• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.23-29
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• 1999

전착법(EPD)에 의한 음극지지형 SOFC 단전지용 전해질 제조를 위하여 NiO-YSZ 다공성 기판 위에 극성이 서로 다른 전착용액을 사용하여 안정화 지르코니아 균일막 형성을 위한 전착조건과 막특성을 조사하였다. 알콜계 용액과는 달리 수계 용액에서 정전류, 0.138mA/$\textrm{cm}^2$이상에서 전극반응으로 생성한 기포에 의한 막결함이 생성하였으며 막무게 증가율이 감소하였다. 균일막 형성은 알콜계 용액에서 전극반응없이 안정한 전압특성을 보이는 정전류 0.035 mA/$\textrm{cm}^2$를 10초간 인가하였을 때 얻어졌다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.308-314
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• 2018

Among the fuel cell electrolyte candidates in the intermediate temperature range, glass materials show stable physical properties and are also expected to have higher ion conductivity than crystalline materials. In particular, phosphate glass has a high mobility of protons since such a structure maintains a hydrogen bond network that leads to high proton conductivity. Recently, defects like volatilization of phosphorus and destruction of the bonding structure have remarkably improved with introduction of cations, such as Zr4+ and Nb5+, into phosphate. In particular, niobium has proton conductivity on the surface because of higher surface acidity. It can also retain phosphorus content during heat treatment and improve chemical stability by bonding with phosphorus. In this study, we fabricate niobium phosphate glass thin films through sol-gel processing, and we report the chemical stability and electrical properties. The existence of the hydroxyl group in the phosphate is confirmed and found to be preserved at the intermediate temperature region of $150-450^{\circ}C$.

• 한국전기화학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기화학회 2003년도 연료전지심포지움 2003논문집
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• pp.189-192
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• 2003

In this work, we have prepared platinum catalyst by various methods, investigated fuel cell performance and compared performance with commercially available $20\%$ Pt supported on carbon (Pt/C) catalyst. We have found that Pt/C prepared by reduction of chloroplatinic acid in mixed solvent (water+ethylene glycol) gives better performance compared to that produced by reduction of aqueous chloroplatinic acid, which can be attributed to smaller catalyst particle size and lower agglomeration in the mixed solvent. We have also prepared a novel platinum electrocatalyst by depositing platinum on Nafion coated carbon powder and it shows great promise. The performance of electrode prepared using $20\%Pt$ onn Nafion coated carbon mixed with Pt/C was found to be higher than the performance of electrodes using commercially available $20\%$ Pt/C, up to a current density of about $1100mA/cm^2$. The cell voltages obtained were respectively 621 and 603mV, at a current density of: $1000mA/cm^2$, in a single cell using $0.25mgPt/cm^2$ and Nafion 10035 membrane at $80^{\circ}C$ using hydrogen/oxygen reactants at 1 atm pressure.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2010년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.36-36
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• 2010

Currently, there are several newly developed energy resources for the future to replace petroleum resources such as hydrogen fuel cell, solar cell, wind power, and etc. Among them, solar cell has attracted a worldwide concern, because it has an enormous amount of resources. In general, a study of solar cells can be classified in to an area of bulk type and thin-film type. Inorganic solar cells based on silicon have been tremendously developed in technology and efficiency. However, since there are many lithographic steps, high processing temperature approximately $1000^{\circ}C$, and expensive raw materials, a manufacturing cost of device are nearly reaching a limit. Contrary to those disadvantages, organic solar cells can be manufactured at room temperature. Also, it has many advantages such as a low cost, easy fabrication of thin film, and possible manufacture to a large size. Because it can be made to be flexible, research and development on solar cells are actively in progress for the next generation. ever though an efficiency of the organic solar cell is low compared to that of inorganic one, a continuous study is needed. In this paper, we report optimal device structure obtained by a program simulation for design and development of highly efficient organic photovoltaic cells. we have also compared simulated results to experimental ones.

• 공업화학
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.125-131
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• 2006

디메틸에테르(이하 DME)는 환경에 친화적인 새로운 청정에너지이다. 또한 DME는 다양한 에너지원으로부터 제조 되어지며, 그 에너지원으로는 천연가스, 석탄, 바이오매스, 폐플라스틱 등이 있다. 이런 DME는 LPG와 매우 유사한 성질을 특징으로 가지고 있다. 이러한 결과로 DME는 LPG, 연료전지, 발전연료, 특히 디젤의 대체 연료로 고려되고 있으며, 2010년 대체 에너지로 기대되고 있다. DME 직접합성반응의 반응속도를 측정하기 위하여 서로 다른 조건인 온도 $220{\sim}280^{\circ}C$, 합성가스 비율 1.2~3.0에서 실험을 수행하였다. 모든 실험은 혼성촉매를 사용하여 수행하였으며, 혼성촉매는 메탄올 합성 촉매와 메탄올 탈수촉매가 포함되어 있다. 반응속도는 랭미어-힌쉘우드 타입의 반응 메커니즘을 따르며, 메탄올 합성반응, 메탄올 탈수반응, 수성가스 전환반응, 이 세 가지 반응의 메커니즘을 고려하였다. 각 반응의 반응속도는 촉매상의 표면반응과 수소와 메탄올, 그리고 물의 해리흡작으로 결정하였다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2006년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.467-470
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• 2006

