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수평 방향 버너를 적용한 적설 용해(溶解)장치

Development of Snow Melter with Horizontally Located Burner

Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering 2020;37(2):115-123.
Published online: February 1, 2020

1 한국생산기술연구원 생산시스템그룹

2 한국생산기술연구원 고온에너지시스템그룹

3 (주)자동기

4 유니테크

1 Manufacturing System Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology

2 Thermochemical Energy System Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology

3 Korea Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.

4 UNITECH Co., Ltd.

#E-mail: jangyongL@gmail.com, TEL: +82-41-589-8417
• Received: April 30, 2019   • Revised: November 7, 2019   • Accepted: November 27, 2019

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Development of Snow Melter with Horizontally Located Burner
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Fig. 1 Conceptual drawing of snow melter
Fig. 2 Design of snow melter with horizontally located burner3
Fig. 3 Hot air flow in snow melting system
Fig. 4 Flow streamline of melting system
Fig. 5 Assembly of outer jacket and hot air duct3 (Adapted from Ref. 3 on the basis of OA)
Fig. 6 Hot water pouring out of ejection gate in outer jacket
Fig. 7 Original shape of snow melter
Fig. 8 Final shape of snow melter
Fig. 9 Sensors and their position in water tank
Fig. 10 Mixing and water tank temperature during experiment
Development of Snow Melter with Horizontally Located Burner
Inflow temperature of air (Tia) -1℃
Inflow temperature of fuel (Tif) -1℃
Inflow temperature of Snow -1℃
Outflow temperature of water 3℃
Temperature of exhaust gas 80℃
Solid ratio of snow ; Weight of (snow/(snow + water)) 50%
Ratio of snow ; Weight of snow/(snow + foreign matter) 91%
Theoretical air mass per fuel (Wt_air) 14.644 kg air/kg _fuel
Specific gravity of diesel 0.843
Lower heating value 10700 kcal/kg
Specific heat of diesel 0.483 kcal/kg℃
Combustion air ratio to theoretical air 1.2
Density of exhaust gas 1.297 kg/m3
Specific heat of exhaust gas 0.252 kcal/kg℃
Blower air ratio to combustion air 3.5
Density of air (-1°C) 1.296 kg/m3
Specific heat of air 0.24 kcal/kg℃
Latent heat of snow 79.7 kcal/kg
Specific heat of snow 0.5 kcal/kg℃
Specific heat of water 1 kcal/kg℃
Heat inflow (kcal/hr) Heat outflow (kcal/hr)
Sensible heat of snow -1500 Sensible heat of water 18000
Sensible heat of fuel -14 Sensible heat of exhaust gas 47865
Sensible heat of combustion air -125 Latent heat of snow ( 6 ton) 217581
Sensible heat of blower air -438 Heat loss 31725
Calorific value of fuel 317248
Heat inflow sum 315171 Heat outflow sum 315171
Heat input to water tank 237081
Mass of material inflow (kg/hr) Mass of material outflow (kg/hr)
Snow 6000 Water 6000
Fuel 30 Exhaust gas 2374
Combustion air 520
Blower air 1824
Material inflow sum 8374 Material outflow sum 8374
No Ejection weight
(ton/hr)
Guide Skirt Reflector Ejection gate location & shape Crosssectional area
(m2)
1 2.21 X X O X 0.4
2 6.15 X X O (a)*
3 10.27 O X O (a)*
4 24.13 O O X (a)* + (b)* 0.34
5 25.58 O X O (a)* + (b)* 0.4
6 29.52 O O O (a)* + (b)* 0.34
7 31.48 O X O (a)* + (b)*
Measurement (Burner & Blower)
Fuel 29.5 kg
Burner blower air inflow (Iba) 11.3 m3/min
Air jacket blower air inflow (Iaa) 19.17 m3/min
Ambient temperature (Tamb) 26.5°C
Density of air (26.5°C) 1.178 kg/m3
Hot air temperature
(Burner/Experiment)
628.6°C
Property Calculation
Calorific value of fuel (kcal) 315650 = fuel** · Lower heating value
Theoretical air volume* 6.67 = fuel** · Wt_air / ρair** / Tt
Burner exhaust gas volume* 7.12 = fuel** · (1 + Wt_air) / ρair** / Tt
Exhaust gas outflow volume* 30.93 = (Iba** + Iaa**) – Theoretical air volume + Burner exhaust gas volume
Hot air temperature -calculated (°C) 682.9 = Tamb**+ Calorific value of fuel / (Exhaust gas outflow volume · ρair** · ca · Tt)
Measurment (Water tank)
Mass of water 5350 kg
Initial temperature of water 26.8°C
Temperature of water (After 55 min, sensor 3) 65.4°C
Temperature of exhaust gas (After 55 min, sensor 6) 68.8°C
Diesel C (Carbon) (%) 86.3
H (Hydrogen) (%) 13.7
Air O2 (Oxygen) (%) 23.2
N2 (Nitrogen) (%) 76.8
Reaction formula of carbon and oxygen (kg) (a) C + O2 = CO2
[1] [2.667] [3.667]
Reaction formula of hydrogen and oxygen (kg) (b) H2 + 0.5O2 = H2O
[1]  [8]  [9]
Property Calculation
Mass of required oxygen (kg) 3.397 = ratio of carbon*·ratio of oxygen on (a)** + ratio of hydrogen*· ratio of oxygen on (b)**
Mass of required air (kg)
(Theoretical air mass)
14.644 = Mass of required oxygen / ratio of oxygen*
Mass of per unit fuel (kg) Mass fraction (%) Specific heat (kcal/kg℃) Volume of per unit fuel (m3)
CO2 3.164 17.04 0.200 1.600
H2O 1.233 6.64 0.446 1.524
N2 13.496 72.6 0.249 10.724
O2 0.679 3.66 0.219 0.472
Sum 18.572 100 14.321
Property Calculation
Sensible heat of fuel**
(kcal/hr)
427.25 = Tr · Wtf · cd · (Tamb* - Tif)
Sensible heat of air**
(kcal/hr)
14213.89 = 60 ρair* · ca · (Iba* + Iaa*) · (Tamb*-Tia)
Input heat capacity to
water tank (kcal/hr)
imposing condition of
Table 1
235827 = (Tr · ΔT · Wwater – Sensible heat of fuel** – Sensible heat of air **) · Wdf/(Tr · Wtf)
Table 1 Conditions of snow melter specification
Table 2 Physical properties for heat capacity calculation
Table 3 Heat balance of snow melter
Table 4 Material balance of snow melter
Table 5 Ejection weight with various design factors

