• 한국연소학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.15-23
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• 2015

This paper presents the results of field demonstration for fuel switching to bio-fuel oil in 4 commercial heavy oil fired power plants. The 100% fuel switching field demonstration was successfully carried out in two tangential-firing boilers at a capacity of 75 and 100 MWe respectively without major equipment retrofit, and also 25% bio-fuel oil blending for two opposite firing boilers at a capacity of 350 and 400 MWe respectively. Despite the low density and heating value, the bio fuel was successfully replaced heavy fuel oil at the full load by only adjusting operational parameters. Incase of bio fuel oil combustion, heat absorption of radiative heat transfer section was reduced while convection section has opposite trend. In pollutants emission, a major reductionin SOx as well as 10-20% reduction in NOx were achieved by the fuels witching. On the other hand, boiler efficiency was slightly underestimated.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.2553-2560
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• 2018

In Korea, there are no instances where a hydrogen fuel cell power generation system has been used in a railway vehicle. Only the basic topology has been studied. In the previous study, conventional converters using a single switch were applied to the fuel cell power generation system. Therefore, current stress on the switch at converter on-off transitions would be large when controlling a large-capacity railway vehicle. In addition, since the input side ripple is also large, there is a problem with a shortening of the lifetime of both the fuel cell power generation system and the inductor. In this paper, a soft-switching transformer inductor boost converter for fuel cell powered railway vehicles was proposed. A technique to reduce both the switching current stress generated during on-off transitions, and the input ripple current flowing in the inductor were studied. The soft-switching TIB converter uses a transformer-type inductor to configure the entire circuit in an interleaved method, and reduces both input current ripple and the current ripple of the inductor and switch.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.235-244
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• 2010

This paper presents a new isolated soft-switching bidirectional buck-boost inverter for fuel cell applications. The buck-boost inverter combines an isolated DC-DC converter with a conventional inverter to implement buck-boost DC-DC and DC-AC conversion. The main switches achieve zero voltage switching and zero current switching by using a novel synchronous switching SVPWM and the volume of the transformer in the forward and fly-back mode is also minimized. This inverter is suitable for wide input voltage applications due to its high efficiency under all conditions. An active clamping circuit reduces the switch's spike voltage and regenerates the energy stored in the leakage inductance of the transformer; therefore, the overall efficiency is improved. This paper presents the operating principle, a theoretical analysis and design guidelines. Simulation and experimental results have validated the characteristics of the buck-boost inverter.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.594-605
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• 2013

목질계 바이오매스는 폐기물 다음으로 가장 경제적이고 온실가스 감축 잠재력이 높은 것으로 알려진 신재생에너지원으로서 이를 이용해 개발된 바이오에너지 중에서 수송과 이용이 편리하고 발열량이 높은 목재 펠릿은 아직 가격이 다소 높지만 유럽과 일본에서는 이미 높은 보급률의 신재생에너지로 활용되고 있다. 기존 화석연료의 목재 펠릿 등 목질 바이오매스로의 연료전환을 통하여 온실가스 감축사업으로 활용하는 경우는 일본의 JCDM에서 활성화되어 있으나, 우리나라는 아직 그 기준 및 방법론 등이 정립되어 있지 않아 현재 LNG로 전환되는 사업이 활성화 되어있고 목질바이오매스 전환 사업은 등록되지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구를 통해 JCDM에 등록된 목질 바이오매스 연료전환 사업을 분석하고, 2012년 KVER에 등록된 중소기업의 LNG 연료전환 사업을 기본 데이터로 하여 시나리오로 가정한 목재 펠릿으로의 연료전환 사업과 JCDM 사업, KVER의 LNG 연료전환 사업과의 비교 분석을 통하여 펠릿 연료 전환시 투자비 대비 연간 온실가스 감축효과, 연료 단가 차익으로 인한 수익과 온실가스 감축 이득 등의 수익을 비교 분석함과 동시에 온실가스 감축효과와 경제성을 분석하였다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.417-422
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• 2008

In this paper, a novel DC/DC low-voltage high-current converter circuit is proposed to improve the efficiency of power converter used in the grid-connected fuel-cell generator system. We proposed a novel high efficiency grid-connected power conditioning system for RPG fuel cell. On the result of that, the loss of system was decreased rapidly by driving stack within the condition of maximum efficiency. The peak currents of the current-type inductor and the transformer's coil are reduced by synchronizing switching frequency of Buck-type converter is increased twice as the Push-Pull converter's switching frequency. The novel structure of DC/DC converter is able to realize ZVS-ZCS in fuel-cell system is proposed. The proposed switching component of Push-Pull converter has the ZVS and ZCS function by using the circuit of new passive clamp.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전기기기 및 에너지변환시스템부문
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• pp.326-328
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• 2005

