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Thermophoretic deposition of soot particles in laminar diffusion flame along a solid wall in microgravity (미소중력환경에서의 고체벽면근방 층류확산염내 매연입자의 열영동 부착)

  • Choi, Jae-Hyuk;Osamu, Fujita;Chung, Suk-Ho
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2007
  • The deposition behavior of soot particles in a diffusion flame along a solid wall was examined experimentally by getting rid of the effect of natural convection utilizing microgravity environment. The microgravity environment was realized by using a drop tower facility. The fuel for the flame was an ethylene ($C_2H_4$) and the surrounding oxygen concentration 35% with the surrounding air velocity of $V_a$=2.5, 5, and 10 cm/s. Laser extinction method was adopted to measure the soot volume fraction distribution between the flame and burner wall. The results show that observation of soot deposition in normal flame was difficult from buoyancy and the relative position of flame and solid surface changes with time. The soot particle distribution region moves closer to the surface of the wall as the surrounding air velocity is increased. And the experiments determined the trace of the maximum soot concentration line. It was found that the distance between soot line and flame line is around 5 mm. That is, the soot particle near the flame zone tends to move away from flame zone because of thermophoretic force and to concentrate at a certain narrow area inside of the flame, finally, to adhere the solid wall.

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Indium Diffusion Effects on the Structural and Electrical Properties of ZnO Films Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis (초음파 분무 열분해법으로 제조한 ZnO막의 전기적, 구조적 특성에 미치는 인듐 확산 효과)

  • 심대근;배성찬;마대영
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.828-834
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    • 2001
  • Zinc oxide (ZnO) films deposited on indium (In) films were post-annealed in a rapid thermal anealing (RTA) system. The ZnO/In films were RTA-treated in air or a vacuum ambient. The crystallographic properties and surface morphologies of the films were studied before and after the RTA by X-ray diffraction(XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), respectively. The resistivity variation of the films with RTA temperature and time was measured by the 4-point probe method. Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) was carried out to figure out the redistribution of indium atoms in the ZnO films. The resistivity of the ZnO/In films decreased to 2$\times$10$\^$-3/ Ωcm by diffusion of the In. The In diffusion into the ZnO films roughened the surface of ZnO films. The results of depth profile by AES showed a hump of In atoms around ZnO/In interface after the RTA at 800 $\^{C}$. The effects of temperature time and ambient during the RTA on the structural and electrical properties of the ZnO/In films were discussed.

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Morphology control in PVDF membranes using PEG/PVP additives and mixed solvents

  • Rajabi, Shima;Khodadadi, Foroogh;Mohammadi, Toraj;Tavakolmoghadam, Maryam;Rekabdar, Fatemeh
    • Membrane and Water Treatment
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.237-245
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    • 2020
  • The effects of the mixed two solvents, Dimethylacetamide (DMAc) and Dimethylformamide (DMF), and Polyethylene glycol (PEG) and Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as additives on performance of Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes were studied. Initially, PEG200 was used as a primary additive at fixed percentage of 5% wt. PVP was then blended with PEG200 in different concentrations. PVDF and DMAc were used as polymer and solvent in the casting solutions, respectively. To control the diffusion rate of PVP in the presence of PEG200 and PVP blend, mixtures of DMAc and DMF were used as the mixed solvent in the casting solutions. Asymmetric PVDF membranes were prepared via phase inversion process in a water bath and the effects of two additives and two solvents on the membrane morphology, pure water flux (PWF), hydrophilicity and rejection (R) were investigated. Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier Transform Infrared Spectra (ATR-FTIR) analysis was used to show the residual PVP on the surface of the membranes. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) was utilized to determine roughness of membrane surface. The use of mixed solvents in the casting solution resulted in reduction of PVP diffusion rate and increment of PEG diffusion rate. Eventually, PWF and R values reduced, while porosity and hydrophilicity increased.

