.24-28
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• 2009

To improve its efficiency, most of the industrial furnace had been used recuperator. However, commonly used metal recuperator is not suitable under condition of temperature higher than $1000^{\circ}C$. The other hand, ceramic recuperator is able to use in high temperature condition. In the present study, the design program based on the basic heat exchanger design theory, and CFD modelling are applied to ceramic recuperator to verify the design results. Using design program to find the optimum design factor on the variation of recuperator condition. The result of this study are as follows : Thinner fin-plate thickness reduces pressure drop and increases heat-transfer rate, However, thin plate or plate with thin thickness(< 5 mm) is difficult to manufacture, due to limited mechanically strength.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.2105-2110
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• 2004

Plate-fin type recuperators for the gas turbine/fuel cell hybrid power generating system were designed using commercial design software, MUSE. Heat transfer efficiency and total pressure drop in the recuperator were calculated to confirm required recuperator performance. Both counter flow and cross flow type plate-fin recuperators were designed. Results show that the counter flow type has higher efficiency and short core length, but the cross flow type is simpler to construct because the cross flow type does not need additional distributors. Two or three headers for the each recuperator core will be designed and tested to evaluate best header design. The designed recuperators and headers which will be designed later will be constructed, tested, and used in gas turbine/fuel cell hybrid power generating system.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.819-825
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• 2006

In a SOFC/GT (solid oxide fuel cell/gas turbine) hybrid power generation system, the recuperator is an indispensible component to enhance system performance. Since the expansion ratio to the recuperator core is very large, generally, the effective header design to distribute the flow uniformly before entering the core is crucial to guarantee the required performance. In the present study, we focus on the design of a diffuser type recuperator header with a 90 degree turn inlet port. To reduce the flow separation and recirculation flows, multiple horizontal vanes are used. The number of horizontal vanes is varied from 0 to 24. The air flow velocity is measured at 40 points just behind the core outlet by using a hot wire anemometer. Then, the flow non-uniformity is evaluated from the measured flow velocity. The experimental results showed that inlet air velocity did not effect on relative flow non-uniformity. According to increasing the number of horizontal vanes, flow non-uniformity reduced about $40{\sim}50%$ than without using horizontal vanes.

• International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.74-79
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• 2009

The performance of cryogenic refrigerator greatly depends on the effectiveness of heat exchanger, which generates major entropy at low temperature. There are numerous types of heat exchanger available, but it is not easy to apply most of them to cryogenic application because the cryogenic heat exchanger must have high effectiveness value as well as small conduction loss in the environment of considerable temperature difference. In this paper, two kinds of heat exchanger are noticeably introduced for high-effectiveness miniature cryogenic recuperator(recuperative heat ex-changer). Also, the flow mal-distribution problem, which is a critical issue of performance deterioration in a high-effectiveness recuperator, is addressed with simplified model, and its alleviation method is discussed.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.9-22
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• 2008

This study was conducted to develop a system that processes harmful gases and dust, which being generated in the production of micro-inorganic fabric. This can be obtained by melt spinning raw materials such as agalmatolite, fluorspar, limestone, silica under high temperature at $1500-1600^{\circ}C$ in a glass recuperator using a dry method by Cyclone Reactor or Envelope Type (ET) type Bag Filter. If the number of the members of Korea Glass Industry Association reaches up to 45, the damage of the harmful gas being generated in recuperator should not be small. In addition, research of existing facilities showed the most of harmful gas treatment facilities which adopt wet treatment or semi-dry treatment process. This was caused the problems for wastewater and the second pollutive materials. Moreover, in the dust collecting facility behind recuperator, it is also problematic that electric dust collector requires enormous initial investment. We have researched various methods to show both economic and efficient new processes for the preventive facilities of recuperator. As the result of the experiments, the removal efficiencies of HF and SOx were 99% and 87%, respectively. Although it was insignificant reaction, a pretty much interesting result that NOx showed an absorption reaction with $Ca(OH)_2$(removal efficiency was more than 25%) was obtained.

• 태양에너지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.47-59
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• 1992

산업용 노의 폐열 회수를 위하여 노의 배기부에 설치되는 복사형 레큐페레이터 중에서 가장 대표적인 형태인 이중 원관식 레큐페레이터의 열전달 특성에 관하여 연구하였다. 내관에는 고온의 배기가스가 흐르고, 내관과 외관 사이의 환상공간에서는 공기가 흐르며 외관의 외벽면은 단열되어 있는 원관 식 레큐퍼레이터의 열전달특성을 규명하였다. 고온의 배기가스 폐열은 내관의 내벽으로 전달되고 이는 다시 환산 공간내의 공기로 전달된다. 배기가스의 복사 열전달은 구 조화 근사법을 사용하여 모델링한 후 이를 유동장과 연계하여 수치적으로 해석하였으며, 기존의 실험적연구와 일치하는 조건에서의 계산결과와 비교하였다. 또한, 내관의 동심축 상에 원동통형의 재복사기를 설치할 경우 내관에서 재복사 효과가 일어나는데 이에 따른 열전달 특성을 연구하여 레큐퍼레이터를 이론적으로 해석할 수 있는 방법을 제시하였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.847-856
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• 2013

In this study, thermal performance of recuperators with plain and offset strip fins is investigated to enhance the thermal efficiency of a micro gas turbine. Thermal cycle analysis is conducted to determine major design parameters of a single-pass counterflow recuperator. In order to evaluate the performance of the recuperator, the effectiveness and the pressure drop in the recuperators are chosen as the objective function and the design constraint, respectively. The optimized geometries for internal structure of the recuperators with plain and offset strip fins are obtained with varying the fin spacing and height. From the result, the recuperator with offset strip fins has better thermal performance when the fin spacing, s, is smaller than 1.45mm and the thermal performance of the recuperator with plain rectangular fins is higher than that with offset strip fins in the region of $s{\geq}1.45mm$. In addition, it is found that the entrance region effect and the longitudinal wall heat conduction effect should be taken into account for accurately predicting the thermal performance of the recuperators with both plain and offset strip fins.