*(a) Modify ejection gate location (10 cm down from first location)

*(b) Enlargement of ejection gate size (up to 400 ×1 70 mm)

Table 6 Snow melter test result (Burner & Blower)
Table 7 Snow melter test result related to burner & blower (55 min)

*Unit of volume is m3/min, ** Value in, ρair ; Density of air Wt_air; Theoretical air mass per fuel in Table 2, Tt ; Test time (55 min) Iba; Burner blower air inflow, Iaa; Air jacket blower air inflow ca; Specific heat of air (0.24 kcal/kg°C), Tamb; Ambient temperature

Table 8 Snow melter test result (Water tank)
Table 9 Mass fraction of diesel and air
Table 10 Reaction formula of diesel and air
Table 11 Mass of required oxygen an air

*Value in Table 9, **Value in Table 10

Table 12 Composition of exhaust gas
Table 13 Calculate of input heat capacity to water tank (Temperature range from 30°C to 60°C)

*Value in Table 6, **Difference between and condition of Table 1

Tr; 1.67(Ratio of 1 hour burner operating time, = 60/36), Wtf; Weight of fuel (19.3 kg)

cd; Specific heat of diesel (Table 2), Tamb; Ambient temperature

ρair; Density of air, ca; Specific heat of air (0.24 kcal/kg°C)

Iba; Burner blower air inflow, Iaa; Air jacket blower air inflow

Tif; Inflow fuel temp. (-1°C), Tia; Inflow air temp. (-1°C)

ΔT; Temp. variation (30°C), Wwater; Mass of water in tank

Wdf; Weight of fuel in Table 4 (30 kg)