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Well-to-Wheel Greenhouse Gas Emissions Analysis of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle - Hydrogen Produced by Naphtha Cracking (나프타 기반 수소 연료전지 자동차의 전과정 온실가스 발생량 분석)

  • Kim, Myoungsoo;Yoo, Eunji;Song, Han Ho
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.157-166
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    • 2017
  • The Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle(FCEV) is recently evolving into a new trend in the automobile industry due to its relatively higher efficiency and zero greenhouse gas(GHG) emission in the tailpipe, as compared to that of the conventional internal combustion engine vehicles. However, it is important to analyze the whole process of the hydrogen's life cycle(from extraction of feedstock to vehicle operation) in order to evaluate the environmental impact of introducing FCEV upon recognizing that the hydrogen fuel, which is used in the fuel cell stack, is not directly available from nature, but instead, it should be produced from naturally available resources. Among the various hydrogen production methods, ${\sim}54.1%^{8)}$ of marketed hydrogen in Korea is produced from naphtha cracking process in the petrochemical industry. Therefore, in this study, we performed a well-to-wheels(WTW) analysis on the hydrogen fuel cycle for the FCEV application by using the GREET program from the US Argonne National Laboratory with Korean specific data. As a result, the well-to-tank and well-to-wheel GHG emissions of the FCEV are calculated as 45,638-51,472 g $CO_2eq/GJ$ and 65.0-73.4 g $CO_2eq/km$, respectively

Highly Efficient Trans-Reflective Color Filters Incorporating TiO2-MgF2 Multilayer Stacks

  • Shrestha, Vivek Raj;Park, Chul-Soon;Koirala, Ishwor;Lee, Sang-Shin;Choi, Duk-Yong
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.566-574
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    • 2015
  • We report for the first time highly efficient trans-reflective color filters capable of demonstrating coloration in both transmission and reflection modes by taking advantage of a multilayer stack consisting of MgF2 and TiO2 used respectively as the low and high index materials. In order to enable such trans-reflective performance, securing an optimal stop band assuming an appropriate bandwidth within the visible regime is pivotal, which was realized by tailoring the thicknesses and the numbers of TiO2-MgF2 bi-layers. Three devices were designed through rigorous simulations and developed via e-beam evaporation to demonstrate vivid blue, green, and red colors in the reflection mode, and yellow, magenta, and cyan colors in the transmission mode, featuring an enhanced efficiency exceeding 90% under normal incidence. The color performance of the filters was examined by referring to the chromaticity coordinates of the transmission and reflection spectra, alongside photographed color images. The dependence of the performance on the angle of incidence was explored with respect to incident polarization, indicating that a transmission surpassing 60% could be stably maintained up to an angle of 75°. Polarization independent transfer characteristics were especially achieved for the normal incidence. The proposed devices may be readily extended to other spectral regimes by adjusting the thicknesses of the films.

Economic Feasibility Study for Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells Fed with Biogas

  • Song, Shin-Ae;Han, Jong-Hee;Yoon, Sung-Pil;Nam, Suk-Woo;Oh, In-Hwan;Choi, Dae-Ki
    • Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.102-111
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    • 2010
  • Molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) power plants are one of most attractive electricity generation systems for the use of biogas to generate high-efficiency ultra-clean power. However, MCFCs are considerably more expensive than comparable conventional electricity generation systems. The commercialization of MCFCs has been delayed more than expected. After being effective in the Kyoto protocol and considerably increasing the fossil price, the attention focused on $CO_2$ regression and renewable energy sources has increased dramatically. In particular, the commercialization and application of MCFC systems fed with biogas have been revived because of the characteristics of $CO_2$ collection and fuel variety of MCFCs. Better economic results of MCFC systems fed with biogas are expected because biogas is a relatively inexpensive fuel compared to liquefied natural gas (LNG). However, the pretreatment cost is added when using anaerobic digester gas (ADG), one of the biogases, as a fuel of MCFC systems because it contains high $H_2S$ and other contaminants, which are harmful sources to the MCFC stack in ADG. Thus, an accurate economic analysis and comparison between MCFCs fed with biogas and LNG are very necessary before the installation of an MCFC system fed with biogas in a plant. In this paper, the economic analysis of an MCFC fed with ADG was carried out for various conditions of electricity and fuel price and compared with the case of an MCFC fed with LNG.

