• The Magazine for Energy Service Companies
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• s.46
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• pp.64-65
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• 2007

고등기술연구원 플랜트엔지니어링센터에서는 10년이상 축적된 기반기술과 연구 설비를 환경 및 에너지 분야의 다양한 플랜트에 적용하고 있으며, 고부가가치 창출물 목표로 대기업 및 중소기업을 지원하고 있다. 석탄과 중질잔사유 등 다양한 원료의 가스화와 액화기술 개발 및 열분해/가스화 용융기술의 광범위한 적용을 통하여 생활/산업 폐기물을 환경에 적합하게 처리할 수 있는 공정기술 개발을 하고 있다. 또한 플랜트의 설계/건설/시운전까지 종합한 turn-key서비스를 제공하고 있다. 뿐만 아니라 차세대에너지원인 수소제조를 위한 고온 수전해 전극개발 및 지구온난화 가스를 저감하는 촉매와 공정기술계발, 환경에너지 분야에 대한중소기업 기술지원에도 중점을 두고 있다. 고온고압의 석탄가스화 연구로부터 축적된 가스화용융에 대한 기반기술을 하수슬러지 및 생활폐기물 처리에 성공적으로 적용하여,2003년 1뭘과 12월에 환경부 신기술을 각각 지정 받은 바 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.97-102
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• 2004

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.98-107
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• 2004

Modified Ni/YSZ cermets for high temperature electrolysis were synthesized by dry or wet mechanical alloying methods. The Ni/YSZ composit particle was directly fabricated from the ball milling of Ni and YSZ powder or obtained from the reduction of NiO/YSZ particle after the ball milling of NiO and YSZ. In the case of the NiO/YSZ composite particle, the dry milling increased the average particle size whereas the wet milling decreased the size. The dry milling showed that fine YSZ particles were distributed over large Ni surfaces while Ni and YSZ particles similar in size were well mixed in the wet milling method. These features were the same in the Ni/YSZ composite particle prepared from Ni and YSZ powders. The electrical conductivity of the wet-milled Ni/YSZ cermet showed the highest value of $2{\times}10^2S/cm$ among the specimens and this value was increased to $1.4\times10^4S/cm$ after the sintering at $900^\circ{C}$ for 1 h.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.455-458
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• 2006

최근 들어 고체산화물 연료전지(SOFC) 기술이 급성장함에 따라 고온 수증기 전기분해(HTE) 기술이 물로부터 수소를 대량으로 제조할 수 있는 환경 친화적인 기술로 주목 받고 있다 고온 수증기 전기분해는 기존의 액상 전기분해보다 총 에너지 요구량이 작고 전기분해에 필요한 최소의 전기에너지가 온도가 증가할수록 감소하며 고온 수증기 전기분해에 요구되는 에너지의 일부를 전기에너지 대신 열의 형태로 공급이 가능하여 보다 높은 효율을 기대할 수 있다. 따라서 off peak시 기저부하전력을 이용하고, 공정의 열원으로 고온가스의 폐열, 천연가스의 부분산화 반응열 또는 고온 가스원자로의 폐열을 활용하면 SOFC 이용 고온 수증기 전기분해 공정은 수소경제사회에서 요구되는 수소를 대량으로 제조할 수 있는 경제적인 공정이 될 것이다.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.1-9
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• 2020

In recent days, fuel cell has received attention from the world as an alternative power source to hydrocarbon used in automobile engines. With the industrial advances of fuel cell, There have been a lot of researches actively conducted to find a way of generating hydrogen. Among many hydrogen production methods, Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell(SOEC) is not only a basic way but also environment-friendly method to produce hydrogen gas. Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell has lower electrical energy demands and high thermal efficiency since it is possible to operate under high temperature and high pressure conditions. For these reasons, experimental researches as well as studies on numerical modeling for Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell have been under way. However, studies on numerical modeling are relatively less enough than experimental accomplishments and have limited performance prediction, which mostly is considered as a result from inadequate effects of electrochemical properties by temperature and pressure. In this study, various experimental studies of commercial Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) composed of Ni-YSZ (40wt%, Ni-60 wt% YSZ)/8-YSZ (TOSOH, TZ8Y)/LSM (La_0.9Sr_0.1MnO₃) was utilized for improving effectiveness of SOEC model. After numerically analyzing effects of electrochemical properties according to operating temperature, causing the largest deviation between experiments and simulation are that Charge Transfer Coefficient (CTC), exchange current density, diffusion coefficient, electrical conductivity in SOEC. Analyzing temperature effect on parameter used in overpotential model is conducted for modeling of SOEC. cross-validation method is adopted for application of various MEA and evaluating feasibility of model. As a result, the study confirm that the numerical model of SOEC based on structured process of effectiveness evaluation makes performance prediction better.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.433-439
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• 2017

