• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.63-71
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• 2020

It is necessary to fabricate uniformly dispersed nanoscale catalyst materials with high activity and long-term stability for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells with excellent electrochemical characteristics of the oxygen reduction reaction and hydrogen oxidation reaction. Platinum is known as the best noble metal catalyst for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells because of its excellent catalytic activity. However, given that Pt is expensive, considerable efforts have been made to reduce the amount of Pt loading for both anode and cathode catalysts. Meanwhile, the atomic layer deposition (ALD) method shows excellent uniformity and precise particle size controllability over the three-dimensional structure. The research progress on noble metal ALD, such as Pt, Ru, Pd, and various metal alloys, is presented in this review. ALD technology enables the development of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells with excellent reactivity and durability.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.610-618
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 규칙기반 알고리즘을 이용한 수소연료전지/배터리 하이브리드 철도차량 모델링을 제시한다. 모터의 운전영역에 따른 토크 곡선을 계산하여 견인 시스템의 구동 전력을 결정하고 철도차량의 각 운전 모드에 적용하여 전기 시스템을 모델링 한다. 전기 시스템의 전력은 규칙기반 알고리즘을 이용한 에너지 관리시스템(Energy Management System, EMS)으로 결정한다. 배터리의 충전상태(State Of Charge, SOC)에 따라 운전 영역을 세분화하여 수소 소비량을 효율적으로 관리한다. 제안하는 철도차량 모델링의 타당성은 MATLAB/Simulink 시뮬레이션을 통해 검증한다.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.21-31
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• 2014

The use of a microporous membrane along with Au/C catalyst for direct glycerol alkaline fuel cell was investigated. In comparison with Nafion 112, the microporous Celgard 3401 membrane provides a better cell performance due to the lower ionic resistance as confirmed by impedance spectra. The single cell using Au/C as anode catalyst prepared by using PVA protection techniques provided a higher maximum power density than the single cell with commercial PtRu/C at $18.65mW\;cm^{-2}$ The short-term current decay studies show a better stability of Au/C single cell. The higher activity of Au/C over PtRu/C was owing to the lower activation loss of Awe. The magnitude of current decay indicates a low problem of glycerol crossover from anode to cathode side. The similar performance of single cell with and without humudification at cathode points out an adequate transport of water through the microporous membrane.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.868-877
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• 2011

This paper presents a parallel computing methodology for polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) and detailed simulation contours of a real-scale fuel cell. In this work, a three-dimensional two-phase PEFC model is applied to a large-scale 200 $cm^2$ fuel cell geometry that requires roughly 13.5 million grid points based on grid-independence study. For parallel computing, the large-scale computational domain is decomposed into 12 sub-domains and parallel simulations are carried out using 12 processors of 2.53 GHz Intel core i7 and 48GB RECC DDR3-1333. The work represents the first attempt to parallelize a two-phase PEFC code and illustrate two-phase contours in a representative industrial cell.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.309-316
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• 2009

The effect of gas diffusion layers (GDLs) on the freeze/thaw condition durability in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) were investigated. For this purpose, three kinds of GDLs, such as, felt, paper and cloth types with different basic properties have been first prepared, then the changes in the properties and performance of cells was observed during the freeze/thaw cycles ranging from -30 to $70^{\circ}C$. The performance evaluations were conducted by using the single cells consisting of different GDLs. The performance degradation and the cell resistance increase could be directly correlated. The physical destruction of electrode was shown by SEM analysis. The mechanically supporting ability on the interface between the cell components can help enhancing the durability of PEFCs in the freeze/thaw condition.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 추계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.87.2-87.2
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• 2011

Many type of fuel cell stacks have been developed to improve the efficiency of reactants usage. The cascade type fuel cell stack using dead end operation is able to attain above 99% usage of hydrogen and oxygen. It is sectionalized to several parts and the residual reactants which are used previous parts would be supplied again to next parts which have less number of cells in dead end operation stack. The oversupply of reactants which is usually 120%~150% of the theoretical amount to generate current for preventing the flooding effect could be provided to each part except the last one. The final section which is called monitoring cells is supposed to be supplied insufficient the fuel or oxidant that would have some accumulated inert gas from former parts. It makes some voltage drop in the part and the fresh reactants must be supplied to the part for recovering it by venting the residual gas. So the usage of fuel and oxidant is depend on the time and frequency of opening valves for venting of residual gas and it is important to optimize the vent logic for achieving higher usage of hydrogen and oxygen. In this research, many experiments are performed to find optimal condition by evaluating the effect of time and frequency under several power conditions using over 100kW class fuel cell module. And the characteristics of the monitoring cells are studied to know the proper cell voltage which decide the condition of opening the vent valve for stable performance of the cascade type fuel cell module.

