• 지질공학
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.627-642
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• 2022

최근까지 전 세계 에너지 수요는 화석연료(석유, 석탄, 천연가스)에 의존해왔으며, 이로 인해 지구온난화와 같은 심각한 전 지구적 환경 변화를 유발하고 있다. 에너지 관련 분야의 연구자들은 가장 유망한 에너지 운반체이자 지속 가능한 에너지 개발의 핵심 기술인 수소 에너지에 주목하고 있다. 수소 연료는 생산을 위해 사용되는 연료와 공정처리과정에 따라 그레이수소, 블루수소, 그린수소 등으로 분류된다. 지질학자들은 수소 에너지 개발을 위해 사문암화작용 또는 열수변질작용에 의한 비생물기원 수소 생산메커니즘 규명 연구를 진행하고 있다. 특히, 미국, 호주, 프랑스 등의 국가에서는 실내실험 규모의 물-암석 반응 실험을 통해 다양한 조건에서의 수소 생산성을 연구하였으나, 국내에서는 비생물기원 수소에 대한 연구가 거의 진행된 바 없는 실정이다. 이에 본 리뷰에서는 비생물기원 수소 생산을 위해 물-암석 반응 실험을 진행한 해외 연구 사례의 현황을 파악하고 향후 국내 비생물기원 수소 생산 실험을 위한 발전방향을 제시하였다.

• 공업화학
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.389-398
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• 2019

수소에너지는 화석연료의 사용으로 인해 나타나는 기후변화의 문제를 해결할 수 있는 방안일 뿐 아니라 산업용 전력 생산, 자동차용 연료 등을 위한 대체가능한 에너지로 인식되고 있다. 수소제조 방법 중 물의 전기분해를 이용한 방법이 가장 효율적이고 실용적인 방법으로 여겨지고 있으며, 수소를 물로부터 직접 제조하는 방법은 화석연료 이용 제조 방법과 비교하여 보았을 때 지구환경 오염물질인 메탄, 이산화탄소 등의 배출이 없다. 본 총설은 수소제조 방법 중 하나인 물 전기분해의 종류인 알칼리 수전해(alkaline water electrolysis, AWE), 고분자전해질막 수전해(polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis, PEMWE)에 대해서 분석하고 최근 연구 중인 탄화수소 전해질막의 동향 및 전해질막의 문제점인 크로스오버현상에 대해 설명하였다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.565-572
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• 2021

Hydrogen is currently produced from natural gas reforming or industrial process of by-product over than 90%. Additionally, there are green hydrogens based on renewable energy generation, but the import of green hydrogen from other countries is being considered due to the output variability depending on the weather and climate. Due to low density of hydrogen, it is difficult to storage and import hydrogen of large capacity. For improving low density issue of hydrogen, the gaseous hydrogen is liquefied and stored in cryogenic tank. Density of hydrogen increase from 0.081 kg/m³ to 71 kg/m3 when gaseous hydrogen transfer to liquid hydrogen. Density of liquid hydrogen is higher about 800 times than gaseous. However, since density and boiling point of liquid hydrogen is too lower than liquefied natural gas approximately 1/6 and 90 K, to store liquid hydrogen for long-term is very difficult too. To overcome this weakness, this paper introduces storage method of hydrogen based on liquid/solid (slush) and facilities for producing slush hydrogen to improve low density issue of hydrogen. Slush hydrogen is higher density and heat capacity than liquid hydrogen, can be expected to improve these issues.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.244-249
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• 2007

The present work considers the concept of enzymatic photoelectrochemical generation of hydrogen through water splitting using a Xe lamp as a source of light. A solar cell was applied to the system in order to shift the level of electrochemical energy of the system, resulting in the rate of hydrogen production at $43\;{\mu}mol/(cm^2{\times}hr)$ in cathodic compartment with an anodized tubular $TiO_2$ electrode(ATTE, $5^{\circ}C$/1hr in 0.5 wt% HF-$650^{\circ}C$/5hr). The trend of the rate of hydrogen production, for the ATTEs with different annealing temperature from $350^{\circ}C$ to $850^{\circ}C$, fairly well coincided with the photoelectrical properties measured by potentiostat. The actual chemical bias through imposition of two electrolytes of different pHs between anode(13.68) and cathode(7.5) was 0.24eV.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2006년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.7
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• pp.519-520
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• 2006

Research was performed to increase the efficiency of a plasma reactor for $H_2$ yield. In the preceding studies $H_2$ was increased by adding Ni as a transitional metal catalyst and $TiO_2$ as a photocatalyst. In these experiments, it was found that distilled water, discharge frequency, and electrode configuration had a significant impact on $H_2$ generation. A substantial amount of hydrogen yield was observed at 2 kHz of discharge frequency and 12 kV of applied voltage. Within this favorable discharge conditions, the weight rate of $TiO_2$ and Ni powders was investigated. Plasma phenomenon was measured by electrical, optical and acoustical devices. It was found that emitted light, electric current and acoustical signals acquired from the discharge demonstrated systematical correlation. Changing the electrode's configuration allowed discharge distribution along the perimeter of the electrode's tip, which increased the density of streamers and plasma energy loadings, as the value of inception voltage for the discharge propagation decreased.

