• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.101-108
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• 2011

Understanding the exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooler fouling in diesel engine is important factor in the durability characteristic of a EGR system. We develope a test rig and PM feeder using carbon black to examine the effect of fouling on EGR cooler devices those were consisted of flat and shell & tube type. The EGR cooler fouling process is a complex interaction involving heat exchanger shape, boundary condition, constitutes, chemistry and operating mode. As the soot deposited to EGR cooler, these formed a thin deposit layer that was less heat exchange than the fresh status of tube enclosing the exhaust gas, resulting in lower heat exchange effectiveness in both type coolers. But these deposits caused different results in pressure drop, it is increased in flat type, but decreased in Shell & tube type of EGR cooler. A cause was estimated from a change of the flow structure and a decrease of contact area as the EGR cooler fouling.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.76-81
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• 2011

Exhaust gas recirculation is the well-known and widely used NOx reduction technology for diesel engines. More effective EGR cooler has been developed and applied to diesel engines to meet the reinforced emission regulation. However, the contaminated EGR cooler by diesel exhaust gas reduces the performance of the engine and NOx reduction rate. The buildup of deposits in EGR coolers cause significant degradation in heat transfer performance, often on the order of 20~30%. Deposits also increase pressure drop across coolers and thus may degrade engine efficiency under some operation conditions. In this study, as a solution for this problem, DOC assisted EGR cooler is designed and then investigated to reduce fouling and its impact on cooler performance. A single channel EGR cooler fouling test apparatus and soot particle generator were developed to represent the real EGR cooler and exhaust gas of diesel engine. EGR cooler effectiveness of the case with catalyst of pt 30g/ft3 decreased just up to 5%. This value was 45% less compared to the case without catalyst which decreased up to 9% after 10hours experiments.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회B
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• pp.2315-2320
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• 2007

This paper presents an investigative study on the efficacy of a new physical water treatment (PWT) technology using an oscillating electric field to mitigate mineral fouling in heat exchangers. Parallel graphite electrode plates immersed in water were used to generate the electric field directly in water. Artificial hard water at 500 ppm hardness was used in all fouling tests. The inlet temperatures were maintained at 23.5${\pm}$0.5$^{\circ}C$ and 85${\pm}$0.5$^{\circ}C$ for cold and hot water sides, respectively. The results at a cold water-side velocity of 0.3 m/s showed a 16-60% drop in fouling resistances from the baseline test depending on the frequency of the electric field for the PWT-treated cases.

• 멤브레인
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.170-178
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• 2001

상전환 방법에 의해 PVC계 MF막을 제조하여 환성슬러지가 포함된 폐수 처리용 MBR (Membrane bioreactor)에 적용하였다. 막 제조시 첨가제의 농도에 따른 막 특성을 확인한 결과 첨가제의 농도가 증가할수록 기공 크기가 증가하였으며 친수화도 역시 향상되었다. MBR의 내부 환경변화에 따른 실험을 통해 제조한 막의 투과 성능 및 막에 발생하는 막 오염 거동을 조사하였다. 사상균의 생성으로 인한 Sludge bulking 시 막 오염 현상이 가속화되었으며, 이 때 각 시료의 Rc을 조사한 결과 CP-0 > CP-1.0 > CP-1.5의 순으로 나타났고, 정상상태와 비교하여 sludge busking시 Rc값은 3.5~7배가지 증가하였다. 표면 특성이나 투과 유속면에서 PVP 1.5 wt% (CP-1.5)를 첨가하였을 때가 가장 적합하였다. 평균 투과 유속은 시료 모두에서 12(${\pm}$2) L/$m^2$hr 정도였으며, 평균 COD 제거율은 98.8% 정도를 나타내었다 MBR 운전에 있어 sludge bulking시 사상균이 차지하는 비율과 미생물의 모양과 크기에 따라 막 오염은 가속화 되었고, 투과 유속 감소를 보였다. 따라서 막 여과 특성은 막의 친수화 정도와 MBR 내부 미생물의 성장 조건과 환경에 의해 결정되는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.95-100
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• 2015

Lower recirculated gas temperature at EGR system reduces NOx and PM emissions. However, EGR Cooler can be polluted by PM generated from recirculated EGR gas, and it reduces cooling efficiency and the amount of EGR gas simultaneously. The SECFR(Steam EGR Cooler Fouling Remover) system which uses the evaporated washer fluid steam caused by high temperature of EGR gas was manufactured for removing fouling generated on the cooler surface. Since an injection pressure of wind shield washer fluid in the vehicle is approximately 0.5 bar, it is not enough to atomize the injected washer fluid. Thus, it is necessary to apply a method to atomize the washer fluid. In this study, the impinging plate was used to promote the atomization of spray washer fluid for the purpose of apply SECFR system to vehicles and measured the DAR(Droplet Area Ratio) and DUI(Droplet Uniformity Index) through the spray visualization.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.135-140
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• 2010

An important goal in diesel engine research is the development of a means to reduce the emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOX). The use of a cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system is one of the most effective techniques currently available for reducing nitrogen oxides. Since Particular Matter (PM) fouling reduces the efficiency of an EGR cooler, a trade-off exists between the amount of NOX and PM emissions, especially at high engine loads. In the present study, engine dynamometer experiments have been performed to investigate the heat exchange characteristics of the stack-type EGR coolers with wave fin pitches of 3.6 and 4.6 mm. The results show that the heat exchange effectiveness is decreased as surface area decrease with pitch of 4.6 mm due to PM fouling. As surface area increase at pitch of 3.6 mm, super-cooling happens in the recirculated exhaust gas.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.242-247
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• 2005

