• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.803-807
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• 2002

The conversion of dimethyl ether(DME) has been carried out over $\gamma-alumina$, silica-alumina, and modified $\gamma-aluminal$ catalysts. Especially, the water effect has been investigated on purpose to develop a suitable catalyst for one-step synthesis of DME from $CO_2$ hydrgenation, The $\gamma-Al_2O_3$ modified with 1 wt% silica is more active and less deactivated by water than unmodified one. $CO_2has$ no effect on catalytic dehydration of methanol to DME.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.53-61
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• 2006

Recently, lots of researchers have been attracted to develop various alternative fuels and to use renewable fuels in order to solve the exhaust emission problems. DME (Dimethylether) is synthetic fuel, and can be produced from natural gas, coal and biomass. The emission is clean because it contains little sulfur and aromatic components In this study, the fuel was tested to investigate the applicability as an alternative fuel for diesel. This study was carried out by comparing the exhaust emissions and performance of diesel engine with DME, ULSD (ultra low sulfur diesel), LSD (low sulfur diesel) respectively. In order to measure regulated emissions, CO, $NO_{3}$, HC from vehicle different fuel types were used on chassis dynamometer CVS (constant volume sampler)-75 mode and EPA TO-I1A method was chosen for aldehydes analysis.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제18권12호
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• pp.1017-1024
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• 2006

In this work, pool boiling heat transfer coefficients (HTCs) of five hydrocarbon refrigerants of propylene, propane, isobutane, butane and dimethylether (DME) were measured at the liquid temperature of $7^{\circ}C$ on a 26 fpi low fin tube, Turbo-B, and Thermoexcel-E tubes. All data were taken from 80 to $10kW/m^2$ in the decreasing order of heat flux. The data of hydrocarbon refrigerants showed a typical trend that nucleate boiling HTCs obtained on enhanced tubes also increase with the vapor pressure. Fluids with lower reduced pressure such as DME, isobutane, and butane took more advantage of the heat transfer enhancement mechanism of enhanced tubes than those enhancement ratios of $2.3\sim9.4$ among the tubes tested due to its sub-channels and re-entrant cavities.

• Korean Membrane Journal
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.10-15
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• 2004

We developed a water-selective ceramic composite membrane for use as a dehydration membrane reactor for dimethylether (DME) synthesis from methanol. The membranes were modified on the porous stainless steel support by the sol-gel method accompanied by a suction process. The improved membrane modification process was effective in increasing the vapour permselectivity by removal of defects and pinholes. The optimized alumina/silica composite membrane exhibited a water permeance of 1.14${\times}$10$^{-7}$ mol/$m^2$.sec.Pa and a water/methanol selectivity of 8.4 at permeation temperature of 25$0^{\circ}C$. The catalytic reaction for DME synthesis from methanol using the membrane was performed at 23$0^{\circ}C$, and the reaction conversion was compared with that of the conventional fixed-bed reactor. The reaction conversion of the membrane reactor was much higher than that of the conventional fixed-bed reactor. The reaction conversion of the membrane reactor and the conventional fixed-bed reactor was 82.5 and 68.0%, respectively. This improvement of reaction efficiency can last if the water vapour produced in the reaction zone is removed continuously.

• 청정기술
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.28-33
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 variable volume view cell이 장착된 상평형 장치를 사용하여 고압 상태의 다양한 용매 내에서 고분자인 Poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA)의 구름점(cloud point)를 측정하였다. 이때 사용된 용매는 chlorodifluoromethane (HCFC-22), dimethylether (DME), 1,1,1-trifluoroethane (HFC-143a), 1,1-difluoroethane (HFC-152a), 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134a) 이였으며, 이들 용매에 $CO_2$를 첨가한 $HCFC-22+CO_2$와 $DME+CO_2$의 이성분계 혼합용매에서 $CO_2$의 조성 변화가 PMMA의 상거동에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다. 실험 결과 PMMA는 HCFC-22에서는 340K, 5MPa 정도의 가장 낮은 온도 압력 조건에서부터 잘 용해되었으며 DME에서는 300K, 28MPa 정도의 비교적 낮은 온도 압력 범위에서 잘 용해되었으나, 그 밖의 불소화합물인 HFC-143a, HFC-152a, HFC-134a에서는 423.15K, 160MPa의 높은 온도 및 압력범위에서도 전혀 용해가 일어나지 않았다. 또한, PMMA+HCFC-22 혼합물에 $CO_2$를 첨가한 $PMMA+HCFC-22+CO_2$계의 경우는 LCST (lower critical solution temperature)의 상거동을 보였으나 PMMA+DME 혼합물에 $CO_2$를 첨가한 $PMMA+DME+CO_2$계의 경우는 UCST (upper critical solution temperature)의 상거동을 보였다. $CO_2$ 혼합용매 내에서 cloud point 압력은 동일한 온도에서 첨가되는 $CO_2$의 양에 비례하여 급격히 높아지는 것을 관찰할 수 있었고, 이로부터 PMMA를 SAS (supercritical antisolvent) 법에 의해 미세입자화 할 경우 $CO_2$가 DME와 HCFC-22에 대한 역용매로 사용될 수 있다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 $CO_2$의 농도를 변화시킴으로써 PMMA의 cloud point를 자유롭게 조절할 수 있다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.1957-1963
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• 2005

