• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.499-505
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• 2012

The fuel cell is a very promising power generation system combining the benefits of extremely low emissions, high efficiency, ease of maintenance and durability. In order to promote the commercialization of fuel cells, a flexible forming process, in which a hyper-elastic rubber is adopted as a medium to transmit forming pressure, is suggested as an efficient and cost effective manufacturing method for fuel cell bipolar plates. In this study, the ability of this flexible forming process to produce the micro channel arrays on metallic bipolar plates was first demonstrated experimentally. Then, a finite element (FE) model was built and validated through comparisons between simulated and experimental results. The effects of key process parameters on the forming performance such as applied load and punch velocity were investigated. As a result, appropriate process parameter values allowing high dimensional accuracy without failure were suggested.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.42 no.12 s.283
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• pp.854-859
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• 2005

Performance of micro scale intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell system has been successfully evaluated by computer simulation based on macro modeling. Two systems were studied in this work. The one is designed that the ceria-based electrolyte placed between composite electrodes and the other is designed that electrodes alternately placed on the electrolyte. The injected gas was composed of hydrogen and air. The polarization curve was obtained through a series of calculations for ohmic loss, activation loss and concentration loss. The calculation of each loss was based on the solving of mathematical model of multi physical-phenomena such as ion conduction, fluid dynamics and diffusion and convection by Finite Element Method (FEM). The performance characteristics of SOFC were quantitatively investigated for various structural parameters such as distance between electrodes and thickness of electrolyte.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.2070-2075
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• 2004

Performance of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) can be enhanced by converting thermal energy of its high temperature exhaust gas to mechanical power using a micro gas turbine (MGT). A MGT plays also an important role to pressurize and warm up inlet gas streams of the SOFC. In this study, the influence of performance characteristics of the tubular SOFC on the hybrid power system is discussed. For this purpose, detailed heat and mass transfer with reforming and electrochemical reactions in the SOFC are mathematically modeled, and their results are reflected to the performance analysis. The analysis target is 220kWe SOFC/MGT hybrid system based on the tubular SOFC developed by Siemens-Westinghouse. Special attention is paid to the ohmic losses in the tubular SOFC counting not only current flow in radial direction, but also current flow in circumferential direction through the anode and cathode.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.247-251
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• 2008

This paper presents a micro air pump actuated by PZT actuator (synthetic jet actuator) for air supply for micro fuel cells. The synthetic jet actuators are usually created by a traditional PZT-driven actuator, which consists of a small cylindrical cavity, in/outlet channel and PZT diaphragms. To design the micro air pump, a numerical analysis has been conducted for flow characteristics with respect to various geometries. A prototype of the micro air pump, with a size of $mm{\times}mm{\times}mm$, was fabricated by PDMS replication process and was conducted performance test. To control the PZT actuator, we used the SP4423 micro chips that can be amplified input voltage to reduce the controller size and the power consumption. With a voltage of 3V at 100Hz, the air pump's pumping pressure is 600pa and its power consumption is only 0.1mW.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.62 no.5
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• pp.596-603
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• 2013

The increase of distributed power generation is closely related to interest in microgird including renuable energy sources such as photovoltaic (PV) systems and fuel cell. By the growing interest of microgrid all over the world, many studies on microgrid operation are being carried out. Especially operation technique which is core technology of microgrid is to supply heat and electricity energy simultaneously. Optimal microgrid scheduling can be established by considering CHP (Combined Heat and Power) generation because it produce both heat and electricity energy and its total efficiency is high. For this reason, CHP generation in microgrid is being spotlighted. In the near future, wide application of microgrid is also anticipated. This paper proposes a mathematical model for optimal operation of microgrid considering both heat and power. To validate the proposed model, the case study is performed and its results are analyzed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1170-1171
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• 2008

Microsources supply high quality power from 1kW to a matter of MW with higher reliability and energy efficiency than the existing large power facilities. In this paper, we designed dynamic modeling of Microturbine and Fuel cell being worthy as a small distributed energy source. Using EMTP we designed the dynamic modeling and confirmed characteristics of steady-state and dynamic analysis. In this paper, we designed dynamic modeling of Microturbine and Fuel cell being worthy as a small distributed energy source and analyzed dynamic characteristics corresponding to load variation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10c
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• pp.161-163
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• 2008

The paper deals with a inverter control scheme to apply feeder flow control in the hybrid system consisted of a photovoltaic system and a fuel-cell system. The inverter operation modes and a feeder control reference is changed by changing of the loads. Simulation results using the PSCAD/EMTDC are presented to establish a inverter control method for a Feeder flow control mode.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.66-67
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• 2010

마이크로그리드 또는 발전용 연료전지 시스템과 같이 계통 이상 시 독립운전으로의 모드전환이 필요한 응용에서 과도현상을 최소화하는 Seamless Transfer 기술이 필수적이다. 모드전환 시 전압제어를 유지함으로서 이러한 과도상태를 최소화할 수 있는 간접전류제어 알고리즘이 제안된 바 있다. 그러나 제어기 모델에 의한 해석이 불가능하므로 제어 파라미터 설정이 어려운 단점이 있었다. 본 논문에서는 인버터의 모델을 고려하여 제어기를 해석함으로서 원하는 제어대역폭과 위상마진을 갖는 제어기의 게인 설정을 가능하게 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.613-614
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• 2006

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.3-8
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• 2008

Effect of external heating rate on the conversion efficiency for the steam reforming of methanol is investigated numerically considering both heat and mass transfer of the species in a packed bed microreactor. In a results from the numerical simulation, the conversion efficiency of methanol has been obtained for the external heating rate. The axial variation of mole fraction of methanol has been additionally presented for several cases of external heating rates. The results show that for the constant inlet temperature condition the conversion efficiency of methanol increases with external heating rate over the range of operating conditions.