• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.22-28
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• 2017

전기자동차에 사용되는 리튬이온 배터리의 성능은 배터리 온도에 따라 큰 차이를 보인다. 본 논문에서는 유한차분법을 이용하여 배터리의 발열량에 따른 배터리의 온도변화를 평가하고, 배터리의 충전량, 내부저항 및 전압변화를 조사하였다. 이 배터리 모델을 1차원 해석 프로그램인 AMESim과 연동하여 전기자동차가 NEDC 모드로 주행 시, 배터리의 온도 변화에 따른 전기자동차의 주행거리를 산출하였다. 배터리는 온도가 $25^{\circ}C$ 이하로 감소하면 내부저항이 증가하기 때문에 발열량이 증가하여 주행거리는 줄었다. 또한, 배터리의 온도가 $25^{\circ}C$ 이상이 되면, 배터리의 충전량이 감소하여 배터리의 성능이 떨어지고 그 결과로 주행거리가 줄었다. 배터리의 성능을 최적으로 유지할 수 있는 온도인 $25^{\circ}C$를 기준으로 배터리의 온도가 $-20^{\circ}C$와 $45^{\circ}C$일 때, 전기자동차의 주행거리는 각각 33%와 1.8% 감소하였다. 배터리의 최적 온도를 유지하기 위해 효율적인 배터리 열관리를 통하여 저온에서는 가열, 고온에서는 냉각이 이루어져야 한다. 해석 결과 외기온이 $-20^{\circ}C$인 경우 500 W의 열을 공급해주어야 하며, 외기온이 $45^{\circ}C$ 경우에는 냉방을 통해 250 W의 열을 방출해줌으로써 배터리 구동의 최적 온도인 $25^{\circ}C$를 유지할 수 있다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.327-330
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• 2010

$LiCoO_2$, a cathode material for lithium rechargeable batteries, was prepared in a nanoscale through a simple sonochemistry. First, $Co_3O_4$ nanoparticles were prepared by reacting NaOH and $CoCl_2$ or $CoSO_4$ with a sonochemical method, operated at 20 kHz and 220 W for 20 min, very powerful multibubble sonoluminescence conditions for chemical reactions. Second, LiOH was coated onto the $Co_3O_4$ nanoparticles by the same method as above. Finally, $LiCoO_2$ nanoparticles of about 10~30 nm size in diameter were obtained by the thermal treatment of the resulting LiOH-coated $Co_3O_4$ nanoparticles at $500^{\circ}C$ for 3 hr. This synthetic process is relatively quite mild and simple compared to the known method for the synthesis of $LiCoO_2$ nanoparticles. The materials synthesized were characterized by infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, inductively coupled plasma spectrometer, and high resolution-transmission electron microscopy analyses.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.150-157
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• 2014

리튬-이온 배터리는 이전의 전기 화학 배터리에 비교해 무게, 열 소산 및 자가 방전 등의 장점으로 인해 현재 대부분의 인공위성에서 사용되고 있다. 리튬-이온 배터리의 성능 해석 모델은 새로운 위성 전력계 설계를 지원하기 위해 필요하다. 본 논문은 정지궤도위성 전력계 설계 및 에너지 밸런스 해석에 활용하기 위해 리튬-이온 배터리 성능 해석 모델을 개발하였다. 해석 모델은 위성체 버스 전력, 태양전지배열기 전력 및 배터리 온도를 입력 받고 배터리 전압, 충방전 전류, 테이퍼 지수, 충전 상태 및 소산 전력을 제공한다. 성능 해석 모델의 결과는 모델을 검증하기 위해 정지궤도위성의 비행 데이터와 비교 분석하였다. 비교된 결과는 비행 데이터와 현저한 차이가 없었다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제28권12호
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• pp.2226-2230
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• 2007

