• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제53권2호
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• pp.150-155
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• 2015

최근 전세계적인 액화천연가스(LNG) 수요의 증가로 인해 LNG 터미널의 건설이 크게 늘어나고 있으며 기존의 LNG 터미널도 저장시설을 확장하고 있는 추세이다. 이에 따라 LNG 터미널의 다수의 저장탱크가 존재할 때 LNG를 송출하게 될 탱크와 각 송출량을 선택하는 것은 전체 공정 운전에 중대한 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 전체 송출량이 정해져 있을 경우 레벨이 각기 다른 탱크들에 대해 발생하는 BOG 양을 최소화 할 수 있도록 각 탱크의 송출량을 최적화하는 연구를 수행하였다. 저장 탱크의 특성과 구조에 맞게 벽면과 바닥면에서 유입되는 열과 탱크 재질의 열전도도를 고려한 동적모델을 구성하였고, 레벨을 변화시켜 각 레벨에 따른 BOG 양을 계산하여 얻은 BOG 발생량을 탱크 레벨에 따라 지수함수로 회귀분석하였다. 이를 통해 탱크의 특성과 레벨에 따라 BOG 발생량을 예측할 수 있는 BOR(Boil-off Rate) 모델을 얻을 수 있었다. 개발한 BOR 모델을 이용하여 BOG 발생량을 최소화하는 목적함수를 설정하고 요구되는 송출량, 탱크내 레벨 제한, 탱크 당 가능한 송출량을 제한조건으로 설정하여 각 탱크의 최적 송출량을 결정하는 운전 최적화를 수행하였다. 이를 실제 운전되고 있는 인천 LNG 터미널의 18개 저장탱크에 적용하여 다양한 레벨이 분포되어 있고 총 송출량이 80,000 m3/day(최대 송출량)이 요구되는 시나리오에 대해 최적화를 수행하여 가정한 기존의 운전방법과 비교하였을 때 BOG 양을 약 9% 감소시킬 수 있었다.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.122-128
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• 2017

Currently, the proportion of diesel vehicles in all automobile has grown significantly over the past few years. Air pollutant also grew up and became a social problem. In particular, the issue of NOx emissions caused by NOx high emission in real driving has become a global issue. Despite the fact that the regulatory and reduction project of the new vehicle is actively carried out, there are no existence regulations of In-use diesel vehicle's NOx emission. Therefore, the emission characteristics of the in-use diesel vehicles were investigated to seek ways to reduce NOx emissions in this study. The test targets were used in 237 close inspection of exhaust gases and model year varied from 1996 to 2011. However, the classification of emissions by emission standards differed considerably from NOx emissions. This means that the selection method for early retirement targets should be converted from model year to amount of emissions. If the current early retirement program was applied to the existing system, pre-Euro 3 was 22.530 g/km and Euro 4 was 21.810 g/km to NOx reduction. However, when the vehicle was changed to high emission target vehicle, NOx reduction increase maximum 84.705 kg/yr. According to the study results, an effective reduction in NOx emissions can be achieved if an earlier target in expanded to Euro 4 vehicles.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2018

It is difficult to fabricate and maintain moving parts of expander at cryogenic temperature. This paper describes numerical analysis and experimental investigation on a cryogenic reciprocating expander without moving piston. An intake valve which takes high-pressure gas, and an exhaust valve which discharges low-pressure gas, are connected to a tube. The inside pressure of the tube is pulsated for work production. This geometric configuration is similar to that of pulse tube refrigerator but without regenerator. An orifice valve and a reservoir are installed to control the phase of the mass flow and the pressure. At the warm end, a heat exchanger rejects the heat which is converted from the produced work of the expanded gas. For the numerical analysis, mass conservation, energy conservation, and local mass function for valves are used as the governing equations. Before performing cryogenic experiments, we carried out the expander test at room temperature and compared the performance results with the numerical results. For cryogenic experiments, the gas is pre-cooled by liquid nitrogen, and then it enters the pulse tube expander. The experiments are controlled by the opening of the orifice valve. Numerical analysis also found the expander conditions that optimize the expander performance by changing the intake pressure and valve timing as well as the opening of the orifice valve. This paper discusses the experimental data and the numerical analysis results to understand the fundamental behavior of such a newly developed non-mechanical expander and elucidate its potential feature for cryogenic application.