• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.372-378
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• 2005

Ni/YSZ ($Y_2O_3$-stabilized $ZrO_2$) composite powder for a cathode material in high temperature electrolysis(HTE) was synthesized by a mechanical alloying method with Ni and YSZ powder. Microstructure of the composite and cell thickness for HTE reaction has been analyzed with various techniques of XRD, SEM to investigate effects of fabrication conditions. Employing the composite material, furthermore, the unit cell for HTE has been studied to evolve hydrogen from water. XRD patterns showed that the composites after wet mechanical alloying were composed of respective nano-sized crystalline Ni and YSZ. While ethanol as additive for mechanical alloying increased to $20\;{\mu}m$ of average particle size of the composites, alpha-terpineol effectively decreased to sub-micro size of that. This study has been found out the evolution of hydrogen by HTE reaction employing the fabricated cathode material, showing 1.4 ml/min of $H_2$ generation rate as increasing $20\;{\mu}m$ of cathode thickness.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.324-335
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• 2024

The container package type sealed water electrolysis production system installs mechanical balance of plant and electrical balance of plant as an integrated unit to enable independent operation within the package module. The auxiliary equipment required to operate the water electrolysis system must be integrated to reduce the installation area and shorten the installation time. At this time, as leak risk factors are placed in a dense space, when a hydrogen gas leak accident occurs, it can have a mutual influence on other adjacent facilities, so it contains various risk factors. In this study, when a gas leak occurs in a container packaged water electrolysis system, possible sources of leakage in the system according to the KS C IEC 60079-10-1:2015 and KGS GC101 standards were identified, and the leak rate and leak characteristics were calculated. did. The hazardous area and its range were calculated according to ventilation and dilution characteristics. In order to optimize ventilation characteristics, design of experiment was used to analyze the influence to evaluate the adequacy of ventilation, and overseas ventilation standards were analyzed and compared. In addition, the optimal ventilation structure and characteristics of the container packaged water electrolysis system were presented according to the results of the experimental design method.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.98-107
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• 2004

Modified Ni/YSZ cermets for high temperature electrolysis were synthesized by dry or wet mechanical alloying methods. The Ni/YSZ composit particle was directly fabricated from the ball milling of Ni and YSZ powder or obtained from the reduction of NiO/YSZ particle after the ball milling of NiO and YSZ. In the case of the NiO/YSZ composite particle, the dry milling increased the average particle size whereas the wet milling decreased the size. The dry milling showed that fine YSZ particles were distributed over large Ni surfaces while Ni and YSZ particles similar in size were well mixed in the wet milling method. These features were the same in the Ni/YSZ composite particle prepared from Ni and YSZ powders. The electrical conductivity of the wet-milled Ni/YSZ cermet showed the highest value of $2{\times}10^2S/cm$ among the specimens and this value was increased to $1.4\times10^4S/cm$ after the sintering at $900^\circ{C}$ for 1 h.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.109-113
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• 2016

Techno-economic evaluation of Non-Capture $CO_2$ Utilization (NCCU) technology for the production of high-value-added products using greenhouse gas ($CO_2$) was performed. The general scheme of NCCU process is composed of $CO_2$ carbonation and brine electrolysis process. Through a carbonation reaction with sodium hydroxide that is generated from brine electrolysis and $CO_2$ of the flue gas, it is possible to get high-value-added products such as sodium bicarbonate, sodium hydroxide, hydrogen & chloride and also to reduce the $CO_2$ emission simultaneously. For the techno-economic study on NCCU technology, continuous operation of bench-scale facility which could treat $2kgCO_2/day$ was performed. and based on the key performance data evaluated, the economic evaluation analysis targeted on the commercial chemical plant, which could treat 6 tons $CO_2$ per day, was performed using the net present value (NPV) metrics. The results showed that the net profit obtained during the whole plant operation was about 7,890 mKRW (million Korean Won) on NPV metrics and annual $CO_2$ reduction was estimated as about $2,000tCO_2$. Also it was found that the energy consumption of brine electrolysis is one of the key factors which affect the plant operation cost (ex. electricity consumption) and the net profit of the plant. Based on these results, it could be deduced that NCCU technology of this study could be one of the cost-effective $CO_2$ utilization technology options.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제43권12호
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• pp.764-767
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• 2006

Ni/YSZ $(Y_2O_3-stabilized\;ZrO_2)$ composite as an electrode component for High Temperature Electrolysis (HTE) was fabricated by mechanical alloying method using Ni and YSZ powders. Characterization of the synthesized composite was investigated with various analysis tools, including XRD, SEM and PSA, and a self-supporting planar unit cell prepared with the Ni/YSZ composite was prepared to study the electrochemical reactions for the production of hydrogen. The Ni/YSZ cermet is composed of crystalline Ni and YSZ, in a sub-micro scale, and has an even distribution without aggregated particles. In addition, under an electrochemical reaction, the unit cell showed an $H_2$ evolution rate from steam of 14 Nml/min and $600mA/cm^2$ of current density at the electrode.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.77-83
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• 1995

