In this paper, numerical investigation has been carried out to study performance of methane autothermal reformer and dynamic behavior for light-off under various operating conditions. In order to simulate the given problems, numerical methods are incorporated using finite-volume method. In addition, porous medium approach is accepted because the catalytic phenomena occur in porous media. Also, start-up issue is significant in autothermal reformer although the reaction is marginally exothermic. Thus, in this study transient behavior has been also investigated to find out optimal operating conditions for start-up.

The transport mechanisms of the MTES (methyltriethoxysilane) templating silica/a-alumina composite membrane were evaluated by using four binary and one quaternary hydrogen mixtures through permeation experiments at unsteady- and steady-states. Since the permeation flux in the MTES membrane, through the experimental and theoretical studies, was affected by molecular sieving effects as well as surface diffusion properties, the kinetic and equilibrium separation should be considered simultaneously according to molecular properties. In order to depict the transient multi-component permeation on the templating silica membrane, the GMS (generalized Maxwell-Stefan) and DGM (dust gas model) were adapted to unsteady-state material balance.

To find out the optimum design of hydrogen storage and supply tank using Metal Hydride (briefly MH) and to make clear the performance characteristics under various conditions are our research purpose. In order to use the low-temperature exhaust heat, $LaNi_{4.7}Al_{0.3}$ which operates under the low pressure of 1 MPa is chosen, and we measure the basic properties, namely density, specific heat, PCT(Pressure-Concentration-Temperature) characteristics, and effective thermal conductivity. Then, a numerical calculation model of hydrogen storage using MH alloy is suggested and this thermal diffusion equation of model is solved by the backward difference method. This calculation results are compared with the experimental results of the systems which installed 1kg MH alloy and, it is found out that our calculation model can well predict the experimental results. By the experimental using MH alloy, it is recognized that the hydrogen flow rate can control by the step adjustment of brine temperature.

가정용 연료전지 수소 공급용 연료변환 장치는 LNG, LPG를 이용하여 수소를 제조하는 수증기 개질과 제조된 합성가스의 정제공정으로 저온/고온 전이 반응 및 선택적 산화 반응을 포함하게 된다. 이중 전체 연료변환 장치 효율은 공정중의 유일한 흡열 반응인 수증기 개질 반응기 구조와 반응열 공급용 버너에 의해 결정된다. 반응열 공급용 버너의 형식, 구조 등의 변수를 통해 본 연구진에 의해 개발된 반응구조의 최적 열원 공급 방식을 산출하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 본 연구에서는 원통형 개질 반응기에 적용 가능한 버너의 구조, 토출 각도, 토출구의 수 등의 버너 설계 변수가 버너의 성능의 미치는 영향에 대하여 연구하였다. 연구에 사용된 버너는 적용 연료의 혼합 특성을 증가시키기 위해 혼합공간을 충분히 유지 하였으며, 버너의 구조와 연소용 기체의 토출각 및 토출구의 위치 변화를 통한 불꽃의 형태를 변화 시켜 반응기 내의 온도 분포 특성을 비교 분석하였으며, 분석 결과에 의해 원통형 개질 반응기에서 최대 효율을 가지는 버너의 구조로부터 수증기 개질 반응을 평가하였다.

한국에너지기술연구원에서는 가정용 고분자연료전지 열병합 발전시스템을 위한 통합형 천연가스 연료처리 시스템을 개발해 왔다. 본 고에서는 연료처리 시스템의 운전 시 모사 연료극 가스 공급이 미치는 영향에 대해 고찰하고, 부하 변동 시 각 단위 공정의 온도 변화와 CO 농도 변화 현상에 대처하기 위한 방법을 제시하고자 한다.

최근 대두되고 있는 에너지 문제와 더불어 대체에너지 개발 및 에너지의 이용효율을 높이려는 연구가 많이 이루어지고 있다. 수소에너지는 비 탄소계 연료로서 그 중요성에 대한 인식이 높아지고 있으며, 다양한 분야에서 수소에너지를 이용하기 위한 노력이 이루어지고 있다. 수소는 재순환이 가능하고, 환경에 미치는 영향이 적기 때문에 미래형 에너지원으로 각광을 받고 있다. 수소이용 기술 중 연료 전지는 에너지 변환효율이 높고 유해 배출물이 생성되지 않아 차세대 발전시스템으로 유망하지만 비용과 기술적 제약으로 단기간에 상용화하기에는 어려움이 있다. 따라서 저비용, 고효율의 수소에너지를 이용 할 수 있는 시스템 개발이 요구되고 있다. 리니어동력/발전시스템은 저비용으로 제작이 가능하고 기존 기술의 인프라를 활용할 수 있는 장정과, 크랭크 기구가 없기 때문에 얻어지는 변환손실, 열손실을 최소화 할 수 있는 효율의 장점 때문에 고효율의 수소 이용 기관으로 평가되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 수소이용 통력시스템의 직선운동을 전기적인 에너지로 변환 할 수 있는 고효율의 리니어 발전시스템 개발을 위해 Prototype의 평판형 및 원통형의 리니어발전기를 제작했고 각각의 성능에 대한 평가와 엔진과 발전기의 연계운전 결과를 비교하여 시스템 전체에 대한 성능예측을 했으며 연계운전을 통해 출력된 발전기의 출력파형을 PCS로 변환하여 정현파의 AC 출력을 얻었다.

Currently, many structured catalysts using microchannel are researched to apply to fuel reforming. In this paper, ceramic monolith and metal mesh as structured catalysts are investigated for catalytic autothermal reforming. When GHSV increases, each structured catalyst has better performances(hydrogen production, fuel conversion) than packed bed catalyst for autothermal reforming. The major causes seem to be the elevated heat and mass transfer, gas phase reaction and redistribution of packed bed due to high pressure drop.

Diesel autothermal reforming(ATR) is an effective method for hydrogen production. But, diesel ATR has several problems such as the sulfur poisoning of catalyst and carbon deposition during reforming reactor. Especially, carbon deposition is a severe problem, which causes rapid performance degradation, in the reforming reaction. Ethylene among the reformate gas is a carbon precursor. Effective decomposition of ethylene is an important issue. In this paper, we investigated the carbon deposition from ethylene in the reforming reaction for proper reaction condition of diesel ATR. We achieved relatively high performance of diesel ATR under $H_{2}O/C=0.8$, $O_{2}/C=3$ condition that was based on the experiment of ethylene reforming reaction.

Steam reforming reaction of natural gas is an important process for fuelcell commercialization. In this paper, steam reforming reaction is studied by numerical method. Pseudo-homogeneous model is incorporated for chemical reactions and one medium approach is used to take into account thermally equilibrium phenomena between catalyst and bulk gas. The model is validated with our experimental results under the same operating conditions. Because performance of reformer has relation to heat flux from wall, heat flux profiles was investigated by using Nusselt number. Value of Nusselt number in steam reformer is larger than one in channel, which does not have chemical reaction because steam reforming reaction is an endothermic reaction. When the difference of Nusselt number at the front and the rear is larger, performance is improved.

Thermochemical 2-step methane reforming, involving the reduction of metal oxide with methane to produce syn-gas and the oxidation of the reduced metal oxide with water to produce pure hydrogen, was investigated on ferrite-based metal oxide mediums and $WO_{3}/ZrO_{2}$. Thermochemical 2-step methane reforming were accomplished at 900 $^{\circ}C$(syn-gas production step) and 800 $^{\circ}C$(water-splitting step). In syn-gas production step, it appeared carbon deposition on metal oxides with increasing react ion time. Various mediums showed the different starting point of carbon deposition each other. To minimize the carbon deposition, the reaction time was controlled before the starting point of carbon deposition. As a result, $CO_{x}$ were not evolved in water-splitting step, Among the various metal oxides, $Mn-ferrite/ZrO_{2}$ showed high reactivity, proper $H_{2}/CO$ ratio, high selectivity of undesired $CO_{2}$ and high evolution of $H_{2}$.

We investigated hydrogen storage and production properties using redox system of iron oxide($Fe_{3}O_{4}$ + $4H_{2}$ ${\leftrightarrows}$ 3Fe + $4H_{2}O$) modified with rhodium, ceria and zirconia under atmospheric pressure. Reduction of iron oxide with hydrogen(hydrogen storage) and re-oxidation of reduced iron oxide with steam(hydrogen evolution) was carried out using a temperature programmed reaction(TPR) technique. On the temperature programmed studies, the effects of amounts of cerium and zirconium on the re-oxidation rate of partial reduced iron oxides were increased with increasing metal additives amount, but the rhodium amount showed little effect on the re-oxidation rate. On the thermal studies, the re-oxidation rates were enhanced with increasing temperature(300 $^{\circ}C$ < 350 $^{\circ}C$).

미량의 Ru을 증진제로 첨가하여 니켈 촉매의 반응 활성을 증진시킴으로써, 저온 환원성과 장시간 반응에 대한 안정성을 확보하고자 하였다. Ni의 담지량은 12 wt%로 고정하였으며 이에 Ru을 각각 0.1, 0.3, 0.5 wt%로 변화시켜 2차 담지하였다. 메탄의 수증기/이산화탄소 복합 개질 반응에 있어 니켈 촉매에 Ru을 2차 담지 한 촉매는 800 $^{\circ}C$, GHSV(gas hourly space velocity) 265,000 $h^{-1}$ 하에서 100 %에 가까운 $CH_{4}$ 전환율을 보였으며, GHSV 1,060,000 $h^{-1}$ 일 때에도 10시간 동안 90 %의 $CH_{4}$ 전환율을 기록하였다. 또한 이 중 0.3 wt%의 Ru를 담지한 경우가 1,060,000 $h^{-1}$의 조건하에서도 95 %이상으로 가장 높은 $CH_{4}$ 전환율로 유지되었다. $H_{2}-TPR$ 분석 결과, Ni(12)/$MgAl_{2}O_{4}$ 와 비교해 볼 때 Ru(0.5)/Ni(12)/$MgAl_{2}O_{4}$와 Ru(0.3)/Ni(12)/$MgAl_{2}O_{4}$ 촉매의 경우 150 $^{\circ}C$에서 저온 환원이 가능한 $RuO_{2}$의 존재를 확인할 수 있었다.

A fluidized bed reactor made of quartz with 0.055 m I.D. and 1.0 m in height was employed for the thermocatalytic decomposition of methane to produce $CO_{2}$ - free hydrogen. The fluidized bed was proposed for the continuous withdraw of product carbons from the reactor. The methane decomposition rate with the carbon black N330 catalyst was quickly reached a quasi-steady state rate and remained for several hour. The methane and propane mixture decomposition reaction was carried out at the temperature range of 850 - 900 $^{\circ}C$, methane and propane mixture gas velocity of 1.0 $U_{mf}$ ${\sim}$ 3.0 $U_{mf}$ and the operating pressure of 1.0 atm. Effect of operating parameters such as reaction temperature, gas velocity on the reaction rates was investigated. The produced carbon by the methane decomposition was deposited on the surfaces of carbon catalysts and the morphology was observed by SEM image.

Ni/YSZ ($Y_{2}O_{3}-stabilized$ $ZrO_{2}$), Cu/YSZ and CuO/YSZ composite powder for a cathode material in high temperature electrolysis (HTE) was synthesized by a mechanical alloying method with Ni (or Cu, CuO, Co) and YSZ powder. Microstructure of the composite for HTE reaction has been analyzed with various techniques of XRD, SEM to investigate effects of fabrication conditions. And conductivity of electrode was measured, Cu/YSZ cermet showed the higher electrical conductivity value than Ni/YSZ.

전극 막 접합체를 만드는 방법 중 연속식 공정으로서의 데칼법의 장점은 제조공정의 단순화와 두께 균일성 그리고 대량생산 등을 그 예로 들 수 있다. 본 실험에서는 코터를 이용해 전극 막 접합체를 만들기 위해 높은 점도의 촉매 슬러리를 제조하였다. Johnson Mattey 사의 HiSPEC 40 wt% Pt/C 촉매와 Dupont사의 20 wt% Nafion Solution 그리고 물을 이용하여 촉매 슬러리를 제조한 후 코터를 이용하여 데칼법으로 전극 막 접합체를 제조하였다. 완성된 전극 막 접합체의 성능 평가를 실시하였으며 상용화된 전극 막 접합체와 그 특성을 비교 분석을 실시해보았다.

The objective of this work was to study the properties of purification of two liquid phase for exclusion of impurities in each phase. The experiments for process variables were carried out in the temperature range($H_{2}SO_{4}$ phase: $413{\sim}513$ K, $HI_{x}$ phase: $353{\sim}453$ K) and in the $N_{2}$ flow rate range($H_{2}SO_{4}$, $HI_{x}$ phase: $50{\sim}200$ mL/min). As the results, it is appeared that the principles of $H_{2}SO_{4}$ phase purification was due to stripping, evaporation and reverse bunsen reaction and $HI_{x}$ phase purification was due to stripping and reverse bunsen reaction. In purification of $H_{2}SO_{4}$ phase, the concentration rate of $H_{2}SO_{4}$ phase was controled by temperature but the temperature had few effects on yield of $H_{2}SO_{4}$. In purification of $HI_{x}$ phase, we observed products of side reactions($H_{2}S$, S) over 433 K. The purity of $HI_{x}$ phase was increased with increasing $N_{2}$ flow rate because impurites were decreased with increasing conversion of reverse reaction.

In this study, methane gas adsorption ability of activated carbon (AC) with surface functional group effect, adsorbed methane amount was evaluated after nitric acid and ureatreatment of AC surface. Specific surface area and pore distribution of AC were studied though nitrogen adsorption isotherm at 77 K. Micro pore volume was calculated through H-K method. Adsorbed methane amount was evaluated through volume method at room temperature by using auto adsorption apparatus. Adsorbed methane amount of AC was found to increase with to specific surface area increase.Correlation proposed between the methane adsorption amount and surface nature indicates that the surface nature plays an important role on the adsorption amount at a given temperature.

To increase the capacity of hydrogen adsorption, transition metals were adopted as catalyst. The PAN-based CNFs involving transition metal were obtained by electrospinning method and heat treatment. To study the surface of carbon fibers, SEM analysis was conducted. The mass of transition metals were spreaded or covered among CNFs. XRD and EDX analysis were used to confirm transition metals on the surface of carbon fibers. Volumetric method was used for studying the capacity of hydrogen adsorption on the carbon fibers involving transition metals. In this study. vanadium has the best characteristics among chromium, titanium, and copper for hydrogen adsorption.

A fluidized bed reactor is made with quartz. The size of FBR is 0.055 m I.D. and 1.0 m in height. The FBR was employed for the thermocatalytic decomposition of propane to produce hydrogen without $CO_{2}$. The fluidized bed was proposed for the continuous withdraw of product carbons from the reactor. Carbon black DCC-N330 is used to decompose the propane gas. The propane decomposition reaction over carbon black catalyst in a fluidized bed reactor was carried out the temperature range of 600 ${\sim}$ 800 $^{\circ}C$, propane gas velocity of 1.0 ${\sim}$ 4.0$U_{mf}$($1U_{mf}$ = 0.61cm/s) and the catalyst loading of 100 ${\sim}$ 200g. Production of $H_{2}$ such as other reaction temperature, gas velocity, catalytic loading on the reaction rates was investigated. The carbon depositied on the catalyst surface was observed by FE-SEM. The particle size of the carbon black was observed by Particle size analyzer. Resulting production in the experiment was not only hydrogen but also several by-products such as methane, ethylene, ethane, and propylene.

The metallic bipolar plate in PEMFC is widely used for automotive driving because of its advantages, i) high strength, ii) high chemical stability, iii) low gas permeability and iv) applicability to mass production. Especially, the metallic bipolar plate which is manufactured with the sheet metal stamping process can be applied in automotive PEMFC with less volume and weight because of its thin thickness but the formability and springback problems arise in real manufacturing process. The assessment for formability and springback of metallic bipolar plate should be performed before making stamping die sets. In this work, the methodology for determining the allowable draft angle of flow passage is introduced by using finite element analysis. In analysis results, as the draft angle of flow passage increase, the major strain and thinning is increase with exponential function. The allowable draft angle without fracture is presented by fitting the results. Additionally, the staking results with manufactured metallic bipolar plates by stamping process is presented.

Recently, much attentions have been paid on the commercialization of PEMFC, especially for the applications of residential and portable. In order to achieve the early commercialization of PEMFC, thee are two hurdles to overcome. One is cost down and the other is improvement of durability of the system components. Numerous companies have tried to reduce the production cost and the main research topics have been changed from performance to durability improvement. In this work, acceleration test were performed to find and evaluate the main reason of degradation of the MEA(membrane-electrode assembly) which is one of the core component of the PEMFC system. Based upon the test results, a way to make durable MEA was suggested. Acceleration tests were made by applying high voltage of 1.2V to the several kinds of single cells to increase the growth of catalyst particles. Cell performance, ac-impedance and electrochemically active area measurements were made atfter every 8 hours of acceleration test. Degradations of catalyst and membrane were examined by SEM, TEM and XRD. Obtained results were discussed in terms of structural stability and loss of catalyt and ionomers in the electrode layer. In addition, the way to make highly durable MEA was suggested.

Fuel Cell Stack performance, which is influenced by the maintenance of a constant internal environment, requires high levels of air tightness. Used for analysis, gasket for fuel cell is made of elastic rubber materials and placed over separator, and shape of deformation of a gasket affects the transformation separator and airtightness while fastening structure. Separator as made of steel sheet isn't broken under pressure but can affect gas and cool water flow by the plastic deformation process. Therefore， it is understood that assembly process is well developed in case distribution of stress and shape of deformation is shown uniformly. This study is conducted on the assumption that a fuel cell maintenance is advantageous in that conditions. In this paper, analyses of unit cell and partial model were performed and distribution of stress and shape of deformation of Gasket and separator were analyzed to evaluate the airtightness while fastening structure.

금속 분리판으로 제작된 연료전지 스택의 기계적인 거동을 유한요소 해석을 통하여 살펴보았다. 연료전지의 구성요소는 크게 금속 분리판, 가스켓, MEA, GDL, 엔드 플레이트로 나눌 수 있다. 각각의 요소들은 적절한 힘에 의하여 체결되어야 하고 이에 의해 연료전지 스택의 성능이 많아 좌우된다. 유한 요소해석을 위해 가스켓, GDL을 금속 분리판 위에서 변위에 따른 힘의 변화를 실험을 통해 구했으며, 금속 분리판의 유로 부분을 단순 평판으로 치환하여 유한 요소해석을 진행하였고, 해석 결과와 실험결과가 일치함을 확인하였다. 이를 통해 금속 분리판 스택이 체결되었을 때의 기계적 거동을 유추할 수 있다.

Fuel cell with high electric efficiency has many probabilities of commercial use. Especially, proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) which is a low temperature fuel cell and has less influence on $CO_2$ concentration is considered the power generation system of small building and household. We calculated the optimal operational plans of 1 kW household PEMFC power system based on the daily electricity and heat demand patterns of Japan and Korea. Calculated results show that the economic feasibility of PEMFC power system is very sensitive to the cost policy of electricity and natural gas.