• 공업화학
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.687-693
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• 2019

수소전기차와 발전을 시작으로 수소연료전지 시장이 성장하면서 연료전지와 수소의 수요가 증가하고 있으므로, 조기 상용화와 시장 활성화를 위하여 연료전지의 내구성과 연료 이용효율에 관한 연구가 진행되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 연료전지의 성능과 연료 이용효율을 최적화하기 위하여 양극 닫힌계의 운전조건에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 부하 전류에 대한 배출 조건과 수소 공급 압력이 고분자전해질 연료전지의 성능에 미치는 영향에 대하여 평가하였고, 전해질막 두께에 대한 물의 역확산 영향을 분석하였다. 양극 닫힌계에서 수소극에 쌓인 물은 연료전지 전압이 3% 감소한 경우에 솔레노이드 밸브를 열어 배출하였다. 수소 공급 압력은 0.1~0.5 bar, 배출 시간은 0.1~1 s까지 변화시키면서 실험을 수행하였다. NR 211 (25.4 um) 전해질막의 경우 0.1 bar의 수소 공급 압력과 0.1 s 배출 시간 조건에서 수소 이용효율 98.9%의 가장 높은 연료 이용효율을 보였지만 잦은 flooding으로 인하여 장시간 운전 시 연료전지의 성능이 감소하였다. 이에 반해 NR 212 (50.8 um)의 전해질막에서 생성된 물과 질소의 역확산 속도를 늦추어 배출 간격을 늘리고 연료 이용효율을 높일 수 있었다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.135-143
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• 2016

Biogas is a renewable fuel from anaerobic digestion of organic matters such as sewage sludge, manure and food waste. Raw biogas consists mainly of methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and water. Biogas may also contain other impurities such as siloxanes, halogenated hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons. Efficient power technologies such as fuel cell demand ultra-low concentration of containments in the biogas feed, imposing stringent requirements on fuel purification technology. Biogas is upgraded from pressure swing adsorption after biogas purification process which consists of water, $H_2S$ and siloxane removal. A polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell power plant is designed to operate on reformate produced from upgraded biogas by steam reformer.

• 멤브레인
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.141-145
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• 2016

고분자전해질막은 전극 이외에 전기 화학 연료전지의 성능을 결정하는 중요한 요소이다. 고분자전해질막은 가스나 양성자 등의 작은 분자를 선택적으로 수송해야 한다. 고분자전해질막을 투과한 가스는 급속히 전기 화학적 환원을 발생시켜 음극 촉매의 열화를 유발하기 때문에 수소 장벽으로 작동해야 하며 가능한 한 빨리 양성자를 이동시켜야 한다. 지금까지 고분자전해질막의 수소 기체 투과도를 측정하는데 한정된 방법(예 : Constant volume/variable pressure (Time-lag)법)을 사용했다. 그러나 측정의 대부분은 고분자전해질막은 건조된 진공 하에서 이루어진다. 그렇지 않으면 얻어진 수소 투과도는 측정 오차가 커지는 원인이 되기 쉽다. 이 연구에서는 일반적으로 고분자전해질막으로 사용되는 Nafion212의 수소 가스 투과 특성을 온도와 습도가 동시에 제어되는 in-situ 측정 시스템을 이용하여 평가하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제30권12호
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• pp.1196-1202
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• 2006

A MEMS methanol reformer was fabricated and its performance was evaluated in the present study. Catalytic steam reforming of methanol was selected because the process had been widely applied in macro scale reformers. Conventional Cu/ZnO catalyst that was prepared by co-precipitation method to give the highest coating quality was used. The reactor structure was made by bonding three layers of glass wafers. The internal structure of the wafer was fabricated by the wet-etching process that resulted in a high aspect ratio. The internal surface of the reactor was coated by catalyst and individual wafers were fusion-bonded to form the reactor structure. The internal volume of the microfabricated reactor was $0.3cm^3$ and the reactor produced exhaust gas with hydrogen concentration at 73%. The production rate of hydrogen was 4.16 ml/hr that could generate power of 350 mW in a typical PEM fuel cell.