A Numerical Study on the Internal Flow and Combustion Characteristics of the Catalytic Combustor for the 5kW MCFC Power system (5kW 급 MCFC 발전시스템 촉매연소기의 유동 및 연소 특성에 대한 수치적 연구)

  • Kim, Chong-Min;Lee, Youn-Wha;Kim, Man-Young;Kim, Hyung-Gon;Hong, Dong-Jin;Cho, Ju-Hyeong;Kim, Han-Seok;Ahn, Kook-Young
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2008.11b
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    • pp.3049-3052
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    • 2008
  • MCFC(molten carbonate fuel cell) power generation system is prime candidate for the utilization of fossil based fuels to generate ultra clean power with a high efficiency. In the MCFC power plant system, a combustor performs a role to supply high temperature mixture gases for cathode and heat for reformer by using the stack off-gas of the anode which includes a high concentration of $H_2O$ and $CO_2$. Since a combustor needs to be operated in a very lean condition and to avoid excessive local heating, catalytic combustor is usually used. The catalytic combustion is accomplished by the catalytic chemical reaction between fuel and oxidizer at catalyst surface, different from conventional combustion. In this study, a mathematical model for the prediction of internal flow and catalytic combustion characteristics in the catalytic combustor adopted in the MCFC power plant system is suggested by using the numerical methods. The numerical simulation models are then implemented into the commercial CFD code. After verifying result by comparing with the experimental data and calibrated kinetic parameters of catalytic combustion reaction, a numerical simulation is performed to investigate the variation of flow and combustion characteristics by changing such various parameters as inlet configuration and inlet temperature. The result show that the catalytic combustion can be effectively improved for most of the case by using the perforated plate and subsequent stable catalytic combustion is expected.

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An L-band Stacked SOI CMOS Amplifier

  • Kim, Young-Gi;Hwang, Jae-Yeon
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.279-284
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents a two stage L-band power amplifier realized with a $0.32{\mu}m$ Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) CMOS technology. To overcome a low breakdown voltage limit of MOSFET, stacked-FET structures are employed, where three transistors in the first stage amplifier and four transistors in the second stage amplifier are connected in series so that their output voltage swings are added in phase. The stacked-FET structures enable the proposed amplifier to achieve a 21.5 dB small-signal gain and 15.7 dBm output 1-dB compression power at 1.9 GHz with a 122 mA DC current from a 4 V supply. The amplifier delivers a 19.7 dBm. This paper presents a two stage L-band power amplifier realized with a $0.32{\mu}m$ Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) CMOS technology. To overcome a low breakdown voltage limit of MOSFET, stacked-FET structures are employed, where three transistors in the first stage amplifier and four transistors in the second stage amplifier are connected in series so that their output voltage swings are added in phase. The stacked-FET structures enable the proposed amplifier to achieve a 21.5 dB small-signal gain and 15.7 dBm output 1-dB compression power at 1.9 GHz with a 122 mA DC current from a 4 V supply. The amplifier delivers a 19.7 dBm saturated output power with a 16 % maximum Power Added Efficiency (PAE). A bond wire fine tuning technology enables the amplifier a 23.67 dBm saturated output power with a 20.4 % maximum PAE. The die area is $1.9mm{\times}0.6mm$.

Hydro-elastic analysis of marine propellers based on a BEM-FEM coupled FSI algorithm

  • Lee, Hyoungsuk;Song, Min-Churl;Suh, Jung-Chun;Chang, Bong-Jun
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.562-577
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    • 2014
  • A reliable steady/transient hydro-elastic analysis is developed for flexible (composite) marine propeller blade design which deforms according to its environmental load (ship speed, revolution speed, wake distribution, etc.) Hydro-elastic analysis based on CFD and FEM has been widely used in the engineering field because of its accurate results however it takes large computation time to apply early propeller design stage. Therefore the analysis based on a boundary element method-Finite Element Method (BEM-FEM) Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) is introduced for computational efficiency and accuracy. The steady FSI analysis, and its application to reverse engineering, is designed for use regarding optimum geometry and ply stack design. A time domain two-way coupled transient FSI analysis is developed by considering the hydrodynamic damping ffects of added mass due to fluid around the propeller blade. The analysis makes possible to evaluate blade strength and also enable to do risk assessment by estimating the change in performance and the deformation depending on blade position in the ship's wake. To validate this hydro-elastic analysis methodology, published model test results of P5479 and P5475 are applied to verify the steady and the transient FSI analysis, respectively. As the results, the proposed steady and unsteady analysis methodology gives sufficient accuracy to apply flexible marine propeller design.

