• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.24-34
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• 2003

For gaseous fuel combustion with inherent $CO_2$ capture and low NOx emission, chemical-looping combustion may yield great advantages for the savings of energy to $CO_2$ separation and suppressing the effect on environment, In chemical-looping combustor, fuel is oxidized by metal oxide medium in a reduction reactor. Reduced particles are transported to oxidation reactor and oxidized by air and recycled to reduction reactor. The fuel and the air are never mixed, and the gases from reduction reactor, $CO_2$ and $H_2O$, leave the system as separate stream. The $H_2O$ can be easily separated by condensation and pure $CO_2$ is obtained without any loss of energy for separation. In this study, five oxygen carrier particles such as NiO/bentonite, NiO/YSZ, $(NiO+Fe_2O_3)VYSZ$, $NiO/NiAl_2O_4$, and $Co_{\chi}O_y/CoAl_2O_4$ were examined &om the viewpoints of reaction kinetics, oxygen transfer capacity, and carbon deposition characteristics. Among five oxygen particles, NiO/YSZ particle is superior in reaction rate, oxygen carrier capacity, and carbon deposition to other particles. However, at high temperature ($>900^{\circ}C$), NiO/bentonite particle also shows enough reactivity and oxygen carrier capacity to be applied in a practical system.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.176-185
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• 2018

지구 온난화가 가속화됨에 따라 온실가스 감축이 보다 중요해졌다. 이산화탄소 건식 개질은 온실가스인 $CO_2$와 $CH_4$를 활용하여 부가가치가 높은 물질인 CO와 $H_2$를 얻을 수 있는 유망한 온실가스 감축 기술이다. 그러나 이 반응이 일어나는 반응기의 운전 중에 심각한 코킹 문제가 발생할 수 있다. 이산화탄소 개질반응은 매우 강한 흡열반응이기 때문에 반응기 입구 근처에서 반응 온도가 많이 떨어지면서 코크 생성을 야기시킨다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서는 코크 생성이 잘 일어나지 않는 온도영역에서 반응이 일어나도록 하는 것이 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 새로운 촉매 배열 방법을 이용하여 반응기 전 구간이 코크 생성이 잘 일어나지 않는 온도 영역 내에서 유지되도록 하는 설계 방법을 제안하였다. 이 설계 방법은 연료 유량, 촉매 밀도, 구간 별 출구 온도를 최적화 변수로 하여 주어진 전환율에 대하여 반응기 길이를 최소화 할 수 있는 최적화 문제를 풀도록 하여 반응기를 최적화한다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제30권11호
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• pp.581-588
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• 2020

Reducing CO₂ into high value fuels and chemicals is considered a great challenge in the 21st century. Efficiently activating CO₂ will lead to an important way to utilize it as a resource. This article reviews the latest progress of g-C₃N₄ based catalysts for CO₂ reduction. The different synthetic methods of g-C₃N₄ are briefly discussed. Article mainly introduces methods of g-C₃N₄ shape control, element doping, and use of oxide compounds to modify g-C₃N₄. Modified g-C₃N₄ has more reactive sites, which can significantly reduce the probability of photogenerated electron hole recombination and improve the performance of photocatalytic CO₂ reduction. Considering the literature, the hydrothermal method is widely used because of its simple equipment and process and easy control of reaction conditions. It is foreseeable that hydrothermal technology will continue to innovate and usher in a new period of development. Finally, the prospect of a future reduction of CO₂ by g-C₃N₄-based catalysts is predicted.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.257-266
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 초임계 $CO_2$($scCO_2$)를 이용하여 폐콘크리트 순환골재와 반응한 용출수의 pH를 9.8 이하로 유지시켜(중성화) 재활용할 수 있는 기술을 개발하기 위한 실내 배치실험을 수행하였다. 실험재료로는 건설폐기물중간처리업체에서 제공받은 세 종류의 순환골재를 사용하였으며, 각 종류별로 골재 입자크기 별로 선별하여 총 7개의 시료를 사용하였다. 먼저 $scCO_2$-물-순환골재 반응에 의해 순환골재의 pH가 지속적으로 낮게 유지되는지를 확인하는 반응실험을 수행하였다. 스테인레스강철로 만들어진 고압셀(150 mL 용량)에 테플론 비이커를 고정시킨 후, 3차 증류수 70 mL와 순환골재 시료 35 g을 혼한한 후 고압용 오븐과 고압시린지 펌프 및 압력조절 장치를 이용하여 10 MPa(100 bar), $50^{\circ}C$ 조건에서 50일간 반응시켰다. 반응시간(1, 5, 10, 15, 30, 50일)에 따른 증류수의 pH, 용존 양이온과 음이온 농도를 측정하였다. $scCO_2$ 반응에 의한 순환골재의 지화학적 및 광물학적 변화를 확인하기 위하여 반응 전/후 XRD, SEM-EDS 등의 분석을 실시하였다. 마지막으로 $scCO_2$ 반응 후 순환골재의 용출수 pH 변화를 용출실험을 통하여 규명하였다. $scCO_2$-물-순환골재 반응 결과, 반응 전 순환골재의 pH는 평균 12보다 높은 값을 나타내었으나, $scCO_2$와 반응한 지 1시간 경과 후 증류수의 pH는 7이하로 낮아졌고 반응 50일 까지 pH가 8 이하로 안정되게 유지되었다. 순환골재 종류와 관계없이 $scCO_2$와의 용해 반응에 의해 수용액 내 $Ca^{2+}$, $Si^{4+}$, $Mg^{2+}$, $Na^+$ 이온들의 농도가 증가하였으며, $scCO_2$ 반응 후 골재의 XRD, SEM-EDS 분석 결과, 다량의 방해석과 일부 무정형의 규산염과 수산화물이 침전되었다. $scCO_2$로 처리하지 않은 순환골재의 용출수 pH는 용출 시간에 관계없이 12-13을 유지하였으나, $scCO_2$로 50일 처리한 경우와 1일 처리한 순환골재의 경우 모두, 입자크기와 관계없이 용출수의 pH가 9이하를 유지하여 건설현장에서 순환골재의 재활용이 가능할 것으로 판단되었다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.41-52
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• 2021