In this paper, a mathematical modeling was developed to simulate 1kW class air cooled Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell(PEMFC) system. The proposed modeling was conducted under SIMULINK based environment. The model ing was developed based on the thermodynamic and chemical equilibrium. The objective is to design and implement the entire fuel cell system model ing including the system controller modeling. The fuel cell process and the control system modeling should have to be connected with each other simultaneously， therefore the two types of modeling influences each other when the system simulator run. The fuel cell modeling libraries are simulated using the SIMULINK under the thermodynamic and chemical equilibrium base. The PID controller application was designed and developed to test the process modeling and verify it. This the prototype development of the fuel cell system to design and test more complicate fuel cell systems, like the residential power generation system. The simulation results was compared to the real PEMFC system performance. We have achieved the reasonable accordance with the Lab test and the simulation results.

The fuel cell which converts directly chemical energy of fuel into electric energy has higher efficiency than the conventional power generation which involves several additional processes. Especially, polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) of which the electrolyte is a thin proton conductive polymer membrane is affordable for portable power applications and small-scale distributed power generation including household and small building. It is very important to not only increase the efficiency of FC itself but determine the optimal operation mode. The optimal operational planning of lkW household PEMFC system based on the daily electricity and heat demand patterns was performed. The estimated economic gain was up to 20% by adoption of PEMFC system.

Fuel cells are currently attracting tremendous interest because of their huge potential in stationary applications, in terms of substantiality of our energy use. They also offer environmental advantages, combining significantly higher efficiency with very much lower emission of SOx, NOx, and residual hydrocarbons, and significantly reduced $CO_{2}$ emissions compared to conventional power generation. The molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) was introduced from Fuel Cell Energy(FCE), which the one MCFC was operating by LNG and the other was operating by ADG. The ADG contains normally CH4, CO2 and various impurities such as sulfur compounds and siloxanes. Using the ADG as a fuel, MCFC have the potential to provide significant environmental and economic benefits. However, such impurities would be harmful to fuel cells. In this work, a purification process for the ADG was designed and installed in order to utilize the gas as a fuel for MCFC.

Stacks of solid oxide fuel cell under 1kW max power were designed on planar type employing anode supported cell and metallic interconnects. The stacks composed of 3-cells, 8-cells, and 16-cells were fabricated by using single cell purchased from Indec, sealant and interconnect prepared at RIST. In performance test of the final 16-cells stacks, OCV was recorded to be 16.7 V. Peak power and power density were 1 kW, 0.77 $W/cm^{2}$ at $820^{\circ}C$, respectively. In addition, the long term degradation rate of the power exhibited 2.25 % in 500 h at $750^{\circ}C$.

The influence of Co substitution in B-site at perovskite PSCF($Pr_{0.3}Sr_{0.7}CO_{x}Fe_{(1-x)}O_{3}$) was investigated in this study. The PSCF series exhibits excellent MIEC(mixed ionic electronic conductor) properties. ASR(area specific resistance) of PSCF3737 was 0.137 ${\Omega}{\cdot}cm^{2}$ at $700^{\circ}C$. The activation energy of PSCF3737 was also lower than other compositions of PSCF. ASR of PSCF3737 was analysed as two parts at different part of frequency region. Responses at middle frequency part (${\sim}10^2$ Hz) were concerned with oxygen reduction reaction and those at low frequency part (${\sim}10^{-1}$ Hz) were related with oxygen diffusion.

Advanced structure of metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells was devised to overcome sealing problem and mechanical instability in ceramic-supported solid oxide fuel cells. STS430 whose dimensions were 26mm diameter, 1mm thickness and 0.4mm channel width was used as metal support. Thin ceramic layer composed of anode(Ni/YSZ) and electrolyte(YSZ) was joined with STS430 metal support by using a cermet adhesive. $La_{0.8}Sr_{0.2}Co_{0.4}Mn_{0.6}O_{3}$ perovskite oxide was used as cathode material. It was noted that oxygen reduction reaction of cathode governed the overall cell performance from oxygen partial pressure dependance.

Perovskite-structured samarium strontium cobaltite (SSC), which is mixed ionic electronic conductor (MIEC), is considered as a promising cathode material for intermediate temperature-operating solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) due to its high electrocatalytic property. Cathode material containing cobalt (Co) is unstable at high temperature and has a relatively high thermal expansion property. In this paper, Sm-Sr-(Co,Fe,Ni)-O system with perovskite and spinel structures was investigated in terms of electrochemical property and thermal expansion property, respectively. Area specific resistance (ASR) was measured by ac impedance spectroscopy to investigate the electrochemical property of cathode, and thermal expansion coefficient (TEC) was measured by using dilatometer. Micro structure of cathode was observed by scanning electron microscopy. Perovskite-structured $Sm_{0.5}Sr_{0.5}CoO_{3-\delta}$ showed the ASR of $0.87{\Omega}/cm^{2}$, and $Sm_{0.5}Sr_{0.5}NiO_{3-\delta}$, which actually has a spinel structure, showed the lowest TEC value of $13.3{\times}10^{-6}/K$.

We consider the optimum air flow channel design for DMFC's in the present study. The effect of pressure drop across the inlet and outlet of a stack on the performance of a DMFC is the optimization of such geometric parameters is crucial to minimize the parasitic power usage by the auxiliary devices such as fuel pumps and blowers. In this paper, we present how the pressure drop control can optimize the driving point of a DMFC stack. Further, we show how the optimal fuel utilization ratio can be achieved, not degrading the performance of DMFC stacks. Overall, we discuss how the flow channel design affects the selection of balance of plant(BOP) components, the design of DMFC systems and the system efficiency.

Due to their excellent catalytic activity with respect to methanol oxidation on platinum at low temperature, platinum nanosized catalysts have been a topic of great interest for use in direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). Since pure platinum is readily poisoned by CO, a by-product of methanol electrooxidation, and is extremely expensive, a number of efforts to design and characterize Pt-based alloy nanosized catalysts or Pt nanophase-support composites have been attempted in order to reduce or relieve the CO poisoning effect. In this review paper, we summarize these efforts based upon our recent research results. The Pt-based nanocatalysts were designed by chemical synthesis and thin-film technology, and were characterized by a variety of analyses. According to bifunctional mechanism, it was concluded that good alloy formation with $2^{nd}$ metal (e.g., Ru) as well as the metallic state and optimum portion of Ru element in the anode catalyst contribute to an enhanced catalytic activity for methanol electrooxidation. In addition, we found that the modified electronic properties of platinum in Pt alloy electrodes as well as the surface and bulk structure of Pt alloys with a proper composition could be attributed to a higher catalytic activity for methanol electooxdation. Proton conducting contribution of nanosized electrocatalysts should also be considered to be excellent in methanol electrooxidation (Spillover effect). Finally, we confirmed the ensemble effect, which combined all above effects, in Pt-based nanocatalsyts especially, such as PtRuRhNi and $PtRuWO_{3}$, contribute to an enhanced catalytic activity.

The 2-step manufacturing method consisting of preforming and stamping processes was developed to manufacture composite bipolar plates for PEMFCs. The preform was composed of expanded graphite, graphite flake and phenol resin. Precuring conditions were optimized by checking the electrical conductivity, flexural strength and microstructure. Precuring temperature ($100^{\circ}C$) slightly above the melting point of phenol powders ($90^{\circ}C$) induced moderate curing, but also prevented excessive curing. Preforms utilizing the tangled structure of expanded graphite were easily fabricated at low pressure of 0.07-0.28MPa. The proper precuring time, 5min, was determined to fabricate the preform stably because insufficient and excessive precuring deteriorated the flexural strength of composite bipolar plates.

직렬로 연결 된 다층의 단위전지 집합으로 구성되는 고체 고분자 연료전지의 적층전지는 에서 발생 할 수 있는 단위전지 간 전압손실과 압력구배를 최소화하기 위해 적층전지 내의 단위전지 외에 부품 및 재료를 추가하여 전압손실과 압력구배를 줄이는 방법에 대한 연구를 진행하였다. 체결압 구배를 최소화하기 위해 부드러운 층으로 이루어진 외곽부분과 딱딱한 층으로 이루어진 중심부를 가지는 필름을 전류집합체 뒤쪽에 첨가하였고， 분리판과 전류집합체 사이에서 발생 할 수 있는 전압손실을 방지하기 위해 높은 전기 전도성을 가지며, 평활도를 유지 할 수 있는 재료로 구성 된 복합층을 전류집합체와 분리판 사이에 첨가하였다. 압력구배 측정 및 다층전지 성능테스트 중 단전지간 전압손실을 측정하여 기 제작 된 첨가층들에 대한 영향의 정도를 파악하였다.

This paper presents the design, development and performance of a power conditioning system (PCS) for application to a 250kW Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell (MCFC) generation system. A DSP controller was used to control the dc-dc and dc-ac converter operation for grid connection and power injection to the grid. The controller must also supervise the total PCS operation while communicating with the fuel cell system controller. A control method for parallel operation of dc-dc converters was proposed and verified. A 250kW prototype was successfully built and tested. Experimental performances are compared to minimum target requirements of the PCS for MCFC.

The catalyst layer of a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell is a mixture of polymer, carbon, and platinum. The characteristics of the catalyst layer play critical role in determining the performance of the PEM fuel cell. This research investigates the role of catalyst layer composition using a Central Composite Design (CCD) experiment with two factors which are Nafion content and carbon loading while the platinum catalyst surface area is held constant. For each catalyst layer composition， polarization curves are measured to evaluate cell performance at common operating conditions, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS), and Cyclic Voltammetry (CV) are then applied to investigate the cause of the observed variations in performance. The results show that both Nafion and carbon content significantly affect MEA performance. The ohmic resistance and active catalyst area of the cell do not correlate with catalyst layer composition, and observed variations in the cell resistance and active catalyst area produced changes in performance that were not significant relative to compositions of catalyst layers.

Recently by the development of the electronic engineering technology various mobile devices are developed. But their operation time need to be extended although capacity of the batteries are limited. We focused our attention to the portable SOFC system. Because SOFC has the high efficiency and a lot of strongness in comparison with other kinds of fuel cells. In addition they can be built as a self/non-reformable system and single/dual chamber system. So We evaluated some types of SOFC theoretically, and compared the results from the fuel and performance efficiency point of view.

고분자 전해질 연료전지는 다수의 단위 cell을 적층하여 stack을 형성하게 되며, 각 단위 cell 은 분리판과 MEA 사이에 gasket을 장착하게 된다. 이때 장착된 gasket은 분리판과 MEA사이의 일정한 gap을 유지하여 가스를 균일하게 분배되도록 할 뿐만 아니라, 가스 유출을 막는 sealing 재(材)로서의 역할을 한다. 따라서 고분자 전해질 연료전지의 성능확보를 위해서는 내구성 및 가스 기밀성이 우수한 gasket 개발이 무엇보다 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 gasket 물성을 만족시킬 수 있는 고분자 전해질 연료전지용 gasket을 개발하고자 하였으며, 이를 검증하기 위하여 가혹 조건에서 실험을 수행하였다. 그 결과 종래의 gasket 보다 열적, 화학적 및 가스기밀성 변에서 우수한 고분자 전해질 연료전지용 gasket을 얻을 수 있었다.

A breaking layer was introduced to conventional decal transfer method in membrane electrolyte assembly fabrication for high catalyst transfer ratio. In this study, the modified decal transfer method with high catalyst transfer ratio was introduced and its performance is studied. The structural features of electrodes made by decal method were investigated using scanning electron microscopy and current-voltage polarization measurement.

The Performance of a PEMFC stack is strongly dependent on the uniform reactants distribution on MEA. The uniform distribution can be achieved by flow-field pattern and manifold design optimized to satisfy operating conditions. This paper investigates uniform reactants distribution in channels by changing manifold shape and inlet mass flow rate. Typical U and Z shape and modified U and Z shape manifolds with buffer zone were designed. To check the uniform reactants distribution, standard deviation of mass flow rate was compared. The numerical results show that the inlet mass flow rate, inlet shape, and manifolds shape are critical factor for uniform distribution.

본 연구에서는 고분자연료전지(PEMFC)을 이용하여 보조전원용으로 사용할 수 있는 계통연계 연료전지 시스템을 개발하였다. 또한 본 연구에서는 DSP(Digital Signal Processor)칩을 이용한 계통 연계용 전력변환기(PCS, Power Conditioning System)와 제어시스템 개발도 병행하여 수행되었다. 개발된 1kW급 계통연계형 시스템은 다양한 조건에서의 스택 성능 실험 및 BOP 연계 시험을 통해 최적의 운전점을 도출할 수 있었으며, PID(Proportional, Integral, Differential) 운전제어 방법올 적용하여 시스템의 안정적인 운전 특성을 확보하였다. 향후 본 시스템을 계통연계용은 물론 독립전원용으로 사용하기 위해 전력변환장치를 설계중이며, 2007년 하반기에 시스템에 적용될 예정이다.

CO in the reformed gas for proton exchange membrane fuel cell(PEMFC) has a strong tendency to adsorb on the surface of the catalyst and thus to block the sites that hydrogen needs for reactions. Even part per million levels of CO can cause serious poisoning. This CO poisoning can overcome to bleed trace amounts of air into the anode. In this study, we indicated the alteration of stack performance in various CO concentration and then bled a small amount of air. The performance of stack was reduced by increasing CO amount, and recovered by air bleeding. But the air-bleeding have an impact on performance of anode should be further explored.

본 논문은 DSP Controller를 적용한 연료전지시스템의 유량제어에 관한 논문이다. 그리고 이 연구에서 사용된 시스템은 1kW급 계통연계 연료전지 시스템이다. 이 연료전지 시스템이 안정적으로 전원을 공급할 수 있도록 시스템에서 요구하는 공기 유량을 정확히 공급하도록 제어하는 것이 본 연구의 목적이다. 이 목적을 이루기 위해 공기 공급 장치에 PID 제어기를 설계하여 적용하였다. PID 제어기의 Gain값은 지글러 니콜스 Tuning 방식으로 정하였다. 이 제어기를 적용하여 실험한 결과, 적용 전 상태와 비교하면 맥동이 30% 저감하였고, 정상상태 오차가 제거되어 온도 변화와 같은 외란과 상관없이 정확한 요구 공기 유량을 공급함을 확인할 수 있었다. 그리고 부하가 변동함에 따라 해당 요구 공기 유량이 바뀔 때 1초 내에 그 요구 공기 유량을 추종하여 스택이 안정적으로 운전될 수 있도록 하였다.

The MEA with the catalyst layer containing PtRu black and 60 wt. %Pt/C as their anode and cathode catalysts. For find to effect of carbon support, the MEA with platinum black for cathode catalyst was fabricated. The performance of the MEA with the catalyst layer containing (PtRu black:60 wt.% Pt/C) as their anode and cathode catalyst has shown competitively higher value than the performance of the MEA with the catalyst layer containing (PtRu black:Pt black) as their anode and cathode catalyst.

In this study, we estimated the performance of PEMFC's unit cell as changing operating temperature in different inlet humidity condition at cathode side but anode dry, and tried to match experimental results with 1-dimensional simulation. We used $Nafion^{\circledR}112$ membrane and a self-manufactured PEMFC with active area of $25cm^{2}$ was used in this study. The range of operating temperature was $40{\sim}70^{\circ}C$ and oxygen through bubbled humidity chamber was supplied $0{\sim}80$% humidity condition as changing water temperature in humidity chamber. For figuring out governing equations, represent water contents in electrolyte membrane, the linear forward difference method was applied about time progress and quadratic central difference method was used about space progress. It was assumed that pressure terms were linearly changed due to thin electrolyte membrane. In low operating temperature condition, $40{\sim}60^{\circ}C$, increasing temperature rarely effected cell performance but we can see performance drop at $70^{\circ}C$. By modifying Henrry's constant and/or diffusion coefficient, the modified one-dimensional model was accomplished for calculation.

The chemical states of oxygen on the surfaces of $Pr_{1-x}Sr_{x}CoO_{3}$ (x=0.5 and 0.7) oxide systems were investigated by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Merged oxygen peaks of $Pr_{1-x}Sr_{x}CoO_{3}$ (x=0.5 and 0.7) oxides could be divided as five sub-peaks. These five sub-peaks could be defined as lattice oxygen ($O_{L}$). chemisorbed oxygen peaks ($O_{C}$) and hydroxyl condition oxygen peak ($O_{H}$). In case of the $Pr_{0.5}Sr_{0.5}CoO_{3}$ and $Pr_{0.3}Sr_{0.7}CoO_{3}$, the binding energy (BE) of oxygen lattice were located at same BE. However, the BE of chemisorbed oxygen peaks including oxygen vacancy shows different BE. Especially, it was found that BE of chemisorbed oxygen peaks was increased when more Sr were substituted. Comparing atomic percentages of oxygens of $Pr_{0.5}Sr_{0.5}CoO_{3}$ and $Pr_{0.3}Sr_{0.7}CoO_{3}$, the ratio of $Pr_{0.3}Sr_{0.7}CoO_{3}$ was higher than that of $Pr_{0.5}Sr_{0.5}CoO_{3}$. It showed more chemically adsorbed site including oxygen vacancies were existed in $Pr_{0.3}Sr_{0.7}CoO_{3}$.

Parametric investigation of the polyol process for the preparation of carbon supported Pt nano particles as catalysts for fuel cells was carried out. It was found that the concentration of glycolate anion, which is a function of pH, plays an important role in controlling Pt particle size and loading on carbon. It was observed that Pt loading decreased with increasing alkalinity of the solution. As evidenced by zeta potential measurement, this was mainly due to poor adsorption or repulsive forces between the metal colloids and the supports. In order to modify the conventional polyol process, the effect of the gas purging conditions on the characteristics of Pt/C was examined. By the optimization of the gas environment during the reaction, it was possible to obtain high loading of 39.5wt% with a 2.8 nm size of Pt particle. From the single cell test, it was found that operating in ambient $O_{2}$ at 70oC can deliver high performance of more than 0.6 V at 1.44 A $cm^{-2}$.

DMFC(direct methanol fuel cell)는 액체연료의 이동과 저장의 용이성 때문에 이동용 장치를 위한 전원공급 장치로서 오랫동안 관심을 받아왔다. 하지만 methanol crossover는 DMFC의 상용화 이전에 해결해야 할 문제이다. 이를 위해 많은 분야에서 연구가 진행되고 있고, 그중에서 methanol에 저항성을 가진 촉매의 개발에 활발히 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는, 표연개질 된 PtCo/C 촉매를 사용하여 메탄올에 저항성을 가진 촉매를 합성하였다. 합성된 촉매의 size와 morphology를 알아보기 위해 transmission electron microscopy (TEM)를 사용하였다. 또한 methanol 존재 하에 산소환원반응의 activity를 알아보기 위해 Rotating ring disk electrode(RRDE) test를 하였고, MEA를 제작하여 full cell test도 병행하였다.

Polymer Electrolyte Membrane fuel cell(PEMFC)의 촉매로는 주로 carbon을 지지체로 사용한 Pt/C 흑은 Pt alloy/C을 사용하게 된다. 이때 PEMFC의 상용화에 있어 촉매의 안정성은 상용화 실현에 있어 중요한 요인으로 인식되고 있다. 촉매의 성능 저하는 Pt의 활성 면적(Active surface area)의 감소가 원인으로 얘기되어 지고 있으며 이는 지지체로 사용한 탄소에 나노 크기로 분산되어 있던 Pt 입자가 커지면서 활성 면적이 감소되어 지기 때문이다. 이번 연구에서는 상용 Pt/C를 사용하여 Cyclic Voltammetry(CV)의 장기간 운전 및 다양한 조건 변화를 통하여 Pt입자의 크기 증가에 미치는 요인에 대한 연구를 진행하였다. 이와 더불어 Linear Sweep Voltammety(LSV), TEM, 등을 통한 분석이 진행되었다.