A New RFID Multi-Tag recognition Algorithm using Collision-Bit (RFID 충돌 비트를 이용한 다중 태그 인식 알고리즘)

  • Ji, Yoo-Kang;Cho, Mi-Nam;Hong, Sung-Soo;Park, Soo-Bong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.999-1005
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    • 2008
  • RFID(Radio Frequency IDintification) leader is collision of data, when recognizing the multiple tag the inside area. This collision became the cause which delays the tag recognition time of the leader. The protocol which prevents the delay of tag recognition time of the leader the place where representative it uses QT(Query Tree) algorithms, it uses a collision bit position from this paper and are improved QT-MTC(Query Tree with Multi-Tag Cognition) algorithms which it proposes. This algorithm stored the bit position which bit possibility and the collision where the collision happens occurs in the stack and goes round a tree the number of time which, it reduced could be identified two tags simultaneously in order, it was planned. A result of performance analysis, It compared in QT protocols and the this algorithm against the tag bit which is continued a high efficiency improvement effect was visible.

Single-stage Power Factor Corrected AC-to-DC Converter for sustain/reset Driving Power Supply of PDP TV (PDP TV의 sustain/reset 구동전원 공급을 위한 1단방식의 역률보상형 AC-to-DC 컨버터)

  • Kang, Feel-Soon;Park, Jin-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.282-289
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    • 2008
  • To improve the efficiency of PDP TV, it should minimize the power losses transpired during AC-to-DC power conversion and PDP driving process. Generally the input power supply for PDP driving employes a two-stage power factor corrected converter, and it needs additional DC-to-DC converters to supply driving power for reset circuit ed sustain driver, which has high power consumption. However, such a circuit configuration has a difficulty for the PDP market requires low cost. To alleviate this problem, a new circuit composition is presented. It integrates input power supply with reset and sustain driver in a single power stack The input power supply of the proposed circuit has a single-stage structure to minimize power conversion loss, and it directly supplies power to the sustain driver so as to reduce the system size and cost.

A Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability Detection Method Based on Binary Static Analysis (바이너리 정적 분석 기반 Out-of-Bounds Read 취약점 유형 탐지 연구)

  • Yoo, Dong-Min;Jin, Wen-Hui;Oh, Heekuck
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.687-699
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    • 2021
  • When a vulnerability occurs in a program, it is documented and published through CVE. However, some vulnerabilities do not disclose the details of the vulnerability and in many cases the source code is not published. In the absence of such information, in order to find a vulnerability, you must find the vulnerability at the binary level. This paper aims to find out-of-bounds read vulnerability that occur very frequently among vulnerability. In this paper, we design a memory area using memory access information appearing in binary code. Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability is detected through the designed memory structure. The proposed tool showed better in code coverage and detection efficiency than the existing tools.

1D Kinetics Model of NH3-Fed Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (암모니아 공급 고체산화물 연료전지의 1D 반응 모델)

  • VAN-TIEN GIAP;THAI-QUYEN QUACH;KOOK YOUNG AHN;YONGGYUN BAE;SUNYOUP LEE;YOUNG SANG KIM
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.723-732
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    • 2022
  • Cracking ammonia inside solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack is a compact and simple way. To prevent sharp temperature fluctuation and increase cell efficiency, the decomposition reaction should be spread on whole cell area. This leading to a question that, how does anode thickness affect the conversion rate of ammonia and the cell voltage? Since the 0D model of SOFC is useful for system level simulation, how accurate is it to use equilibrium solver for internal ammonia cracking reaction? The 1D model of ammonia fed SOFC was used to simulate the diffusion and reaction of ammonia inside the anode electrode, then the partial pressure of hydrogen and steam at triple phase boundary was used for cell voltage calculation. The result shows that, the ammonia conversion rate increases and reaches saturated value as anode thickness increase, and the saturated thickness is bigger for lower operating temperature. The similar cell voltage between 1D and 0D models can be reached with NH3 conversion rate above 90%. The 0D model and 1D model of SOFC showed similar conversion rate at temperature over 750℃.