In order to reduce the capital and overall operating cost of a fuel-cell system, a high-efficiency fuel-cell power inverter with a simple framework is required. The high-order two-inductance two-capacitance (LLCC) resonant technique is adopted in this study to implement a low-frequency 60-Hz sine wave voltage inverter utilized in the proton exchange membrane fuel-cell (PEMFC) system. The methodology for inverting dc voltage into low-frequency ac boltage is usually generated by the pulse-width-modulation (PWM) technique. However, the PWM-type inverter output has high-frequency harmonic components. Although an adequately designed filter could be utilized to overcome this problem, there are still some undesirable effects introduced by the high-frequency switching loss, electromagnetic-interference, harmonic current, and load variation. A novel power inverter via the LLCC resonant technique is designed for inverting dc voltage into 60-Hz ac sine wave voltage in the PEMFC system. This circuit scheme has the merits of low harmonic components, soft switching, high efficiency, and simplified implementation. The effectiveness of the proposed resonant inverter used for the PEMFC system is verified by numerical simulations and experimental results.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2006

본 논문은 예비 전력공급설비의 일환으로 비상시 소방 방재설비에 적용되는 연료전지 발전시스템에 대해 연구된다. 제안된 시스템은 비상시 상용 전력공급의 차단에 대비하여 소방 방재설비들의 전력공급원으로 이용된다. 연료전지 발전시스템에서 가장 손실이 큰 부분은 전력변환부이다. 또한 전력변환부의 손실은 전력변환을 위해 사용된 전력용 반도체 스위치의 스위칭 손실로 주어진다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 연료전지 발전시스템의 출력을 최대한 활용하기 위하여 부분공진의 기법이 적용된 고효율의 전력변환기가 제안된다. 또한 연료전지 발전시스템에 적용된 고효율 전력변환기는 비절연형으로 설계되고 사용된 제어스위치들은 새로운 소프트 스위칭 회로토폴로지에 의해 무손실로 동작되어 시스템의 효율을 증대시킨다. 다양한 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션과 특성실험을 통해 이론적 해석의 타당성이 입증된다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.239-247
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• 2008

This paper presents the design of 1 kW prototype high frequency link boost half bridge inverter-fed DC-DC power converters with bridge voltage-doublers suitable for small scale PEM fuel cell systems and associated control schemes. The operation principle of this converter is described using fuel cell modeling and some operating waveforms. The switching mode equivalent circuits are based on simulation results and a detailed circuit operation analysis at soft-switching conditions.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.217-224
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• 2018

In this study, the optimal design methods of soft-switching cell for high-voltage DC-DC converter (HDC) of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) is proposed for high efficiency and high power density. The appropriate soft-switching cell for FCEVs is chosen by analyzing the losses of HDC which adopts soft-switching cell. The proposed optimal design methods for the soft-switching cell are divided into two purposes which are improvement of efficiency and power density. Two kinds of design methods enable to improve fuel efficiency and cost, respectively. The proposed design methods are validated with the experimental results based on the specification and hardware used in actual FCEVs.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.461-468
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 연료전지용 전력변환 장치에서 높은 승압비를 구현하기 위하여 절연형 풀브릿지 컨버터의 고주파 변압기 2차측을 직렬로 연결한 새로운 DC/DC 컨버터와 이에 적합한 가변 위상변위 스위칭 방식을 제안하였다. 제안된 컨버터는 기존 방식에 비해 정류부와 필터부의 일원화가 가능한 구조로 출력레벨의 증가를 위해 컨버터의 수를 증가 하더라도, 수동소자의 수를 대폭 줄일 수 있다. 제안된 직렬 방식의 컨버터의 출력전압은 기존의 일정위상변위 스위칭 방식으로는 극성이 반대로 되는 구간이 발생하므로, 제안된 전력변환기에 적합한 간단한 가변 위상 변위 스위칭 방식을 적용함으로써, 출력전압의 감소문제를 해결하였으며, 시뮬레이션과 실험을 통하여 제안된 방식의 타당성을 검증하였다.