For a mobile application such as cellular phone, micro fuel cells should be extremely compact and thin. RHFC can be an alternative solution because RHFC gives higher power density than DMFC and does not need ahydrogen storage vessel In this paper, RHFC using methanol fuel is made as a novel planar design without a PROX. Both reformer and cell are made closely in a same plate to share the heater of reformer with the cell. The PBI membrane is used in the cell. The reason is that high temperature of reformer can cause a performance drop when perfluorosulfonic acid membrane such as Nafion is used such a high temperature operation also guarantees the higher CO tolerance to MEA catalyst. The cell is designed as an air-breathing type which the cathode of the cell is opened to the air. The commercial Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 steam reformer catalyst is packed in reformer channel. The active area of MEA is $11.9cm^2$ and the peak power density was $27.5mW/cm^2$.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.94-101
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• 2015

장기체공 무인기용 동력원으로 활용될 태양전지-연료전지 복합 동력원 통합 전 단계로 태양전지와 연료전지 개별 시스템에 대한 구성과 평가를 수행하였다. 태양전지 시스템은 Sunpower사의 C60 태양 전지를 활용한 모듈, 상용 태양광 MPPT 제어기, 그리고 리튬-폴리머 배터리를 이용하여 구성하고 평가하였다. 연료전지 시스템 운용을 위하여 $NaBH_4$ 가수분해를 이용한 수소공급장치의 재시동 특성을 확인하였다. 태양전지 시스템에 속한 배터리의 성능이 평균 -2.9 V/hour임을 확인하였다. 수소공급장치의 재시동 특성이 운용임무 조건에서 안정적인 성능이 나타남을 확인하였다. 본 연구를 통하여 제시된 임무조건에서의 각 단일시스템의 성능이 적합함을 확인하였다.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.172-181
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• 2015

고체산화물 연료전지는 다양한 응용분야에서 대체에너지로서 각광받고 있다. 본 논문은 평판형 anode 전극으로 들어가는 공기유량에 따른 SOFC의 I-V 그래프 특성에 대해 연구하였다. 본 연구를 위해, Butler-Volmer 반응속도 식이 상용 CFD코드인 FLUENT에 적용되었다. CFD로부터 얻어진 결과값은 문헌으로부터 참고한 실험데이터와 0.4 V ~ 1 V 범위에서 I-V 분극곡선이 잘 맞는 것을 보여줌으로써 그 유효성을 확인하였다. 연료전지의 수치적 계산은 각각 다른 유량조건 하에서 3D 구조를 이용하여 수행하였다. 결과는 수소, 산소 그리고 물의 농도 분포의 항목으로 제시하였다. 전산모사와 그 결과들은 Butler-Volmer 방정식을 사용자 정의 함수로 적용한 CFD기법이 공기 유량과 비표면적에 대한 조건을 확인하는데 사용될 수 있고, 작동조건 연구를 위한 지침이 됨으로써 연료전지 시스템의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있음을 보여준다.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.56-62
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• 2021

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) is the high efficiency fuel cell operating at high temperatures ranging from 700-1000℃. Design of the flow paths of the fuel and air in SOFCs is important to improve cell performance and prevent cell degradation. However, the uneven distribution of current density in the traditional type having one inlet and outlet causes cell degradation. In this regard, the parallel flow path with two inlet and outlets was designed and compared to the traditional type based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. To check the cell performance, hydrogen distribution, velocity distribution and current density distribution were monitored. The results validated that the parallel designs with two inlets and outlets have a higher cell performance compared to the traditional design with one inlet and outlet due to a larger reaction area. In case of uniform-type paths, more uniform current density distribution was observed with less cross-sectional variation in flow paths. In case of contracted and expanded inflow paths, significant improvement of performance and uniform current density was not observed compared to uniform parallel path. Considering SOFC cell with uniform current density can prevent cell degradation, more suitable design of SOFC cell with less cross-sectional variation in the flow path should be developed. This work can be helpful to understand the role of flow distribution in the SOFC performance.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.63-66
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• 2007

Reformers which produce hydrogen from natural gas are essential for the operation of residential PEM fuel cells. For this purpose, steam-methane reforming reactions with Ni catalysts is primarily utilized. Commercial Ni catalysts are generally made to have porous pellet shapes in which Ni catalyst particles are uniformly dispersed over Alumina support structures. This study numerically investigates the reduction of catalyst effectiveness due to the mass transport resistances posed by porous structures of spherical catalyst pellets. The multi-component diffusion through porous media and the accurate kinetics of reforming reaction is fully considered in the numerical model. The preliminary results on the variation of the effectiveness factor according to different operation conditions are presented, which is planned to be used to develop correlations in future studies.