In this study, external condensation heat transfer coefficients (HTCs) of six flammable refrigerants of propylene (RI270), propane (R290), isobutane (R600a), butane (R600), dimethylether (RE170), and HFC32 were measured at the vapor temperature of $39^{\circ}C$ on a 1023 fpm low fin and Turbo-C tubes. All data were taken under the heat flux of $32\~116\;and\;42\~142kW/m^2$ for the low fin and Turbo-C tubes respectively. Flammable refrigerants' data obtained on enhanced tubes showed a typical trend that external condensation HTCs decrease with increasing wall subcooling. HFC32 and DME showed up to $30\%$ higher HTCs than those of HCFC22 due to their excellent thermophysical properties. Propylene, propane, isobutane, and butane showed similar or lower HTCs than those of HCFC22. Beatty and Katz' correlation predicted the HTCs of the flammable refrigerants obtained on a low fin tube within a mean deviation of $7.3\%$. Turbo-C tube showed the best performance due to its 3 dimensional surface geometry for fast removal of condensate.

• 멤브레인
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.142-154
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• 2012

DME 제조공정에서 발생하는 혼합가스 중 $CO_2$를 제거하기 위해서 $H_2$ 투과도보다 $CO_2$투과도가 우수한 고무상 고분자를 분리소재로 선정하여 복합막을 제조하고 $CO_2/H_2$의 분리성능을 검증하여 보았다. 지지체 중공사막 소재로 PEI를 이용하여 지지체 중공사막을 제조하였으며, 제조된 지지체 중공사막의 기체투과도를 각 가스별로 측정하여 PDMS의 경우는 $CO_2$ 투과도 300 GPU 이상, $CO_2/H_2$의 선택도가 4.3 이상, PEBAX를 사용한 경우 $CO_2$ 투과도 120 GPU 이상 $CO_2/H_2$의 선택도가 5 이상인 복합 중공사를 제조하였다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.44-49
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• 2001

Reduced chemical kinetics mechanism has been derived, which can be applicable for autoignition model of hydrocarbon fuels, and contains 23 reactions and 18 species. The present model is validated with the experimental data, where the ignition delays of several hydrocarbon fuels, such as n-heptane, i-octane, n-decane and DME(dimethylether) are measured as equivalence ratios are varied. Especially, the effects of different fuels on ignition delays can be explained by changing the rate constants of three reactions among the present model. As a result, the proposed model can be applicable to two stage ignition model of Diesel combustion.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.247-253
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• 2006

In this work, pool boiling heat transfer coefficients (HTCs) of hydrocarbon refrigerants are measured from a horizontal smooth tube of 19.0 mm outside diameter. Tested pure refrigerants are Propylene, Propane, Isobutane, Butane and Dimethylether (DME). The pool temperature was maintained at saturation temperature of $7^{\circ}C$ and heat flux was varied from $10kW/m^2$ to $80kW/m^2$ with an interval of $10kW/m^2$. Wall temperatures were measured directly by thermocouple hole of 0.5 mm out-diameter, 152 mm long and inserting ungrounded sheathed thermocouples from the side of the tube. Tested results show that HTCs of Propane, Propylene are 2.5%, 10.4% higher than those of R22 while those of Butane and Isobutane are 55.2%, 44.3% lower than those of R22 respectively. For pure refrigerants, new correlation can be applied to all of CFCs, HCFCS, HFCs, as well as hydrocarbons was developed. The mean deviation was 4.6%.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.403-410
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• 2007

In this study, natural refrigerants and their mixtures that can supplement and replace R12 and R134a in automobile air-conditioners are studied. R134a is currently used as the refrigerant in new motor vehicle air conditioners, replacing the ozone depleting refrigerant R12. Although R134a has no ozone depletion potential, it has a relatively large global warming potential, approximately 1300 times that of $CO_2$ over a 100 year time horizon. For this reason, performance of natural refrigerants and their mixtures containing R152a, RE170 (Dimethylether, DME) and R600a (Isobutane) are measured under 2 different temperature conditions. They were tested in a refrigerating bench tester with an open type compressor. The test bench provided about 4 kW capacity and water and water/glycol mixture were employed as the secondary heat transfer fluids. Test results show that the coefficient of performance (COP) of these refrigerants is up to 21.55% higher than that of R12 in all temperature conditions. Overall, these fluids provide good performance with reasonable energy savings without any environmental problem and thus can be used as long term alternatives for automobile air-conditioners.