• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.58-67
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• 2023

Results of dry-run tests, cold-flow tests, and hot-firing tests performed to throttle a methane engine uni-element thrust chamber are covered in the paper. After installing flow control valves on the oxidizer and fuel supply lines of the methane engine combustion test facility, a number of dry-run tests were repeated so that the valves could reach set strokes quickly and stably. Then, cold-flow tests using liquid nitrogen and gaseous nitrogen were conducted to confirm the stable supply of the simulated propellants according to the valve control. Finally, using liquid oxygen and gaseous methane, hot-firing tests for fixed and continuous thrust control of 50% to 10% of the nominal thrust were successfully performed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.34-42
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• 2022

A correlation between propellant supply condition and chamber pressure in GCH₄-LOx small rocket engine was explored and hot-firing tests were conducted to analyze the engine performance characteristics according to the equivalence ratio variation at a constant chamber pressure. Correlation studies have shown that chamber pressure is linearly proportional to oxidizer supply pressure. As a result of the test, the thrust, specific impulse and characteristic velocity that are the main performance parameters of a rocket engine, were found to be enhanced as the equivalence ratio starting from a fuel-lean condition approached the stoichiometric ratio, but the efficiencies of characteristic velocity and specific impulse were on the contrary, in their dependency on the equivalence ratio.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2016.02a
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• pp.190.2-190.2
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• 2016

메탄은 변환을 통해 아세틸렌 및 수소와 같은 에너지 생산에 보다 유용한 기체를 얻을 수 있다. 메탄의 열분해 온도는 약 1,200 K로 알려져 있으며, 그 이상의 고온 환경 및 첨가물을 제공한 경우 효과적인 변환을 기대할 수 있다. 이러한 고온 환경 및 화학반응을 제공할 수 있는 시스템으로 열플라즈마 반응로가 있다. 일반적인 열플라즈마는 아크 방전이나 고주파 유도결합 방전으로 플라즈마 발생기에서 발생시킨 이온화된 열유체로 10,000 K 이상의 초고온과 최대 수천 m/s의 특성을 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 효율적인 메탄 변환을 위한 저전력 아크 플라즈마 발생기 및 반응로 내부의 온도 및 속도장을 전산모사하여 열유동 특성을 분석하였다. 아크 플라즈마 토치 영역의 전산해석은 전자기적 현상과 고온 열유동의 유체역학적 현상이 함께 작용하므로 기존에 사용되고 있는 전산유체 역학적인 방법론에 전자기적 현상에 대한 보존 방정식이 결합된 자기유체역학(Magnetohydrodynamic, MHD)방법을 이용하였고, 반응기 내부의 복잡한 열유동은 안정적인 계산이 가능한 상용 전산 유체역학(Computational Fluids Dynamics, CFD) 코드를 MHD 코드를 이용한 전산해석 결과 및 고온 물성치와 결합하여 해석하였다. 전산해석에 사용된 운전 변수로는 방전기체인 아르곤과 수소의 전체 유량을 45 L/min 으로 고정하고 수소의 비율을 0%, 6%, 12.5%, 20%로 하였으며, 각 유량 조건에서 입력 전력을 0.7 ~ 2.5 KW로 변화시켜 전체 15종의 운전조건에 따른 전산해석을 수행하여 각각의 운전변수에 따라 입력전력 기준 오차 1 ~ 28%에 해당하는 결과를 도출하였다. 본 연구를 통해 개발된 전산해석 방법을 이용하여 다양한 조건에서 아크 플라즈마 반응로 내부의 온도 및 속도장에 대한 전산해석 결과를 제시하였고, 효율적인 메탄 변환 공정을 개발하기 위한 아크 플라즈마 반응로의 설계조건 및 운전 조건을 제시할 수 있는 기반을 확보하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.129-130
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• 2002

지구온난화를 유발하는 온실효과기체의 대표적인 성분으로는 이산화탄소, 메탄, 프레온류, 아산화질소 등을 들 수 있으며, 각 성분의 대기 중 농도는 산업화의 진행에 따라 지속적이고 철저한 증가 추세를 보이고 있다. 이에 따라 지구 온난화 현상은 점차 가속화되는 경향을 보이고 있으며, 온실효과기체가 현재와 같은 증가율로 증가하게 되면 2030년대에는 지구 전체의 평균기온이 현재에 비해 약 1.5-3.5$^{\circ}C$ 상승하게 되고, 기후 변동, 생태계의 교란, 해수면 상승, 토양침식 증가 등의 결과가 예측된다. (중략)

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.50 no.5
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• pp.890-893
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• 2012