NiO and Co3O4-doped porous La(CoNi)O3 perovskite oxides were prepared from excess Ni addition by a hydrothermal method using porous silica template, and characterized as bifunctional catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) for Zn-air rechargeable batteries in alkaline solution. Excess Ni induced to form NiO and Co3O4 in La(CoNi)O3 particles. The NiO and Co3O4-doped porous La(CoNi)O3 showed high specific surface area, up to nine times of conventionally synthesized perovskite oxide, and abundant pore volume with similar structure. Extra added Ni was partially substituted for Co as B site of ABO3 perovskite structure and formed to NiO and Co3O4 which was highly dispersed in particles. Excess Ni in La(CoNi)O3 catalysts increased OER performance (259 mA/㎠ at 2.4 V) in alkaline solution, although the activities (211 mA/㎠ at 0.5 V) for ORR were not changed with the content of excess Ni. La(CoNi)O3 with excess Ni showed very stable cyclability and low capacity fading rate (0.38 & 0.07 ㎶/hour for ORR & OER) until 300 hours (~70 cycles) but more excess content of Ni in La(CoNi)O3 gave negative effect to cyclability.

• 공업화학
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.624-628
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• 2008

$N_2O$는 주요 온실가스 성분의 하나로서 광화학 스모그의 유발, 산성비의 전구체 등 온실효과에 상당한 기여를 하고 있는 물질이다. 이러한 $N_2O$ 및 질소산화물을 제거하기 위하여 환원제를 이용한 Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) 반응 공정이 널리 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 Hydrotalcite 형태의 전구체로부터 Mixed Metal Oxide 촉매를 제조하고 그를 사용하여 $N_2O$ 분해를 위한 메탄 SCR 반응 및 CO의 생성효과를 비교 연구하였다. 실험결과 $CH_4$ 환원제의 첨가는 $N_2O$의 분해 반응에 긍정적인 영향을 미치며, 최적화된 $O_2/CH_4$ 비율의 조건에서 메탄의 부분산화에 의한 SCR 반응이 가장 높은 효율을 나타내는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국환경과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국환경과학회 2019년도 정기학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.83-83
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• 2019

