• 공업화학
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.513-517
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 화재나 화생방전 시 비상대피에 사용되는 상용 방독면의 흡착소재인 첨착활성탄의 특성을 분석하고 일산화탄소(CO)의 흡착성능 및 산화반응을 조사하고자 하였다. 대표 제품 4개를 선정하여 BET/BJH 측정을 통해 각 활성탄소의 비표면적, 기공부피 및 기공크기를 비교분석하고 SEM/EDS와 XPS를 이용한 표면 성분분석을 수행하여 일산화탄소 제거 효율간의 관계를 연구하였다. 불순물 제거를 위한 전처리(heat-treatment) 후 망간(Mn)과 구리(Cu)가 주 금속으로 첨착되어 있는 화재용 시료에서는 업체에 관계없이 반응 초기에 일산화탄소의 흡착을 보였고 이후 활성 탄소 내에 첨착된 금속 촉매에 의해 최대 99%의 이산화탄소($CO_2$) 변환율로 높은 촉매활성을 보이며 산화반응이 진행되었다. 망간(Mn)을 함유하지 않은 화생방용 시료의 경우 이산화탄소로의 변환율은 최대 60%로서 화재용 시료에 비해 떨어짐을 관찰하였다. 화재용 시료의 전처리 유무에 따른 일산화탄소 반응성 조사에서는 전처리 후 기공 내 불순물 제거 효과로 상온에서 이산화탄소의 검출시간이 약 30 min간 지연되어 일산화탄소와 이산화탄소에 대해 모두 더 높은 제거율을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2011년도 제40회 동계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.27-27
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• 2011

For the design of real applicable molecular devices, current-voltage properties through molecular nanostructures such as metal-molecule-metal junctions (molecular junctions) have been studied extensively. In thiolate monolayers on the gold electrode, the chemical bonding of sulfur to gold and the van der Waals interactions between the alkyl chains of neighboring molecules are important factors in the formation of well-defined monolayers and in the control of the electron transport rate. Charge transport through the molecular junctions depends significantly on the energy levels of molecules relative to the Fermi levels of the contacts and the electronic structure of the molecule. It is important to understand the interfacial electron transport in accordance with the increased film thickness of alkyl chains that are known as an insulating layer, but are required for molecular device fabrication. Thiol-tethered RuII terpyridine complexes were synthesized for a voltage-driven molecular switch and used to understand the switch-on mechanism of the molecular switches of single metal complexes in the solid-state molecular junction in a vacuum. Electrochemical voltammetry and current-voltage (I-V) characteristics are measured to elucidate electron transport processes in the bistable conducting states of single molecular junctions of a molecular switch, Ru(II) terpyridine complexes. (1) On the basis of the Ru-centered electrochemical reaction data, the electron transport rate increases in the mixed self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of Ru(II) terpyridine complexes, indicating strong electronic coupling between the redox center and the substrate, along the molecules. (2) In a low-conducting state before switch-on, I-V characteristics are fitted to a direct tunneling model, and the estimated tunneling decay constant across the Ru(II) terpyridine complex is found to be smaller than that of alkanethiol. (3) The threshold voltages for the switch-on from low- to high-conducting states are identical, corresponding to the electron affinity of the molecules. (4) A high-conducting state after switch-on remains in the reverse voltage sweep, and a linear relationship of the current to the voltage is obtained. These results reveal electron transport paths via the redox centers of the Ru(II) terpyridine complexes, a molecular switch.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.448-452
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• 2016

새로운 수송용 에너지자원으로 각광받는 바이오매스의 효율적인 당화를 위한 전처리방법이 연구되고 있다. 최근 바이오매스의 에너지 전환 공정 중 전처리 비용이 높은 비중을 차지하고 있으며 이중 폐수처리가 커다란 문제점으로 지적되고 있다. 따라서 폐수발생을 줄이고 재사용이 용이한 유기용매(Organosolv)를 이용한 전처리를 수행하였으며, 전처리 바이오매스의 잔류 고형물의 양과 제거된 성분의 양을 이용하여 바이오매스의 전처리 효과를 효소당화를 통해 알아보았다. 전처리에 사용한 유기용매로는 99.5 wt% 에탄올을 사용하였고, 초본계 바이오매스인 옥수수대(corn stover)를 이용하여 전처리 하였다. 전처리 효과는 $130{\sim}190^{\circ}C$ 조건에서 시간대별로 진행하여 전처리된 바이오매스의 효소당화를 통하여 확인하였다. 효소당화결과로 가장 높은 글루코오스 당화율을 보였던 전처리 온도는 $190^{\circ}C$에서 반응시간 70분 이상의 조건 이였으며, 이 때 68% 이상의 당화율을 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 전처리 바이오매스의 잔류 고형물(Solid remaining)은 70% 이상이었고, 대부분의 셀룰로오스(Cellulose)와 헤미셀룰로오스(Hemicellulose)의 손실이 미비하여 대부분의 당 성분을 회수할 수 있다는 장점을 보였다.

