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Current Situation on Biogas as a fuel for Vehicles (자동차용 연료로서 바이오가스의 현황 고찰)

  • Lee, Jin-Hui;Hwang, Won-Jun;Kim, Jae-Kon
    • Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.740-753
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    • 2013
  • It is valuable research area regarding to developing manufacturing process of biogas from organic wastes take a side view of alternative for fossil energy and to improve the environmental atmosphere leads to decrease the greenhouse gas be discharged. The regulation which is prepared by environmental department shows that biogas as a transportation fuel is required to purity of above 95%, while it of natural gas is above 88%. However, in this situation it is necessary to prepare the regulation which is distributed by department of transportation as for the fuel be connected to vehicles as well in order to take step forward, and it is suggest to develop the technics of biogas this country's own original one, not be the technics imported from foreign countries, and also to turn to higher practical use of biogas for transportation area, since it shows far much less ratio have compared to other application areas.

Study on Discharge Electrode Design applied for Road Tunnel (터널용 전기집진시스템 개발을 위한 방전극 설계)

  • Kim, Jong-Ryul;Weon, Jong-Oung;Jang, Chun-Man
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.1238-1243
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    • 2009
  • As Social Overhead Capital(SOC) has been expanded, the highway road construction has been accelerated and city road system has been more complicated. So, long road tunnels have been increased and traffic flow rate also has been raised. Accordingly, the exhausting gas of vehicle cars seriously deteriorates the tunnel inside air quality and driving view. In order to improve tunnel inside air quality, it is needed to introduce a compulsory ventilation system as well as natural ventilation mechanism. The former, that is, a special compulsory ventilation facility is very useful and helpful to prevent a tunnel of being contaminated by traffic in most case. In the case of obtaining clearer and longer driving view, the ventilation systems have to be considered in order to remove floating contaminants or exhaust gas from engines. In this paper, discharge electrode design technology will be discussed.

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A Trend of Catalyst Technology for After treatment on H2-CNG Mixed Fuel Vehicles (수소-CNG 혼합연료 차량에서의 후처리장치용 촉매기술 동향)

  • Lee, Ung-Jae;Shim, Kyung-Sil;Jung, Ju-Yong;Kim, Tae-Min
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.21-26
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    • 2011
  • Emissoin of heavy duty vehicle have much positioned in air pollution although its limited number of vehicles. CNG vehicles are coming to the fore as one of the solution of diesel vehicles. CNG vehicles exhaust smaller emission than diesel vehicles on PM and NOx. In this study, aftertreatment technologies are introduced on vehicles which use CNG and hydrogenmixed fuel. Withmixing hydrogen with CNG, combustion efficiency is enhanced, and harmful emission might be decreased, but methane that is main component of CNG brings green house effect. In order to remove methane and NOx in exhaust gas of CNG engine, methane oxidation catalyst and SCR technologies were respectively analyzed.

A improvement performance and test result of traction motor for Bimodal low floor vehicle (바이모달 저상굴절차량용 견인전동기 성능 개선 및 평가)

  • Choi, Yeol-Jun;Park, Yeong-Ho;Kim, Chul-Ho;Choi, Jong-Mook;Bae, Chang-Han;Mok, Jai-Kyun
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.2006-2010
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    • 2008
  • This paper deal with the improvement performance and test result of traction motor for Bimodal low floor vehicles that are CNG(Compressed Natural Gas) hybrid bus. The improvement performance concept of the traction motor is studied in terms of electrical characteristics and mechanical construction. Finally, this paper introduces the result of the traction motor test for low floor vehicles, and mentioned the detail design concept of traction motor.

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The Evaluation of CO Adsorbents Used in PSA Process for the Purification of Reformed Hydrogen (개질 수소 정제용 PSA 공정을 위한 CO 흡착제의 성능 평가)

  • PARK, JIN-NAM
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.628-635
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    • 2016
  • Natural gas reformed hydrogen is used as a fuel of fuel cell vehicle, PSA process is used for the purification of reformed hydrogen. In this study, the performance of CO adsorbent in PSA process was evaluated. Zeolite adsorbents used in the commercial PSA process is used. The physical and chemical properties of adsorbents were characterized using BET apparatus, XRD, and FE-SEM. The breakthrough apparatus modified from GC was used for the CO breakthrough experiment, the quantitative analysis of CO adsorption capacity was performed using CO breakthrough curve. Zeolite 10X and 13X showed superior CO adsorption capacity than activated alumina. The CO adsorption capacity of zeolite 10X is more than twice of zeolite 13X even the BET surface area is low. It seems that the presence of $Ca^{2+}$ cation in zeolite 10X is beneficial to the adsorption of CO.

