• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2011

Biomass gasification provides synthesis gas or syngas that can be used for internal combustion engines as fuel or chemical synthesis as feedstock. Among different types of gasifiers, downdraft gasifier can produce relatively clean syngas with lower tar contents. In this study, a downdraft gasifier was fabricated with 150 mm of hearth diameter to gasify woodchip that is commercially available in this country. After drying woodchip to about 20 %, gasification experiments were conducted measuring temperature, pressure, air and gas flow rates. The volumetric concentrations of CO, $H_2$, $CO_2$, $CH_4$ were 10.7~14.5, 16.5~21.4, 12.5~16.6, and 2.3~2.9, respectively. They were overall within the ranges of the results that the previous studies showed. However, CO concentration was relatively lower and H2 was slightly higher than those from other studies. It seemed that water gas shift reaction was occurred due to the moisture in the fuel woodchip. Additional drying process coupled with syngas cooling would be required to improve the overall efficiency and syngas quality.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.424-432
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• 2007

바이오디젤은 식물유지 및 동물유지와 같은 재생 가능한 자원으로부터 얻어지는 친환경 대체에너지로서 주목받고 있다. 바이오디젤은 식물유지 또는 동물성 지방으로부터 얻어지는 긴사슬 지방산의 모노알킬에스터이다. 본 총설에서는 (1) 바이오디젤을 얻기위한 전이에스테로화 반응에 대한 촉매의 타입, 자유지방산 및 수분, 알콜과 유지의 반응비, 알콜타입, 반응온도 및 시간과 교반강도의 영향, (2) 전이에스테르화 이후의 바이오디젤에 대한 분리공정, 그리고 (3) 대체에너지로서 바이오디젤의 내연기관 적합성을 바이오디젤의 물성에 기초하여 소개한다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.166-170
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• 2000

농축 우라늄 $UF_6$로 건식법 중의 하나인 DCP법으로 핵연료 $UO_{2+x}$ 분말을 제조하였다. Rotary kiln 내로 수증기를 주입할 때 일어나는 온도 변화에 따른 $UO_{2+x}$ 분말 특성을 우라늄 분석기, 수분 측정기, SEM 등으로 측정하였다. 그 결과 불소의 함유량은 8ppm을 나타냈고, 수분 함량의 경우 최적화되었음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.146-151
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• 2011

LPG(Liquified Petroleum Gas) fuel for vehicles has lots of advantages such as low emission level, cheaper fuel cost and enough infrastructure. Therefore it arouses interest as an alternative engine to reduce emission of diesel engines. Especially MPI(Multi Point Injection) type LPLi(Liquid Phase LPG injection) system could have overcome the disadvantages of mixer types such as low engine performance, decreased charging efficiency and cold starting difficulty. However ice formation on the nozzle tip and intake port due to the freezing of moisture around the components is often observed in LPLi systems. This icing phenomenon is the direct cause of unstable engine combustion, resulting in engine emissions. Therefore in this research, a spray visualization test for LPG injection was carried out to obtain the basic information of an LPLi injector, then the effects of butane and propane mixing rates on ice formation at the intake port and nozzle tip was investigated. As a result, the icing characteristics of them showed contrary results according to the mixing rates.

• 한국화재소방학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국화재소방학회 1997년도 International Symposium on Fire Science and Technology
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• pp.305-310
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• 1997

There are many parameters in prediction of forest fire spread. The variables such as fuel moisture, fuel loading, wind velocity, wind direction, relative humidity, slope, and solar aspect have important effects on fire. Particularly, wind and slope factors are considered to be the most important parameters in propagation of forest fire. Generally, slope effect cause different wind distribution in mountain area. However, this effect is disregarded in complex geometry. In this paper, wind is estimated by applying computational fluid dynamics to the forest geometry. Wind velocity data is obtained by using CFD code with Newtonian model and slope is calculated with geometrical data. These data are applied fer 2-dimentional forest fire spreading algorithm with Korean ROS(Rate Of Spread). Finally, the comparison between the simulation and the real forest fire is made. The algorithm spread of forest fire will help fire fighter to get the basic data far fire suppression and the prediction to behavior of forest fire.

• 에너지공학
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.235-240
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 음식물쓰레기를 반탄화 하여 생성된 생성물의 특성 및 온도에 대한 영향을 비교하여 연료화 가능성을 파악하고자 하였다. 반응온도를 $180^{\circ}C{\sim}270^{\circ}C$ 조절하고 열전달방식을 질소가스 열전달방식과 열매체유 열전달방식으로 나누어 실험한 결과 생성물의 생산 수율과 수분함량은 온도가 높아짐에 따라 감소하였고 특히 $240^{\circ}C$이상에서는 수분감소 뿐만 아니라 열적변화도 확인 할 수 있었다. 반응온도가 낮을수록 열매체유 열전달방식이 수분감소에 더 좋은 열전달 효율을 보였지만 온도가 높아질수록 그 차이는 미미한 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 발열량의 경우 초기 660 Kcal/kg 에서 질소가스 열전달방식 6,400 Kcal/kg 간접방식 6,890 Kcal/kg 으로 상승 되었고, 원소분석결과 반응온도가 상승할수록 반탄화 생성물의 탄소원소의 함량증가와 산소원소 함량 감소를 확인 하였으며 석탄밴드 분석결과 저급석탄에 가까운 H/C와 O/C의 범위를 나타내었다. 음식물쓰레기를 반탄화를 통하여 연료개질이 가능하다는 것을 확인 할 수 있었으며, 반응온도가 높아질수록 저급석탄에 더 가까워짐을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 청정기술
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.286-291
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• 2016