고분자전해질연료전지 시스템이 영하 조건에 노출될 경우, 셀의 성능 및 내구성에 미치는 영향을 실험적으로 확인해 보았다. -30 $^{\circ}C{\sim}70$ $^{\circ}C$ 조건을 반복 경험시키며, 성능저하 정도를 살펴보았다. 일반적인 운전조건과 동결/해동에 의한 성능저하 요인을 분리하여 확인하기 위해, 30 $^{\circ}C{\sim}70$ $^{\circ}C$ 범위의 사이클을 진행한 경우에 대해, 위와 통일한 분석을 통하여 성능 및 각종 물성 값의 변화를 비교하였다. 동결조건에서 셀의 성능저하는 형성된 얼음의 물리적 부피팽창으로 인한 계면저항의 증가가 주요 원인임을 밝힐 수 있었다.

Pulse current 전기 도금법을 사용해 균일하고 넓은 표면적을 갖는 Pt 나노구조가 제조되었다. 도금된 Pt 나노구조의 형태와 크기 분석을 위해 SFM과 TEM이 사용되었으며, 결정성 분석에는 XRD가 사용되었다. 고분자 첨가제를 첨가하여 도금되는 Pt의 크기를 제어할 수 있었는데, 순수한 Pt에 비해 첨가제의 영향으로 크기가 제어된 나노구조의 Pt들의 평균크기는 각각 3.4 nm와 2.9 nm로 순수한 Pt 360 nm의 것에 비해 훨씬 작아진 결과를 나타낼 뿐 아니라 크기가 제어된 나노구조 Pt는 메탄올 전기 산화반응에서도 순수한 Pt보다 뛰어난 촉매활성을 가짐을 보여주었다.

이 논문은 DMFC와 태양전지의 하이브리드형 연료전지에 적합한 $TiO_{2}$구조에 대한 연구로서, DMFC에 사용되는 귀금속 Pt의 사용량을 줄이기 위해 Pt를 $TiO_{2}$광촉매 지지체에 함침 시켜 UV가 조사될 때 Pt의 활성을 극대화시키기 위한 연구이다. $TiO_{2}$는 Rutile결정 구조를 이루었으며, 반응 시간에 따라 나노막대 모양을 형성하였다. $NaBH_{4}$ 환원법을 통해 Pt를 함침 시켜 전극을 제조하였다. 이 전극들은 UV가 입사되지 않을 때보다 UV가 입사될 때 메탄올 산화성능이 주목할 만큼 향상되었다. 특히 긴 막대모양의 $TiO_{2}$에 백금이 잘 분산된 촉매의 메탄올 산화반응 성능이 크게 향상되었다. 이러한 $Pt/TiO_{2}$의 주목할 만한 성능 향상은 UV가 조사될 때 빛에 의해 생성된 $TiO_{2}$의 hole들에 의해 메탄올 산화반응이 향상된 것으로 사료된다.

Hydrothermal 방법에 의해 준비된 $SnO_{2}$ 나노구조의 Pt의 구조적 특징을 알아보기 위해 X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) 을 통해서 확인할 수 있었다. 그리고 $Pt/SnO_{2}$ 나노구조 촉매의 cyclic voltammogram(CV) 통해서 전기화학적 특정을 알아보았다. XRD와 TEM 결과를 통해서 $SnO_{2}$의 나노결정성 입자의 크기는 121 nm임을 확인할 수 있었고 작은 입자가 서로 뭉쳐지면서 핵을 형성한 후 입자의 크기가 점차 증가한다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 그리고 Pt 촉매의 나노결정성 입자의 크기는 4 nm로 확인하였다. 또한 $SnO_{2}$에 Pt촉매의 결정성 입자의 구성이 잘 형성되었음을 확인하였고, 전기화학적 분석을 통해서는 에탄올 산화환원반응과 다결정 Pt의 존재를 확인하였다. 특히 에탄올에 대한 산화반응의 특성을 보이며, 이는 $SnO_{2}$의 에탄올산화반응용 지지체로써의 가능성을 의미한다.

The solid state dye-sensitized saolrc cells (DSSCs) employing polymer electrolytes show high overall energy conversion efficiency as high as 4.5% at 1 sun conditions. The improved efficiency may be primarily due to the enlarged interfacial contact area between the electrolyte and dyes in addition to the increased ionic conductivity, which were done by utilizing liquid oligomers, followed by in situ self-solidification, to form the solid DSSCs "Oligomer Approach". The effect of the charge transfer resistance at the counter electrode side on the effciency has also been investigated.

현재까지 $P3HT:C_{60}-PCBM$계는 고분자 유기 태양전지에서 가장 좋은 효율을 보여주고 있다. 그러나 보다 고효율의 소자 제작을 위해 신재료에 대한 연구들이 활발히 진행되고 있으며, 본 연구에서는 $C_{60}-PCBM$ 대신 $C_{70}-PCBM$을 합성하여 소자를 제작하였다. $C_{70}-PCBM$은 $C_{60}-PCBM$에 비하여 가시광선 영역에서 상대적으로 높은 광흡수율을 보여 주었으며, 이것은 광전류의 향상을 가져왔다. 소자제작의 주요 변수로 $P3HT:C_{70}-PCBM$ 광활성층의 처리 조건, 즉, 용매, 조성비, 열처리 조건, 광활성층의 두께 등을 조절하였는데, buffer층(LiF 층) 등이 도입되지 않은 간단한 제작조건 하에서도 본 $C_{70}-PCBM$는 $C_{60}-PCBM$계에 버금가는 3.5% (AM 1.5G, 100 $mW/cm^{2}$ 조건) 이상의 효율을 나타내었다.

An evaporated Ti/Pd/Ag contact system is most widely used to make high-efficiency silicon solar cells, however, the system is not cost effective due to expensive materials and vacuum techniques. Commercial solar cells with screen-printed contacts formed by using Ag paste suffer from a low fill factor and a high shading loss because of high contact resistance and low aspect ratio. Low-cost Ni and Cu metal contacts have been formed by using electroless plating and electroplating techniques to replace the Ti/Pd/Ag and screen-printed Ag contacts. Ni/Cu alloy is plated on a silicon substrate by electro-deposition of the alloy from an acetate electrolyte solution, and nickel-silicide formation at the interface between the silicon and the nickel enhances stability and reduces the contact resistance. It was, therefore, found that nickel-silicide was suitable for high-efficiency solar cell applications. The Ni contact was formed on the front grid pattern by electroless plating followed by anneal ing at $380{\sim}400^{\circ}C$ for $15{\sim}30$ min at $N_{2}$ gas to allow formation of a nickel-silicide in a tube furnace or a rapid thermal processing(RTP) chamber because nickel is transformed to NiSi at $380{\sim}400^{\circ}C$. The Ni plating solution is composed of a mixture of $NiCl_{2}$ as a main nickel source. Cu was electroplated on the Ni layer by using a light induced plating method. The Cu electroplating solution was made up of a commercially available acid sulfate bath and additives to reduce the stress of the copper layer. The Ni/Cu contact was found to be well suited for high-efficiency solar cells and was successfully formed by using electroless plating and electroplating, which are more cost effective than vacuum evaporation. In this paper, we investigated low-cost Ni/Cu contact formation by electroless and electroplating for crystalline silicon solar cells.

The Solar energy is either used as a solar thermal energy or converted to electrical power through power conversion system. The latter method is defined as a solar cell changing the solar energy into the direct electric energy or power conversion that convert the dc power into ac power.For the solar cell to be a practical alternative energy, the study should be focused not only on the solar cell ,but also the power conversion system for common power source. In this study, we get the suitable power to common load ,using Ag Grid DSC(Dye-sensitized solar cell). Our purpose is to achieve the common solar cell power generation system ,using converter and PWM(Pulse width modulation) inverter system controled by DSP.

In this study, $CuInSe_{2}$ (CISe) and $CuInZnSe_{2}$ (CIZSe) thin films were prepared on Corning 1737 glass by radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering from binary chalcogenide mixed powder targets. The targets were initially prepared by mixing appropriate weights of CuSe, InSe powder and various ZnSe contents. From the film bulk analysis result, it is observed that Zn concentration in the films increases proportionally with the addition of ZnSe in the sputtering targets. Under optimized conditions, CISe and CIZSe thin films grow as a chalcopyrite structure with strong (112), (220/204) and (312/116) reflections. Films are found to exhibit a high absorption coefficient of $10^{4}$ $cm^{-1}$. An increasing of optical band gap from 1.0 eV (CISe) to 1.25 eV (CIZSe) is found to be proportional with an increasing of Zn concentration as expected. All films have a p-type semiconductor characteristic with a carrier concentration in the order of 1014 $cm^{-3}$, a mobility about $10^{1}$ $cm^{2{\cdot}-1}{\cdot}s^{-1}$ and a resistivity at the range of $10^{2}-10^{6}$ W${\cdot}$m.

In this study, the consolidation and casting processes of fine Si powders, by-products of making high purity Poly-Si rods in the current method, were systematically investigated for use as economical solar-grade feedstock. Morphology, size, and contamination type of the poly-Si fine powders were inspected by combined analysis of SEM, particle size analyzer, and FT-IR. Poly-Si powder compacts were tried to fabricate by a consolidation process without a binding agent and then their density ratio and strength were evaluated. Finally, the electrical resistivity of the specimens prepared by an electromagnetic casting method was examined for purity assessment.

플렉서블 태양전지용 연성기판재에는 플라스틱재와 금속재가 있다. 기존의 연성기판인 플라스틱의 경우 열과, 내구성, 화학약품에 약하다는 단점이 있으며, 금속기판은 높은 생산원가, 박판화의 어려움 등의 문제를 안고 있다. 상업적으로 응용되거나 연구에 활용되는 플렉서블 기판재의 단점을 보완할 수 있는 가능성을 밝혀보기 위해 전주성형법으로 합금 금속 포일을 제조하여 상용 금속 기판재의 열팽창 거동과 비교해 보았다. 본 연구에서는 플렉서블 태양전지용으로 적용되거나 연구되고 있는 금속 기판 재료인 두께 50 ${\mu}m$인 Ti, Mo, Al 포일을 선택하여 열팽창거동을 조사하였고 이를 전주성형법으로 제조한 두께 10 ${\mu}m$인 Fe-40Ni, Fe-45Ni, Fe-52Ni 합금포일의 열팽창 거동과 비교 분석하였다. 금속 및 합금 포일의 열팽창 거동은 TMA 장비를 사용하여 조사하였다.

태양광 분야에서 일본은 기술 및 보급에 성공한 대표적인 사례로서 거론된다. 태양광의 에너지자원화를 목표로 30여 년간 지속적으로 국가차원의 기술개발 및 보급을 정책 사업화하여 진행시켰고 성공적인 선행 단계를 밟아 왔다. 현재까지의 성공을 기반으로 [태양광 비전 2030]을 수립하여 실현가능한 장기 목표를 구체화하는 단계에 있다. 이에 일본 태양광 산업 및 기술개발 방향에 대한 분석을 통해 오늘 우리에게 주는 시사점을 도출하여 차세대 성장 동력 산업이 될 국내 태양광분야의 발전을 위한 지표로 삼고자 한다.

This study aims to present the application of pv system for apartment buildings. Regarding to the domestic housing politics to improve residing environment and effective use of country land, apartment buildings have been constructed since early of 1790's. Now apartment is taking over 50% out of entire housing in Korea. PV System of apartment buildings has been developed periodically and recently gable roof or canopy is popular which pv installation is more favorable. For balcony part with double skin facade sassy window, it has a preferable condition to install on the wall depending on the window direction. In case of superhigh floor apartment buildings where facade is mostly double skin facade of curtain wall system, pv module can replace the traditional curtain wall and will reduce architectural materials and obtain various out look design thereof. So, the purpose of this research is a basic study for clean energy source and present to applicability of pv systems for apartment buildings in preliminary design step.

The first grid-connected, building-integrated transparent amorphous silicon photovoltaic installation has been operated since October 2004 in Yongin, Korea. The 2.2kWp transparent PV system was applied to the facade of entrance hall in newly constructed KOLON E&C R&D building. The PV module is a nominal 0.98m ${\times}$ 0.95m, 10% transparent, laminated, amorphous(a-Si) thin-film device rated at 44 Wp per module. To demonstrate the architectural features of thin film PV technologies for daylighting application, transparent PV modules are attached to the building envelope with the form of single glazed window and special point glazing(SPG) frames. Besides power generation, the 10% transmittance of a-Si PV module provides very smooth natural daylight to the entrance hall without any special shading devices for whole year. The installation is fully instrumented and is continuously monitored in order to allow the performance assessment of amorphous silicon PV operating at the prevailing conditions. This paper presents measured power performance data from the first 12 months of operation. For the first year, annual average system specific yield was just 486.4kWh/kWp/year which is almost half of typical amorphous silicon PV output under the best angle and orientation. It should be caused by building orientation and self-shading of adjacent mass. Besides annual power output, various statistical analysis was performed to identify the characteristics of transparent thin film PV system.

This paper presents the performance evaluation of PV systems installed at Tibet area of China in order to identity the key factors that determines system operation at a severe climate conditions and promote the cooperation of PV technology between Korea and China. The installed systems consist of 100kW on-grid connected PV systems, BOS(balance of systems), data acquisition and transmission equipments. The Korea side supplied the solar cell, BOS like as inverter, control box and monitoring system. And the Chinese side assembled solar module, constructed site and built control house. It has been shown that the average radiation per monthly from Tibet is 1.5 times larger than that from Mokpo. Also, radiation time from Tibet is 2hour higher than that from Korea. The economical analysis has shown that with the current prices, investment in a grid connected PV systems is generally profitable

Since the residential load is an AC load and the output of solar cell is a DC power, the photovoltaic system needs the DC/AC converter to utilize solar cell. In case of driving to interact with utility line, in order to operate at unity power factor, converter must provide the sinusoidal wave current and voltage with same phase of utility line. Since output of solar cell is greatly fluctuated by insolation, it is necessary that the operation of solar cell output in the range of the vicinity of maximum power point. In this paper, DC/AC converter is three phase PWM converter with smoothing reactor. And then, feedforward control used to obtain a superior characteristic for current control and digital PLL circuit used to detect the phase of utility line.

본 논문에서는 MW급 집중배치형 태양광 발전시스템 설치 전 기상청 기상대 기후자료를 Solar Pro 시뮬레이터에 적용하여 최적의 발전 Site를 선정하는 방법을 소개하고, 그 결과를 보여준다. 국내 지역별로 일사량 및 지역 기후 특성에 따라 태양광 발전의 발전량이 차이가 남에 따라 태양광발전 사업 전 반드시 거쳐야 할 단계이다. 이를 토대로 MW급 태양광 발전시스템 설치 시 각 지역별 경제성 차이도 알아 볼 수 있다.

Reduction of optical losses in crystalline silicon solar cells by surface modification is one of the most important issues of silicon photovoltaics. Porous Si layers on the front surface of textured Si substrates have been investigated with the aim of improving the optical losses of the solar cells, because an anti-reflection coating(ARC) and a surface passivation can be obtained simultaneously in one process. We have demonstrated the feasibility of a very efficient porous Si ARC layer, prepared by a simple, cost effective, electrochemical etching method. Silicon p-type CZ (100) oriented wafers were textured by anisotropic etching in sodium carbonate solution. Then, the porous Si layers were formed by electrochemical etching in HF solutions. After that, the properties of porous Si in terms of morphology, structure and reflectance are summarized. The structure of porous Si layers was investigated with SEM. The formation of a nanoporous Si layer about 100nm thick on the textured silicon wafer result in a reflectance lower than 5% in the wavelength region from 500 to 900nm. Such a surface modification allows improving the Si solar cell characteristics. An efficiency of 13.4% is achieved on a monocrystalline silicon solar cell using the electrochemical technique.

An organic-inorganic hybrid solar cell fibers with characteristics such as formability, low-cost and tailorability was developed by deposition of C60 and CuPc on fiber surface. In spite of some variation according to the temperature of ITO deposition, the maximum open circuit voltage of 0.39V was attained at $150^{\circ}C$(1000end). The resulting solar cell showed the performances Isc=0.482, Voc=0.320, FF=0.285 ${\eta}_{e}=0.044$% which are comparable to one of other types of solar cells in literature.

전세계적으로 에너지난과 환경오염난을 겪고 있는 가운데 최근 대체에너지에 대한 관심이 어느 때보다 높은 시기이다. 다양한 대체에너지 중에서도 태양광 에너지는 우리나라 환경에 적합해 많은 연구가 진행 중인 분야이다. 대부분의 태양광 발전 시장이 결정질 실리콘 태양전지가 차지하고 있으나 경제성의 한계로 인해 최근 염료감응형 태양전지가 이를 대체할 수 있는 전지로 주목받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 염료감응형 태양전지의 상대전극에 증착하는 백금층의 두께 변화가 가져오는 출력특성의 영향을 연구했다. 상대전극에 증착되는 백금 박막은 염료감응형 태양전지의 매커니즘에서 입사광의 반사와 전기화학적 촉매작용 역할을 하는 것으로 박막의 두께가 두꺼워지면 반사율이 증가해 염료 분자가 받는 에너지가 늘어날 것으로 예상했다. 상대전극에 백금 Sputtering하는 시간을 1분에서 최대 5분까지 차를 두어 상대전극의 백금 박막의 두께를 $50nm{\sim}250nm$로 변화를 주어 측정한 결과, 250nm의 백금 박막층을 갖는 염료감응형 태양전지보다 백금 박막층이 150nm의 두께를 가질 때 가장 좋은 효율을 출력한다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이를 통해 상대전극의 백금 박막층에 의한 거울 효과와 촉매작용의 한계와 전자의 흐름 장애에 대한 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

The field of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) is being researched actively at present. Because DSC has several advantages to pass the limits of Si solar cells such as a low manufacturing expense, a simple manufacturing process and its transparency. A lot of researches are underway about materials and processes in the field of dye-sensitized solar cell but its structure has been fixed up as the sandwich structure that both edges are used as positive and negative terminals. But the structure as of present is a factor of decreasing efficiency because the more electrons are recombined the further distance from terminal, considering about the characteristic of dye-sensitized solar cell that electrons generated inside cell are moved by diffusion. In this study, we made experiment on expanding the terminal to shorten internal moving distance of electron and compared the results according to the variation of active area to find out the effect of this trial. As a result, we achieved about 15.5% improvement of maximum power and 0.5% improvement of efficiency from terminal-expanded dye-sensitized solar cell of $2cm^{2}$ active area and concluded that the increasing rate of efficiency is raised as the active area becomes wider.

