| Title |
A Study of the Defrosting Control in the Application of Photoelectric Sensors |
| DOI |
https://dx.doi.org/10.6110/KJACR.2017.29.4.167 |
| Keywords |
제상 제어 ; 제상 방법 ; 난방 시간 ; 히트펌프 ; 광센서 Defrosting control ; Defrosting method ; Heating period ; Heat pump ; Photoelectric sensor |
| Abstract |
This study attempted to investigate the value of photoelectric sensors in terms of a defrost-control method. Tests were conducted in a calorimeter room under the heating with the defrost-performance test conditions described in KS C 9306. Accordingly, the photoelectric technology is a competitive defrost-control method that can precisely control the operational defrost cycle using the output voltages that are proportional to the frost height. The heating period is gradually reduced because the complex defrost-control method, for which the sensors initiate the defrosting process and the defrosting process is terminated by the time parameter, could not adjust the net defrosting time by itself. Therefore, a complex defrost-control method, for which the photoelectric sensors start the defrosting process and it is terminated by the temperature parameter, is preferred because of the adjustment of the net defrosting time. Regardless of the defrost-control method, the first defrosting cycle is activated earlier than the times that are determined in the second and third cycles and so on, because the first operation cycle can decide the characteristics of the subsequent cycle. |