Gas hydrates are solid crystal structures formed by enclathration of gaseous guest species into 3-dimensional lattice structure of hydrogen-bonded water molecules. These compounds can be potentially used as an energy storage/transportation medium because they can hold a large amount of gas in a small volume of the solid phase. In addition, huge amount of natural gas, buried in seabeds or permafrost region in the form of the solid hydrate, is regarded as a future energy source. In this study, synthesized natural gas, whose composition is 90.0 mol% of methane, 7.0 mol% of ethane, and 3.0 mol% of propane, was used to identify formation behaviors of natural gas hydrates for the purpose of applying the gas hydrate to a storage/transportation medium of natural gas. According to the experimental results obtained by means of the solid-state NMR and high-resolution powder XRD methods, it is found that formed natural gas hydrates have crystal structure of the structure-II hydrate, and that methane occupies both small and large cages, while the others only occupy large ones. In addition, both the NMR spectroscopy and the gas chromatograph showed that there exists preferential occupation among the natural gas components during the hydrate formation. Compositional changes after the hydrate formation revealed that the preferential occupation is in order of propane, ethane, and methane (propane is the most preferential guest species when forming natural gas hydrates).

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.28-38
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• 2019

To investigate the relation between flame structure and combustion dynamic characteristics in bi-swirl coaxial injectors for a liquid rocket engine, combustion experiments were performed using gaseous methane and gaseous oxygen. CH* radicals and pressure fluctuations were simultaneously measured by changing the injector geometries such as recess length/orifice diameter and the flow conditions such as equivalence ratio/oxidizer mass flow rate. As the injector geometries affected the velocities and mixing of the propellants, the change in flame structures was observed. From a result of the frequency analysis, it was confirmed that combustion dynamic characteristics varied according to the injector geometry/flow condition and combustion instabilities could occur under specific recess length/flow conditions.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.41-48
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• 2017

The combustion characteristics of gaseous methane-gaseous oxygen, an eco-friendly bipropellant injected by shear coaxial injector, were investigated. Flame was photographed under various combustion conditions using a DSLR camera, and the characteristics of the flame shape was quantified by image post-processing. From the view point of stabilization, the diffusion flame could be divided into anchored flame regime and blow-off regime. As the oxidizer Reynolds number ($Re_o$) increased, a probability of the formation of anchored flame increased with the length of flame. The shear coaxial injector used in this experiment was found to require a large length-to-diameter ratio of combustion chamber because it formed a relatively long flame in the injection direction due to a poor mixing depending only on the momentum diffusion of two propellant jets.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.89-100
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• 2021

This paper deals with the construction of a combustion test facility and preliminary tests for hot-firing tests of a methane engine. First, the combustion test facility for a 1 kN-class thrust chamber using liquid oxygen/gas methane as propellants was designed and built. Before hot-firing tests, the cold-flow tests of each propellant line and the ignition tests of torch igniter/afterburner were performed to verify propellant supply stability of the combustion test facility, operation of the control and measurement system, and successful ignition. Finally, a preliminary hot-firing test was conducted to measure the combustion efficiency, heat flux, and combustion stability of a thrust chamber prototype. The constructed combustion test facility will be helpfully used for basic research and development of methane engine thrust chambers.

• Proceedings of The Korean Society of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Conference
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.11-13
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• 2001

본 연구진은 비교적 청정한 공기질을 유지하는 것으로 알려진 강화도 하리지역을 중심으로 2001년 3월 봄철의 일주일 (3/20∼3/27) 기간동안 미량기체의 교환량을 측정하기 위한 공동연구사업을 수행하였다. 본 연구에서는 수은, VOC, 메탄, 비메탄계 탄화수소를 위시한 가스상 성분은 물론 입자상성분을 대표할 수 있는 PM 10의 농도를 지면상부 1m와 5m 고도에서 관측하였다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.168-171
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• 2004

이산화탄소는 메탄, 오존, 산화질소, CFC등의 온실기체 중 약 50%를 차지하는 물질로서 이산화탄소 발생의 저감과 함께 회수 기술의 개발을 통한 배출량 억제는 환경적 측면에서 대단히 중요한 것으로 간주되고 있다. 따라서 각종 산업분야에서 발생하는 다양한 성분을 가진 다성분계 배가스내에 존재하는 10%내외의 이산화탄소만을 분리정제 농축하여 메탄, 메탄올 등의 다른 화학물질의 제조의 원료, 신에너지원, 고부가가치의 신제품 등으로 전환하는 연구가 활발히 진행 중이다.(중략)