• 설비공학논문집
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.687-694
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• 2007

Cycle simulation is peformed for two types of the desiccant cooling system incorporating a regenerative evaporative cooler. The cooling capacity and COP are evaluated at various effectiveness values of the regenerative evaporative cooler, the desiccant rotor and the sensible heat exchanger. As either of the effectiveness of the regenerative evaporative cooler or the humidity effectiveness of the desiccant rotor increases, both the cooling capacity and COP increase, but the enthalpy leak ratio gives the opposite effect on the system performance. It is found that COP of cycle A mainly depends on the humidity effectiveness of the desiccant rotor, while for cycle B enthalpy leak ratio of desiccant rotor has the major impact on COP. The effect of the sensible heat exchanger on the cooling capacity is small about 1/10 compared with those of other components.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.121-128
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• 2012

Improvement in the energy efficiency has been studied of the desiccant cooling system by applying a vapor compression type heat pump to modify the system into a hybrid system. The cycle simulation was performed and the results were compared between a reference desiccant cooling system composed of a desiccant rotor, a sensible rotor and a regenerative evaporative cooler, and a hybrid desiccant cooling system with the sensible rotor being replaced by a heat pump. Though the electric consumption increases as much as the compressor power consumption, the total cooling capacity increases and the thermal energy input decreases by the addition of the heat pump. Therefore, the total energy efficiency can be improved if the increase in the electric consumption can be compensated with the increase in the cooling capacity and the decrease in the thermal energy input. The results showed that the total energy efficiency is optimized at a certain heat pump capacity. When the heat from the CHP plant is used for the thermal energy input, the energy consumption of the hybrid system is reduced by 20~30% compared with the reference system when the heat pump shares 30~40% of the total cooling capacity.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.48-54
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• 2014

A refrigeration dehumidifier with a recuperative heat exchanger is theoretically analyzed. The recuperative heat exchanger is located between the two air streams from and to the dehumidifying coil, and reduces the sensible heat load in dehumidification process. A simple model is developed to predict performance of the dehumidifier. The model predicts that the recuperative heat exchanger is effective especially in the low humidity condition, where the sensible heat load is relatively large. It is predicted that, by adopting a recuperative heat exchanger, a maximum 30~110% increase in COP is possible for indoor air at $27^{\circ}C$, and 40~60% relative humidity.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.131-141
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• 1991

A method of optimum design of an axial rotary sensible heat exchanger for the heat recovery of exhaust gas from the air conditioning space was developed in consideration of economics of investment cost and profit according to the installation of heat exchangers. Leakage rate of exhaust gas was calculated and the correlation for the pressure drop due to leakage of exhaust gas was proposed. Heat transfer between the matrix and exhaust and intake gas was analysed to calculate the effectiveness of heat exchanger, which was used for the optimum design of rotary heat exchanger. The results show that optimum rotational speed increases as the length of rotor increases and there exists optimum NTU which maximizes the gain of total cost according to the installation of rotary heat exchanger.

• 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2011

Hybrid desiccant cooling system(HDCS) consists of desiccant rotor, regenerative evaporative cooler, heat pump and district heating hot water coil. In this study, TRNSYS and EES, dynamic and steady simulation programs were used for studying hybrid desiccant cooling system which is applied to an apartment house from June to August. The results show that power consumption of the hybrid desiccant cooling system is 70 kWh in June, 199 kWh in July and 241 kWh in August. Sensible and latent heats removed by the hybrid desiccant cooling system are 300 kWh, 301 kWh in June, 610 kWh, 858 kWh in July and 719 kWh, 1010 kWh in August. COP of the hybrid desiccant cooling system is 8.6 in June, 7.4 in July and 7.2 in August. COP of the hybrid desiccant cooling system decreases when latent heat load increases. Operation time of the system is 70 hours in June, 190 hours in July and 229 hours in August. Since the cooling load is largest in August, the operation time of August is longest for maintaining the indoor temperature at $26^{\circ}C$. Due to the characteristics of hybrid desiccant cooling system for efficiently handling both sensible and latent loads, this system can handle sensible and latent heat loads efficiently in summer.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제38권9호
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• pp.721-729
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• 2014

지역난방에 연계한 하이브리드 제습냉방 시스템은 하절기 에너지 이용효율을 높일 수 있다. 실증실험을 통해 우리나라에 성공적으로 운전될 수 있다는 것을 확인한 하이브리드 제습냉방 시스템의 보급활성화를 위하여 경제성 분석을 실시하였다. 기존의 전기 에어컨과 냉방을 하면서 생기는 비용을 비교하는 것과 전기 에어컨을 제습냉방으로 대체하였을 때 발생하는 국가 편익을 계산하는 두 가지 관점에서 수행하였다. 분석결과 제습냉방은 30% 이상의 운전비용 절감효과가 있으며, 1기당 연간 0.079 TOE의 1차 에너지, 0.835 $TCO_2$ 절감효과가 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 2020년까지 68만세대에 제습냉방이 보급된다고 예상하면 463 MW의 전력대체 효과가 발생하는 것으로 분석되었다. 이러한 운전비용절감효과, 1차 에너지 절감 및 온실가스 배출 감소효과를 가지고 있는 제습냉방 시스템은 전기 에어컨에 비하여 초기 투자비용이 높기에 보급활성화를 위하여 적절한 정부의 보조금이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 국가적 편익을 고려한 적절한 보조금을 산정하여 제습냉방 시스템의 보급방안을 제시하고자 한다.