• Macromolecular Research
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.167-172
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• 2007

The reduction behavior of silver ions to silver nanoparticles is an important topic in polymer/silver salt complex membranes to facilitate olefin transport, as this has a significant effect on the long-term performance stability of the membrane. In this study, the effects ofthe solvent type on the formation of silver nanoparticles, as well as the long-term membrane performance of a solid polymer/silver salt complex membrane were investigated. These effects were assessed for solid complexes of poly(N-vinyl pyrrolidone) $(PVP)/AgBF_4$, using either an ionic liquid (IL), acetonitrile (ACN) or water as the solvent for the membrane preparation. The membrane performance test showed that long-term stability was strongly dependent on the solvent type, which increased in the following order: IL > ACN >> water. The formation of silver nanoparticles was more favorable with the solvent type in the reverse order, as supported by UV-visible spectroscopy. The poor stability of the $(PVP)/AgBF_4$ membrane when water was used as the solvent might have been due to the small amount of water present in the silver-polymer complex membranes actively participating in the reduction reaction of the silver ions into silver nanoparticles. Conversely, the higher stability of the $(PVP)/AgBF_4$, membrane when an IL was used as the solvent was attributable to the cooperative coordination of silver ions with the IL, as well as with the polymer matrix, as confirmed by FTIR spectroscopy.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.143-148
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• 2011

정유 석유화학 플랜트에서 탑 상부의 부식은 현장에서 자주 발생되는 심각한 문제이다. 특히 정유 공정 탑 상부에는 황화수소, 염소 등의 부식 물질들로 인하여 그 피해 정도가 심각하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 정유 공정 탑 상부의 부식 메커니즘을 분석하고, 부식률을 예측하는 모델을 개발하였다. 정유 공정 탑 상부의 부식 메커니즘을 분석한 결과, 부식에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 네 가지 성분인 $H_2S$, $CO_2$, $H^+$, $Cl^-$을 고려하여 예측 모델을 개발하였다. 부식 메커니즘을 해석하는 데에 이동 현상 및 반응 공학의 관점으로 접근하여 모델을 개발 하였다. 또한 실제 정유공장에서 측정된 데이터들을 토대로 그 신뢰성을 검증하였다.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.666-669
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• 2008

Droplet in miniaturized microfluidic systems have received much focused attention recently. In this work, electrical charging phenomenon of a conducting water droplet on the electrode under the dc electric field is studied and using this phenomenon droplet actuation method for microreactor applications is experimentally demonstrated. To find effects of key factors, the effects of electric field, medium viscosity, and droplet size are investigated. A scaling law of charging for the conducting droplet is derived from the experimental results. Unlike the case of a perfect conductor, the estimated amount of electrical charge ($Q_{est}$) of a water droplet is proportional to the 1.59 power of the droplet radius (R) and the 1.33 power of the electric field strength (E). (For a spherical perfect conductor, Q is proportional to R2 and E.) It is thought that the differences are mainly due to incomplete charging of a water droplet resulted from the combined effect of electrochemical reaction at electrode and the relatively low conductivity of water. Using this phenomenon, we demonstrate the transport of the charged droplet and fusion of two oppositely-charged droplets. When electric field is subjected sequentially on the electrode, the charged droplet is transported on the electrode. For the visualization of fusion of charged droplets, the precipitation reaction is used. When subjected to a DC voltage, two droplets charged are moving and merging toward each other due to the Coulombic force and chemical reaction is simultaneously occurred by coalescence of droplets. It may be due to the interchange effect of charge. It is shown that the droplet can be used for microreactor where transporting, merging etc. of reagents constitute unit operation.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.137-145
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• 2009

The steady-state kinetics of the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of $NO_X$ with $NH_3$ has been investigated over a commercial ${V_2}{O_5}/TiO_2$ catalyst. In order to account for the influence of transport effects the kinetics are coupled with a fully transient two-phase 1D+1D monolith channel model. The Langmuir-Hinshelwood (L-H) mechanism is adopted to describe the steady-state kinetic behavior of the ${V_2}{O_5}/TiO_2$ catalyst. The reaction rate expressions are based on previously reported papers and are modified to fit the experimental data. The steady-state chemical reaction scheme used in the present mathematical model has been validated extensively with experimental data of selective $NO_X$ reduction efficiency for a wide range of inlet conditions such as space velocity, oxygen concentrations, water concentration, and $NO_2/NO$ ratio. The parametric investigations are performed to examine how the $NH_3$ slip from a SCR $DeNO_X$ catalyst and the conversion of $NO_X$ are affected by the reaction temperature, $NH_3/NO_X$ feed ratio, and space velocity for feed gas compositions with $NO_2/NO_X$ ratios of 0 and 0.5.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제43회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.80-81
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• 2012

