• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.126-132
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• 2016

본 연구는 전산유체역학 기법을 이용하여 수소 생산 플랜트의 개질 튜브 공정가스와 버너 가스 온도에 따른 화학반응과 열변형 특성을 분석한다. 개질로 내부의 온도는 약 800 K 내지 1000 K 이상으로 고온으로 유지되기 때문에 튜브의 열변형 문제가 심각하게 발생할 수 있다. 따라서 개질로의 구조건전성을 평가하고 안정된 생산력을 가진 장비를 운영하기 위해서 반응과 열변형 특성에 대한 이해는 필수적이다. 본 연구는 상용 전산해석 코드(ANSYS Fluent/Mechanical V.13.0)를 사용하여, 대류, 전도 및 복사 열전달을 포함한 복합 열전달과 난류유동을 3차원적으로 해석하였다. 특히, 열유동 특성에 따른 연성해석(Fluid-Solid Interaction: FSI)를 수행하였으며 고온 버너가스와 공정가스 운전조건에 따른 반응 특성과 열변형 변화를 분석하였다. 수치해석 결과, 개질 공정가스와 버너 가스의 주입온도가 각각 200 K 감소하면, 수소생성량은 최대 약 4 배, 최소 약 2 배 감소한다. 또한, 공정가스와 버너 가스의 주입온도에 따라 열변형은 최대 약 20%, 최소 약 15% 감소한다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2011년도 제36회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1-2
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• 2011

Hybrid rockets have lately attracted attention as a strong candidate of small, low cost, safe and reliable launch vehicles. A significant topic is that the first commercially sponsored space ship, SpaceShipOne vehicle chose a hybrid rocket. The main factors for the choice were safety of operation, system cost, quick turnaround, and thrust termination. In Japan, five universities including Hokkaido University and three private companies organized "Hybrid Rocket Research Group" from 1998 to 2002. Their main purpose was to downsize the cost and scale of rocket experiments. In 2002, UNISEC (University Space Engineering Consortium) and HASTIC (Hokkaido Aerospace Science and Technology Incubation Center) took over the educational and R&D rocket activities respectively and the research group dissolved. In 2008, JAXA/ISAS and eleven universities formed "Hybrid Rocket Research Working Group" as a subcommittee of the Steering Committee for Space Engineering in ISAS. Their goal is to demonstrate technical feasibility of lowcost and high frequency launches of nano/micro satellites into sun-synchronous orbits. Hybrid rockets use a combination of solid and liquid propellants. Usually the fuel is in a solid phase. A serious problem of hybrid rockets is the low regression rate of the solid fuel. In single port hybrids the low regression rate below 1 mm/s causes large L/D exceeding a hundred and small fuel loading ratio falling below 0.3. Multi-port hybrids are a typical solution to solve this problem. However, this solution is not the mainstream in Japan. Another approach is to use high regression rate fuels. For example, a fuel regression rate of 4 mm/s decreases L/D to around 10 and increases the loading ratio to around 0.75. Liquefying fuels such as paraffins are strong candidates for high regression fuels and subject of active research in Japan too. Nakagawa et al. in Tokai University employed EVA (Ethylene Vinyl Acetate) to modify viscosity of paraffin based fuels and investigated the effect of viscosity on regression rates. Wada et al. in Akita University employed LTP (Low melting ThermoPlastic) as another candidate of liquefying fuels and demonstrated high regression rates comparable to paraffin fuels. Hori et al. in JAXA/ISAS employed glycidylazide-poly(ethylene glycol) (GAP-PEG) copolymers as high regression rate fuels and modified the combustion characteristics by changing the PEG mixing ratio. Regression rate improvement by changing internal ballistics is another stream of research. The author proposed a new fuel configuration named "CAMUI" in 1998. CAMUI comes from an abbreviation of "cascaded multistage impinging-jet" meaning the distinctive flow field. A CAMUI type fuel grain consists of several cylindrical fuel blocks with two ports in axial direction. The port alignment shifts 90 degrees with each other to make jets out of ports impinge on the upstream end face of the downstream fuel block, resulting in intense heat transfer to the fuel. Yuasa et al. in Tokyo Metropolitan University employed swirling injection method and improved regression rates more than three times higher. However, regression rate distribution along the axis is not uniform due to the decay of the swirl strength. Aso et al. in Kyushu University employed multi-swirl injection to solve this problem. Combinations of swirling injection and paraffin based fuel have been tried and some results show very high regression rates exceeding ten times of conventional one. High fuel regression rates by new fuel, new internal ballistics, or combination of them require faster fuel-oxidizer mixing to maintain combustion efficiency. Nakagawa et al. succeeded to improve combustion efficiency of a paraffin-based fuel from 77% to 96% by a baffle plate. Another effective approach some researchers are trying is to use an aft-chamber to increase residence time. Better understanding of the new flow fields is necessary to reveal basic mechanisms of regression enhancement. Yuasa et al. visualized the combustion field in a swirling injection type motor. Nakagawa et al. observed boundary layer combustion of wax-based fuels. To understand detailed flow structures in swirling flow type hybrids, Sawada et al. (Tohoku Univ.), Teramoto et al. (Univ. of Tokyo), Shimada et al. (ISAS), and Tsuboi et al. (Kyushu Inst. Tech.) are trying to simulate the flow field numerically. Main challenges are turbulent reaction, stiffness due to low Mach number flow, fuel regression model, and other non-steady phenomena. Oshima et al. in Hokkaido University simulated CAMUI type flow fields and discussed correspondence relation between regression distribution of a burning surface and the vortex structure over the surface.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.630-638
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• 2009

생활폐기물 소각장에서 발생되는 질소산화물($NO_x$)을 저감을 위한 요소용액 이용 선택적 무촉매 환원(SNCR: selective non-catalytic reduction) 상용화 공정에 대하여 전산유체역학(CFD: computational fluid dynamics) 모델을 개발하였고, 이 모델은 현장 실험결과로 검증되었다. 저 농도 일산화탄소와 12% 과잉공기 조건에서 요소와 질소산화물간의 7개 화학반응식과 액적의 증발과정을 포함하는 3차원 난류반응 흐름 CFD 모델은 소각로에 설치된 SNCR 공정의 유체역학 모사를 위하여 사용하였다. 본 SNCR 공정에서는 정면 노즐 1개와 측면 노즐 2개를 사용하여 2차 연소로 내에 요소용액을 공기와 함께 분사하였다. 3개의 노즐에 동일유량으로 NSR=1.8에서 요소용액과 공기를 분사할 경우, 출구온도는 현장 실험값과 모사값이 일치하며, 질소산화물 저감효율은 실험에서는 57%, CFD 모사에서는 59%를 보여주었다. 각 노즐 별 분사유량의 비율을 변화하면서 수행된 CFD 모사 결과에서는 3개의 노즐에 동일 유량을 분사하는 것보다 정면 1개 노즐에 측면노즐 유량의 2배를 분사하는 것이 약 8% 높은 질소산화물저감 효율을 보여주었다.