• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.32 no.7
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• pp.558-565
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• 2008

Solid oxide fuel cell(SOFC) has a higher fuel flexibility than low temperature fuel cells, such as polymer electrolyte fuel cell(PEMFC) and phosphoric acid fuel cell(PAFC). SOFCs also use CO and $CH_4$ as a fuel, because SOFCs are hot enough to allow the CH4 steam reformation(SR) reaction and water-gas shift(WGS) reaction occur within the SOFC stack itself. Diesel is a good candidate for SOFC system fuel because diesel reformate gas include a higher degree of CO and $CH_4$ concentration than other hydrocarbon(methane, butane, etc.) reformate gas. Selection of catalyst for autothermalr reforming of diesel was performed in this paper, and characteristics of reforming performance between packed-bed and microchannel catalyst are compared for SOFC system. The mesh-typed microchannel catalyst also investigated for diesel ATR operation for 1kW-class SOFC system. 1kW-class diesel microchannel ATR was continuously operated about 30 hours and its reforming efficiency was achieved nearly 55%.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07d
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• pp.1308-1310
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• 1997

Several methods for electrode fabrication of phosphoric acid fuel cell(PAFC) have been studied. The conventional methods that include a coating method and a rolling method, have disadvantages of a very complicated drying process and a hot pressing process for making a large electrode. In this study, to solve these problems, the mixing method of coating and rolling processes has been developed. In the mixing method, the electrode was coated on the electrode support and, after drying the coated layer, was rolled at room temperature and then sintered at $350^{\circ}C$. The single cell performances of the electrodes fabricated by several methods were examined and the mixing method appeared a good cell performance of 0.65 V, $260\;mA/cm^2$. Also the single cell with an area of $2000\;cm^2$ was manufactured and its performance attained 0.593 V, 300 A.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.315-323
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• 1995

차세대의 새로운 발전방식인 인산형 연료전지 발전시스템의 운용기술의 확립을 위하여 50 kW급 실증설비를 도입하고 주변기기를 설계, 설치하여 장기운전 특성시험을 실시하였다. 이 설비는 1993년 8월부터 1994년 11월 말까지 총 6,003시간의 운전기간 동안 187,190 kWh의 발전전력량을 기록하였고, 이 기간 동안의 발전운전시간 이용율은 63.01%, 평균출력은 33.5 kW였다. 설비의 운전특성에 있어서 정부하시 평균전압 및 전류는 각각 DC 130 V와 461 A였으며, 경시전압감소율은 1,000시간당 3.8 mV 정도로 나타났다. 설비의 기동·정지 특성중 기동시간은 냉간기동시 평균 4시간 50분, 난기동시 2시간 34분 정도가 소요되었고, 발전효율은 정부하시 전기효율이 37.46%, 배열이용효율은 43.8%로 전체효율 81.26%를 나타냈다. 환경 특성중 배가스중의 NOx 농도는 1 ppm 미만이었고, 소음도 63 dB 정도로 양호한 특성을 보여주었다. 운전기간 중 발생한 사고는 총23회로, 외부운전조건에 대한 민감성이 큰 것으로 나타났으며, PAFC 시스템의 상용화를 위해서는 스택수명 및 운전신뢰성을 향상시키는 것이 필요하다.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.486-490
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• 1998

Pt/C powder which was used as electrocatalyst in a Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell(PAFC) was fabricated by colloid method. It was reported that the sulfur from reductant, $Na_2S_2O_4$, worked as a poison against catalyst during long term operation. To remove these sulfurs, we try to treat Pt/C powder by three different methods. First, we tried to remove the sulfur according to temperature and time in $H_2$ atmosphere. As the heat treatment temperature is raised up, the effect of the removal is increased but the electrode performance is decreased because of the growth of Pt particle size. The optimal heat treatment temperature is $400^{\circ}C$, the size of Pt particle is approximately $35{\sim}40{\AA}$ and the electrode performance is $360mA/cm^2$ at 0.7 V. At $400^{\circ}C$, even though the time of heat treatment is extended, size of Pt, amounts of remaining sulfur and electrode performance is almost constant. Secondly, when we removed in a crucible at $900^{\circ}C$ the removal of the sulfur was not better, but the size of Pt particle, approximately $80{\AA}$, was smaller than that of heat treatment in $H_2$ atmosphere at $900^{\circ}C$. Lastly we treated with solvents such as acetone, benzene, and carbon disulfide. It was observed that sulfur components were removed partly by extraction with solvents, the electrode performances were similar each other.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.58-65
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• 1992

Pt loaded porous carbon Pt/C electrode was prepared by hot pressing process to enhance the electrode performance in PAFC (phosphoric acid fuel cell). By changing the hot pressing conditions and PTFE contents, Pt/C electrodes were prepared and the electrochemical characteristics of oxygen reduction and unit-cell performance were evaluated. The optimum condition of hot press to make electrode is 360$^{\circ}C$ and 10 kg/$\textrm{cm}^2$. Maximum performance was obtained at 30 wt% PTFE content in the catalyst layer with 80% utilization of platinum clusters. Unit-cell performance of hot pressed Pt/C electrode was 200 mA/$\textrm{cm}^2$ at 700 ㎷ and stable performance was maintained more than 200 hr.