Sputter deposition followed by surface treatment was studied using reactive RF plasma as a method for preparing titanium oxide($TiO_{2}$) films on indium tin oxide(ITO) coated glass substrate for dye-sensitized solar cells(DSSCs). Anatase structure $TiO_{2}$ films deposited by reactive RF magnetron sputtering under the conditions of $Ar/O_{2}$(5%) mixtures, RF power of 600W and substrate temperature of $400^{\circ}C$ were surface-treated by inductive coupled plasma(ICP) with $Ar/O_{2}$ mixtures at substrate temperature of $400^{\circ}C$, and thus the films were applied to the DSSCs, The $TiO_{2}$ Films made on these exhibited the BET specific surface area of 95, the pore volume of $0.3cm^{2}$ and the TEM particle size of ${\sim}25$ nm. The DSSCs made of this $TiO_{2}$ material exhibited an energy conversion efficiency of about 2.25% at $100mW/cm^{2}$ light intensity.

본 연구에서는 Cu와 In 성분을 포함하는 메탄올 용액을 닥터 블레이딩 방법으로 코팅한 후 이를 Se Evaporator 열처리하여 CIS 광흡수층을 제조하였다. $Cu(NO_{3})_{2}$, $INCl_{3}$ 를 출발 물질로 선정하고, 이를 메탄올 용매에 녹여 전구체 용액을 만든 후, 여기에 유기물 바인더 물질을 첨가하여 닥터 블레이드 코팅에 적합한 점도를 맞춘 후, 이를 Mo/glass 기판에 코팅하였다. 코팅된 Cu, In 함유 유기물 혼합체를 공기중에서 1차 열처리 한 후 Evaporator 를 이용해 Selenization 하여 태양전지용 CIS 광흡수층을 만들었다. 본 연구에서는 전구체 합성, 유기물 첨가, 공기중 열처리 및 Se 열처리 각 단계에서 광흡수층 막의 형상, 결정구조, 화학조성의 변화과정을 분석하여 CIS 박막의 형성 과정을 고찰하였다. 특히 Se 증발 온도가 CIS막의 특성과 조성에 미치는 영향을 분석하여, 최적의 셀렌화 조건을 도출하고자 하였다.

Recently, there were many researches for efficiency improvement of DSC. Among of these works, research of surface treatment is still a prerequisite for electron diffusion, light-harvesting and surface state of $DSC^{4)}$. Using of the surface treatment, it can be raise up porosity of $TiO_{2}$ nano-crystalline structure on $photo-electrode^{5)}$. There are chemical, physical, electrical and optical methods which raise up its porosity. In this paper, we have designed and manufactured MOPA-type ultrasonic circuit (100W, frequency and duty variable). Manufactured ultrasonic circuit to use to force cavity density and power into $TiO_{2}$ paste. Then, we have optimized forcing time, frequency and duty of ultrasonic irradiation for surface treatment of photo-electrode of DSC. In I-V characteristic test of DSC, ultrasonic and thermal treated DSC shows 19% improved its efficiency against established DSC.

A new binder-free $TiO_{2}$ paste was prepared by common ion applying effect, enabling low temperature fabrication required for flexible solar cells. The binder-free and high viscosity $TiO_{2}$ coating solution was produced by adding 7.5% aniline in $TiO_{2}$ colloid solution obtained from the high pressure water-heat response method. The resulting pastes had high level of viscosities proper for optimal coating and thus revealed excellent performances in terms of thickness uniformity and I-V characteristics.

$TiO_{2}$ electrode electrospun directly onto the substrate was developed for energy conversion device. To enhance energy conversion efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cell, electrodes should have higher surface area to absorb more dyes and higher conductivity to reduce recombination of generated electrons. $TiO_{2}$ nanofibers with higher surface areas were fabricated by annealing electrospun $TiO_{2}/PVP$ nanofibers at $500^{\circ}C$ for 3 hrs in air. it was revealed that $TiO_{2}$ nanofiber electrodes is hybrid with MWNT showed higher conductivity than $TiO_{2}$ semiconductor electrode possibly due to band gap change.

$CuInS_{2}$ thin films were synthesized by sulpurization of Cu/In Stacked elemental layer deposited onto glass Substrates by vacuum furnace annealing at temperature 200[$^{\circ}C$]. And structural and electrical properties were measured in order to certify optimum conditions for growth of the ternary compound semiconductor $CuInS_{2}$ thin films with non-stoichiometry composition. $CuInS_{2}$ thin film was well made at the heat treatment 200[$^{\circ}C$] of SLG/Cu/ln/S stacked elemental layer which was prepared by thermal evaporator, and chemical composition of the thin film was analyzed nearly as the proportion of 1 : 1 : 2. Physical properties of the thin film were investigated at various fabrication conditions substrate temperature, annealing and temperature, annealing time by XRD, FE-SEM and Hall measurement system. At the same time, carrier concentration, hall mobility and resistivity of the thin films was $9.10568{\times}10^{17}$ [$cm^{-3}$], 312.502 [$cm^{2}/V{\cdot}s$] and $2.36{\times}10^{-2}$ [${\Omega}{\cdot}cm$], respectively.

탄소나노튜브는 화학적 안정성과 고전도성을 갖는 동시에 높은 비표면적을 지니고 있다. 이와 같은 특정으로 염료감응형태양전지의 상대전극으로 사용 가능이 기대되어 지고 있으나, 아직 성공적인 연구가 발표되고 있지 않다. 많은 연구자들이 CNT 자체만으로 원하는 효과를 얻지 못하고 있기 때문에, CNT 조작(가공)을 통해 CNT 특성을 올리고자 노력하였다. 그러나 본 연구에서, 가공하지 않은 CNT powder를 이용하여 paste를 제조하고 doctro-blade법으로 코팅하여 CNT counter electrode를 제조하여 DSSC의 상대전극으로써의 적용 가능성을 조사 해 보았다. 제조된 CNT counter electrode에 대한 CNT 자체만의 전기화학적 특성을 측정하였다. 그리고 DSSC 에 직접 적용하여 전지의 광전특성을 측정하였다. 그 결과 탄소나노튜브의 고전도성 특성과 넓은 비표면적 특성에 의해 상대전극의 전해질/전극계변에서의 전해질의 산화환원 반응에 대한 촉매 작용을 향상시키고, 상대전극 표변에서의 전자전달 속도를 높여 염료감응형 태양전지의 효율을 높이는 것으로 확인되어졌다.

Cost effectiveness is an important parameter for producing DSSCs as compared to the widely used conventional silicon based solar cells. A fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate coated with a catalytic amount of platinum is used as counter electrode in dye-sensitized solar cell. Carbonaceous materials are quite attractive to replace platinum due to their high electronic conductivity, corrosion resistance towards $I_{2}$, good catalytic effect and low cost. In this paper, the unit DSSCs with Pt and CNT as a counter electrode were connected in series-parallel externally, then the current-voltage curves were investigated to find out the connection characteristics of the DSSC with CNT counter electrode. The connection characteristics of the DSSC with CNT counter electrode is superior to that of the DSSC with Pt counter electrode. And a parallel connection of the DSSC with CNT counter electrode has higher efficiency than a series connection of that.

$Cu(In_{1-x}Ga_{x})Se_2$(CIGS)는 매우 큰 광흡수계수를 가지고 있으므로 박막형 태양전지의 광흡수층 재료로서 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 박막이 태양전지의 광흡수층으로 이용되기 위해서는 큰 결정크기와 평탄한 표면, 적당한 전기적 특성을 가져야 한다. 이러한 특성들은 CIGS 박막의 조성에 큰 영향을 받고 있는 것으로 보고되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 동시증발법을 이용하여 Cu/(In+Ga) 비를 0.9로 고정한 후 Ga 조성(Ga/(In+Ga)의 비 : 0.32, 0.49, 0.69, 0.8, 1)을 변화시켜 Wide band gap CIGS 박막태양전지를 만들었다. 기판은 soda line glass를 사용하였고 뒷면 전극으로는 Mo를 스퍼터링법으로 증착하였다. 또한 버퍼층으로는 기존에 쓰이고 있는 CdS를 CBD(Chemical Bath Deposition)법으로 층착시켰으며, 윈도우층으로는 i-ZnO/n-ZnO를 스파터링 법으로 층착하였다. 그리고 앞면전극으로는 Al을 E-beam 으로 증착하였다. 분석은 XRD, SEM, QE로 분석하였다. 위 실험에서 얻은 결과로는 Ga/(In+Ga)비가 증가할수록 Cu(In,Ga)Se2 박막은 회절 peak들이 큰 회절각으로 이동하였고, 이것은 Ga 원자와 In 원자의 원자반경의 차이에서 기인된 것으로 사료된다. 또한 Ga 조성이 증가할수록 단파장 쪽으로 이동하는 것을 볼 수 있으며, Voc가 증가하다가 에너지 밴드캡이 1.62 eV 이상에서는 Voc가 감소하는 것을 볼 수 있는데 이것은 Ga 조성이 증가할수록 에너지 밴드캡이 커지면서 defect level 이 존재하기 때문인 것으로 사료된다. Ga/(In+Ga)비가 1일 때의 변환효율은 8.5 %이고， Voc : 0.74 (V), Jsc : 17.2 ($mA/cm^{2}$), F.F : 66.6(%) 이다.

Temperature difference between two plates occurs when a current is passed though two semi-conductors that are connected each other at two junctions. The current drives a transfer of heat from one junction to the other. In this study, the thermoelectric module based on th "Peltier effect" was made by combing fullerene and polyaniline. Continuous temperature measurements on both surfaces were performed at room temperature($25.4^{\circ}C$) by an infrared non-contact thermometer. The results showed that cool ing effect of $2.2^{\circ}C$ was attained by 30 seconds, after which the effect was continuously vanished mainly due to electro decomposition.

치밀한 $CuInSe_{2}$ (CIS) 태양전지용 광흡수층을 제조하기 위해 상용되는 출발물질을 이용하여 비진공방식인 paste coating 법으로 CIS 막을 제조하였다. 먼저 치밀한 CIS 막 제조를 위해 $Cu_{2}Se$의 액상 거동을 관찰하였다. 이러한 $Cu_{2}Se_{2}$의 액상거동을 위해 Se 분위기에서 Se 증발온도, 기판온도, 열처리시간 등을 다양하게 변화 시켰으며, Se 증발온도 $450^{\circ}C$, 기판온도 $550^{\circ}C$, 열처리시간 30분 그리고 수송가스 ($N_{2}$)를 20 sccm으로 최적조건을 형성하였다. 이러한 최적조건을 바탕으로 치밀한 CIS막을 위해 two-zone RIP (rapid temperature process) 방법으로 Se 분위기 안에서 셀렌화를 위한 열처리를 행하였다. 셀렌화를 위해 다양한 열처리시간에 따라 형성된 CIS 막은 CIS 광흡수층과 Mo 박막 사이에서 $MoSe_{2}$ 층이 형성되었지만, 균일한 CIS 막을 얻었으며 업자성장과 치밀화 거동을 관찰 하였다. 또한, CIS 막의 치밀화를 위해 Se 증발온도와 열처리시간을 고정하고 기판온도를 $600^{\circ}C$로 증가시켜 $Cu_{2}Se$의 액상거동을 관찰하였다. $600^{\circ}C$에서 형성된 CIS 막은 기판온도 $500^{\circ}C$의 시편보다 입자성장과 치밀화가 되었으나 기판으로 사용하는 soda-lime glass의 휨 현상이 발생하였다.

NREL Phase VI 12% 축소모델을 사용한 표준풍력터빈 풍동시험은 2006년에 1차 시험이 수행되었다. 1차 풍동시험은 복합재 블레이드를 사용하여 표준조건(설치각 3도)에 대해 수행되었으며 블레이드 표면상태에 따라 측정값이 영향을 받는 것을 파악하였다. 2007년 4월에 수행된 2차 풍동시험은 표면상태의 영향을 보다 정확히 파악하기 위해 알루미늄 블레이드를 사용하여 시험을 수행하였으며, 블레이드 제작 정밀도에 따른 영향을 파악하였다. 낮은 레이놀즈 수 영역(저속영역)에서는 블레이드 표면상태 따라 토크 값 다르게 나타나며, 블레이드 끝단 부근의 제작 정밀도는 최대 토크 이후의 영역에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 0.1mm 이내의 정밀도로 제작된 모델의 경우 NREL 시험결과와 전체적인 형상이 유사하게 나타나며, 축소효과에 의한 영향으로 최대토크는 약 25% 정도 감소현상을 보이고 있다.

In wind turbine blades, airfoils are required to have different spec when compared with airplane airfoil. Airfoils for wind turbine blade must have a high lift-to-drag ratio, moderate to high lift and especially low roughness sensitivity. Also an operation Re. No.s are lower than conventional airplane airfoils. At mid-span and inboard region, structural problems have to be considered. Especially, for stall regulated type, moderate stall behavior is essential part of design. For these reasons, airfoil design for HAWT blade is essential part of blade design. In this paper, root airfoil and tip airfoil are discussed. For a root region, 24% thickness airfoil is designed and for a top region, 12% thickness ratio is done. A inverse design method and panel method are used for rapid airfoil design. In this paper, a design method, features of airfoil shape and characteristics are discussed.

This paper presents the general results of the conceptual design of a 3MW class offshore wind turbine named WinDS 3000 under development. In WinDS 3000, an integrated drive train design, three stage gearbox and permanent magnet generator (PMG) with fully rated converters have been introduced. A pitch regulated variable speed power control with individual pitch control has been adopted to regulate rotor torque while generator reaction torque can be adjusted almost instantaneously by the associated power electronics. Through the introduction of WinDS 3000, it is expected that helpful to understanding of the development status of 3MW offshore wind turbine.

For the development of wind turbine, generally simulator is used. Simulator include wind turbine components. e.g blades, pitch and pitching method, rotor, yaw system, tower, drive train and so on. Few the more, it include a external circumstance. e.g wind speed, wind direction, air density. these basic parameters be used for the control of wind turbine by wind turbine controller in wind turbine simulator. The wind turbine controller can be designed in the wind turbine simulator. But a developer must make the real control system that will be made using PLC or PC or other processor. The developer must verify the function of control system. that is control algorithm , I/O function, communication, sequence and so on. This verification is possible if we substitute the real wind turbine control system for wind turbine controller in the simulator.

This paper deals with a pitch control for reducing load of the wind turbine system. To make a model of the wind turbine system, the Momentum Theory and Blade Element Theory are used. Considering wind shear, wind model was also built. Due to a difference of the wind speed between upper parts and lower parts of the sweep area, overturning moment of the wind turbine is generated. So, in this paper through analyzing of the system model of the wind turbine, a control algorithm which was able to achieve both maintaining power and reducing overturning moment was proposed. Using matlab simulink, controller performance was verified.

To improve the reliability for a wind-turbine gearbox, the mechanical loads acting on the gearbox need to be monitored and analysed exactly. This study was conducted to identify the characteristics of torques and bending moments acting on the main shaft of the gearbox using the rainflow counting method and predict the fatigue life of the main shaft by using the modified Miner's rule. While the mean wind speed became 3.5 m/s, the life of the main shaft by the acting torques was predicted as 4.3${\times}10^6$ years, and it by the bending moments was as 2.3${\times}10^4$ years. If the life of the wind turbine was estimated as 20 years, the fatigue life of the main shaft was regarded as infinite. Also, it was suggested that the life of the main shaft must be predicted by not the torques but the bending moments.

This paper describes the design and integration of the wind- fuel cell hybrid system. The hybrid system components included a wind turbine, an electrolyzer (for generation of H2), a PEMFC (Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell), storage system and BOP (Balance of Plant) system. The energy input is entirely provided by a wind turbine. A DC-DC converter controls the power input to the electrolyzer, which produces hydrogen and oxygen form water. The hydrogen used the fuel for the PEMFC. The hydrogen is compressed and stored in high pressure tank by hydrogen gas booster system.

The gearbox for wind turbine have been increased the size by the wind turbine is needed to produce bigger power. The optimal sizing for gearbox is demanded because of limited space on the nacelle. The volume and weight for the gearbox are influenced especially for size of it. Therefore, the purpose of this study investigates the design characteristics considering types of gear train structure for optimizing the volume and weight of the gearbox.

The foundation insert is a tubular steel section which is embedded into the concrete of the foundation. The tower base section of the wind turbine is mounted on it. It has a top flange (L type) protruding far enough above the concrete to allow bolts to be inserted from underneath. The load is transmitted to the concrete at the base of the section through a T shaped flange. It has many holes for the reinforcements and the cables. The reinforcements of the concrete foundation run through the insert via a series of holes to bind the inner section to the outer section. Holes are provided for the power and communications cabling. The design follows normal European wind turbine practice, based on GL 2003 and Eurocode regulations.

Renewable energy sources such as wind energy is copiously available without any limitation. Wind turbines are used to tap the potential of wind energy which is available in millions of megawatt. Reliability of wind turbine is critical to extract this maximum amount of energy from the wind. We reviewed different techniques, methodologies, and algorithms developed to monitor the performance of wind turbine as well as for an early fault detection to keep away the wind turbines from catastrophic conditions due to sudden breakdowns. To keep the wind turbine in operation, implementation of Condition Monitoring System (CMS) is paramount, and for this purpose ample knowledge of these types of system is mandatory. So, an attempt has been made in this direction to review maximum approaches related to CMS in this piece of writing.

소형 풍력터빈 설계 시 고려해야 할 익형의 선택, 익형의 붙임각 및 Solidity 등이 터빈의 성능에 미치는 영향을 고찰하였다. 한 개의 익형에 대한 공력계수를 이용하여 수학적 모델링을 통하여 최적 붙임각을 예측하여 경향을 파악하였다. 받음각에 따른 익형의 공력특성을 CFD 기법으로 파악한 후 5개의 Blade를 갖는 Turbine의 성능을 익형의 붙임각에 따라 파악하여 최대 성능을 갖는 붙임각을 최종 산출하였다. 익형 선정시 받음각에 대한 양력/항력 곡선을 이동시키는 캠버 익형의 기능보다는 항력 대양력의 비(L/D) 가 최대인 익형을 선정하는 것이 더욱 중요하며, Blade수가 적을수록 Torque의 양은 증가하고 Blade가 6이상이변 효율이 급격히 감소함을 알 수 있다.

현재 국내에서 운용중인 풍력발전시스템은 국내 풍력자원에 대한 정확한 정보의 부재와 국내 풍황에 맞지 않는 국외 모델을 그대로 운용하는 등의 몇 가지 문제를 드러내었다. 본 연구의 목적은 국내 연안의 해상에서 한국형 해상풍력터빈을 설치하기 위한 잠재적 최적위치와 풍황자료 산출 최적화 알고리즘을 구현하는 것이다. 최적화 알고리즘은 얕은 수심 분포와 연안에서의 거리를 제약조건으로 하고 최대 에너지밀도를 가진 지점을 구하는 것으로 정식화하였다. 풍황자료 산출을 위해서 국내 연안의 해상 풍황자료를 포함하는 기상풍황자료를 통계적 모델로 분석하여 바람지도를 작성하였다. 이 바람지도를 이용하여 지질 통계학 분야의 관측기법인 크리깅 모델을 구성하고, 전역최적화기법인 유전자알고리즘을 이용하여 제약조건을 만족하는 최대에너지밀도값과 그 위치를 도출하였다. 수치최적화 결과 우리나라 풍력 자원의 대략적인 잠재량과 현황파악이 가능하였고, 해상풍력발전단지가 조성 가능한 개략적인 위치를 예측할 수 있었다.

