Abstract: A cogeneration system includes an intake pipe having one end which communicates with the outside air and having the other end which is connected to an engine; a mixer disposed in the intake pipe to supply gas into the intake pipe; and an intake compressor for compressing a mixed gas which is a mixture of the air and the gas, wherein the intake compressor includes: a motor disposed in the intake pipe; and a compressor impeller which is disposed in the intake pipe, and rotates by the motor to compress the mixed gas.

Abstract: A gas heat pump system is disclosed. The gas heat pump system includes an air conditioning module including a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion device, an indoor heat exchanger and a refrigerant pipe, an engine module including an engine configured to burn a mixture of fuel and air and provide power for operation of the compressor, a cooling module including a cooling water pump configured to generate flow of cooling water for cooling the engine and a cooling water pipe connected to the cooling water pump to guide flow of cooling water. The engine module includes a mixer configured to discharge the mixture of air and fuel to the engine, a supercharger disposed between the mixer and the engine to compress the mixture discharged from the mixer and discharge the mixture to the engine, and an adjuster disposed between the supercharger and the engine to adjust an amount of compressed mixture supplied to the engine.

Abstract: Provided is a generator that converts mechanical energy transmitted through a rotation shaft perpendicularly coupled to a flywheel as an output shaft of an engine into electrical energy. The generator includes: a rotor coupled to the rotation shaft and rotated together when the rotation shaft is rotated; and a stator which has an inner surface positioned adjacent to an outer surface of the rotor and is wound around with a coil, wherein the engine includes: a plurality of blades installed in a side surface of the flywheel facing the rotor and rotated together with the flywheel when the rotation shaft is rotated; and an engine bracket which has a through hole through which the rotation shaft passes, has one side that is opened to accommodate the flywheel therein, and is coupled to the stator, wherein the engine bracket forms an air flow path for guiding air flowed into the flywheel through an inside of the rotor to the stator, when the plurality of blades are rotated.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an outdoor unit for an air conditioner. The present invention relates to an outdoor unit of a gas heat pump system. An outdoor unit of a gas heat pump system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a storage tank which is disposed at a suction side of a compressor and stores a refrigerant to be supplied to the compressor; and a heat exchanger for performing heat exchange of a refrigerant flowing through a refrigerant pipe or cooling water flowing through a cooling water pipe, wherein the heat exchanger is supported by the storage tank. Therefore, the outdoor unit does not require a separate frame structure for installing the heat exchanger.

Abstract: The exemplary embodiments provide an optical fiber sensor and a vector measuring device which measure a motion of a subject using a double Bragg grating formed in a core with a helical structure and measure a chiral motion inflection point vector.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas heat pump system. The gas heat pump system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: an air conditioning module comprising a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion apparatus, an indoor heat exchanger and a refrigerant line; and an engine module comprising an engine for combusting a mixture of fuel and air, thereby providing power for driving the compressor.

Abstract: A gas heat pump system is disclosed. The gas heat pump system includes an air conditioning module including a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion device, an indoor heat exchanger and a refrigerant pipe, an engine module including an engine configured to burn a mixture of fuel and air and provide power for operation of the compressor, a cooling module including a cooling water pump configured to generate flow of cooling water for cooling the engine and a cooling water pipe connected to the cooling water pump to guide flow of cooling water. The engine module includes a mixer configured to discharge the mixture of air and fuel to the engine, a supercharger disposed between the mixer and the engine to compress the mixture discharged from the mixer and discharge the mixture to the engine, and an adjuster disposed between the supercharger and the engine to adjust an amount of compressed mixture supplied to the engine.

Abstract: A lithium anode of a thermal battery may include a metal alloy foam in which a plurality of pores is formed and including nickel (Ni), iron (Fe), chromium (Cr), and aluminum (Al) mixed in a predetermined composition ratio, and lithium impregnated into the metal alloy foam in a molten state and accommodated in the pores, wherein the chromium in the composition ratio may facilitate the impregnation of the lithium into the pores and reduce the reactivity of the metal alloy foam to the lithium at an operating temperature of the thermal battery, and the aluminum in the composition ratio may facilitate the impregnation of the lithium into the pores and prevent the lithium from penetrating into a surface of the metal alloy foam.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a gas engine power generation system, having an engine configured to generate mechanical energy by burning an air-fuel mixture supplied from a mixer, which mixes air filtered by passing through an air cleaner, and fuel of a predetermined pressure which has passed through a zero governor, in which the gas engine power generation system converts the mechanical energy of the engine into electrical energy.