Effects of Particle Shapes on Unipolar Diffusion Charging of Non-Spherical Particles (비구형 입자의 형상에 따른 단극 확산 하전 특성)

  • Oh, Hyun-Cheol;Park, Hyung-Ho;Kim, Sang-Ho
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.501-509
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    • 2004
  • Unipolar diffusion charging of non-spherical particles was investigated for various particle shapes. We researched with TiO$_2$agglomerates produced by the thermal decomposition of titanium tetraisopropoxide (TTIP) vapor. TTIP was converted into TiO$_2$, in the furnace reactor and was subsequently introduced into the sintering furnace. Increasing the temperature in the sintering furnace, aggregates were restructured into higher fractal dimensions. The aggregates were classified according to their mobility using a differential mobility analyzer. The projection area and the mass fractal dimension of particles were measured with an image processing technique performed by using transmission electron microscope (TEM) photograph. The selected aggregates were charged by the indirect photoelectric-charger and the average number of charges per particle was measured by an aerosol electrometer and a condensation particle counter. For the particles of same mobility diameter, our results showed that the particle charge quantity decreases as the sintering temperature increases. This result is understandable because particles with lower fractal dimension have larger capacitance and geometric surface area.

Measurement of Mass Transfer from Metal Friction Surfaces using Laser Plasma Spectroscopy (레이저 플라즈마 분광 기법을 이용한 금속 마찰 표면에서 물질전달 측정)

  • Yoon, Sangwoo;Kim, Jihoon;Kim, Joohan
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.46-52
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    • 2017
  • We quantitatively measured the mass transfer from friction surfaces, specifically brake pads and rotors, using laser plasma spectroscopy. Specifically, we modelled the mass transfer from the pad to the rotor and measured the elemental diffusion intensity distribution in the rotor material using laser plasma spectroscopy. The main elements measured were Cu, Ni, Ti, and Cr, and the distribution of these after transfer was measured as the ratio of the atomic peak and the ion peak of the plasma in the rotor exposed to friction and the surface composition of the rotor and the roughness, respectively. We measured and quantified the diffusion coefficient for each element through the mass transfer model and found that Cr obtained the largest diffusion coefficient (D) of the elements measured based on this system with a value of $1.9484{\times}10^{-15}m^2/s$.

Heat and Mass Transfer in Hygroscopic Rotor During Adsorption and Desorption Process (흡착과 탈착 과정 동안 제습 로터의 열/물질 전달)

  • Shin, Hyun-Geun;Park, Il Seouk
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.37 no.11
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    • pp.977-984
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    • 2013
  • A hygroscopic rotor comprises many microchannels with high adsorption characteristics. In this study, the iterative adsorption/desorption processes that were affected by the humid air flow in a channel were numerically simulated. In consideration of the accuracy and computational costs, in the desiccant layer, only surface diffusion was considered in this simulation. The results were compared with the previous numerical results and found to show good agreement. By conjugating the heat and mass transfer between the desiccant and the flow layers, temporal and spatial changes in the vapor mass fraction, adsorbed liquid water mass fraction, and temperature in the channel were presented.

Visualization of Water Droplets in the Simple Flow Channel and Rib Geometry for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) (고분자전해질형 연료전지의 단순 채널 리브 형상에서의 물방울 가시화 연구)

  • Choi, Min Wook;Kim, Han-Sang
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.386-392
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    • 2014
  • The effective water management in a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is one of the key strategies for improving cell performance and durability. In this work, an ex situ measurement was carried out to understand the water droplet behavior on the surface of gas diffusion layer (GDL) as a fundamental study for establishing novel water management. For that purpose, simplified cell including one rib and two flow channels was designed and fabricated. Using this ex situ device, the water droplet emergence through the GDL of the PEMFC was emulated to understand liquid water transport through the porous diffusion medium. Through the visualization experiment, the emergence and growth of water droplets at the channel/GDL interface are mainly observed with the surface characteristics of GDL (SGL 10BA, 24BA) and rib when the liquid water passes through the GDL and is expelled to the flow channel. It is expected that the results obtained from this study can contribute to the better understanding on the water droplet behavior (emergence and removal) in the flow channels of PEMFC.