The effluent from conventional nightsoil treatment plants contains nutrients, color and chlorides, in addition to residual organics and suspended solids, and thereby causes substantial pollution problems in receving water resources. In order to verify the usefullness of electrolysis in removing those residual pollutants from such conventional nightsoil treatment plant effluent, a bench scale experiment was conducted using sufficiently dilluted human nightsoil as experiment feeds. The result showed mean removals of 45% of total phosphorus and 85% of color, in addition 87% of residual BOD, 47% of residual COD and 85% of residual SS. The optimum electric current was found to be 15 ampere and the optimum hydraulic residence time 21/2 hour.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.416-423
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• 2009

High-temperature steam electrolysis (HTSE) using solid oxide cell is a challenging method for highly efficient large-scale hydrogen production as a reversible process of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). The overall efficiency of the HTSE hydrogen and synthesis gas production system was analyzed thermo-electrochemically. A thermo-electrochemical model for the hydrogen and synthesis gas production system with solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) and very high temperature gas-cooled reactor (VHTR) was established. Sensitivity analyses with regard to the system were performed to investigate the quantitative effects of key parameters on the overall efficiency of the production system. The overall efficiency with SOEC and VHTR was expected to reach a maximum of 58% for the hydrogen production system and to 62% for synthesis gas production system by improving electrical efficiency, steam utilization rate, waste heat recovery rate, electrolysis efficiency, and thermal efficiency. Therefore, overall efficiency of the synthesis production system has higher efficiency than that of the hydrogen production system.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.636-641
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• 2016

Alkaline water electrolysis is commercial hydrogen production technology. It is possible to operate MW scale plant. Because It used non-precious metal for electrode. But It has relatively low current density and low efficiency. In this study, research objective is development of anode for alkaline water electrolysis with low cost, high corrosion resistance and high efficiency. Stainless steel 316L (SUS 316L) was selected for a substrate of electrode. To improve corrosion resistance of substrate, Nickel (Ni) layer was electrodeposited on SUS 316L. Ni-Fe alloy was electrodeposited on the passivated Ni layer as active catalyst for oxygen evolution reaction(OER). We optimized preparation condition of Ni-Fe alloy electrodeposition by changing current density, electrodeposition time and composition ratio of Ni-Fe electrodeposition bath. This electrodes were electrochemically evaluated by using Linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) and Cyclic voltammetry (CV). The Ni-Fe alloy (Ni : Fe = 1 : 1) showed best activity of OER. The optimized electrode decreased overpotential about 40% at $100mA/cm^2$ compared with Ni anode.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2017

2013년 환경 정책 개정에 따라 총유기탄소(TOC)항목이 수질 및 수생태계 보전에 관한 법률에 도입되었으며, 이러한 정책 시행에 따라 공공하수처리시설에서의 TOC에 대한 수질관리의 필요성이 대두되었다. 본 연구는 실험실 규모 전기분해공정에서 전기화학적 반응을 이용하여 하수방류수 내 TOC 제거특성을 살펴보았다. 실험실 규모의 전기분해공정에서의 실험 결과를 반응표면법에 적용하여 방류수 내 TOC 제거 특성분석을 실시하였다. 중심합성에 사용된 독립변수로는 전해공정의 주요 운전인자인 전극간격($x_1$), 전류밀도($x_2$), 전해질의 농도($x_3$)를 선정하였으며, 종속변수로는 TOC 제거효율(y)이다. 전해공정에서 최적화 조건은 전극간격 50mm, 전류밀도 $10.3mA/cm^2$, 전해질의 농도 0.1M로 조사되었다. 통계학적 결과를 바탕으로 독립변수는 전극간격 > 전류밀도 > 전해질농도의 순으로 작아지는 것으로 분석되었다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.329-333
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• 2016

전기분해에 의한 소독은 소규모 하수처리장, 강우월류수, 선박평형수, 수영장, 양식장 등 염소의 운송, 보관, 사용에 어려움이 있는 곳에 활용될 가능성이 높다. 본 연구에서는 전압(2-5 V), 반응시간(1-10 min), 전해질농도(HCl 0.4-2.2% (w/v), NaCl 5-20 g/L)가 전기분해 산화제(HOCl, $O_3$, $H_2O_2$) 생성 효율에 미치는 영향을 고찰하였다. 회분식 실험 시 투입 전자 대비산화제 전환율(전류 효율)이 가장 높은 최적 조건은 HCl 2.2%, 3 V, 반응 시간 5분이었으며, 이 때의 전류 효율은 99.3%였다. HCl 2.2%, 3 V에서 수행한 연속식 전기분해실험에서는 전류 효율이 97.4% 이상이었으며, NaCl 농도(0-20 g/L) 증가에 따라 주요 산화제인 HOCl의 농도가 비례하여 증가하여 최대 99.8%의 결과를 보였다. 연속식 실험에서 얻은 전기분해수를 이용한 살균실험 결과 5분 안에 92.2% 이상의 총대장균군이 제거되어, 전기분해가 병원성 미생물 소독에 유효하게 사용될 수 있을 것으로 확인되었다.