In this study, we investigated the removal efficiencies of pollutants and permeate fluxes depending on chemistry of feed water, various molecular weight cut-offs (MWCOs) and materials of membrane, operating pressure. We used seven MWCO membranes of YC0.5, YM1, YM3, YM10, YM30, YM100 and PM30, humic acid solution and surface water as feed water, and examined variation in permeate flux. Results of TOC removal experiment demonstrate that MWCO lower 1,000daltons could remove humic acid effectively. As increasing solution pH and decreasing divalent cations ($Ca^{2+}$) concentration, TOC removal increased. But $UV_{254}$ removal efficiency increased with higher divalent cation concentration and solution pH. Membrane fouling increased with increasing electrolyte (NaCl), divalent cation concentration and decreasing solution pH. In spite of initial permeate flux of the hydrophobic membrane (PM30) was higher than that of the hydrophilic membrane (YM30), flux decline of PM30 was significant during operation. At higher operating pressure, compactness of the cake layer on the membrane surface increased, resulting in gradual increase in hydraulic resistance.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.337-344
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• 2006

응집플록은 그 특성에 따라 분리막 오염에 지대한 영향을 미친다. 기존의 연구결과에서 보면, 자연입자에 의해 형성된 플록함유수는 인공입자에 의한 플록함유수에 비하여 낮은 투과량을 보이는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 응집플록의 특성을 정량적으로 분석하고, 분리막 오염과의 상관성을 알아보고자 하였다. 이를 위해 응집 플록에 대한 image analysis, specific cake resistance 및 cake compressibility 등을 측정하였다. Image 분석은 플록의 fractal dimension을 구하는데 이용되었으며, dimension은 플록의 다공성, 크기나 표면의 거칠기를 표현하는데 유용하게 사용된다. 또한 케익 압축능은 플록이 쌓여 만들어진 막표면층의 특성을 분석하는데 사용되었다. 두 가지의 다른 특성을 가지는 플록으로서 자연입자를 핵으로 하는 응집플록과 카올린 입자를 핵으로 하는 응집플록을 선택하여 실험하였다. 실험결과에 따르면 자연입자와 인공입자에 의해 형성된 플록의 fractal dimension($D_2$) 값은 $1.79{\pm}0.07,\;1.84{\pm}0.06$을 각각 나타내었으며, 이것은 자연입자에 의해 형성된 플록이 인공입자에 의한 것 보다 더 다공성의 느슨한 형태로 존재하고 있다는 것을 나타내는 것이다. 자연입자에 의해 형성된 다공성의 느슨한 플록이 분리막 표면에서 케익층을 형성 할 때에는 상대적으로 쉽게 압축되어 케익비저항이 커지는 것을 확인하였다.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.255-262
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• 2018

This study attempted to evaluate the process of self-forming dynamic membrane formation on mesh filter in membrane bioreactor with a two-stage method of batch (agitation) and continues (aeration) stage at different sludge concentrations. Four concentrations of activated sludge including $6{\pm}0.4$, $8{\pm}0.5$, $10{\pm}0.3$, $14{\pm}0.3g/L$ were used to demonstrate the optimal concentration of sludge for treating municipal wastewater and reducing fouling in dynamic membrane bioreactor. The formation time and effluent turbidity were decreased in the batch stage when increasing the activated sludge concentration. The minimum values of formation time and effluent turbidity were 14 min and 43 NTU for the optimum mixed liqueur suspended solids of $8{\pm}0.5g/L$, respectively. To improve operational condition and fouling reduction in the aeration stage, critical fluxes were measured for all concentrations by flux-step method. With increasing the sludge concentration, the relevant critical fluxes reduced. The optimum subcritical flux of $30L/m^2/h$ was applied as operating flux in the second stage. The maximum COD removal efficiency of 98% was achieved by the concentration of $8{\pm}0.5g/L$. Compressibility index of self-forming dynamic membrane and transmembrane pressure trend remained somewhat constant until the optimal concentration of $8{\pm}0.5g/L$ and thereafter they increased steeply.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.12-24
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• 2017

현재 국내 엔진오일-윤활유가 배출가스에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구가 미비한 실정이며 그 실험 방법 또한 확립되어 있지 않다. 이에 엔진을 이용한 윤활유 성상 변화가 PM(Particulate Matters) 배출에 미치는 영향 평가방법을 수립하여 윤활유의 성상 및 열화가 자동차 성능과 환경성에 미치는 영향을 연구하고자 한다. 윤활유 소모 및 연소로 인한 DPF(Diesel Particulate Filter) 및 후처리 장치에 미치는 영향을 평가하는 것이 중요하며, 특히 DPF의 재생과정에서 생성되는 PM(Particulate Matters)과 Ash가 DPF에 미치는 장기적인 영향과 내부 변형 및 내구성에 대한 평가와 연구가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 정형화 되지 않은 시험모드를 개발하였으며, 내구시험결과 High SAPs의 경우 Low SAPs(Sulfated Ash, Phosphorus and Sulfuate)보다 DPF내 Ash의 축적량이 많은 것을 확인하였으며, EGR(Exhaust Gas Recycling)의 Fouling 현상 가속화에 영향을 미칠 것으로 확인하였다. 본 연구결과물을 토대로 윤활유의 기유, 첨가제, 열화 등에 따른 엔진 및 차량의 성능과 배출가스 특성을 기술정책 자료로서 활용하도록 방향을 도모하고 시험 방법을 확립하고자 한다.