To assure the structural integrity for the hub and low speed shaft (LSS) of the drive train, it is necessary to obtain the ultimate aerodynamic loads acting on the wind turbine blade. The aim of this study is to predict the time histories of 3 forces and 3 moments at the hub and the LSS based on the design load case of the IEC 61400-1. From the calculated results most of the load components have rotor revolution frequency whereas thrust and torque of the LSS show blade passage frequency. It turns out that the EWM wind condition involves the maximum ultimate loads at both hub and LSS of the horizontal axis wind turbine.

This paper describes the prediction of aerodynamic performance and wake of HAWT in normal and yawed flow operation using potential based methods. In order to analyze aerodynamic performance of wind turbine WINFAS program is used, which is based on VLM(Vortex Lattice Method) and CVC(Constant vorticity contour) Free wake model. Some problems of CVC vortex filament method are investigated arid to improve these problems vortex ring wake are introduced in behalf of CVC vortex filament. The prediction results using the vortex lattice wake are compared to experimental data.

In order to support wind power development in Jejudo, the island of winds, the wind resource database KIER-WindJeju has been established by meteor-statistical analysis on met-mast measurements of KIER. The analysis includes tower shading, exposure category, wind profile exponent for wind speed extrapolation to hub height of wind turbine, and correlation matrix between neighboring sites to assist choice of appropriate reference site for long-term correlation. KIER-WindJeju will be provided as an add-on of Google $Earth^{TM}$ and will be used as a guideline of future wind resource assessment in Jejudo.

Pohang Wind Energy Research Center (PoWER-C) is developing a 3 MW Radial Flux Permanent Magnet (RFPM) Synchronous Generator for offshore Wind Energy Converter (WEC). The rotor rpm is 15.7 and the gear ratio is set to be 92.93. The nominal generator rpm at the rated load is about 1459. To reduce the switching loss in the power electronics, the maximum frequency is limited to 100 Hz. This requirement limits the number of pole to six or eight. Permanent magnet excitation is assumed for higher energy yield and higher efficiency. In this report, the requirements and the first efforts for the physics design are described.

본 논문에서는 750 kW 풍력발전용 인버터를 개발한 결과와 2년 동안의 현장실증을 통하여 얻어진 경험을 바탕으로 2 MW 영구자석형 동기발전기(PMSG, Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator)의 전력변환을 위한 병렬형 인버터의 시뮬레이션과 이를 통한 설계와 제작 및 기본시험 과정을 소개하고자 한다.

본 연구의 목적은 3차원 풍력터빈 블레이드 최적형상설계를 위한 실용적이고 효율적인 설계 과정을 구현하는 것이다. 국내 연안의 해상풍력에 적용하기 위해서 통계적 모델을 이용하여 풍황 자료를 분석하였다. 설계에 관련된 많은 수의 설계변수를 효과적으로 관리하기 위해서 설계과정은 운용조건 최적화와 블레이드 형상설계의 2단계로 구성하였다. 실험계획법에 의해 추출된 각 운용조건점은 형상설계를 위한 입력값으로 제공된다. 형상설계 단계에서는 최소에너지손실 조건과 결합된 BEMT를 이용하여 각 블레이드 단면에서의 시위길이와 피치각 분포를 최적화하였다. 블레이드 단면 익형은 NREL S830을 이용하였고, 익형의 공력성능은 XFOIL을 이용하여 예측하였다. 설계된 블레이드 형상의 성능해석을 수행하고 그 결과를 바탕으로 반응면을 구성하였다. 좀 더 나은 성능을 가진 블레이드 형상을 찾기 위해서 초기설계공간에서 확률적 방법을 이용하여 타당성 있는 설계공간까지 운용조건 설계변수를 이동시키고 구배최적화 기법을 통해 각각의 제약함수를 만족하면서 연평균발생에너지를 최대로 하는 최적블레이드 형상을 구현하였다. 제시된 최적설계과정은 풍력터빈블레이드 개발에 실용적이고 신뢰성 있는 설계툴로서 사용이 가능하다.

International Geothermal Association (IGA) and Geothermal Implementing Agreement (GIA) under Committee on Energy Research & Technology (CERT) of International Energy Agency (IEA) are the two major international organizations leading geothermal research, development and deployment (RD&D). IGA has been established in 1988 by geothermal societies in Europe and America and presently consists of 23 affiliated societies. Current number of members of IGA reaches 2,000 from 65 countries and its most important activity may be to organize the World Geothermal Congress (WGC) every five years. IEA-GIA has been established in 1993 and its executive committee (ExCo) consists of 11 countries, 1 organization (EC) and 3 sponsor companies. Korea became a member of ExCo on September 2005 through Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources (KIGAM) as representative. KIGAM is also actively participating in Direct Use Annex through a task leader of several tasks.

Three boreholes (BE-1, BE-2 and BE-3) were drilled for geothermal resources development in Haengbok (Sejong) city. Monitoring of temperature, electric conductivity (EC) and piezometric head were carried out at each borehole. Temperatures were measured at 10 m depth, it ranges from 13.22$^{\cdot}C$ to 14.4$^{\cdot}C$. EC of BE-1 and BE-3 declined with time because groundwater flowed in boreholes. Barometric efficiency was analysed by piezometric head of groundwater and atmospheric pressure, it ranges from 44.8% to 71.5%. These parameters can be used for a geothermal modeling.

We made 980 thermal conductivity measurements on igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, and volcanic rock samples from Korea. The average thermal conductivity of igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, and volcanic rocks are 3.41 W/m-K, 3.98 W/m-K, 4.10 W/m-K, and 3.21 W/m-K, respectively. Thermal conductivity values of a rock type generally have a wide range because thermal conductivity depends on various factors such as dominant mineral phase, micro-structure, anisotoropy and so on. Thermal properties (thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity and specific heat) are important variables which are used to design a geothermal heat pump(GHP) system. Therefore, our thermal property data can contribute on a efficient design of a GHP system.

The geothermal heat pump system is designed for cooling and heating for three stories building (2,435 $m^2$) includes total 79 heat pumps. Therefore, the monitoring system is installed for each floor and the data is automatically transmitted to the monitoring system. Heat exchange rate and temperature of a geothermal heat pump system have been monitored for a long period. The seasonal operation of geothermal heat pump shows the different shape of heat exchange rate for cooling and heating. Ground water flow can influence on heat exchange rate and thermal storage of the system. In order to define the hydraulic characteristics and groundwater temperature variation, the relationships among air temperatures, groundwater temperatures, water table, and precipitation are analysed.

Thermal conductivities (TC) of 57 Jurassic muscovitic granite samples (KIGAM) and 149 porphyritic granite samples (Yeonki: BE-2, BE-3) were measured with LFA-447. Ranges of TC values are $2.429{\sim}3.878$ W/mK (KIGAM), $2.220{\sim}3.767$ W/mK (Yeonki, BE-2) and $2.019{\sim}3.990$ W/mK (Yeonki, BE-3); arithmetic means are 2.924 W/mK (KIGAM), 2.907 W/mK (Yeonki, BE-2), and 2.881 W/mK (Yeonki, BE-3), respectively. In this study, harmonic mean values were calculated to estimate the average value of TC. Harmonic mean values are 2.883 W/mK (KIGAM), 2.886 W/mK (Yeonki, BE-2), and 2.866 W/mK (Yeonki, BE-3), respectively. Heat extraction rates of a borehole heat exchanger strongly depend on TC values. Heat-extraction rates from re values are expected to be a little lower than 84 W/m in all sites. However, considering ground water flow, it is expected that actual heat extraction rate would be higher than the expected value.

유출지하수는 지하공간이 깊고 넓게 분포하는 건물에서 자연적으로 유출되어 배출되는 낮은 심도의 지하수이다. 본 연구에서는 신축된 교회건물에서 유출되는 지하수를 열원으로 밀폐형태와 개방형태의 열교환기를 활용하여 각각 5RT급 히트펌프시스템을 난방모드로 운전한 결과를 정리하였다. 실험은 난방순환수의 온도를 $43{\sim}49$ $^{\cdot}C$ 범위에서 제어하면서 진행하였으며, 시스템 COP에 있어서 밀폐형은 $4.12{\sim}4.75$, 개방형은 $3.42{\sim}3.98$의 범위에서 측정되었다. 이는 기존의 지열히트펌프시스템의 COP와 대동 소이한 우수한 성능이라고 판단된다. 또한 펌프동력을 제외한 히트펌프 자체 난방COP에 있어서 밀폐형은 $4.69{\sim}5.81$, 개방형은 $4.38{\sim}5.43$의 범위에서 나타났다. 유출지하수의 온도가 겨울철에도 약 $12{\sim}14^{\cdot}C$를 유지하므로 히트펌프와 시스템전체의 COP가 매우 우수한 값을 나타내고 있음이 확인되었다.

Heat pumps are used for air-conditioning systems in commercial buildings, schools, and factories because of low operating and maintenance costs. These systems use the earth as a heat source in heating mode and a heat sink in cooling mode. Ground heat exchangers are classified by a horizontal type and vertical type according to the installation method. A horizontal type means that a heat exchanger is laid in the trench bored in 1.2 to 1.8 m depth. And a vertical type is usually constructed by placing small diameter high density polyethylene tube in a vertical borehole. Vertical tube sizes range from 20 to 40 mm nominal diameter. Borehole depth range between 100 and 200 m depending on local drilling conditions and available equipment. In this study, to evaluate the performance of single u-tube with bentonite grouting, single u-tube with broken stone grouting and double n-tube bentonite grouting of vertical ground heat exchangers, test sections are buried on the earth and experimental apparatus is installed. Therefore the heat transfer performance and pressure loss of these are estimated.

Geothermal heat exchanger(GHEX) is a major component of Geothermal heat pump system(GSHPs). In Common, We use the vertical type GHEX in Korea. But vertical type GHEX needs a high cost for installation, because of drilling the hole which has 200m depth at max. So, We suggest the use of horizontal type GHEX. When we construct buildins, We excavate the ground and we can install the horizontal type GHEX at the excavated underground. It's very cheap and convenient method compare to vertical type GHEX installation. This study is peformed to estimate the peformance of horizontal type GHEX and to analyze effects of heat exchanger types and undergroundwater. As the result, slinky type GHEX has a 66% efficiency compare to vertical type GHEX and mat type has a 201% efficiency at the undergroundwater zone.

Hydrate phase equilibrium for the binary CO2+water and CH4+water mixtures in silica gel pore of nominal 6, 30, and 100 nm were measured and compared with the cacluated results based on van der Waals and Platteeuw model. At a specific temperature three-phase hydrate-water-vapor (HLV) equilibrium curves for pore hydrates were shifted to the higher-pressure condition depending on pore sizes when compared with those of bulk hydrates. Notably, hydrate phase equilibria for the case of 100 nominal urn pore size were nealy identical with those of bulk hydrates. The activities of water in porous silica gels were modified to account for capillary effect, and the calculation results were generally in good agreement with the experimental data.

마이크로 이미징은 물 분자가 하이드레이트 구조로 전환되는 것을 미시적으로 관찰할 수 있다. 본 고에서는 메탄과 $CO_2$ 하이드레이트 생성 실험을 실리카 젤과 bulk water를 이용해 실시하면서 이를 마이크로 이미징으로 관찰한 결과를 제시하고자 한다. Bulk water에서 하이드레이트 shell에 의해 하이드레이트 생성 속도가 제한을 받는 반면, 실리카 젤에서는 미세 pore에서의 생성 특성이 매우 빠르게 진행되는 것으로 관찰되었다.

$SF_6$(sulfur hexafluoride)는 뛰어난 단열 및 아크방지능력(arc-extinguishingproperty)으로 인해, 전력용 변압기의 절연가스와 반도체${\cdot}$액정용 플라즈마 CVD로의 cleaning gas, 주물공장 covering gas 등으로 사용되고 있다. 하지만, $SF_6$의 지구온난화지수(global warming potential)는 $CO_2$대비 23,900배가 높아 기후변화에 미치는 영향이 $CO_2$보다 훨씬 크고, 대기 중 분해되지 않고 잔존하는 기간이 $CH_4$ 10년, $CO_2$ 및 CFCs는 100년으로 추정되는데 반해, $SF_6$는 3,200년으로 연간방출양이 작더라도 오랜 기간 누적되면 그 파장이 클 것으로 사료된다. 대부분의 가스 하이드레이트(고상결정상태)는 고압, 저온에서 형성가능 하지만, 불화가스에 대해서는 쉽게 결정화가 일어난다. $SF_6$는 3$^{\circ}C$, 2기압에서 고밀도 고상화가 되기 때문에 여러 기체와 흔합되어 있는 경우 $SF_6$만을 압축된 고상 결정상태를 형성, $SF_6$를 회수, 정제할 수 있으므로 불화가스 분리${\cdot}$회수에 기술적, 경제적 효과를 기대할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 하이드레이트 촉진제로서 계면활성제(promoter) 첨가에 따른 $SF_6$ 하이드레이트 형성 및 해리과정 실험을 통해 효율적인 $SF_6$ 저감에 관한 적용기술을 연구해 보았다.

The P-wave velocity at the formation which contains gas hydrate varies very wide upon gas hydrate existence. These features on seismic shot gather can not be simulated normally by numerical modeling of homogeneous medium so that we need that of random inhomogeneous medium instead. We, in this study generated random inhomogeneous medium using gaussian ACF, exponential ACF and von Karman ACF and that we supposed the random inhomogeneous medium be gas hydrate formation to execute numeric modeling. The modeling result shows the typical effect by scattering caused by random hydrate formation as is observed from seismic shot gather where hydrate exist.

Korean Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) has studied on gas hydrate in the Ulleung Basin, East sea of Korea since 1997. Most of all, a evidence for existence of gas hydrate, possible new energy resources, in seismic reflection data is bottom simulating reflection (BSR) which parallel to the sea bottom. Here we conducted the conventional data processing for gas hydrate data and Kirchhoff prestack depth migration. Kirchhoff migration is widely used for pre- and post-stack migration might be helpful to better image as well as to get the geological information. The processed stack image by GEOBIT showed some geological structures such as faults and shallow gas hydrate seeping area indicated by strong BSR. The BSR in the stack image showed at TWT 3.07s between shot gather No 3940 to No 4120. The estimated gas seeping area occurred at the shot point No 4187 to No 4203 and it seems to have some minor faults at shot point No 3735, 3791, 3947 and 4120. According to the result of depth migration, the BSR showed as 2.3km below the sea bottom.

탄성파 코다 파는 두 수진기에서 기록된 탄성파 자료의 상호상관으로부터 두 신호에 대한 순간응답을 구하고 이로부터 지층정보를 구하는데 이용된다. 여기에서는 인공합성 탄성파 자료와 가스 하이드레이트 현장자료에 적용하여 상호상관 모음도와 가상음원 모음도 (virtual source)를 구하고자 하였다. 인공합성자료는 해저면 탄성파 탐사법 (ocean bottom seismic)을 모델로 이용하여 인공합성 탄성파 단면도를 제작하였으며, 탄성파 코다 파를 살펴보기 위해 인공 OBS 자료 중 첫 번째 트레이스를 가상음원으로 정하고 모든 음원 모음도와 상호상관으로 가상응원 단면도를 제작하였다. 현장자료 적용으로는 해저면 기인 고진폭 반사파인 BSR (bottom simulating reflection)을 포함하고 있는 자료를 선정하여 상호상관 단면도와 가상음원 단면도를 제작하였다. 중합단면도상에 나타난 가스 분출지역은 상호상관 단면도에서도 나타났으며, 중합단면도상 BSR부분은 vs 단면도에서 강한 반사파를 보여줌을 알 수 있었다.

오호츠크해 사할린 북동 해저사면지역은 세계적인 가스수화물 산출지역으로 알려져있다. 이미 2005년 탐사에서 50 cm 두께의 순수 가스수화물 시료를 해저면에서 채취한 지역이다. 2006년 탐사에서는 다양한 주파수대역의 고해상도 지구불리장비를 사용하여 탐사를 실시하였다. Side-scan Sonal와 3.5 kHz SBP 탐사, 수중음향 탐사를 통해 대규모 하도구조가 가스수화물지역의 북쪽 경계를 형성하고 있음을 밝혔다. 가스수화물의 BSR은 수심에 얕아짐에 따라 계속해서 심도가 감소하여 수심 약 300 m에서 해저면에 다다름. 이는 연구지역에서의 가스수화물 안정대의 상부경계가 약 300 m임을 시사한다 가스수화물 분출구조들은 약 1000m 수심을 경계로 천부에 분포하고, 해저면에는 원형의 가스분출구조들이 특징적으로 나타난다. 반면에 1000 m 수심보다 깊은 지역에서는 mud-dirpir의 상승구조로 판단되는 상승구조들이 해저면에 굴곡지형을 형성하고 있다. 해수중으로 분출하는 가스기둥들은 수심 111.2 m에서 1226.4 m 지점까지 다양한 수심에서 분포하며, 상승높이는 최대 750 m에 이르며, 약 150 m 수심까지 도달한다. 이는 해저에서 분출되는 메탄가스가 해수에 흡수되지 않고 해수면까지 이동하여 대기중으로 발출될 수 있음을 시사한다.

동해 울릉분지에서 채취된 피스톤 코어 시료의 퇴적상과 유기물 특성을 대비하였다. 코어 시료의 퇴적상은 크게 홀로세 생물교란된 뻘 퇴적상과 빙하기의 다양한(생물교란된, 엽리가 발달된) 뻘 퇴적상으로 구분되었다. 코어 시료의 유기물 특성은 총유기탄소함량과 퇴적물 밝기($L^{\ast}$), 석영 함량, 오팔A 함량을 대비하여 밝혔다. 총유기탄소함량은 퇴적물 밝기와 높은 상관계수를 가진다. 코어 시료의 석영 함량은 총유기탄소함량과 퇴적시기에 따른 상관관계의 차이를 보이는데, 이것은 퇴적기작 차이에 의한 것으로 해석된다. 그리고 오팔 A와 총유기탄소함량의 상관관계는 퇴적장소에 따라 차이를 갖는다. 동해 울릉분지 코어 시료는 총유기탄소함량과 퇴적물 밝기가 높은 상관계수를 갖는데, 이것은 초기속성작용의 영향이 크지 않았음을 지시하는 것이다. 후기 홀로세에서는 총유기탄소함량이 거의 일정한 구간에서도 오팔A 함량이 큰 차이가 나타나는데, 이것은 퇴적장소에 따라 고해양 생산력의 차이가 있었음을 지시하는 것이다.

Piston cores retrieved from the western Ulleung Basin, East Sea were analyzed to examine the potential for hydrocarbon generation and to determine the hydrocarbon indicators. 2D multi-channel reflection seismic and Chirp data were also investigated for mapping and characterizing the geophysical hydrocarbon indicators such as BSR (bottom simulating reflector), blank zone, pock-mark etc. High organic carbon contents and sedimentation rates that suggest good condition for hydrocarbon generation. High pressure and low temperature condition, and high residual hydrocarbon concentrations are favor the formation of natural gas hydrate. In the piston cores, cracks generally oriented to bedding may indicate the gas expansion. The seismic data show several BSRs that are associated with natural gas hydrates and underlying free gas. A number of vertical to sub-vertical blank zones were well identified in the seismic sections. They often show the seismic pull-up structures, probably indicating the presence of high velocity hydrates. Numerous pockmarks were also observed in the Chirp profiles. They may indicate the presence of free gas below the hydrate stability zone as well.

