• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.397-402
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• 2015

SCR has been popularly approved as one of the most effective means for NOx emission control in heavy-duty and medium-duty vehicles currently. However, high urea dosing would lead to ammonia slip. And $NH_3$ sensor for vehicle emission applications has not been popularly used in real applications. This paper presents experimental studies on the diesel engine urea-SCR system by using a double NOx sensor system that is arranged in the downstream of the SCR catalyst based on ammonia cross-sensitivity. It was shown that the NOx conversion efficiency rised as $NH_3/NOx$ increases and the ammonia slip started from the $NH_3/NOx$ equal to 1.4. The increase of temperature caused high improvement of the SCR reaction rate while the space velocity had no obvious change. The ammonia slip was in advance as catalyst temperature or space velocity increase and the ammonia storage reduced as catalyst temperature or space velocity increase. The NOx real-time conversion efficiency rised as the ammonia accumulative storage increase and reached the maximum value gradually.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.195-204
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• 2023

Micro-electronic gas sensor devices were developed for the detection of carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NO_x), ammonia (NH₃), and formaldehyde (HCHO), as well as binary mixed-gas systems. Four gas sensing materials for different target gases, Pd-SnO₂ for CO, In₂O₃ for NO_x, Ru-WO₃ for NH₃, and SnO₂-ZnO for HCHO, were synthesized using a sol-gel method, and sensor devices were then fabricated using a micro sensor platform. The gas sensing behavior and sensor response to the gas mixture were examined for six mixed gas systems using the experimental data in MEMS gas sensor arrays in sole gases and their mixtures. The gas sensing behavior with the mixed gas system suggests that specific adsorption and selective activation of the adsorption sites might occur in gas mixtures, and allow selectivity for the adsorption of a particular gas. The careful pattern recognition of sensing data obtained by the sensor array made it possible to distinguish a gas species from a gas mixture and to measure its concentration.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.395-399
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• 2011

In this study, micro gas sensors for ammonia gas were prepared by adopting MEMS technology and using a sol-gel process. Three types of sensors were prepared via different synthesis routes starting with W sol and Ru sol mixture. This mixture was deposited on a MEMS platform and the platform was subsegueny heated to a temperature of $350^{\circ}C$. The topography and crystal structure of the sensing film were studied using FE-SEM and XRD. The response of the gas sensor to $NH_3$ gas was examined at various operating temperatures and gas concentrations. The sensor response increased almost linearly with gas concentration and the best sensing response was obtained at $333^{\circ}C$ for 5.0 ppm $NH_3$ for the specimen prepared by coating $WO_3$ powders with the Ru sol mixture.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.123-132
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• 2012

가스센서는 그 용도에 따라서, 자동차용(배출가스, 연료혼합 가스, 산소, 분진), 농수산 식품산업용(신선도, 저장, $CO_2$, 습도, $NH_3$, 질소산화물 가스, 유기가스, 농약 및 살충제로부터 방출되는 유독가스), 산업 의료용(석유화학제품 가스, 수소, 산소, 유독가스), 군사용(화학무기 가스), 환경 측정용(CO를 비롯한 황과 질소 등으로 구성된 대기오염가스), 가정용(LNG, LPG, 부탄, 실내공기, 습도) 등으로 매우 다양하게 사용하고 있다. 산업 현장의 유해물질 종류는 약 700종으로 알려져 있으며 이들 중 대다수의 물질은 일반적인 환경 조건에서 가스 형태로 존재한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 유독 가스들 중에서 차량 내부 등의 밀폐된 공간에서 발생하기 쉬운 중요한 탄소(CO), 이산화탄소($CO_2$), 암모니아 ($NH_3$)의 세 가지 가스를 검출하는 휴대용 가스센서 모듈을 구현하고자 한다. 유독 가스 중에서도 가장 인명 사고의 중요한 요소인 NH3, $CO_2$, CO의 3종류 가스를 검출하는 다중 가스검출 센서에 대해 연구한다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.122-128
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• 2010

To meet the NOx limit without a penalty of fuel consumption, urea-SCR system is currently regarded as promising NOx reduction technology for diesel engines. SCR system has to achieve maximal NOx conversion in combination with minimal $NH_3$ slip. In this study, the performance characteristics of urea-SCR system with open loop control were assessed in the European Transient Cycle(ETC) for heavy duty diesel engine. The SCR inlet temperaure varied in the range of 200 to $340^{\circ}C$ in the ETC cycle. Open loop control calculated the urea flow rate based on the NOx and NSR map which gave for each combination of SCR inlet temperature and space velocity the normalized $NH_3$ to NOx stoichiometric ratio which resulted in a steady-state $NH_3$ slip of 20ppm. During the ETC cycle, the open loop control with the optimized NSR offset achieved NOx reduction of 80% while keeping the average $NH_3$ slip below 10ppm and maximum 20ppm. It was also found that NOx sensor was cross-sensitive to $NH_3$ and a control strategy for cross-sensitivity compensation was required in order to use a NOx sensor as feedback device.