As a cathode material of lithium rechargeable batteries, charged Li[Co0.1Ni0.15Li0.2Mn0.55]O2 electrodes, which were aged thermally at 25 oC and 90 oC respectively, were characterized by means of charge/discharger, impedance spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction. The discharge capacity diminution of the electrodes aged at 25 oC and 90 oC for 1 week was 4% and 23%, respectively. The cell aged at 25 oC was recovered on cycling. However, the capacity loss after ageing at 90 oC was not recovered in a subsequent cycling test, which demonstrates that the reaction occurring during ageing at 90 oC is irreversible. A significant impedance increase of aged electrode at 90 oC is associated with irreversible capacity loss. The structural changes including phase transformation were not detected by XRD analysis, because it could be due to out of detection limit. After ageing, impedance was slightly decreased during subsequent cycling test. It could be explained the cyclic performance of aged sample is stable. The thermal stability was not deteriorated by ageing even at the high temperature of 90 oC.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.101-109
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• 2015

스마트폰과 같은 모바일기기가 경박단소화 되고 작은 공간에 보다 많은 기능을 넣기 위한 경쟁이 치열해 지면서 내부에 사용되는 부품의 소형화가 급속히 진행되고 있다. 모바일 기기에서 메인보드와 배터리를 연결하는 배터리 커넥터의 경우도 마찬가지로 소형화되고 있으나 타 부품과 달리 커넥터 상에 흐르는 전류의 용량에 따른 발열 문제로 인해 소형화에 어려움이 있다. 본 논문은 모바일 커넥터 시장을 리드하고 있는 국내 기업과의 연구 협력을 통해 진행되었으며 국내 최초로 개발된 모바일 배터리용 초소형 커넥터에 대한 전기/열해석을 바탕으로 초소형 파워커넥터 커넥터 설계 시 고려하여야 하는 부분과 이러한 요소들에 대한 설계 방향을 제시한다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.179-185
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• 2014

Average temperature and temperature uniformity in a battery cell are the important criteria of the thermal management of the battery pack for hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles (HEVs and EVs) because high power with large size cell is used for the battery pack. Thus, liquid cooling system is generally applied for the HEV/EV battery pack. The liquid cooling system is made of multiple cooling plates with coolant flow paths. The cooling plates are inserted between the battery cells to reject the heat from batteries to coolant. In this study, the cooling plate with U-shaped coolant flow paths is considered to evaluate the effects of coolant flow condition on the cooling performance of the system. The counter flow and parallel flow set up is compared and the effect of flow rate is evaluated using CFD tool (FLUENT). The number of counter-flows and flow rate are changed and the effect on the cooling performance including average temperature, differential temperature, and standard deviation of temperature are investigated. The results show that the parallel flow has better cooling performance compared with counter flow and it is also found that the coolant flow rate should be chosen with the consideration of trade-off between the cooling performance and pressure drop.

• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.136-142
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• 2016

As precursors of cathode materials for lithium ion batteries, $Ni_{1/3}Co_{1/3}Mn_{1/3}(OH)_2$ powders are prepared in a continuously stirred tank reactor via a co-precipitation reaction between aqueous metal sulfates and NaOH in the presence of $NH_4OH$ in air or nitrogen ambient. Calcination of the precursors with $Li_2CO_3$ for 8 h at $1,000^{\circ}C$ in air produces dense spherical cathode materials. The precursors and final powders are characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy, particle size analysis, tap density measurement, and thermal gravimetric analysis. The precursor powders obtained in air or nitrogen ambient show XRD patterns identified as $Ni_{1/3}Co_{1/3}Mn_{1/3}(OH)_2$. Regardless of the atmosphere, the final powders exhibit the XRD patterns of $LiNi_{1/3}Co_{1/3}Mn_{1/3}O_2$ (NCM). The precursor powders obtained in air have larger particle size and lower tap density than those obtained in nitrogen ambient. NCM powders show similar tendencies in terms of particle size and tap density. Electrochemical characterization is performed after fabricating a coin cell using NCM as the cathode and Li metal as the anode. The NCM powders from the precursors obtained in air and those from the precursors obtained in nitrogen have similar initial charge/discharge capacities and cycle life. In conclusion, the powders co-precipitated in air can be utilized as precursor materials, replacing those synthesized in the presence of nitrogen injection, which is the usual industrial practice.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.363-368
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• 2007