Gas hydrate has a unique property that can store a large volume of gas in water as a solid form. Even though investigations for natural gas storage technology have been carried out for several decades, there are still a lot of unsolved problems due to complex formation process, low formation speed, high energy consumption and so on. So, lots of experiments were conducted to overcome these weaknesses and to develop artificial NGH formation technology applicable to industrial-scale storage and commercial transport. In this study, some series of experiments were performed to analyze both stirred and unstirred system especially about the influences of several gas hydrate formation factors such as agitation speed, system temperature, SDS concentration, etc. As a result, optimum range of SDS concentration and temperature that could enhance the storage capacity and shorten the formation time were found. And it is obviously presented that SDS such a kind of surfactant promotes gas hydrate formation dramatically and the quantity of stored gas are proportional to agitation speed in stirred system.

Gas hydrates are ice-like crystalline compounds that form under low temperature and elevated pressure conditions. Recently, gas hydrates present a novel means for natural gas storage and transportation with potential applications in a wide variety of areas. An important property of hydrates that makes them attractive for use in gas storage and transportation is their very high gas-to-sol id ratio. In addition to the high gas content, gas hydrates are remarkably stable. The main barrier to development of gas hydrate technology is the lack of an effective mass production method of gas hydrate in solid form. In this study, some performance comparison among several cases classified by different volume sizes of solution were carried to identify the characteristics due to the volume increment. And it is found that one of the main reasons disturbing hydrate formation is related to the lack of cooling heat transfer due to the volume increase of the solution. So, three kinds of heat transfer plates which have different shapes and cross sectional areas were made and tested for the performance comparison following to the shape and area of each plate. Finally it is clarified that the heat transfer is one of the major factors effecting hydrate formation performance and the installation of heat transfer plate can enhance the formation performance especially not in terms of the quantity but the speed.

Gas(or methane) hydrates are solid solutions when water molecules are linked through hydrogen bonding and create host lattice cavities that can enclose a large variety of guest gas molecules. The natural gas hydrate crystal may exist at low temperature above the normal freezing point of water and high pressure greater than about 30 bars. A lot of quantities of natural gas hydrates exists in the earth and many production schemes are being studied. In the present investigation, depressurization method was considered to predict the production of gas and the simulation of the two phase flow - gas and water - in porous media is being carried out. The simulation show about the fluid flow in porous media have a variety of applications in industry. Results provide the appearance of gas and water production, the pressure profile, the saturation of gas/ water/ hydrates profiles and the location of the pressure front.

남극 반도 북부해역은 남극대륙 주변부에 존재하는 가스하이드레이트 매장 유망지역중의 하나이다. 남극반도 북부해역내에서 BSR이 가장 뚜렷이 나타나는 남셰틀랜드 군도의 대륙주변부에서 가스하이드레이트 특성 및 분포를 연구하기 위한 탄성파 탐사가 1992년, 2005년도 수행되었다. 이 지역에 나타나는 BSR은 대륙사면에서 광범위하게 발달되어있다. 이 지역 BSR에 대한 AVO 분석결과에 의하면 BSR상부지층은 높은 탄성파 속도를 갖으며 하부지층은 가스를 포함하는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 탄성파 단면에 나타난 BSR의 발견지역을 대상으로 분포도를 작성하였으며, 이 지역에 대한 추가적인 탄성파 탐사 완료 후에는 정확한 매장량과 분포가 밝혀질 것이다.

IODP Expedition 311에서 채취한 퇴적물 시료들의 TOC 함량은 대부분 1 %미만이고 육지에서 해안으로 갈수록 높은 함량을 보여준다. TOC/TN비는 4에서 10의 범위를 가지고 있으며, 이 값은 대부분의 유기물들이 육성식물 보다는 조류기원임을 보여준다. 반면에 Rock-Eval 분석 열분석결과는 유기물들이 Type III 의 육성식물 기원임을 지시하고, 대부분의 유기물들이 미성숙단계 (immature stage)에 있음을 보여준다. 유기물 기원에 대한 지화학적 지시자들 사이의 불일치를 해결하기위해 유기물의 탄소동위원소 ($^{13}C_{org}$) 분석을 실시하였다. 분석된 유기물 탄소동위원소 값은 -28.4 $%_o$,에서 -23.0 $%_o$의 범위를 가지고 있으며, 이는 유기물들이 식물성 기원보다는 해수 및 담수의 조류가 혼합된 기원이 우세하다는 j것을 지시해준다.

We report and discuss molecular and isotopic properties of hydrate-bound gases from 55 samples and void gases from 494 samples collected during Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 204 at Hydrate Ridge offshore Oregon. Gas hydrates appear to crystallize in sediments from two end-member gas sources (deep allochthonous and in situ) as mixtures of different proportions. In an area of high gas flux at the Southern Summit of the ridge (Sites 1248-1250), shallow (0-40 meters below the seafloor (mbsf)) gas hydrates are composed of mainly allochthonous mixed microbial and thermogenic methane and a small portion of thermogenic C2+ gases, which migrated vertically and laterally from as deep as 2-2.5 km depths. In contrast, deep (50-105 mbsf) gas hydrates at the Southern Summit (Sites 1248 and 1250) and on the flanks of the ridge (Sites 1244-1247) crystallize mainly from microbial methane and ethane generated dominantly in situ. A small contribution of allochthonous gas may also be present at sites where geologic and tectonic settings favor vertical gas migration from greater depth (e.g., Site 1244).

The transient response of PEMFC (proton exchange membrane fuel cell) is important criteria in the application of PEM fuel cell to real automotive system. In this work, using a transparent unit PEM fuel cell, the transient response and cathode flooding during load change are investigated. The cell voltage is acquired according to the current density change($0.3Acm^2$ to $0.6A/cm^2$) under various stoichiometry conditions and different flooding intensities, Also the cathode gas channel images are obtained by CCD imaging system simultaneously. The different level of undershoots appeared at the moment of load changes under different cathode stoichiometries and flooding intensities. The correlation of the dynamic behavior with stoichiometry and cathode flooding is induced from the results of these experiments.

화석연료의 점진적 고갈과 그 사용에 따른 지구온난화 그리고 에너지 안보를 해결하기 위하여 세계 각국에서는 대체에너지 개발에 노력을 기울이고 있다. 그 중 수소는 가장 주목받고 있는 대체에너지 원으로 현재 기술개발을 통하여 상업화 시기를 앞당기려고 하고 있다. 다시 말해서, 현재는 수소에너지 시대의 진입 시점이라고 할 수 있다. 이러한 수소는 다양한 소스에서 생산될 수 있으며, 수송연료로 연소 시, 유해 배출물이 거의 나오지 않는 장점이 있다. 그러나 수소는 그 생산 경로에 따라서, 다양한 환경성 및 경제성을 나타낼 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 국내 수소 생산 방식으로 개발/상업화 되어 있는 NGSR, Naphtha SR, WE에 대하여, LCA와 LCCA 방법을 통하여, 수소 경로 전반 즉, 원료채취에서부터 자동차로 주행하였을 때까지를 포함하여 각 대상 수소 경로의 환경성과 경제성을 평가하였다. LCA와 LCCA 결과를 살펴보면, Naphtha SR 및 NGSR 수소 경로에서는 지구온난화와 화석자원 소모 부문 모두 기존연료와 비교해보았을 때 개선효과가 뚜렷하게 나타났으나, WE 수소 경로에서는 오히려 환경부하가 증가되는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 비용적인 측면에서 살펴보면, 수소에 가솔린과 동일한 연료 세율을 부과하더라도 수소가 가솔린에 비하여 주행 시 연료 비용이 저감되어 연료로서 가격경쟁력을 확보하였으며, 연료세를 부과하지 않는 다면, Naphtha SR로 생산하여 유통한 수소가 수송연료로써 가장 비용 효율적인 것으로 나타났다.

본 논문에서는 연료전지자동차의 저전압 배터리 충${\cdot}$방전을 위한 3상 양방향 DC-DC 컨버터를 제안한다. 제안한 3상 컨버터는 기존의 단상 컨버터에 비해 인터리빙 효과의 증대로 인한 입${\cdot}$출력 필터 사이즈 감소와 변압기의 이용률 증가로 인한 VA정격의 감소가 가능하며, 기존의 위상제어 방식의 3상 컨버터와 달리 입${\cdot}$출력전압이나 부하변동에 따른 무효 전류의 중가 문제가 없다. 또한 MOSFET 스위치를 사용하여 고전압 측에서는 비대칭 소프트 스위칭을 성취할 수 있고, 저전압 측에서는 동기정류 방식을 적용하여 도통손실을 감소시킬 수 있어 효율과 전력밀도를 더욱 향상 시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 제안하는 3상 양방향 DC-DC 컨버터의 동작원리와 기존방식과의 비교분석을 수행하였으며 시뮬레이션을 통해 검증하였다.

Hyundai${\cdot}$Kia Motors have developed PEMFC stack technologies for passenger car application in 1998. The developed 80kW class stack, which was installed Kia's Sportage FCV in 2005, has been modified for -10$^{\circ}C$ cold start-up and ensuring the stability and durability by using new technologies such as newly designed separator, manifold block, end plate, and so on. And also, the stack durability has been verified over 1,500hrs with the condition of combined vehicle driving mode. Hyundai${\cdot}$Kia Motors will keep continuing the stack R&D to reach the goal of FCV commercialization.

The durability of 80 kW class stack module was tested in hydrogen recirculation and non-recirculation systems with the condition of 300Amps (constant current mode) and hydrogen pulse purging (10 seconds close/0.8 seconds open). A localized membrane failure in the interfacial area between membrane and sub-gasket, carbon corrosion in cathode electrode, and Pt dissolution/extraction have been found through the post mortem analysis such as CV, Impedance, SEM, and so on. The main reason of these mechanisms will be discussed in this study.

FCEV uses electric energy which generated from the reaction between Hydrogen and Oxygen in fuel cell stack as driving force. As fossil fuels are exhausted, fuel cell is regarded as a potent substitute for next generation energy source, and thus, most of car-makers make every efforts to develop fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV). In addition, fuel cell is also beneficial in aspect of environment, because only clean water is produced during chemical reaction process instead of harmful exhausted gas. Generally, Hydrogen is supplied from high-pressured fuel tank, and air blower (or compressor) supply Oxygen by pressurizing ambient air. Air blower which is driven by high speed motor consumes about $7{\sim}8$ % of energy generated from fuel cell stack. Therefore, the efficiency of an air blower is directly linked with the performance of FCEV. This study will present the development process of an air blower and its consisting parts respectively.

The high pressure hydrogen gas refueling system is required for fuel cell vehicle. In this paper, a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, FLUENT is adopted to investigate the gas flow characteristics inside the check valve for various refueling and tank pressures. The results showed that the choking phenomena can occur for certain refueling pressures, therefore refueling processes should be divided by multiple stages. And a design method to prevent the seal departure problem which reported in CNG usages is required.

In this paper, research about SVM(stack voltage monitoring) module is written, which studied to detect the failure mode of stack and stop stack driving. It is important role for SVM module to monitor the cell voltage and also, transfer those data to Supervisor controller. SVM module needs accurate measurement to detect failure mode, because the cell voltage is very small value under a few [V]. For improving these cost and technical efficiency, the electric characteristic experiment is made with the measurement circuit designed by using precision resistor.

축산폐기물중 바이오가스 생산량이 많을 것으로 여겨지는 돈분(슬러리 돈사의 경우 분과 뇨)과 우분을 대상으로 BMP 방법에 의하여 바이오가스 생산량을 알아보았다. 실험결과 메탄가스 생산량은 슬러리식 돈사 돈분뇨가 가장 많은 330-402ml/gVS, 다음으로 재래식 돈사 돈분이 316-349ml/gVS, 그리고 스크래퍼식 돈사 돈분은 244-281ml/gVS를 보여 에너지 이용측면에서 볼 때 슬러리식 돈사 돈분뇨를 우선적으로 바이오가스화하여 이용하는 방안을 고려해야할 것으로 판단되었다. 우분의 경우 137ml/gVS로 매우 적은 메탄가스 생산량을 보임으로써, 바이오가스화보다는 톼비화와 같은 다른 처리방법을 채택하는 것이 바람직할 것으로 판단되었다.

대두유로부터 생산된 바이오디젤과 바이오디젤 혼합 연료유를 대상으로 지방산메틸에스터 함량과 화학적 분석을 통해 산화 특성과 오일의 수명 예측 연구를 수행하였다. 바이오디젤, 경유, BD5, BD20은 산화가 진행될수록 산가(Acid number), 동점도(Kinematic Viscosity) 및 밀도(Density)는 증가하였다. 산가 측정결과의 활용에 의해 임의의 온도조건에서 정확한 사용수명을 예측하기 위하여 화학속도론에 의거하여 각각의 연료에 대한 사용수명식을 도출하였다. 도출된 사용수명식으로부터 바이오디젤이 가장 빠르게 산화가 진행되었고 바이오디젤 혼합량이 증가할수록 사용수명이 단축되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

As the distributed generation becomes more reliable and economically feasible, it is expected that a higher application of the distributed generation units would be interconnected to the existing grids. This new generation technology is linked to a large number of factors like economics and performance, safety and reliability, market regulations, environmental issues, or grid connection constrains. KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Corporation) is performing the project to develope the Distributed Micro Gas Turbine (MGT) technolgies by using Swine BIO-ENERGY. This paper describes the plans and strategies for the renewable energy of MGT on actual grid-connection under Korean situations. KEPCO also, has a research plan on bio-gas pretreatment system applicable to our domestic swine renewable resources and is performing concept design of pilot plant to test grid operation. In addition, this testing will be conducted in order to respond to a wide variety of needs for application and economic evaluation in the field of On-site generation.

재생 가능한 자원인 동식물성 기름을 원료로 제조되는 수송용 연료 바이오디젤은 낮은 대기오염물질 배출과 $CO_2$ Neutral 특성으로 환경친화적인 연료로 인정을 받으며 전세계적으로 그 생산량이 급격히 증가하고 있다. 대부분의 상용화 공정은 염기촉매를 이용한 전이에스테르화 반응에 근거하고 있으며 높은 생산성을 위해 연속 공정을 채택하고 있다. 원료유 중의 유리지방산(free fatty acid, FFA)은 염기 촉매와 반응하여 지방산염(Soap)과 수분을 생성하며 반응촉매의 투입양을 증가시카고 반응 후에 글리세롤과 지방산 메틸에스테르와의 분리를 어렵게 만든다. 높은 수율과 후속공정의 부하를 줄이기 위해서는 식물성 원료유 중의 FFA는 고체 산촉매 하에서 메탄올과 에스테르화 반응시켜 전환 제거되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 고체산 촉매인 Amberlyst-15을 충전한 4단 PBR(Packed Bed Reactor, 충전율 60%(v/v))에서 반응시간과 반응온도에 따른 대두원유의 전처리 효율을 조사하였으며 최적 전처리 조건을 도출하였다. 최적 전처리 조건에서 대두원유는 초기 산가 1.6에서 0.4-0.6으로 연속 전처리할 수 있었다. 본 연구에서는 연속 흐름 반응기인 PFR(Plug Flow Reactor)와 4단 CSTR(Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor)에서 균질계 촉매인 KOH 존재하에 대두유와 메탄올과의 전이에스테르화 반응 특성을 조사하였으며 각 연속 반응시스템에서 최적 운전 조건을 도출하였다. PFR 반응기에서 반응온도, 반응시간, 반응물 흐름방향, static mixer(SM) 개수에 따른 반응특성을 조사한 결과, PFR에서의 최적 반응조건은 하향류 흐름 방향과 3개의 SM를 설치한 조건에서 반응시간 5.8분, 반응온도 90$^{\cdot}C$, 메탄올:오일 몰비 9:1, KOH 농도 0.8%로 도출되었다. CSTR 반응기에서는 반응온도와 체류시간에 따른 반응특성을 조사하였으며 최적반응 조건으로 반응온도 80$^{\cdot}C$, 메탄올/오일 몰비 9:1, KOH 농도 0.8%, 체류시간 18.4분, 교반속도 250rpm로 조사되었다.

바이오매스를 이용한 분산형 발전 및 에너지화의 경우 기존의 연소법은 단순 열에너지의 이용과 스팀터빈을 이용하는 대규모 시설이 요구된다. 반면 가스화의 경우 가연성 합성가스 생성을 통하여 소규모 분산형 발전이 가능하며, 생성가스를 이용하여 다양한 응용이 가능하다. 기존 상향류식 가스화의 경우의 바이오매스 가스화시 목질계 내 리그닌 성분으로 인하여 다량의 타르가 발생하여 후단 처리 설비에 어려움이 있다. 본 연구에서는 하향류식 가스화 방법을 통하여 목질계 바이오매스의 가스화 특성을 알아보았다. 가스화기 하부로 배출되는 합성가스의 온도는 대략 1000$^{\cdot}C$까지 유지할 수 있었으며, 생성되는 합성가스의 발열량은 약 $1300kcal/Nm^3$의 수준으로 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 발생되는 타르는 $5{\sim}15ppm$ 정도로 기존 상향류식에 비해 매우 적은양의 타르가 발생함을 확인할 수 있었다.

셀룰로오스, 헤미셀룰로오스, 리그닌으로 구성된 목질계 바이오매스를 이용한 가스화의 경우 30%의 리그닌 성분이 열에 안정한 상태인 타르로 형성되면서 가스화 후단공정에서의 정제, 발전 등에 직접 사용하기 어려우며, 가스화 효율을 저하시키는 원인이 된다. 이의 문제 해결을 위하여 본 연구에서는 촉매를 이용한 수증기 개질 반응을 통하여 타르를 합성가스로 개질시킬 수 있는 방법을 모색하기 위하여 다양한 온도, 촉매, 스팀 주입량 및 촉매크기에 따른 전환율, 생성가스 특성을 알아보았다. 타르 대상 물질로는 타르 내 상당부분을 차지하고 있는 톨루엔을 이용하였다. 일반적으로 반응온도, 스팀 주입량이 증가할수록 수소 생성량이 증가하였으며, 지르코니아로 증진된 니켈 촉매의 경우 600$^{\cdot}C$ 에서도 100%의 높은 전환율을 보였다. 일반적인 가스화기에서 배출되는 타르의 농도보다 10배 높은 조건에서도 100%의 높은 전환율을 얻을 수 있었으며, 이를 통하여 실제 공정으로의 적용시에도 후단 공정의 부담을 줄일 수 있는 개질기로 적용 가능할 것으로 보인다.

Soybean and rape seed are common feedstocks for biodiesel product ion in USA and Europe, respectively. On the other hand, South Eastern countries like Malaysia and Indonesia have surplus palm crops. However due to substantial amount of saturated fats in palm, the palm biodiesel has poor low temperature properties. To improve the low temperature flow properties as biodiesel, the dependence of the cold filter plugging point (CFPP) on the fatty acid compositions was examined. Two different kinds of biodiesels, palm and soybean biodiesels, were blended with the different volume ratios. And the low temperature flow properties of 0.5%, 1%, and 5% biodiesel in diesel blend fuels was tested. The decrease of CFPP was not observed for BD1 with Palm BD. Also, WDI test didn't exceed in the range of 4oC by the mixing of Palm BD upto 5% in commercial diesels.