자동차용 원동기의 대체에너지별 특성 및 전망

  • 정동수
    • Journal of the KSME
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.627-635
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    • 1989
  • 최근 여러 선진국 등에서 도시환경 보존을 위하여 천연가스 차량에 대한 관심이 고조되어 대부분 천연가스와 기존연료 검용차량을 개발하여 계속 시험 중에 있으며, 천연가스 전용 차량으로서는 미국의 포드사가 1984년에 AFV (alternative fuel vehicle)를 개발하였고 일본의 스즈끼 공업이 1988년 LNG(liquified natural gas) 전용 차량을 개발하여 실용화를 추진하고 있다. 천연가스연 료는 청정에너지라는 장점에 저렴한 가격, 풍부한 매장량, 기존 가솔린이나 디젤엔진 보다 4배 정도 긴 엔진 수명연장, 충돌시 푹발위험에 대한 안전성 등의 장점에도 불구하고 연료통의 큰 부피로 인한 단거리 운행 가능과 충분한 가스충진소 설치 문제 등의 단점이 있으나 최근 기술의 발전속도로 볼 때 이러한 문제점은 조만간에 해결될 것이며 자동차용으로 천연가스의 이용은 세계적으로 확실될 것이라 판단된다. 이러한 세계적인 추세에 따라 국내에서도 냉난방용으로 전기모터 대신 천연가스 엔진구동을 위해 개발에 착수하였으며 단계적으로 자동차용 천연가스 엔진개발을 계획하고 있다.

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Development of Road Tunnel Ventilation System with Electrostatic Precipitator (도로터널용 전기집진시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Jong-Ryul;Weon, Jong-Oung
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.80-83
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    • 2008
  • As SOC (Social Overhead Capital) has been expanded, the highway road construction has been accelerated and city road system has been more complicated. So, long road tunnels have been increased and traffic flow rate also has been raised. Accordingly, the exhausting gas of vehicle cars seriously deteriorates the tunnel inside air quality and driving view. In order to improve tunnel inside air quality, we may need to introduce a compulsory ventilation system as well as natural ventilation mechanism. The natural ventilation mechanism is enough for short tunnels, meanwhile longer tunnels require a specific compulsory ventilation facility. Many foreign countries already have been devoting on development of effective tunnel ventilation system and especially, some European nations and Japan have already applied their developed tunnel ventilation system for longer road tunnels. More recently, as the quality of life improved, our concerns about safety of driving and better driving environment have been increased. In order to obtain clearer and longer driving view, we are more interested in EP tunnel ventilation system in order to remove floating contaminants and automobile exhaust gas. Evan though it's been a long time since many European countries and Japan applied more economical and environment-friendly tunnel ventilation system with their self-developed Electrostatic Precipitator, we are still dependant on imported system from foreign nations. Therefore, we need to develop our unique technical know-how for optimum design tools through validity investigation and continuous possibility examination, eventually in order to localize the tunnel ventilation system technology. In this project, we will manufacture test-run products to examine the performance of system in order to develop main parts of tunnel ventilation system such as electrostatic precipitator, high voltage power generator, water treatment system, etc.