Microstructures and Dielectric Properties of SrTiO$_3$-Based BL Capacitor with Content of Ca

  • 김충혁;최운식;이준웅
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 1999
  • Microstructures and dielectric properties of (Sr$\_$1-x/Ca$\_$x/) TiO$_3$-0.006Nb$_2$O$\_$5/ (0.05$\leq$x$\leq$0.2) boundary layer ceramics were investigated. The samples fired in a reducing atmosphere(N$_2$) were painted on the surface with CuO paste for the subsequent grain boundary diffusion, and then annealed at 1100$^{\circ}C$ for 2 hrs. The metal oxide of CuO infiltrated by thermal diffusion from surface of sample presents continuously in not grain but only grain boundary, and makes up thin boundary phase. The SEM photo, and EDAX revealed that CuO was penetrated rapidly into the bulk along the grain boundaries during the annealing. The average grain sizes is continuously increased as the content of substitutional Ca is increased from 5[mol%] to 15[mol%], but the average grain size of the sample with content of 20[mol%] Ca is slightly decreased. In the samples with content of 10∼15[mol%] Ca, excellent dielectric properties were obtained as follows; dielectric constant <25000, dielectric loss <0.3[%], and capacitance change rate as a function of temperature <${\pm}$10[%], respectively. All samples in this study exhibited dielectric relaxation with frequency as a functior of the temperature.

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The Critical Flux in Microfiltration: Comparison between Theoretical and Experimental Values (정밀여과에서 임계플럭스(Critical flux)에 관한 이론 및 실험적 고찰)

  • 윤성훈;이정학
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.150-156
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    • 1997
  • The particle back transport velocity from the membrane surface were evaluated to determine the critical flux. Four kinds of back transport mechanisms were considered, i.e. back diffusion, shear induced migration, lateral migration, and interaction enhanced migration. The interaction enhanced migration caused by electrostatic repulsion between particles and membrane surface was found to be the most important mechanism of particle back transport for the charged particles of 0.1 ~10${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ diameter with 20 to 40 mV of zeta potential. Hematite particles with different sizes were synthesized with ferric chloride (FeCl$_3$) and hydrochloric acid (HCl) at high temperature, and subsequently experimental critical fluxes for each sized particle were obtained. The experimental results were well coincident with the calculated critical fluxes based on back transport mechanisms.

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Thermal diffusion behaviors of electrogalvanized steel sheets (전기아연도금강판의 열확산 거동)

  • 김영근
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.320-328
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    • 1995
  • The electroplated steel sheets were heated during the short periods(10~60 seconds) at high temperature ($360^{\circ}C$$500^{\circ}C$) in order to investigate thermal diffusion behaviors. When the steel sheets were heated for 10 seconds, all the coated layers were alloyed at $420^{\circ}C$ but at temperature lower than $400^{\circ}C$ the $\eta$ phase partially remained on the coated surface. At higher temperature, the longer the time for heat treatment the iron contents were increased in coated layer but the glossiness and whiteness of the coated surface were decreased. While the alloying phases of $\eta$, $\zeta$, $\delta_1$ and $\Gamma$ were appeared in the coated layer at the heat treatment temperature of $360^{\circ}C$, the phase was disappeared at $420^{\circ}C$ but the rests grew in size at the temperature of $440^{\circ}C$. When the heat treatment temperature and heating time were increased, the thickness of $\Gamma$ phase was rapidly increased to 0.8 $\mu\textrm{m}$. The optimum conditions for the heat treatment to prevent powdering of coated layer were obtained to heat it for 30 seconds at $400^{\circ}C$ and 10 seconds at $440^{\circ}C$, and the iron content in coated layer was suited to be 10 percents.

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