The high temperature performance of PEM type electrolyser at $120^{\circ}C$ based on covalently cross-linked sulfonated poly ether ether ketone (SPEEK) composie membrane was investigated. Ion conductivity and other properties of SPEEK membrane were improved by adding heteropoly acid and Ceria. The membrane electrode assemblies were prepared using commercial PtC and nano-sized $IrRuO_2$ catalyst by electro-spraying and decal process. Voltage efficiency of MEA equipped with SPEEK membrane was slightly better than that of $Nafion^{(R)}$ membrane, due to its higher proton conductivity at high temperature. The cell performance of MEA with CL-SPEEK/Cs-TSiA/Ceria is 1.71 V at $1A/cm^2$ and $120^{\circ}C$.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.477-486
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• 2017

Hydrogen is one of energy storage systems, which could be transfer from electric energy to chemical energy or from chemical energy to electric energy, and is as an energy carrier. Water electrolysis is being investigating as one of the hydrogen production methods. Recently, water electrolysis receive attention for the element technology in PTG (power to gas) and PTL (power to liquid) system. In this paper, it was explained the principle and type for the water electrolysis, and recent research review for the alkaline water electrolysis.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.372-378
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• 2005

Ni/YSZ ($Y_2O_3$-stabilized $ZrO_2$) composite powder for a cathode material in high temperature electrolysis(HTE) was synthesized by a mechanical alloying method with Ni and YSZ powder. Microstructure of the composite and cell thickness for HTE reaction has been analyzed with various techniques of XRD, SEM to investigate effects of fabrication conditions. Employing the composite material, furthermore, the unit cell for HTE has been studied to evolve hydrogen from water. XRD patterns showed that the composites after wet mechanical alloying were composed of respective nano-sized crystalline Ni and YSZ. While ethanol as additive for mechanical alloying increased to $20\;{\mu}m$ of average particle size of the composites, alpha-terpineol effectively decreased to sub-micro size of that. This study has been found out the evolution of hydrogen by HTE reaction employing the fabricated cathode material, showing 1.4 ml/min of $H_2$ generation rate as increasing $20\;{\mu}m$ of cathode thickness.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.324-332
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• 2004

According to the rapid depletion of the fossil fuels, the electricity and hydrogen will gradually take charge of the future energy supply. Especially, in order to control the supply and demand of electricity, energy storage medium is necessary and this could be solved by the combination of water electrolysis and fuel cell. Although electricity can be generated from such alternative energies as hydropower, nuclear, solar, and wind-power resources, alternative energy storage medium is also required since regenerative energies, solar and wind-powers, are intermittent energy resources. In this regard, hydrogen production from water electrolysis was recognized as a superb method for electricity storage. In this work, the current development and economic status of alkaline, solid polymer, and high temperature electrolysis were reviewed, and then the practical use of water electrolysis technology were discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.190.2-190.2
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• 2016

청정에너지 개발은 화석연료를 대체하기 위하여 꾸준한 관심을 받고 있다. 많은 대체에너지중 수소는 그 반응물이 순수한 물로써 환경오염이 없다. 기존의 수소를 얻어내는 방법은 메탄을 고온 고압에서 수증기와 반응시켜 얻는데 이 때 이산화탄소가 생성이 된다. 전기화학적 물분해 방법은 물을 수소와 산소로 선택적으로 분해시킬 수 있는 방법이다. $TiO_2$는 전기적으로 합성할 때 표면의 구조제어가 쉽고 열역학적, 화학적 안정성이 높아 자체의 높은 밴드갭(3.0~3.2 eV)에도 불구하고 산업적으로 염소분해 전극으로써 사용되고 있으며 최근에는 물분해 전극으로도 적용하는 연구가 진행되고 있다. 전기화학적 물분해 반응을 위해서는 높은 과전압이 요구되므로 산업적으로 이용하기 위해 전도성을 향상시키기 위한 연구가 필요하다. 낮은 전압에서도 물을 분해할 수 있는 촉매제의 도핑이 연구되고 있으나 대부분 촉매로 사용되는 금속은 루테늄과 이리듐 등의 귀금속이다. 본 연구에서는 저가촉매로써 몰리브덴을 도핑한 후 농도별 성능을 비교하였다. 전극의 성능비교를 위해 각 촉매의 농도별로 다른 전해질 농도조건에서 성능비교실험을 진행하였다.