• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.67-75
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• 2019

The laminar burning velocity of endothermic fuel surrogates is measured in this study, in order to investigate combustion characteristics of aviation fuel after being used as coolant in an active cooling system of a hypersonic flight vehicle. A Bunsen burner was manufactured such that the laminar burning velocity can be taken for two types of surrogate fuels, SF-1 and 2. The results showed that the burning velocity of surrogate fuels was faster at high equivalence ratio conditions than that of the reference fuel (RF), and specifically, the velocity of SF-1 had the maximum value at the highest equivalence ratio compared with those of SF-2 and RF.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.76-85
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• 2016

This study introduces the system layout and control strategy necessary to start and operate a fuel processor in a wide range of temperatures where a gasoline was selected as the fuel of fuel processor considering logistic support of Korea Army. The autothermal reformig(ATR) catalyst is heated to light-off temperature by combustion method in the initial stage. In order to ignite the gasoline and air mixture stably, the glow plug is installed after ATR catalyst. When the catalyst is increased to light-off temperature, the reformer is operated from initiation to steady state conditions as follows: Partial oxidation(POX) mode, partial ATR mode, full ATR mode. Finally the start-up and control strategy is validated by the operational test of gasoline fuel processor at low and room temperature. As a result the gasoline fuel processor is able to start-up within 40 min and to produce the reformate gas which has 37 ~ 42 vol.%(dry basis) of $H_2$ and 0.3 vol.% of CO.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.186-192
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• 2013

In order to reduce the costs and to improve the durability of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), the operating temperature should be decreased while the power density is maintained as much as possible. However, lowering the operating temperature increases the cathode interfacial polarization resistances dramatically, limiting the performance of low-temperature SOFC at especially purely electronic conducting cathode. To improve cathode performance at low temperature, the number of reaction sites for the oxygen reduction should be increased by using a mixed ionic and electronic conducting (MIEC) material. In this study, anode-supported fuel cells with two different thicknesses of the MIEC cathode were fabricated and tested at various operating temperatures. The anode supported cell with $32.5{\mu}m$-thick BSCFZn-LSCF cathode layer showed much lower polarization resistance than that with $3.2{\mu}m$ thick cahtode and higher power density especially at low temperature. The effects of cathode layer thickness on the electrochemical performance are discussed with analysis of impedance spectra.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.112-117
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• 2002

The effects of shield gas on the structure of methane-air nonpremixed counterflow flames were numerically investigated. The near extinction flame of a low global strain rate 20 $s^{-1}$ of 19% methane diluted by 81% nitrogen by volume and undiluted air was computed. The flame shape, centerline temperature and axial velocity profiles were compared for different velocity of the shield gas and with and without the shield gas. The effects of the velocity of the shield gas were negligible for $V_{S}/V_{F}{\leq}2$ in normal gravity. Under normal gravity conditions, the flame shape and its position with the shield gas were different from those of the flame without the shield gas, whereas no discernible effects of the shield gas along the centerline were observed in zero gravity.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.15-25
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• 2011

One dimensional combustion modeling of aluminum combustion behavior is proposed. Combustion model is assumed that region consists as follows ; preheat, reaction, post reaction region. Flame speed as a function of particle size, equivalence ratio for unitary particles and fraction ratio of micro to nano particle size for binary particles were investigated for lean burn condition at 1 atm. Results were compared with experimental data. For unitary particles, flame speed increase as particle size decreases, but opposite trend with equivalence ratio. For binary particles, flame speed increases proportionally as nano particle fraction increases. For flame structure, separated or overlapping flames are observed, depending on the fraction of nano sized particles.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.35 no.8
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• pp.1022-1027
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• 2011

A diesel engine works in high compression ratio due to injection of diesel fuel after compression of air. Therefore the engine has a high thermal efficiency, while nitrogen oxide is produced a lot in high flame temperature regions. In order to solve the problem this study HHO gas is added into the intake air of the industrial diesel engine. The test conditions are loads of 0%, 50% and 100% and engine speeds of 700 to 1900 rpm. The results show the maximum torque and pressure is increased, fuel consumption, smoke and CO emissions are decreased and NOx emission is remained at same level.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.3352-3359
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• 1995

An Eulerian-Lagrangian method is employed to simulate the ignition process and the flame propagation through the air/fuel spray mixture in a closed constant-volume combustor. The spray mixture is ignited by providing a hot wall at the end of the combustor or by firing the electric spark. The investigated parameters involve the initial droplet size, overall equivalence ratio, initial fuel vapor concentration, distance between the hot wall and the nearest droplet, and the ignition energy. Numerical results clearly show the existence of the optimum spray condition for minimizing the ignition energy and the ignition delay time as well as the critical dependence of ignition upon the distance of the heat source to the nearest droplet.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.220-231
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• 1996

In this research, we use IDI type constant volume combustion chamber which may make up stratified combustion to construct the design back data of lean-burn engine. Some experiments are conducted by the passagehole angle in the adapter of main chamber and sub-chamber. The effects on the combustion characteristics according to the ignition timing are investigated. The used fuel is methanol prospective for alternative fuel. Fuel is injected under 10.78MPa using solenoid and accumulator. As the results of the experiment, combustion characteristics reveals that ignition timing, passagehole angle and shape greatly effects on. Lean inflammability limit is extended to 0.45 in equivalence ratio.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.32 no.11
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• pp.910-916
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• 1992

신엔진 개발에서 동력을 증대시키려는 연구와 얻어진 에너지가 엔진을 구동시키기 위한 내부에 너지로 소비되지 않고 가능한 제동마력으로 보내려는 에너지 절약의 측면에서 접근하려는 연구가 있다. 전자의 연구개발은 연료와 공기의 열유동 해석, 혼합비 조절, 점화시기 및 방법, 연료의 선정, 터보차저의 설치, 즉 엔진에 공급되는 고열원부의 열량 $Q_H$ 를 증가 시키든지 또는 대기중으로 방출하는 저열원부의 열량$Q_L$ 을 어떻게 감소시키느냐에 관심을 가지고 있는 연구이다. 그러나 후자의 경우는 이미 생산된 에너지를 가능한 한 소비시키지 않고 모두 제동 마력으로 보내도록 노력하는 연구, 즉 트라이몰로지에 기초를 둔 연구개발 분야이다. 엔진개발 에서 트라이볼로지의 역할은 대단히 중요하나 기술 자체가 대단히 미시적이기 때문에 신기술 개발이 대단히 어려우며, 이 분야의 필요성이 크게 대두된 것도 십수년 전에 불과하므로 기술 축적이 많이 안된 분야 중의 하나이다. 트라이볼로지 기술의 필요성이 현저하게 부각되기는 하 였지만 해결하기가 대단히 어려운 분야이다. 그러나 일단 섬세하고도 미시적인 트라이볼로지 기술의 벽을 극복하면 큰 효과를 발휘하게 된다. 고도의 첨단기술을 개발하고 적용해야 하는 선진기술국에서는 에너지 절약의 측면보다는 새로운 기술개발의 측면에서 트라이볼로지 기술을 적극적으로 지원하고 있다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.111-121
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• 1995

The initiation and propagation of detonation waves in the air/fuel spray mixture has been numerically analyzed. An improved pressure-based method has been applied to predict the transient heterogeneous reacting flows at all speeds. Numerical results indicate that variations in the temperature gradient, the droplet size, and the fuel vapor concentration have the significant effects on the development of detonation wave in the multi-phase reactive media. The interaction mechanism between the flame-generated pressure wave and the combustion wave is discussed in detail.