Abstract: Provided is a generator that converts mechanical energy transmitted through a rotation shaft perpendicularly coupled to a flywheel as an output shaft of an engine into electrical energy. The generator includes: a rotor coupled to the rotation shaft and rotated together when the rotation shaft is rotated; and a stator which has an inner surface positioned adjacent to an outer surface of the rotor and is wound around with a coil, wherein the engine includes: a plurality of blades installed in a side surface of the flywheel facing the rotor and rotated together with the flywheel when the rotation shaft is rotated; and an engine bracket which has a through hole through which the rotation shaft passes, has one side that is opened to accommodate the flywheel therein, and is coupled to the stator, wherein the engine bracket forms an air flow path for guiding air flowed into the flywheel through an inside of the rotor to the stator, when the plurality of blades are rotated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas heatpump system. The gas heat pump system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: an air conditioning module comprising a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion apparatus, an indoor heat exchanger and a refrigerant line; and an engine module comprising an engine for combusting a mixture of fuel and air, thereby providing power for driving the compressor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas heat pump and a control method therefor and, according to the present invention, the method for controlling a gas heat pump, which comprises an ignition plug and a gas engine having an engine combustion unit including a plurality of combustion spaces, may include: a target setting step of setting a target ignition energy amount on the basis of a refrigerant load amount determined according to a driving condition of the gas heat pump; an ignition step of igniting fuel injected into the combustion spaces; a comparison step of comparing an output energy amount emitted in the ignition step with a target ignition energy amount set in the target setting step; and a step of changing an energy amount required to ignite the fuel when the output energy amount and the target ignition energy amount do not coincide in the comparison step.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an outdoor unit for an air conditioner. The present invention relates to an outdoor unit of a gas heat pump system. An outdoor unit of a gas heat pump system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a storage tank which is disposed at a suction side of a compressor and stores a refrigerant to be supplied to the compressor; and a heat exchanger for performing heat exchange of a refrigerant flowing through a refrigerant pipe or cooling water flowing through a cooling water pipe, wherein the heat exchanger is supported by the storage tank. Therefore, the outdoor unit does not require a separate frame structure for installing the heat exchanger.

Abstract: A cogeneration system includes an intake pipe having one end which communicates with the outside air and having the other end which is connected to an engine; a mixer disposed in the intake pipe to supply gas into the intake pipe; and an intake compressor for compressing a mixed gas which is a mixture of the air and the gas, wherein the intake compressor includes: a motor disposed in the intake pipe; and a compressor impeller which is disposed in the intake pipe, and rotates by the motor to compress the mixed gas.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas heat pump and a control method therefor and, according to the present invention, the method for controlling a gas heat pump, which comprises an ignition plug and a gas engine having an engine combustion unit including a plurality of combustion spaces, may include: a target setting step of setting a target ignition energy amount on the basis of a refrigerant load amount determined according to a driving condition of the gas heat pump; an ignition step of igniting fuel injected into the combustion spaces; a comparison step of comparing an output energy amount emitted in the ignition step with a target ignition energy amount set in the target setting step; and a step of changing an energy amount required to ignite the fuel when the output energy amount and the target ignition energy amount do not coincide in the comparison step.

Abstract: An air conditioner and a method for controlling an air conditioner are provided. The air conditioner may include an EHP outdoor device configured to drive a first compressor using electric power, and having a first heat exchanger that evaporates or condenses a refrigerant; a GHP outdoor device having an engine configured to drive a second compressor using a burned gas and a second heat exchanger that evaporates or condenses the refrigerant; and a flow rate balancing device configured to connect the first heat exchanger with the second heat exchanger, and to control a flow rate of the refrigerant through the EHP outdoor device and the GHP outdoor device.

Abstract: Provided are an air conditioner and a method of controlling the same. The air conditioner includes an indoor unit including an indoor heat exchanger, a first outdoor unit connected to the indoor unit, the first outdoor unit including a first compressor compressing a refrigerant and a first outdoor heat exchanger, a second outdoor unit including an engine generating a power by using combustion gas, a generator supplying electricity into the first compressor by using the power generated in the engine, a second compressor compressing the refrigerant by using the power of the engine, and a second outdoor heat exchanger, and a controller determining an additional operation of the second compressor on the basis of required cooling or heating load while the first compressor operates.

Abstract: Provided is an air conditioner including at least one indoor unit; an EHP outdoor unit connected with the at least one indoor unit, and configured to control an applied current and drive an EHP compressor; a GHP outdoor unit connected with the at least one indoor unit and including a GHP compressor configured to operate using power from an engine driven through a combustion gas and an oil separator provided at an outlet side of the GHP compressor; an oil level sensor provided at the EHP outdoor unit or the GHP outdoor unit and configured to detect an amount of oil; and a control part configured to control an RPM of the EHP compressor or the GHP compressor based on information detected by the oil level sensor.

Abstract: An air conditioner is provided. The air conditioner may include at least one indoor device, an electric heat pump (EHP) outdoor device connected with the at least one indoor device, and having a first compressor driven using electric power and a first outdoor heat exchanger, and a gas heat pump (GHP) outdoor device connected with the at least one indoor device, and having an engine that drives a second compressor using a combustion gas and a second outdoor heat exchanger. The GHP outdoor device may include an exhaust gas heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between a refrigerant flowing through the EHP outdoor device and an exhaust gas of the engine.

Abstract: An air conditioner and a method for controlling an air conditioner are provided. The air conditioner may include at least one indoor device; an electric heat pump (EHP) outdoor device connected to the at least one indoor device, configured to drive a first compressor using electric power, and having a first outdoor heat exchanger for heat exchange of a refrigerant; a gas heat pump (GHP) outdoor device connected to the at least one indoor device, and having an engine configured to drive a second compressor using a burned gas, a second outdoor heat exchanger for heat exchange of the refrigerant, and a waste heat exchanger configured to exchange heat with the refrigerant using waste heat of the engine; and a low pressure refrigerant common pipe configured to connect the first outdoor heat exchanger with the second outdoor heat exchanger and to supply a low pressure refrigerant of the GHP outdoor device to the EHP outdoor device.