높은 중량에너지밀도로 배터리 무게를 줄일 수 있는 장점을 갖는 리튬이온 배터리는 중량이 중요한 관심사인 많은 항공우주 응용분야에서 빠른 속도로 Ni-Cd, Ni-H2 등의 기존 배터리를 대체하고 있다. 또한 리튬이온 배터리는 낮은 열 손실 특성과 높은 에너지 효율 그리고 저렴한 셀 단가를 갖는다. 80개의 소니 US18650 리튬이온 셀을 사용한 KSLV-I 탑재배터리 모듈은 셀을 8개씩 직렬로 구성한 후 각 열을 병렬로 10개 연결하여 요구되는 전압과 용량을 공급한다. 본 논문에서는 우주발사체용 리튬이온 배터리의 설계 및 그 특성에 대해 소개하며, 예상되는 우주환경에서 배터리가 신뢰성 있게 동작하는지를 검증하는 환경시험 프로그램 절차를 보였다. 배터리 성능은 전자부하기를 이용한 시뮬레이션 시험을 통해 확인하였고 발사체 2단에 장착하여 각 전장품들과의 연계시험을 통해 검증하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.890-896
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• 2009

Li(Ni, Co, Mn)$O_2$ has been known as one of the most promising cathode materials for lithium secondary batteries. However, it has some problems to overcome for commercialization such as inferior rate capability and unstable thermal stability. In order to address these problems, surface modification of cathode materials by coating has been investigated. In the coating techniques, selection of coating material is a key factor of obtaining enhanced properties of cathode materials. In this work, we introduced solid electrolyte (Li-La-Ti-O) as a coating material on the surface of $Li[Ni_{0.3}Co_{0.4}Mn_{0.3}]O_2$ cathode. Specially, we focused on a rate performance of Li-La-Ti-O coated $Li[Ni_{0.3}Co_{0.4}Mn_{0.3}]O_2$ cathode. Both bare and Li-La-Ti-O 2 wt.% coated sample showed similar discharge capacity at 0.5C rate. However, as the increase of charge-discharge rate to 3C, the coated samples displayed better discharge capacity and cyclic performance than those of bare sample.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.195-215
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• 2022

The increasing interest in CubeSat platforms ant their capability of enlarging the frontier of possible missions impose technology improvements. Miniaturized electrical propulsion (EP) systems enable new mission for multi-unit CubeSats (6U+). While electric propulsion systems have achieved important level of knowledge at equipment level, the investigation of the mutual impact between EP system and CubeSat technology at system level can provide a decisive improvement for both the technologies. The interaction between CubeSat and EP system should be assessed in terms of electromagnetic emissions (both radiated and conducted), thermal gradients, high electrical power management, surface chemical deposition, and quick and reliable data exchanges. This paper shows how a versatile CubeSat Test Platform (CTP), together with standardized procedures and specialized facilities enable the acquisition fundamental and unprecedented information. Measurements can be taken both by specific ground support equipment placed inside the vacuum facility and by dedicated sensors and subsystems installed on the CTP, providing a completely new set of data never obtained before. CTP is constituted of a 6U primary structure hosting the EP system, representative CubeSat avionics and batteries. For the first test campaign, CTP hosts the ambipolar plasma propulsion system, called Regulus and developed by T4I. After the integration and the functional test in laboratory environment, CTP + Regulus performed a Test campaign in relevant environment in the vacuum chamber at CISAS, University of Padua. This paper is focused on the test campaign description and the main results achieved at different power levels for different duration of the firings.