• 센서학회지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.424-429
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• 2004

$Cr_{2}O_{3}$ thick films were fabricated by screen printing method on alumina substrates and annealed at $700^{\circ}C$, $800^{\circ}C$, and $900^{\circ}C$ in air, respectively. Structural properties examined by XRD and SEM showed (116) dominant $Cr_{2}O_{3}$ peak and increased grain sizes with the annealing. The resistance of the films decreased with increasing the annealing temperature. Gas sensing characteristics to $NH_{3}$, CO, $C_{4}H_{10}$, and NO gases showed sensitivity only to $NH_{3}$ gas. $Cr_{2}O_{3}$ thick films annealed at $700^{\circ}C$ had the sensitivity of about 15 % for 100 ppm $NH_{3}$ gas at the working temperature of $300^{\circ}C$. The thick films had good selectivity to the $NH_{3}$ gas. The response time to $NH_{3}$ gas was about 10 seconds.

• 센서학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.72-76
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• 2009

The sensing system was designed and fabricated to investigate the ferment environment of soybeans. $NH_3$ gas was saturated after about 7 h and $CO_2$ gas was reached the peak after about 8 h in the inoculation of Bacillus subtilis. However, times that $CO_2$ gas and $NH_3$ gas were reached maximum value without Bacillus subtilis were about 15 h and 18 h, respectively. The sample that inoculated Bacillus subtils had deeper taste than one without it. We found that the peak time of $CO_2$ gas means the starting time of fermentation. If we control the operating time after the start of fermentation, it is expected to make a suitable Chungkukjang to individual preference.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.233-239
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 실험실 규모의 스크러버 전단과 후단에 설치된 가스센서의 출력값으로부터 흡수제의 실시간 흡수효율을 평가하기 위한 연구를 진행하였다. 스크러버 전단과 후단에 설치된 가스센서는 센서표면에서의 가스 흡 탈착반응으로 발생되는 전기적인 변화를 출력신호로 나타내는 측정장치이며, 스크러버의 흡수제와 암모니아 가스와의 반응시간(3시간, 6시간 및 12시간)에 따른 암모니아 가스의 흡수량을 산출하였다. 또한 가스센서의 출력값으로부터 산출된 암모니아 흡수량을 기존의 암모니아 분석방법인 인도페놀법에 의한 흡수량 산정방법과 비교해 보았으며, 약 20%의 차이를 보이긴 하나 0.99 이상의 높은 상관성을 보이고 있음을 확인하였다. 또한, 반응시간에 따른 pH와 흡수량과의 높은 상관성을 확인할 수 있었으며, 흡수제에 대한 암모니아 흡수량을 실시간으로 파악함으로써 흡수제의 파과시간을 예측할 수 있었다. 향후 다양한 연구를 통하여 악취배출시설의 스크러버에 이와 같은 가스센서를 적용하여 흡수제의 흡수 효율을 실시간으로 평가하여 교체주기 및 효율 등을 실시간으로 평가할 수 있는 시스템으로 발전이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.235-241
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• 2024

Gas identification techniques using pattern recognition methods were developed from four micro-electronic gas sensors for noxious gas mixture analysis. The target gases for the air quality monitoring inside vehicles were two exhaust gases, carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxides (NO_x), and two odor gases, ammonia (NH₃) and formaldehyde (HCHO). Four MEMS gas sensors with sensing materials of Pd-SnO₂ for CO, In₂O₃ for NO_X, Ru-WO₃ for NH₃, and hybridized SnO₂-ZnO material for HCHO were fabricated. In six binary mixed gas systems with oxidizing and reducing gases, the gas sensing behaviors and the sensor responses of these methods were examined for the discrimination of gas species. The gas sensitivity data was extracted and their patterns were determined using principal component analysis (PCA) techniques. The PCA plot results showed good separation among the mixed gas systems, suggesting that the gas mixture tests for noxious gases and their mixtures could be well classified and discriminated changes.

• Carbon letters
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.162-166
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• 2011

Conducting polymer-coated multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were prepared by template polymerization in order to enhance their gas sensitivity. This investigation of the conducting polymer phases that formed on the surface of the MWCNTs is based on field-emission scanning electron microscopy images. The thermal stability of the conducting polymer-coated MWCNTs was significantly improved by the high thermal stability of MWCNTs. The synergistic effects of the conducting polymer-coated MWCNTs improve the gas-sensing properties. MWCNTs coated with polyaniline uniformly show outstanding improvement in gas sensitivity to $NH_3$ due to the synergistic combination of efficient adsorption of $NH_3$ gas and variation in the conduction of electrons.