• 한국조명전기설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국조명전기설비학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.235-240
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• 2008

The recent development of efficient thermal prime movers for distributed generation id changing the focus of the production of electricity from large centralized power plants to local generation units scattered over the territory. The scientific communality is addressing the analysis and planning of the distributed energy resources(der) with wide spread approaches, taking into account technical, environmental, economical and social issues. The coupling of cogeneration system to absorption/electric chillers or heat pumps as well as the interactions with renewable sources, allow for setting up multi-generation systems for building cooling heating and power(BCHP) systems of different energy vectors such as electricity, heat(at different enthalpy levels), cooling power, hydrogen, various chemical substances and so forth. Adoption of the composite multi-generation systems may lead to significant benefits in term of higher efficiency, reduced $CO_2$ emissions and enhanced economy. This paper outlines the main aspects of the BCHP system framework, illistrating its characteristics and summarizing the relevant distributed multi-generation structures.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 추계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.99.2-99.2
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• 2011

Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) supported on glass are widely used as substrates in PEC studies for photovoltaic hydrogen generation applications However, high sheet resistane ($10{\sim}15{\Omega}/cm^2$) and fragileness of glass-supported TCO substrates are the obstacles to produce the large area PEC cells. Such internal sheet resistance is detrimental to efficient collection of photogenerated majority charge carriers at the photoactive material and electrolyte interface. Moreover, these TCO substrates are very expensive and consume about 40~60% cost of the devices. Hence, a low sheet resistance of the substrate is a key point in improving the performance of PEC devices. Metallic substrates coated with a photoactive material would be a good choice for efficient charge collection. Such metal substrates based photanodes are best candidate for large-scale phtoelectrochemical water splitting for hydrogen generation. In this study, we report the enhanced PEC performance of $WO_3$ film on metal(chemical etched, bare) substrate. It is proposed that interface between $WO_3$ and the metal substrate is responsible for efficient charge transfer and demonstrated significant improvement in the photoelectrochmical performance. X-ray diffration and FESEM suduies reveled that $WO_3$ films are monoclinic, porous, polycrystalline with average grain size of ~50nm. Photocurrent of $WO_3$ prepared on metal substrates was measured in 0.5M $H_2SO_4$ electroyte under simulated $100mW/cm^2$ illumination.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제62권3호
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• pp.225-232
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• 2024

탄소 중립 사회로의 전환을 위해 전체 온실가스 배출량의 86.8%를 차지하는 에너지 생산 부문에서의 이산화탄소 배출량 감축이 필요하다. 현재 우리나라는 총 발전량의 60%를 석탄과 천연가스에 의존하고 있으며 이를 풍력, 태양광 등의 재생에너지로 대체하는 방법은 에너지 수급이 불안정하고 비용이 높다는 단점이 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 본 연구에서는 기존에 사용되고 있는 NGCC(Natural Gas Combined Cycle) 공정을 기반으로 천연가스, 암모니아, 수소를 혼합하여 연소한다는 해결책을 제시하였다. 시뮬레이션을 수행한 결과, 이산화탄소 배출량을 효과적으로 줄일 수 있었으며 천연가스만을 연료로 이용해 얻은 전력량과 비교하였을 때 34%~238%의 전력을 얻었다. 천연가스, 암모니아, 수소의 질량분율에 대한 사례연구를 수행한 결과, 암모니아 비율이 증가할수록 발전량과 NO_x 배출량은 감소하였고 수소비율이 증가할수록 발전량과 NO_x 배출량은 증가하였다. 본 연구는 추후 다양한 혼합 연료의 조합 및 경제성 평가 등 혼합 연료 발전 분야의 가이드라인이 될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.425-435
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• 2014

Simulation studies on catalytic methanation reaction in externally cooled tubular reactor filled with monolithic catalysts were carried out using a general purpose modelling tool $gPROMS^{(R)}$. We investigated the effects of operating parameters such as gas space velocity, temperature and pressure of feeding gas on temperature distribution inside the reactor, overall CO conversion, and chemical composition of product gas. In general, performance of methanation reaction is favored under low temperature and high pressure for a wide range of their values. However, methane production becomes negligible at temperatures below 573K when the reactor temperature is not high enough to ignite methanation reaction. Capacity enhancement of the reactor by increasing gas space velocity and/or gas inlet pressure resulted no significant reduction in reactor performance and heat transfer property of catalyst.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.767-790
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• 2013

MAAP4 is a computer code that can simulate the response of a light water reactor power plant during severe accident sequences, including actions taken as part of accident management. The code quantitatively predicts the evolution of a severe accident starting from full power conditions given a set of system faults and initiating events through events such as core melt, reactor vessel failure, and containment failure. Furthermore, models are included in the code to represent the actions that could mitigate the accident by in-vessel cooling, external cooling of the reactor pressure vessel, or cooling the debris in containment. A key element tied to using a code like MAAP4 is an uncertainty analysis. The purpose of this paper is to present a MAAP4 based analysis to examine the sensitivity of a key parameter, in this case hydrogen production, to a set of model parameters that are related to a Level 2 PRA analysis. The Level 2 analysis examines those sequences that result in core melting and subsequent reactor pressure vessel failure and its impact on the containment. This paper identifies individual contributors and MAAP4 model parameters that statistically influence hydrogen production. Hydrogen generation was chosen because of its direct relationship to oxidation. With greater oxidation, more heat is added to the core region and relocation (core slump) should occur faster. This, in theory, would lead to shorter failure times and subsequent "hotter" debris pool on the containment floor.