Recently, one of the critical issues in the etching processes of the nanoscale devices is to achieve ultra-high aspect ratio contact (UHARC) profile without anomalous behaviors such as sidewall bowing, and twisting profile. To achieve this goal, the fluorocarbon plasmas with major advantage of the sidewall passivation have been used commonly with numerous additives to obtain the ideal etch profiles. However, they still suffer from formidable challenges such as tight limits of sidewall bowing and controlling the randomly distorted features in nanoscale etching profile. Furthermore, the absence of the available plasma simulation tools has made it difficult to develop revolutionary technologies to overcome these process limitations, including novel plasma chemistries, and plasma sources. As an effort to address these issues, we performed a fluorocarbon surface kinetic modeling based on the experimental plasma diagnostic data for silicon dioxide etching process under inductively coupled C4F6/Ar/O2 plasmas. For this work, the SiO2 etch rates were investigated with bulk plasma diagnostics tools such as Langmuir probe, cutoff probe and Quadruple Mass Spectrometer (QMS). The surface chemistries of the etched samples were measured by X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer. To measure plasma parameters, the self-cleaned RF Langmuir probe was used for polymer deposition environment on the probe tip and double-checked by the cutoff probe which was known to be a precise plasma diagnostic tool for the electron density measurement. In addition, neutral and ion fluxes from bulk plasma were monitored with appearance methods using QMS signal. Based on these experimental data, we proposed a phenomenological, and realistic two-layer surface reaction model of SiO2 etch process under the overlying polymer passivation layer, considering material balance of deposition and etching through steady-state fluorocarbon layer. The predicted surface reaction modeling results showed good agreement with the experimental data. With the above studies of plasma surface reaction, we have developed a 3D topography simulator using the multi-layer level set algorithm and new memory saving technique, which is suitable in 3D UHARC etch simulation. Ballistic transports of neutral and ion species inside feature profile was considered by deterministic and Monte Carlo methods, respectively. In case of ultra-high aspect ratio contact hole etching, it is already well-known that the huge computational burden is required for realistic consideration of these ballistic transports. To address this issue, the related computational codes were efficiently parallelized for GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) computing, so that the total computation time could be improved more than few hundred times compared to the serial version. Finally, the 3D topography simulator was integrated with ballistic transport module and etch reaction model. Realistic etch-profile simulations with consideration of the sidewall polymer passivation layer were demonstrated.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.537-546
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 오염물 사고에 대한 신속한 대응을 위하여 입자 분산 모형을 개발 및 개선하고 병렬 프로그램을 적용한 모의 속도 증가와 그 분석을 통하여 속도개선 결과를 평가하였다. 개발된 모형은 전단류 분산이론을 따르면서 수평 혼합 과정은 전단이송, 연직 혼합 과정은 연직배열 알고리즘을 이용한 난류 및 입자 확산을 구현하였다. 오염사고에 신속하게 대응하기 위해 모형 속도 개선을 위하여 OpenMP를 활용한 병렬 프로그래밍으로 멀티코어 적용 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 병렬 프로그래밍 적용 결과, 가상 사행수로에서 기준 소요시간 내로 모의가 가능한 입자 및 활용 코어 개수의 관계를 도출할 수 있었다. 이 연구 결과로 신속한 수질 오염사고 사고대응을 위한 적절한 모의 조건을 구성할 수 있게 되어 모형의 활용성을 증대할 수 있었다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.326-329
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• 2005

Proton exchange membrane (PEM) should be sufficiently hydrated with proper water management to maintain a good ionic conductivity and performance of a PEM fuel cell. However. cathode flooding resulting from excess water can impede the transport of reactants and hence deteriorate the fuel cell performance. For the PEM fuel cell to be commercially viable as vehicle or portable applications, the flooding on the cathode side should be minimized during the fuel cell operation. In this study, visualization technique was applied to understand the cathode flooding phenomena on the cathode side of a PEM fuel cell. To this end. a transparent PEM unit fuel cell wi th an act ive area of $25cm^2$ was designed and manufactured to allow for the visualization of cathode channel with performance characteristics. Two-phase flow resulting from the electro-chemical reaction of fuel cell was investigated experimentally. The images photographed by CCD camera with cell operating temperatures $(30\~50^{\circ}C)$ were presented. Results indicated that the flooding on the cathode side first occurs near the exit of cathode channel. As the operating temperature of fuel cell increases. it was found that liquid water droplets tend to evaporate easily and it can have an influence on lowering the flooding level. It is expected that this study can effectively contribute to the detailed researches on modeling water transport of an operating PEM fuel cell including two-phase flow phenomena.