• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.343-350
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• 2012

A planar solid oxide fuel cell (PSOFC) is studied in its application in a high-temperature stationary power plant. Even though PSOFCs with external reformers are designed for application from the distributed power source to the central power plant, such PSOFCs may sacrifice more system efficiency than internally reformed SOFCs. In this study, modeling of the PSOFC with an external reformer was developed to analyze the feasibility of thermal energy utilization for the external reformer. The PSOFC system model includes the stack, reformer, burner, heat exchanger, blower, pump, PID controller, 3-way valve, reactor, mixer, and steam separator. The model was developed under the Matlab/Simulink environment with Thermolib$^{(R)}$ modules. The model was used to study the system performance according to its configuration. Three configurations of the SOFC system were selected for the comparison of the system performance. The system configuration considered the cathode recirculation, thermal sources for the external reformer, heat-up of operating gases, and condensate anode off-gas for the enhancement of the fuel concentration. The simulation results show that the magnitude of the electric efficiency of the PSOFC system for Case 2 is 12.13% higher than that for Case 1 (reference case), and the thermal efficiency of the PSOFC system for Case 3 is 76.12%, which is the highest of all the cases investigated.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.91.2-91.2
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• 2010

SOFC는 높은 반응온도($600{\sim}1000^{\circ}C$)에서 작동되어 발전효율이 높고 다양한 연료를 사용할 수 있는 것이 장점이다. 하지만 고온에서의 운전은 구성요소의 열변형과 온도구배에 의한 전극촉매의 열화 그리고 밀봉재의 수명에 영향을 주어 결국 스택의 내구성을 감소시킨다. 특히 스택의 온도구배가 심화되면 국부적인 Hot spot를 형성하여 셀에 심각한 손상을 주게 된다. 본 과제에서는 SOFC 스택의 온도구배를 완화시키기 위한 내부개질기의 개발 및 고온용 분리판 소재의 정밀성형기술을 확보하고자 한다. 열/유동해석을 통하여 반응가스의 농도, 유속, 구조변경 등 내부개질기 온도구배에 대한 주요인자를 확인하였고, 장기 운전평가를 통하여 개질 촉매의 고온 활성 및 내구성에 대한 성능평가를 진행 중이다. 분리판의 경우, 고온용 소재(페라이트계 스테인레스)에 대한 기초실험을 실시하여 성형품질의 주요 인자를 파악하였으며 Proto-type 금형 설계 및 개발을 통하여 성형 기초기술을 확보하였다. 그리고 스택 내부온도를 구현할 수 있는 시뮬레이터를 설계 중에 있으며 이를 이용하여 개발된 내부개질기 및 분리판을 스택 운전환경에서 평가할 예정이다.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.403-408
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• 2006

The plate reformer consisting of combustion chamber and reforming chamber for 25 kW MCFC stack has been operated and computational fluid dynamics was applied to estimate reactions and thermal fluid behavior in the reformer. The methane air 2-stage reaction was assumed in the combustion chamber, and three step steam reforming reactions were included in the calculation. Flow uniformity, reaction rate and species distribution, and temperature distribution were analyzed. In particular, temperature distribution was compared with the measurements to show good agreement in the combustion chamber, however, inappropriate agreement in the reformer chamber.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.23-33
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• 1999

용융탄산염 연료전지의 대형화에 관한 기본 기술을 확립하기 위하여 전극의 유효면적이 625 $\textrm{cm}^2$인 단위전지를 20단 적층한 내부 분배형 용융탄산염 연료전지 스택을 제작하고 그 성능을 살펴보았다. 연료로 72% H2/18% CO2/10% H2O를 , 산화제로는 70% air/30% CO2의 혼합 기체를 사용하여 운전한 결과 전류밀도가 150 mA/$\textrm{cm}^2$이고 연료 및 산화제의 이용율이 0.4일 때, 스택 전압이 16.62 V로 1.56 kW의 높은 초기출력을 나타내었다. 스택 내 분리판에서의 온도 분포는 가스 흐름 방향으로 온도가 증가하였으며 스택출력이 높아질수록 가스 배출 부분의 온도가 상승하였다. 스택 내 각 단위전지간의 성능 분포는 균일하지 않았으며, 가스이용율에 따라 그 편차가 증가하였다. 연속 운전 300시간 후부터 스택의 성능이 감소하였으며, 그 원인을 분석한 겨로가 탄소 석출과 부식 생성물에 의한 전기 단락 때문으로 밝혀졌다. 본 연구를 통하여 anode 출구에서의 가스 조성을 분석함으로써 전기 단락에 의한 전압 손실량을 계산하는 기법을 확립하였다. 또한 본 연구에서 얻은 결과를 통하여 향후 스택의 대형화와 장수명화에 대한 대책을 제시하였다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.140-148
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• 2005

The molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) is endowed with the high potential especially in future electric power generation industry by its own outstanding characteristics. KEPCO (KEPRI) started a 100 kW MCFC system development program in 1993 and has been executed 100kW system develpilot plant successfully completed first phaseopment by 2005 on the basis of successful results of 25kW system development. In this program, the components and mechanical structure for 100 kW stack and system construction were completed on last year and now system pre - commissioning was being executed. A 100 kW MCFC power plant was constructed at the site of Boryeong Thermal Power Plant. A 100 kW MCFC system has characterized as a high pressure operation mode, CO2 recycle, and externally reforming power generation system. The 100 kW MCFC system consisted with stacks which was made by two 50 kW sub-stacks, 90 cells with 6,000 cm2 active area and BOP including a reformer, a recycle blower, a catalytic burner, an inverter, and etc. The system has been operated from 13th of September on this year and produced 50 kW AC under atmospheric pressure condition and expected to operate by the end of this year.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.911_912
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• 2009

최근 화석에너지원의 고갈과 고유가 및 지구 온난화 방지를 위해 국가별로 이산화탄소 배출량을 규제하기 시작하면서 신재생 에너지의 계통연계 시스템에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 그 중 연료전지가 한 부분을 차지하고 있으며, 연료전지는 친환경적이고 효율적인 에너지원으로서 근 미래의 새로운 대체 에너지로서 각광 받으며 여러 분야의 전기장치로 사용될 수 있다. 연료전지는 낮은 출력전압과 높은 출력전류를 갖는 특징이 있으며 부하에 따라 출력전압이 변화하는 특성이 있기 때문에 연료전지의 계통연계를 위해서는 다양한 부하조건에서 연료전지와 연동된 승압형 컨버터의 제작이 반드시 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 연료전지의 계통연계를 위한 고효율 DC-DC컨버터를 제안하였고, 1.2kW용량의 연료전지 스택(Stack)과 연계한 실험을 통하여 그 유용성을 입증하였다.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.123-129
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• 2010

The fabrication of interconnect from titanium powders and $TiN_x$ powders is investigated. Corrosion-resistant titanium and $TiN_x$ are used as reinforcement in order to reveal high heat and corrosion resistance at the elevated temperature. We fabricated the plates for interconnect reinforced with $TiN_x$ by mixing titanium powders with 10 wt.% of nano-sized $TiN_x$. Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) was chosen for the sintering of these composites. The plate made of titanium powders and $TiN_x$ powders demonstrates higher corrosion resistance than that of the plate of titanium powders alone. The physical properties of specimens were analyzed by performing hardness test and biaxial strength test. The electrochemical properties, such as corrosion resistance and hydrogen permeability at high temperature, were also investigated. The microstructures of the specimens were investigated by FESEM and profiles of chemical compositions were analyzed by EDX.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.20-29
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• 2011

This paper proposes critical load following back-up system using MCFC stack. This system enables MCFC generation system to supply power to critical load without UPS and to generate rated power under grid fault state. This back-up system includes 'Load Leveler' that is connected with 3-phase inverter and is controlled by additional algorithm that includes critical load following. The proposed system and algorithm are verified by computer simulation based on 5kW system.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.11-13
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• 2019

This paper proposes a novel high step-up non-isolated DC-DC converter, suitable for regulating dc bus in various inherent low voltage micro sources especially for photovoltaic (PV) and fuel cell sources. This novel high voltage Non-isolated Boost DC-DC converter topology is best replacement, where high voltage conversion ratio is required without the transformer and also need continuous input current. Since the proposed topology utilizes the stack-based structure, the voltage gain, and the efficiency are higher than other conventional non-isolated converters. Switches in this topology is easier to control since its control signal is grounding reference. Also, there is no need of extra gate driver and extra power supply for driver circuit, which reduces the cost and size of system. In order to show the feasibility and practicality of the proposed topology principle operation, steady state analysis and simulation result is presented and analyzed in detail. To verify the performance of proposed converter and theoretical analysis 360W laboratory prototype is implemented.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.689-697
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• 2023

The high-pressure hydrogen valve is intended to supply hydrogen charged at high pressure in the hydrogen tank to the fuel cell stack, which decompresses high-pressure hydrogen gas to low pressure and primarily limits the excessive flow. It consists of a pilot valve, a main valve, and a excessive flow valve to operate in a wide pressure range from 2 to 70 MPa of charging pressure. The opening characteristics of the valve were confirmed by computation fluid dynamics applying the moving grid technique. The behavior of the valve was predicted by predicting the force acting on the valve over time. In addition, the difference in behavior according to supply pressure was compared.