고상법에 의해 제조된 NiFe$_2$O$_4$의 열적거동은 열화학 사이클에 의해 H$_2$제조를 위해서 연구되었다. NiFe$_2$O$_4$의 환원반응은 800 $^{\circ}C$부터 시작하였고 무게감소는 1000 $^{\circ}C$까지 0.2-0.3 wt% 감소하였다. 이 반응에서 NiFe$_2$O$_4$의 B위치의 Fe$^3$이온과 결합된 산소의 방출에 의해 NiFe$_2$O$_4$는 환원되어진다. 환원산화 반응을 위해 NiFe$_2$O$_4$의 구조는 스피넬 구조를 갖는다. 여기서 $H_2O$ 분해반응은 환원된 NiFe$_2$O$_4$의 산화반응에 의해 H$_2$가 제조된다. 그러므로 NiFe$_2$O$_4$는 환원반응시 비교적 낮은 온도에서 산소를 방출하고, 환원산화 반응 중 결정구조의 변화 없이 매우 안정하게 H$_2$를 생산할 수 있기 때문에 열화학 사이클반응에서 우수한 재료로 평가된다.

This study concerns the characteristics of helical flow in a concentric annulus with a diameter ratio of 0.52 and 0.9, whose outer cylinders are stationary and inner ones are rotating. Pressure losses and skin friction coefficients have been measured for fully developed flows of water and 0.2％ aqueous of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose(CMC), respectively, when the inner cylinder rotates at the speed of 0∼500rpm. The effect of rotation on the skin friction is significantly dependent on the flow regime. In all flow regimes, the skin friction coefficient is increased by the inner cylinder rotation. The change of skin friction coefficient corresponding to the variation of rotating speed is large for the laminar flow regime, whereas it becomes smaller as Re increases for the transitional flow regime and, then, it gradually approach to zero for the turbulent flow regime.

For the present study, three heat pipes with different thickness of sintered metal wick were manufactured, and their operational performances, such as capillary limit and thermal resistance were tested and compared with theoretical predictions. Experimental results showed good agreement with those by the theoretical model, and that seemed to present that the sintering process we had developed ;n the present study was valid.

Heat regenerator occupied by regenerative materials improves thermal efficiency of regenerative combustion system through the recovery of sensible heat of exhaust gases. By using one-dimensional two-phase fluid dynamics model, the unsteady thermal flow of regenerators with spherical particles were numerically analyzed to evaluate performance of ratio of waste heat recovery and temperature efficiency and to suggest optimized conditions of heat regenerator. It is predicted that exhaust gases temperature at regenerator outlet of 3.5$\times$10$^{6}$ kcal/hr heat regenerator is even lower than design condition and ratio of waste heat recovery is 75.8％.