본 연구는 억새 바이오매스로 성형한 연료펠릿의 실용화를 앞당기기 위해 소나무 톱밥 펠릿과 비교한 성형 단계별 물리적 특성 변화, 소요 전력 그리고 성형된 펠릿의 품질을 조사하고, 연소 특성 개선을 위해 석회혼합 비율별로 펠릿을 성형하여 회분 함량 등 연소특성을 조사하였다. 겉보기 밀도는 억새가 원료단계와 분쇄 후에 소나무 톱밥에 비해 낮았으나 펠릿 성형 후에는 소나무 톱밥과 비슷하였다. 수분함량은 억새가 원료 단계에서 소나무 톱밥에 비해 높았으나 분쇄 후에는 비슷하였고, 펠릿 성형 후에는 낮아졌다. 억새는 소나무 톱밥 펠릿성형 공정에 없는 밀도증가 단계가 있지만 총 소요 전력이 비슷하였고, 성형된 펠릿의 내구성과 성형율도 소나무 톱밥과 차이가 없었다. 억새 펠릿은 석회혼합 비율이 증가함에 따라 회분함량이 증가하고 고위 발열량이 다소 낮아졌으나, 회분 용융점이 높아지고 clinker 발생률은 감소하는 경향이었다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.73-83
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• 2016

Forest degradation reduces ecosystem services provided by forest and could lead to change in composition of species. In North Korea, there has been significant forest degradation due to conversion of forest into terrace fields for food production and cut-down of forest for fuel woods. This study analyzed the phenological changes in North Korea, in terms of vegetation and moisture in soil and vegetation, from March to Octorber 2013, using MODIS (MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) images and indexes including NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), NDSI (Normalized Difference Soil Index), and NDWI (Normalized Difference Water Index). In addition, marginal farmland was derived using elevation data. Lastly, degraded terrace fields of 16 degree was analyzed using NDVI, NDSI, and NDWI indexes, and marginal farmland characteristics with slope variable. The accuracy value of land cover classification, which shows the difference between the observation and analyzed value, was 84.9% and Kappa value was 0.82. The highest accuracy value was from agricultural (paddy, field) and forest area. Terrace fields were easily identified using slope data form agricultural field. Use of NDVI, NDSI, and NDWI is more effective in distinguishing deforested terrace field from agricultural area. NDVI only shows vegetation difference whereas NDSI classifies soil moisture values and NDWI classifies abandoned agricultural fields based on moisture values. The method used in this study allowed more effective identification of deforested terrace fields, which visually illustrates forest degradation problem in North Korea.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.58-62
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 Pt/GDC/Pt 셀을 이용하여 상압에서 물과 질소로부터 전기화학적으로 암모니아를 합성하는 연구를 수행하였다. 수분이 포화된 질소분위기에서 작동온도($400{\sim}600^{\circ}C$)와 전압(OCV(Open Circuit Voltage)~1.2 V)에 대한 전기화학적 특성 평가를 수행하였고, 암모니아 합성량을 정량 분석하였다. 정전압 하에서 작동온도의 증가에 따라 인가 전류의 증가로 암모니아 합성량은 증가하였으나, Pt 전극에서 암모니아 합성에 필요한 질소의 화학적 해리 흡착 반응의 한계로 패러데이 효율(faradaic efficiency)은 감소하였다. $600^{\circ}C$에서 최대 암모니아 합성량인 $3.67{\times}10^{-11}mols^{-1}cm^{-2}$(6.7 mA) 얻었고 패러데이 효율은 0.1%이다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2010년도 추계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.75.2-75.2
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• 2010

Polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) have received a lot of attention as a power source for both stationary and mobile applications due to their attractive feature. In general, the performance of PEFCs is highly affected by the property of the electrodes. A PEFC electrode essentially consists of a gas diffusion layer and a catalyst layer. The gas difusion layer is highly porous and hydrophobicized with PTFE polymer. The catalyst layer usually contains electrocatalyst, proton conducting polymer, even PTFE as additive. Particularly, the proton conducting ionomer helps to increase the catalytic activity at three-phase boundary and catalyst utilization. Futhermore, it helps to retain moisture, resulting in preventing the electrodes from membrane dehydration. The most widely used proton conducting ionomer is perfluorinated sulfonic acid polymer, namely, Nafion from DuPont due to its high proton conductivity and good mechanical property. However, there are great demands for alternative ionomers based on non-fluorinated materials in terms of high temperature availability, environmental adaptability and production cost. In this study, the electrodes with the various content of the sulfonated poly(ether sulfone) ionomer in the catalyst layer were prepared. In addition, we evaluated electrochemical properties of the prepared electrodes containing the various amount of the ionomers by using the cyclic voltammetry and impedance spectroscopy to find an optimal ionomer composition in the catalyst layer.