An experimental study was carried out to investigate the heat value change by various conditions of wood sawdust gasification in the 1-dimensional downdraft flow fixed bed gasifier. The preheated air and steam were used as a gasifying agent. The components of syngas were influenced increasing residence time of supplied agent. The operating parameters, the supplied agent temperature and steam addition were used. The oxidizer temperature was varied from 500K to 620K. The gasification process was monitored by measuring temperature at three points near the biomass using R-type thermocouples and the syngas composition was analyzed by gas chromatograph. We get the sample gas at the end of gasifier. Finally, the amount of hydrogen and methane were increased widely as increasing the oxidizer temperature and adding steam.

The main structures that comprise a tidal power plant are turbine structure, sluice structure, tide embankment and gate. Since these structures are founded on seabed ground, an extensive geotechnical site investigation to evaluate the engineering properties of field soils must be conducted prior to design and construction. According to the results of geotechnical site investigation conducted at the planned site for construction of Incheon bay tidal power plant, soft ground generally lie 7 meters below the seabed surface level. This research suggests the reliable and economical design of foundations and ground improvements required for construction of main structures in Incheon bay tidal power plant, with considerations on field conditions.

The performance evaluation of the Samcheonpo small-hydropower plant constructed on the October 25th,2006, was carried out focused on the turbine and generator efficiency analysis by using the measurement data. The unreasonable and unrealistic efficiency results are occurred in some periods because of the data variability, uncertainty, and measurement errors and mistakes. Whereas, the big mismatch is the tidal elevation predicted in the design processes. The difference between the measured and estimated tidal elevation is obvious during the low water period. It should be considered and checked in depth on the efficiency analysis of the planned and constructing small-hydro power plants in other coastal areas.

Oscillating wave amplitude in a bottom-mounted owe chamber designed for wave energy converter is investigated by applying characteristic wave conditions in Korean coastal water. The effects of shape parameters of OWC chamber in a view of wave energy absorbing capability are analyzed. Both experimental and numerical approaches are adopted and their results are compared to optimize the shape parameters which can result in a maximum power production under given wave distribution. The experiment was carried out in a wave flume under 2-D assumption of OWC chamber. In numerical scheme, the potential problem inside the chamber is solved by use of the Green integral equation associated with the Rankine Green function, while outer problem with the Kelvin Green function taking account of fluctuating air pressure in the chamber. Air duct diameter, chamber width, and submerged depths of front skirt and back wall of chamber changes the magnitude and peak frequency of wave absorption significantly.

국내외에 아직 개발 실적이 없는 발전소의 해수방류수를 이용한 조류식발전시스템의 개발을 위하여, 현재 하동화력발전소 해수방수로를 대상으로 헬리컬 수차를 이용한 조류식발전 시험설비를 제작 완료하고, 성능 시험이 진행 중이며, 본 연구에서는 성능 시험 과정에서 나타난 제반 문제점을 제시하고 그에 대한 원인 및 대책을 분석해 보았다. 본 시험설비는 인공수로에서 수평 배열 헬리컬수차로서 기계장치의 안정성 및 수차의 효율을 평가하고자 하였다. 조류식 시험장치는 배수로의 빠른 유속으로 인하여 시공이 매우 어려웠으며, 인공수로임에도 불구하고 유지관리를 위한 적정 구조 선정이 곤란한 상황이었다. 또한, 헬리컬 수차는 서로 직렬연결되어 운전할 수 있는 장점이 있으나, 본 연구와 같이 다수의 수차가 연결될 경우, 보다 높은 축정렬 정확성, 커플링, 베어링 정밀도 등이 요구되어 효율 감소의 원인이 됨을 확인하였다. 본 장치는 시험용으로서 정밀한 베어링 및 수밀구조, 증속장치를 채택하지 않았으나, 상업용에서는 이를 개선할 필요성이 있다고 판단된다. 또한, 수차의 설치와 유지관리 조건 향상, 수차 통과부의 유황 개선, 수차의 효율 향상을 위하여 조류식 수차에도 유도수로와 casing, draft tube와 같은 Confined flow 구조를 일부 채택할 필요성이 있다고 판단된다.

In the past, the use of wave energy has mainly been focused on conversion of large wave energy resources in the far offshore areas. However, with the technological improvement of converting wave energy into electricity, the energy resources at much shallow waters are now considered as a site for possible installation of the devices that obtain energy from the waves. In this respect, the wave energy resources on the east coast of Korea, where the sea is milder than the open ocean, were investigated using the field measurement data obtained at three different locations along the coast. For all the locations, the wave power was greater in winter season, compared to summer season. The estimated wave power varied from 2 to 4.5 kW/m on average, depending on the measurement locations.

In this paper, we described the fundamental concepts of proposed structural health monitoring system for Uldolmok Tidal Current Power Plant focusing on the use of smart sensors including fiber bragg grating sensors and macro fiber composite sensors. The structural health monitoring system can play an important role to maintain the structural safety for offshore structures like as bridges and high-rise buildings. In the case of tidal current power plant, the monitoring system is much more important since the structures are usually constructed at the site with severer environmental loadings such as high current speed.

Tidal regime change with general hydrolic condition change is examined, according to Garolim Tidal Power Plant (TPP) operation. Numerical model has been developed for the Yellow and East China Seas region, in order to consider the tidal regime change by the TPP operation. The changes of tidal elevation and tidal current inside the Garolim bay are also investigated in details, along with examining the change of the tidal flat area with operation. The field measurement for the tide and current have been carried out for the validation of the numerical model and for understanding the state of current system in the present state.

We have developed electrical power train for 1MW tidal current plant which is composed of both 500kW tidal current plant with doubly-fed induction generator and 500kW tidal current plant with synchronous generator. To check performances of the protype, 2MW dynamometer is used to simulate a helical turbine, and then protype generator and converter are coupled with the dynamometer separately. From the suggested experimental results it is reconfirmed that two kinds of the power train to be installed at the Uldolmok located at southwestern shore in Korea are able to operate under all kinds of the condition about speed and power.

Since the direct normal insolation is a main factor for designing any solar thermal power system, it is necessary to evaluate its characteristics all over the country. We have begun collecting direct normal insolation data since December 1990 at 16 different locations and considerable effort has been made for constructing a standard value from measured data at each station. KIER(Korea Institute of Energy Research's new data will be extensively used by solar thermal concentrating system users or designers as well as by research institutes. From the results, we can conclude that 1) Yearly mean 5.41kWh/$m^2$/day of the direct normal insolation was evaluated for clear day all over 16 areas in Korea. 2) Clear day's direct normal insolation of spring and summer were 5.54kWh/$m^2$/day and 5.86kWh/$m^2$/day, and for fall and winter their values were 5.32kWh/$m^2$/day and 4.92kWh/$m^2$/day respectively. So, spring and summer were higher, and fall and winter were lower than the yearly mean value.

KIER have been developing high-temperature solar technology, especially the solar thermal power generation system, since the early of 1990s. In 1994, the first research on high temperature solar technology started with PTC technology. At the moment the most advanced 10kW dish system is under demonstration for 10kW solar thermal power generation. Test results showed about 19.2% solar to electricity average efficiency. Another research activities of KIER is hybrid power generation. For hybridization, solar and LFG(landfill gas) are used. Another hybrid solar system is with solar chemical reaction. In this system, power unit is gas turbine, and the heat content of fuel(like natual gas) is upgraded by solar energy through chemical reaction. The latest project on solar thermal power generation is for 1 MW power tower system. This is the Korea-China Joint project.

The thermal performance comparisons of the dish solar collector system are numerically investigated with mirror arrays and receiver shapes. In order to compare the performances of the dish solar collector systems, six different mirror arrays and four different receiver shapes are considered and the radiative heat flux distribution on the inside of the receiver is analyzed. A parabolic-shaped perfect mirror of which diameter is 1.5 m is considered as a reference of the mirror arrays. Five different mirror arrays of twelve identical parabolic -shaped mirror facets of which diameter are 0.4 m are proposed in this study. Their reflecting areas, which are 1.5 $m^2$, are the same. Four different receiver shapes are a dome, a conical, a cylindrical and a unicorn type. The solar irradiation reflected by mirrors is traced using the Monte-Carlo method. In addition, the radiative properties of the mirror surface can vary the thermal performance of the dish solar collector system so that the effects of the surface reflectivity and the surface absorptivity are considered. Based on the calculation, the design information of dish solar collector system for producing the electric power can be obtained. The results show that the dome type has the best performance in receiver shapes and the 2AND4INLINE has the best performance in mirror arrays except the perfect mirror.

A numerical study was conducted on a simplified model of a high-temperature solar receiver which incorporates liquid-metal heat pipe. The objective of this paper is to compare the isothermal characteristics of the heat pipe receiver with the conventional receiver utilizing convection of molten salt as heat carrier. The solar receiver was assumed to be subject to a concentration ratio between 50 and 1,000 to supply high-temperature heat to a stirling engine for electric power generation. For simplicity of the analysis, a cylindrical geometry was assumed and typical dimensions were used based on available literature. The heat pipe had a shape of double-walled cavity and the working fluid was a sodium. The analysis was performed assuming that the radiation heat flux on the inner walls of the receiver was uniform, since the focus of this study was laid on the comparison of the conventional type and heat pipe type receiver. The results showed that the heat pipe type exhibited superior performance when the operating temperature becomes higher. In addition, to explore the advantage of the heat pipe receiver, the channel shape and dimensions should be adjusted to increase the heat transfer area between the wall and the heat trnasfer medium.

Experimental data are presented which describe heat losses of cavity type receiver in wind tunnel. Experiments are conducted at various conditions such as the heater temperature in cavity changes from 300, 400, and 500 oC, wind speed in tunnel from 2 to 8 m/s, and four different tilt angle of 30, 50, 70, 90o. The power consumption including temperature, voltage and current for each experimental conditions are measured and stored in data logger at everyone second interval. The experimental results show that heat losses increase with increasing wind speed and with tilt angle. However, heat losses for the tilt angle of 70 and 90o is almost same at each heater temperature. In addition, the effects of natural convection in combined convection heat losses vary in according to the tilt angle.

This paper describes an experiment facility to measure the circulation characteristics of a water/steam receiver at various heat fluxes. The natural circulation type receiver was considered in this study. The experiment facility was designed to satisfy circulation balance with an appropriate scale down. As a result, riser tube inner diameter was 7.4 mm and water circulation was 0.319 kg/s. Downcomer tube inner diameter by circulation balance was 9.52 mm and the quality was from 0 to 0.23.

In dish concentrating system, natural convection heat loss occurs in cavity receiver. Heat loss mechanisms of conduction, convection, and radiation can reduce the system efficiency. To obtain the high efficiency, the receiver is to absorb the maximum of solar energy and transfer to the working fluid with maximum of heat losses. The convection heat loss is an important factor to determine the system performance. Numerical analysis of the convection heat loss of receiver was carried out for varing inclinaton angle from 0$^{\cdot}$ to 70$^{\cdot}$ with temperature range from 400$^{\cdot}C$ to 600$^{\cdot}C$ using the commercial software package, Fluent 6.0. The result of numerical analysis was comparable with convection heat loss model of solar receiver.

Research on the solar thermal hybrid power generation technology which uses solar thermal chemical reaction has been carried out in KIER, The research covers development of solar concentration system and solar reactor for methane steam reforming reaction. This paper introduces a brief review and prospects of oversea's researches in similar areas and KIER's research progresses up to now.

Solar thermal power generation allows additional benefits of cheap thermal storage and easy hybridization with other fossil fuel-driven power generation. KIER has been performing the project for solar thermal chemical reaction hybrid power generation. The project is to build and operate the first solar thermal chemical reaction hybrid power generation system in Korea. For concentrating solar thermal energy $m^2$ dish type concentrator was adapted and a heliostat is installed for reflecting horizontal insolation to the dish concentrator. At the moment building the dish concentrator including mirror and heliostat with sun tracking system was completed and it's performance are being closely evaluated. This paper will introduce some detailed designs and construction procedures which we have experienced so far.

A control system for solar thermal power plant is the control system to coordinate the whole system's operation, including management of distributed control systems, process control for optimal operation of total system, monitoring system operating conditions and doing administrative functions. This work, as a progress report, presents the results obtained so far in building a control system for the 1MW solar thermal power plant. To make the control system, we first defined the control system's hierarchy and classified the role of each layer. Then, as the first stage of making control system, we designed and developed the sun tracking control system for heliostat.

DAHAN, the first 1 MWe Solar Power Tower system locates north to Beijing where nearby The Great Wall is now under construction with cooperation between China and Korea. Results in predicting the preliminary performance of this central receiver system are presented in this paper. Operating cycles under some typical weather condition days are simulated and commented. These results can be used to assess the impact of alternative plant designs or operating strategies on annual energy production, with the final objective being to optimize the design of central receiver power plants. Two subsystems are considered in the system simulation: the solar field and the power block. Mathematic models are used to represent physical phenomena and relationships so that the characteristics of physical processes involving these phenomena can be predicted. Decisions regarding the best position for locating heliostats relative to the receiver and how high to place the receiver above the field constitute a multifaceted problem. Four different kinds of field layout are designed and analyzed by the use of ray tracing and mathematical simulation techniques to determine the overall optical performance ${\eta}_{field}$ and the spillage ${\eta}_{spill}$.The power block including a Rankine cycle is analyzed by conventional energy balance methods.

RDF means Refuse Derived Fuel, it is made pellets with combustible materials in municipal waste and RDF use a renewable energy instead with natural coal. RDF Technology is a essential one to treat municipal waste steadily and secure a energy source in Korea. Already RDF Technology commercialize in Japan, USA, Europe and there are many of RDF production plants and utilization facilities. The first RDF plant was constructed in Wonju Korea in October 2006 and is good operation. Government accelerate establishment of concerning laws and support to develop technology and spread RDF plants and utilization facilities.

폐차잔재를 시멘트제조공정의 열원으로 활용하기 위해서는 연료로 사용하기 위한 경제성과 더불어 시멘트제조공정 및 품질 그리고 환경기준을 만족해야 한다. 따라서 폐차잔재의 최적투입방법과 폐차잔재의 연소시 염소물질의 거동특성에 대한 연구가 선행되어야만 한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 폐차잔재의 시멘트 킬른 현장적용에 따른 위험요소와 시행착오를 최소화하기 위하여 최적 연료화 조건에 대한 전산모사 연구를 하였으며 전산모사의 대상공정으로는 폐차잔재가 투입될 Precalciner와 염소제어를 위하여 Bypass unit가 설치될 Precalciner의 하단부 그리고 Cyclone을 선정하여 입자 및 가스상의 거동 특성을 고찰하였다. 본 연구로부터 폐차잔재의 투입위치로는 현재의 석탄 투입위치를 활용하는 것이 효과적일 것으로 판단되었으며 Precalciner의 하단부에 대한 가스상 및 입자상의 거동특성을 활용하여 Bypass unit를 설치할 최적의 위치를 선정할 수 있었다. 또한 Cyclone의 입자 거동특성 결과로부터 염소 제어를 위한 각 Cyclone의 입자회수율에 대한 정보 및 공정의 개선 가능성을 확인할 수 있었다.

Interests have been focused to the renewable energy because energy cost of fossil fuel increased and global climate change caused by CO2 evolution became severe. To overcome these problems, it is essential to develop the energy conversion technologies of renewable resources. Therefore, production and utilization state of wood and woody waste was firstly investigated and then various technologies (pyrolysis, gasification, and combustion) converting the wood and woody waste to energy were summarized. Some case studies of woody waste utilization in europe was introduced with the policy of EU countries. Economical aspect of woody waste was compared with the current fossil fuels and the energy policy of wood and woody waste was suggested.

The 3 ton/day-scale pilot plant consists of compressor, feed channel, fixed bed type gasification & melting furnace, quench scrubber, demister, flare stack and gas engine. Syngas composition of gasification using the 35.50(waste I), 4.34%(wasteII) moisture-containing solid waste showed waste I CO 25-35%, 20-40% hydrogen, waste II 25-35%, 20-30% hydrogen. Gasification melting furnace was operated $1,500{\sim}1,600^{\cdot}C$. Gas engine was generated $35{\sim}40$ kW as waste gasification syngas.

Estimating of LFG emission rate has been well established. But, relatively short history of LFG extraction in Korea, the data and the formular have not been well compared and analyzed. Here, even though the operation period of extraction for Daegu Bangcheon-ri is short, the relevant correlation between estimated and the actual has been tried to find. Hopefully, this will be a guideline for the future LFG forecasting.

본 연구에서는 액상폐기물의 가스화를 통하여 합성가스를 생산하는 공정기술에 관하여 고찰 하였다. 폐기물의 가스화공정기술은 공기, 산소등과 액상폐기물을 고온하에서 가스화반응시켜 폐기물중에 포함된 가연성성분은 CO, $H_2$가 주성분인 합성가스로 전환시키고, 폐기물내에 포함된 무기물은 용융시켜 slag의 형태로 배출시키는 기술이다. 폐기물투입장치, 가스화기 및 용융로, 슬랙배출장치, 합성가스 정제장치, 그리고 수처리장치등로 구성된 Bench급의 가스화용용시스템을 구성하고, 수분 16%, 발열량 4375kcal/kg의 액상폐기물을 가스화 실험한 결과 CO가 $31{\sim}35%$, $H_2$가 $28{\sim}36%$ 포함된 합성가스를 얻을 수 있었고, 합성가스의 발열량은 $1735{\sim}2160kcal/kg$로 나타났다. 또한 가스의 세정에 사용된 세정폐수의 분석과 무기물의 용융을 통하여 발생한 용용슬랙의 용출실험을 통해서 합성가스 생성과정에서의 이차오염 물질은 환경규제치 이하로 발생함을 확인할 수 있었다.

폐 자동차에서 발생하는 폐차잔재물(Automobile shredder Residue)의 시멘트 열원 활용을 위하여 시멘트 킬른에서의 염소제어기술을 확립하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 본 연구에서는 ASR 발생공정에서 발생량이 가장 많은 light fluff 시료를 채취하였으며, 채취한 시료의 염소함량 분석 및 이를 토대로 하여 시멘트 킬른에서의 염소함량 순환거동을 예측하였다. 아울러 킬른내 염소제어설비의 안정적 가동을 위하여 기존 염소제어 시스템인 태평양 시멘트회사 시스템과 우베 시멘트회사 시스템의 장단점을 비교분석하여, 시멘트 킬른 내부에 함유되어있는 다량의 염소성분을 제어할 수 있는 기술개발 방향을 제시하고자 하였다.

This paper analyses the environmental effect of 100kw PV system installed in Tibet using Life Cycle Assessment(LCA). Then, energy payback time(EPT) and life-cycle $CO_2$ emission rate are estimated based on life-cycle of the PV system. As a result of the estimation, 6 year of EPT and 20 g-C/kWh of $CO_2$ emission rate are obtained. In China, average $CO_2$ emission rate of fossil fuel power generation plant is 260 g-C/kWh. This shows that PV system would be very promising for global environmental issues. For advanced LCA, we need to collect detailed and various data about raw material of PV system.