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Rotordynamic Performance Measurements and Predictions of a FCEV Air Compressor Supported on Gas Foil Bearings (가스 포일 베어링으로 지지되는 연료전지 전기자동차용 공기압축기의 회전체동역학적 성능 측정 및 예측)

  • Hwang, Sung Ho;Moon, Chang Gook;Kim, Tae Ho;Lee, Jongsung;Cho, Kyung Seok;Ha, Kyoung-Ku;Lee, Chang Ha
    • Tribology and Lubricants
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.44-51
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    • 2019
  • The paper presents the rotordynamic performance measurements and model predictions of a fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) air compressor supported on gas foil bearings (GFBs). The rotor has an impeller on one end and a thrust runner on the other end. The front (impeller side) and rear (thrust side) gas foil journal bearings (GFJBs) are located between the impeller and thrust runner to support the radial loads, and a pair of gas foil thrust bearings are located on both sides of the thrust runner to support the axial loads. The test GFJBs have a partial arc shim foil installed between the top foil and bump strip layers to enhance hydrodynamic pressure generation. During the rotordynamic performance tests, two sets of orthogonally installed eddy-current displacement sensors measure the rotor radial motions at the rotor impeller and thrust ends. A series of speed-up and coast-down tests to 100k rpm demonstrates the dominant synchronous (1X) rotor responses to imbalance masses without noticeable subsynchronous motions, which indicates a rotordynamically stable rotor-GFB system. Finite element analysis of the rotor determines the rotor free-free (bending) natural modes and frequencies well beyond the maximum rotating frequency. The predicted damped natural frequencies and damping ratios of the rotor-GFB system reveal rotordynamic stability over the speeds of interest. The imbalance response predictions show that the predicted critical speeds and rotor amplitudes strongly agree with the test measurements, thus validating the developed rotordynamic model.

Life Cycle Assessment on the End-of-Life Vehicle Treatment System in Korea (국내 폐자동차 처리시스템에 대한 전과정평가)

  • Hong, Seok-Jin;Jeong, Kee-Mo;Hong, John-Hee;Yun, Ju-Ho;Hur, Tak
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.105-112
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    • 2005
  • This study aims at evaluating the environmental impacts stemmed from the End-of-Life Vehicle(ELV) treatment systems in Korea, using Life Cycle Assessment(LCA) method. In this study, both environmental burden from the ELV dismantling process & recycling processes and environmental benefit which were derived from the avoided environmental impacts by substituting recycled materials for virgin materials were considered. First of all, the key issues which were defined as the environmental aspects that account for more than $1\%$ out of the total environmental impacts were identified from the Life Cycle Impact Assessment(LCIA). $CO_2$, crude oil, natural gas, coal, etc. were found out to be the key issue parameters. From the LCI Analysis and LCIA studies, it was shown that the significant environmental aspects were related with the recycling process of ferro scrap, the shredding process of compressed car bodies and the dismantling process of end-of-life engines. In particular, the recycling process of ferro scrap has the most significant effects on the environmental impacts of the ELV treatment systems. Based on these results, it is recommended to improve the recycling process of ferro scrap in order to make the ELV treatment systems more environmentally sound.

A Development of Green Transportation Design for Special Identity of Jecheon Area - centered on Exterior Design for Development of Design Business - (제천지역의 특성화를 위한 친환경운송수단 디자인개발 - 디자인비즈니스 개발을 위한 익스테리어 디자인을 중심으로 -)

  • Mun Keum-Hi
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.19 no.4 s.66
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    • pp.175-186
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    • 2006
  • In the 21C, each nation controls exhaust fumes from automobiles and makes an effort to develop alternative energy because of serious environmental problem. Jechon area has many historical and cultural archeological sites. And Jechon city sponsors various cultural events. But the way of transportation which is connected with Jecheon and around sightseeing places is general and not ready yet. Therefore, if a special means of vehicle is developed, it could play an another role of sightseeing resources. Special identity of Jecheon area for establishment of green vehicle traffic system which gives Jecheon area specific character was investigated for theoretical background. Traffic system was studied for establishment of direction through existent successful case study. Moreover content, method, structure and advantage & shortcoming etc. of vehicle that use green energy resource such as solar car, fuel cell car, hybrid car, natural gas car etc. were examined. The suitable means of vehicle for Jechon area was proposed to three directions with research and investigation. After comparison and investigation by inquiry of each section's experts, the most suitable traffic system of which energy resource of car, form of vehicles, the complement, dimension of vehicles etc. were decided. Design proposal should be drawn according to process of automobile design in decided direction. Special Exterior design of vehicle that use green energy resource connecting Jecheon and around area should be suggested in Jecheon City Hall and Chungchong-bukdo provincial office for vivify image of cleanliness area.

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