Increasing the CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere induce high temperature and rising sea levels. So the technology that capture and reuse of the CO₂ have been recently become popular. Among other methods, CRR(CO2₂ reduction reaction) is typical method of CO₂ reusing. Electrocatalyst can show more higher efficiencies in CRR than photocatalyst because it doesn't use nature source. Nowadays, finding high efficient electrocatalyst by controlling electronic (affected by stoichiometry) and geometric (affected by atomic arrangement) factors are very important issues. Mono-atomic electro-catalyst has limitations on controlling binding energy because each intermediate has own binding energy range. So the Multi-metallic electro-catalyst is important to stabilize intermediate at the same time. Carbon monoxide(CO) which is our target product and important feedstock of useful products. Au is known for the most high CO production metal. With copper, Not only gold/copper has advantages which is they have FCC packing for easily forming solid solution regardless of stoichiometry but also presence of adsorbed CO on Cu promotes the desorption of CO on Au because of strong repulsion. And gold/copper bi-metal catalyst can show high catalytic activity(mass activity) although it has low selectivity relatively Gold. Actually, multi-metallic catalyst structure control method is limited in the solution method which is takes a lot of time. In here, we introduce CTS(carbo thermal shock) method which is using heat to make MMNP in a few seconds for making gold-copper system. This method is very simple and efficient in terms of time(very short reaction time and using carbon substrate as a direct working electrode) and increasing reaction sites(highly dispersed and mixing alloy structures). Last one is easy to control degree of mixing and it can induce 5 or more metals in one alloy system. Gold/copper by CTS can show higher catalytic activity depending on metal ratio which is altered easily by changing simple variables. The ultimate goals are making CO₂ test system by CTS which can check the selectivity depending on metal types in a very short time.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2023

Transition metal (Me = Cu, Fe, Ni) doped (Pr, Ba)Co₂O_5+𝛿 (PBCO) material were investigated in terms of electronic structure change and electrochemical properties. It was confirmed that (Pr, Ba)(Co, Cu)O_5+𝛿 (PBCCu) and (Pr, Ba)(Co, Fe)O_5+𝛿 (PBCFe) showed cubic and orthorhombic structures, respectively, but (Pr, Ba)(Co, Ni)O_5+𝛿 (PBCNi) showed secondary phases. PBCCu has an average particle diameter of 1093 nm, and PBCO and PBCFe have an average particle diameter of 495.1 nm and 728 nm, respectively. The average oxidation values of B site ions in PBCMe were calculated to be 3.26 (PBCO), 2.48 (PBCCu), 3.32 (PBCFe), and valence band maximum (VBM) was -0.42 eV (PBCO), -0.58 eV (PBCCu), -0.11 eV (PBCFe). It is expected that PBCCu easily interacts with adsorbed oxygen due to the lowest oxidation value and the highest VBM. The polarization resistance was 0.91 Ω cm² (PBCO), 0.77 Ω cm² (PBCCu), 1.06 Ω cm² (PBCFe) at 600℃, showing the lowest polarization resistance of PBCCu.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2023

A large amount of carbon monoxide (CO) is generated in circulating fluidized bed combustion, the process whereby a hot cyclone separates unburned fuel. However, calcium sulfate (CaSO₄), when combined with a high CO content, can cause fouling on the surface of the steam tube installed inside the integrated recycle heat exchangers (INTREX). In this study, CaSO₄ decomposition was investigated using 0.2-3.2 vol.% CO and 1-3 vol.% oxygen (O₂) at 850℃ for 20 min in a lab-scale fluidized bed reactor. The results show that CaSO₄ decomposes into CaS and CaO when CO gas is supplied, and SO₂ emissions increase from 135 ppm to 1021 ppm with increasing CO concentration. However, the O₂ supply delayed SO₂ emissions because the reaction between CO and O₂ is faster than that of CaSO₄; nevertheless, when supplied with CaCO₃, the intermediate product, SO₂ was significantly released, regardless of the CO and O₂ supply. In addition, agglomerated solids and yellow sulfur power were observed after solid recovery, and the reactor distributor was corroded. Consequently, a sufficient O₂ supply is important and can prevent fouling formation on the INTREX surface by suppressing CaSO₄ degradation.

• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.112-119
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• 2022

Molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) are environmentally friendly, large-capacity power generation devices operated at approximately 650℃. If MCFCs are to be commercialized by improving their competitiveness, their cell life should be increased by operating them at lower temperatures. However, a decrease in the operating temperature causes a reduction in the cell performance because of the reduction in the electrochemical reaction rate. The cell performance can be improved by introducing a coating on the cathode of the cell. A coating with a high surface area expands the triple phase boundaries (TPBs) where the gas and electrolyte meet on the electrode surface. And the expansion of TPBs enhances the oxygen reduction reaction of the cathode. Therefore, the cell performance can be improved by increasing the reaction area, which can be achieved by coating nanosized LiCoO₂ particles on the cathode. However, although a coating improves the cell performance, a thick coating makes gas difficult to diffuse into the pore of the coating and thus reduces the cell performance. In addition, LiCoO₂-coated cathode cell exhibits stable cell performance because the coating layer maintains a uniform thickness under MCFC operating conditions. Therefore, the performance and stability of MCFCs can be improved by applying a LiCoO₂ coating with an appropriate thickness on the cathode.