Energy environment has been changing rapidly such as high oil prices and the effectuation of UNFCCC. Oil prices have continued to rise and Dubai crude prices recorded 60 or 70 dollars per barrel in 2006. In addition, the effectuation of UNFCCC will affect Korean economy and national energy security. Korea is the 9th $CO_2$ emissions country and takes the 1st place related to the increase rate of $CO_2$ emissions globally. Energy technology development is a key breakthrough and one of the optimal alternatives to cope with national energy security. In this study, we prioritize energy technologies in the sectors of high oil prices and UNFCCC related to ETRM for well focus R&D and efficiency of finite resources allocations. We applied to the extended method of AHP, fuzzy AHP reflecting the fuzziness of human thoughts and perception, for prioritizing the relative importance among energy technologies in ETRM for the first time as we make an energy policy in Korea.

경제적 측면에서 본다면 에너지는 생산과 소비에서 매우 큰 비중을 차지함과 동시에 다른 유형의 상품과 대체 가능성이 높지 않다는 점에 그 중요성이 있다. 에너지시장에 대한 정부개입의 필요성은 자원의 고갈전망이 제시되고 두 차례 석유위기가 발발한 1970년대부터 등장하기 시작하였다. 이러한 일련의 인식변화는 에너지부문에 대해 다양한 형태의 정부개입이 시작되는 계기가 되었다. 에너지시스템에서 발견되는 이러한 일련의 시장실패는 정부개입의 정당성을 확고하게 하는 동시에 정책 운영 자체를 복잡하고 어렵하게 하는 요인이 되고 있다. 에너지정책의 운용이 어려운 이유는 에너지부문에서 발생하는 외부효과가 한 종류가 아니라는 점이다. 신재생에너지의 장점과 매력은 이처럼 복잡한 시장실패를 근본적으로 해결할 수 있다는 잠재력에 있다. 하지만 개발노력이 본격화 된지 30년이 넘었음에도 불구하고 2001년 현재 신재생에너지가 IEA 국가의 TPES에서 차지하는 비중은 5.53%에 불과하다. 다양한 장점에도 불구하고 신재생에너지 기술의 개발과 보급이 저조한 가장 큰 이유는 현재의 에너지시장 상황에서 기술의 경제성이 확보되지 않기 때문이다. 신재생에너지의 장점에 대한 강조와 개발의 필요성은 더 이상 정책의 핵심주제가 아니다. 현 시점에서 정책운영의 가장 큰 이슈는 기술개발과 보급에 대한 중장기적인 전략의 수립, 이른바 '정책의 효율성' 이다. 본 논문은 신재생에너지의 이용 전반에 걸쳐 등장하는 다양한 지속가능성 이슈를 살펴보고 국내 여건에 부합하는 기술개발 및 보급방안을 제시하고자 한다.

AHP analysis was carried out to derive the optimum mix weight of hydrogen energy production material presented in a "national vision of the hydrogen economy and the action plan" and aimed to be commercialized by $2030{\sim}2040$ year. Six kinds of hydrogen production materials(natural gas, spare electric energy, fleeting gas, renewable energy, coal, nuclear energy) was selected as subjects of study and the perspective of optimum mix weight was derived through AHP analysis.

본 연구는 부문별 수소 및 연료전지의 수요량을 산정하고 원활한 수소공급을 위한 수소제조원의 최적믹스를 바탕으로 수소 도입 이후의 에너지믹스를 제시하는 것을 목표로 하고 있다. BaU 전망은 에너지경제연구원의 전망을 바탕으로 하였으며 기준안, 고유가안, 저유가안의 세가지 시나리오를 설정하여 각 시나리오별 분석을 수행하였다. 기준안에 따르면 수소 및 연료전지는 2015년 시장에 도입되어 2031년 5%의 시장보급률을 확보한 이후 보급률이 급격히 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 수소 연료전지 시장중 특히 수송부문이 선도적 역할을 할 것으로 기대되며 FCV 보급대수는 2040년 1,132만대로 전체 자동차 시장의 48.4%를 차지할 전망이다. 최종에너지 중 수소의 비중은 2040년 8.7%에 이를 것으로 예측되며 수소의 도입으로 인해 1차에너지 중 신${\cdot}$재생에너지 비중이 BaU 대비 약 5.1%p 증가한 12.1%에 이를 것으로 분석되었다. 총 수소수요량은 777만톤에 이를 전망이다. 고유가안에서는 수소 및 연료전지가 2012년에 시장에 도입되는 것으로 가정하였으며 2040년 FCV 보급대수는 1,633만대에 이를 전망이다. 최종에너지 중 수소 비중은 11.5%에 이를 것으로 예상되며 1차에너지 신${\cdot}$재생에너지 비중은 11.6%로 분석되었다. 수소수요량은 1,015만톤으로 전망된다. 저유가안에서는 수소 및 연료전지가 2018년 도입되는 것으로 가정 하였다. 이 경우 2040년 FCV는 641만대가 보급되어 자동차 등록대수의 27.4%를 차지할 것으로 전망된다. 최종에너지 중 수소 비중과 1차에너지중 신${\cdot}$재생에너지 비중은 각각 5.5%, 9.1%에 이를 것으로 분석되었으며 수소수요량은 496만톤으로 전망된다.

국내에서 발생되는 고형폐기물 중 자원으로 재활용 가능한 유기성폐기물은 하수슬러지, 음식물류폐기물, 축산분뇨 등을 대표 할 수 있다. 이들 유기성폐기물은 환경적인 측면에서 볼 때 다른 유기성 폐수 및 폐기물에 비하여 오염부하량이 상대적으로 높지만, 이를 생물자원 (Biomass)으로 인식하고 이용 할 경우 지구온난화와 같은 환경문제 뿐만아니라 향후 자원고갈문제를 동시에 해결할 수 있는 대체에너지 자원이다. 유기성폐기물을 대체에너지 자원으로 효율적으로 이용하기 위해서는 우선적으로 국제적 환경규제와 에너지 정책에 능동적으로 대응할 수 있는 자원순환형 폐기물관리 시스템 구축이 필요하며, 이를 위한 체계적인 정책적 지원책과 기술 개발이 뒷받침 되어야 할 것이다. 자원 재활용과 에너지회수 기술에 있어 혐기성소화(anaerobic digestion)는 유기성폐기물의 효과적인 감량화, 재이용화, 안정화를 만족시키는 동시에 유용 에너지원인 메탄가스를 회수할 수 있는 바이오가스 전환기술로 최근에 주목을 받는 biotechnology 중의 하나로 자리매김 하고 있다. 특히, 소비자원의 대부분이 해외에 의존하는 국내현실과 최근 고유가에 따른 국가 에너지 정책을 제고해야하는 현 시점에서 유기성폐기물을 이용한 바이오가스화 기술을 널리 보급하기 위해서는 요소기술 개발과 정부의 적극적인 정책적 지원 방안이 마련되어야 할 것이다.

Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant converts coal to syngas, which is mainly composed with hydrogen and carbon monoxide, by the gasification process and produces electric power by the gas and steam turbine combined cycle power plant. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of the syngas to the performance of a gas turbine in a combined cycle power plant. For this purpose, a commercial gas turbine is selected and its performance characteristics are analyzed with syngas. It is found that different heating values of those fuels and chemical compositions in their combustion gases are the causes in the different performance characteristics. Also, Changing of turbine inlet Mass flow lead to change the turbine matching point, in the event the pressure ratio is changed.

The present study numerically investigate the detailed structure of the syngas diffusion flames. In order to realistically represent the turbulence-chemistry interaction, the transient flamelet model has been applied to simulate the combustion processes and $NO_X$ formation in the syngas turbulent nonpremixed flames. The single mixture fraction formulation is extended to account for the effects of the secondary inlet mixture. Computations are the wide range of syngas compositions and oxidizer dilutions. Based on numerical results, the detailed discussion has been made for the effects of syngas composition and oxidizer dilution on the structure of the syngas-air and syngas-oxygen turbulent nonpremixed flames.

본 연구에서는 가스화공정과 수성가스 전환공정, $CO_2$ 분리공정, 메탄화 공정을 주요 구성으로 한 대체(또는 합성)천연가스(SNG, Substitute or Synthetic Natural Gas)제조공정을 대상으로 석탄, 석탄 촤, 바이오매스 등의 다양한 고체시료를 적용하였을 경우 각 시료의 가스화 반응을 통해 얻어진 합성가스를 이용한 SNG 제조 공정 특성을 파악하고자 하였다. 석탄, 석탄 촤, 바이오매스를 적용한 SNG 공정해석 결과 가스화 공정, 수성가스 전환 공정, 메탄화 공정의 운전 용도가 각 800도, 450도, 300도이고, 수성가스 전환 공정 출구의 합성가스 $H_2$/CO ratio(mol basis)가 3인 조건에서 SNG/Feed ratio는 석탄, 석탄 촤, 바이오매스가 각각 0.35, 0.34, 0.08로 나타났고. SNG Efficiency(%) 는석탄, 석탄 촤 바이오매스에 대해서 각각 61.2%. 48.2%, 17.5%로 나타났다. 또한, 석탄 촤를 대상으로 가스화 공정에서의 산화제 투입 조건 및 스팀 투입조건의 변화에 따른 합성가스 발생 특성을 살펴보았다.

A process flowsheet simulation model based on ASPEN PLUS was developed to investigate the effect of co-gasification of coal and rice husk on the gasifier performance and pollutant emissions in IGCC power plant. The analyses were done for an 02-blown, pulverized gasifier using coal and rice husk as feedstock, parameter employed the blending ratio of rice husk in coal were investigated. From the simulation results, it was found that gaseous pollutant emissions were reduced substantially with the increase of the blending ratio of rice husk. An optimum range between 15% and 25% rice husk-to-coal ratio was found to be the optimum point in terms of gaseous pollutant emission per energy output for sui fur and nitrogen compounds.

기존의 미분탄 화력발전을 대체할 수 있는 차기 주자인 가스화복합발전(Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) 기술은 단순히 열과 전기를 얻는데 그치지 않고 $CO_2$ 저감뿐만 아니라 다양한 형태의 2차 에너지원과 화학원료를 생산할 수 있는 기술이다. 상용화 운전 중인 기존의 IGCC 플랜트는 석탄 공급에 있어 건조된 미분탄(dry pulverized coal) 형태로 공급하는 건식 형태와 석탄슬러리(Coal water slurry)의 액상으로 공급하는 습식 형태로 대별되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 ASPEN plus를 이용하여 상용화 IGCC 플랜트에 대한 기본 모델을 구축하였으며, 산지별로 대상 탄종을 illinois #6(미국), Shenhua(중국), Drayton(호주)로 선정하여 가스화공정에 대한 성능을 해석하였다. 동일한 발전 출력을 얻고자 하였을 때, 석탄의 공급방식에 따라 필요한 석탄과 유틸리티 공급량과 가스화기 전${\cdot}$후단에서의 운전특성과 생성되는 합성가스(syngas) 조성, 냉가스(cold gas) 효율 및 탄소 전환율을 통해 각 case에 대한 플랜트 특성을 비교하였다.

본 연구 목적은 석탄 가스화를 통해 얻어진 합성가스를 이용하여 국내에서 개발된 DME 합성 촉매를 사용하여 DME 전환 공정에 대한 특성을 파악하는 것이다. 특히, DME 합성 반응에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 합성 반응로의 온도 제어를 위하여 thermosyphon 시스템을 개발하여 DME 합성 반응에 최적온도로 알려진 $230{\sim}260^{\cdot}C$ 범위에서 제어가 가능함을 확인 하였다. 석탄 40 kg/h를 공급하였을 때 합성가스 유량은 $80{\sim}100$ $Nm^3/h$ 정도를 얻었다. DME 합성 반응에 사용한 촉매는 합성가스로부터 메탄올을 얻기 위한 촉매와 메탄올의 탈수 촉매(Cu/Zn/Al+r-$Al_2O_3$)를 혼합한 촉매를 사용하였다. DME 합성 반응로의 GHSV(1/kg$^{\cdot}C$cat h)는 $2500{\sim}3000$ 정도이며, 운전 압력 60기압에서 $H_2$ 전환율 $65{\sim}75%$, DME 선택도는 $69{\sim}79%$ 정도를 얻었다.

In the bench scale test unit consisting of four commercial filter elements, the traces of the transient pressure around the nozzle and overpressure in the filter cavity were measured to estimate the effect of nozzle on pulse cleaning. For the given pulse cleaning system, the convergent nozzle displayed better performance than the straight one. The optimum ratio of outlet to inside diameter of convergent nozzle was determined, which minimized the pulse gas consumption and maximized the entrainment effect. The angle and height of nozzle convergent part was also optimum operational condition, which is meaningful to the industrial applying.

Gasification has been regarded as a core technology in dealing with environmental pollutants and in obtaining higher efficiency for power generation. Among several ways in utilizing produced syngas from gasification, power generation would be the most prominent application. Syngas from coal was applied to the readily available LPG engine from automobiles. Main purpose was to identify the combustion characteristics in the modified gas engine when using syngas of low heating value and to test the modification optionsin the LPG gas engine. Gas engine rpm and the corresponding flue gas composition were measured for each syngas input condition. Results showed that even with syngas at the heating value of $1300{\sim}1800$ kcal/$Nm^3$ corresponding to the $6{\sim}7%$ of LPG heating value, gas engine operated successfully only with the problems of high CO and oxygen concentrations in the flue gas.

The acid gas removal (AGR) system was designed and installed to remove $H_2S$ in coal syngas in the pilot-scale coal gasification system for producing chemicals like Dimethyl Ether(DME). The syngas from the coal gasification at the rate of $100{\sim120$ $Nm^3$/hr included pollutants such as fly ash. $H_2S$, COS, $NH_3$, etc. The designed temperature and pressure of the AGR system are below 50oC and 8 kg/$cm^2$. Fe-chelate was used as an absorbent. $H_2S$ was stably removed below 0.5 ppm in the AGR system when the concentration of $H_2S$ was $150{\sim}450$ ppm. The pH of Fe-chelate solution was also stably maintained between $8{\sim}9$. FeMgO absorbent was also tested to remove $H_2S$ in the lab-scale AGR system and $H_2S$ was also removed below 0.5 ppm in the initial operation.

본 연구는 3톤/일급 이하 가스화 용융로에서 $1,400{\sim}1,500^{\cdot}C$, $7.5{\sim}8.0$ kg/$cm^2$의 안정적인 운전조건일 때, 시료로 Kideco 탄을 사용하고 이때 발생한 슬랙의 특성 및 슬랙의 재활용을 위한 벽돌제조 특성을 고찰하였다. 발생된 슬랙은 $Fe_2SiO_4$와 $SiO_2$가 결정상태로 일부 존재하거나, 중금속들이 결합되어 엉킨 구조인 비결정상태의 치밀한 형태로 이루어져 있었으며, 잔존탄소 함량이 0.06%로 미량 존재하였다. 또한 슬랙에는 중금속 농도가 Kideco탄보다 고농도로 존재하지만, 용출되는 중금속의 농도는 매우 낮아 환경적으로 안정한 물질로서 재활용이 가능한 특성을 지니고 있다. 슬랙 첨가 점토벽돌의 적합성을 평가하기위해 슬랙을 0%, 10%, 30% 첨가하여 벽돌을 제조하고 KS 산업규격에 따라 시험을 실시하였다. 분석결과 슬랙을 첨가할수록 제조한 벽돌의 흡수율이 낮아져 기존 제품에 비하여 우수한 것으로 측정되었다. 또한 압축강도와 휨강도는 기존 제품의 $80{\sim}86%$ 정도인 것으로 측정되었지만 KS 산업규격의 기준치보다 높은 수치를 나타내였고, 내산성, 내알칼리성, 열충격강도 또한 양호한 것으로 나타나, 슬랙을 이용하여 벽돌로 재활용하여 충분히 사용 가능한 것으로 확인되었다.

Computational simulation has been performed to design the filtration system for Korea model IGCC demonstration plant. The filtration system for optimal design has four effective filters corresponding to the clusters composed of a group of ceramic candle filters. It was analyzed how the different entrance geometry influences the flow field and the particle behavior in the filtration system. The particle loading is minimum when the gas mixed with particles flows into the filter vessel with a shroud tube through a tangential inlet. However, the particle loading is maximum when the gas with particles enters the filter vessel through a normal inlet which a entrance tube extended from. By controling adequately both conditions of inflow, the filtration system can be operated optimally to prolong the filter life-time and to save the energy for cleaning filters.

국내에서 IGCC 플랜트의 복합발전시스템의 평가는 여러 분야별로 진행되어 왔다. 크게 살펴보면 다음과 같다. 첫 번째는 가스터빈 쪽의 기술이다. 즉, 기존 천연가스를 이용하는 가스터빈을 어떻게 하면 석탄가스를 사용하는 IGCC 플랜트에 적합하게 맞출 것인가 하는 문제이다. 두 번째는 효율을 어떻게 하면 높일 수 있는가의 문제로서 석탄의 종류, 가스화 방법을 효율적으로 선택, HRSG(heat recovery steam generator)를 효율적으로 설계, 그리고 정제공정에서의 에너지 소비를 줄이는 분야였다. 세 번째는 어떻게 하면 오염을 줄일까의 문제로서 질소나 스팀 분사를 연계하여 NOx를 감소시키고 정제 공정에 사용되는 촉매를 개발한다던지 공정을 발달시키는 분야였다. 이 외에도 여러 종류의 연구가 이 분야에서 있었으나 주로 설계 분야의 연구가 주되였다. 이것은 발전소의 건설을 위한 초기 단계로서 당연한 결과일 수 있다. 그러나, 지금 IGCC 플랜트가 건설되는 과정에 있으므로 우리나라 전력계통 연계와의 문제도 생각해보아야 한다고 생각한다. 따라서 이번 연구에서는 IGCC 플랜트 운영의 불확실성이 약간이라도 존재하기에 이 플랜트가 기저발전 보다는 첨두발전 쪽이나 태양열/광발전, 풍력발전 등 다른 신재생에너지 자원처럼 독립된 전력 시스템으로 운영될 것이라 생각하고 이렇게 운영될 때는 발전소의 부하률의 변화가 심할 수 있다는 가정하에 플랜트의 부하률에 따른 석탄의 합성가스, 연료가스 전환량 및 전환효율 및 발전량 및 발전효율을 전산모사를 통해 예측해보았다.

In compare with a major developed countries, Korea consumes much energy, but also eliminates much carbon dioxide. Agricultural sector eliminate much carbon dioxide than industrial sector. In Kyoto protocol, Korea needs to reduce carbon dioxide. One way to reduce carbon dioxide is utilization of biomass in rural area. This paper focus on utilization of biomass in rural area. If use 20% potential amount of biomass, it obtain 50% of TPES on agricultural sector. The condition of utilization biomass is connected with agricultural policy, environmental policy, and energy policy. And environmental restriction keep pace with economical incentive.

Energy Saving is one of worldwide emerging issues. These days, applicable techniques of railway vehicle's regenerative energy are investigating in worldwide railway industries. Energy saving methods are "Downsizing energy loss" and "Re-utilizing kinetic energy". Useful plans for Downsizing energy loss are "adjusting operation table" and "optimizing running pattern". Furthermore, regenerative energy that is produced with decreasing speed and stoping, is an important element with reducing vehicle's weight, raising equipment 's efficiency, decreasing running resistance and re-configurating running pattern. Sustainable energy storage mass : Flywheel, EDLC(electrical double layer capacitor) and Secondary battery are applied in overseas, but these cases are not reported within the country. This research is reported for problems and economical validity that comes from by installing sustainable regenerative energy storage system in korean railway industries.