• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.76-84
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• 2010

The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of the ethanol blending in diesel-ethanol blended fuels on the spray and combustion characteristics in a common-rail four-cylinder diesel engine. For the analysis of the spray characteristics, the spray images were obtained using a high speed camera with metal-halide lamps. From these spray images, the macroscopic spray characteristics such as the spray tip penetration and spray cone angle were investigated. Also, the combustion characteristics including the combustion pressure and the rate of heat release were studied with the analysis of the exhaust emissions in diesel-ethanol blended fuel driven diesel engine. It can be confirmed from the experiment on spray characteristics of diesel-ethanol blended fuels that the increased ethanol blending ratio induced the decrease of the spray tip penetration after the end of the injection. The spray cone angle slightly increased by the blending of ethanol fuel. In the experiment on atomization characteristics, the ethanol blending caused the improvement of the diesel atomization performance. On the other hand, at the same engine load condition, the increase of the ethanol blending ratio lead to lengthen the ignition delays, and to decrease the peak combustion pressure and the rate of heat release. Totally, the combustion and emission characteristics of ULSD and DE10 showed similar characteristics. However, in the case of DE20, CO and HC rapidly increased, and $NO_x$ decreased. It can be believed that 20% ethanol disturbed the combustion of diesel-ethanol blended fuel due to the low cetane number and evaporation.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.82-89
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• 2009

In order to investigate the spray characteristics according to diesel and bioethanol blending with biodiesel fuel, macroscopic spray characteristics were analyzed from the comparison of the effect of the injection pressure, ambient pressure and density on the spray tip penetration and spray cone angle. In addition, spray atomization characteristics were studied with local and overall Sauter mean diameter (SMD) and the contour map of SMD distribution at various injection conditions. It was revealed that the spray tip penetration of biodiesel fuels blended with diesel and ethanol was shorter than that of an undiluted biodiesel fuel at low injection pressure. However, the difference of spray tip penetration among three test fuels reduces at a high injection pressure. Increase of the ambient gas density leads to the decrease of the spray tip penetration of three test fuels. When diesel and ethanol fuels add to an undiluted biodiesel fuel, spray cone angle increases due to the decrease of the fuel density at the same ambient pressure condition. On the other hand, the droplet mean diameter decreases due to the reduction of the kinematic viscosity and surface tension.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.250.2-250.2
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• 2010

빛과 공기 중의 이산화탄소를 고정화하여 생성되는 바이오매스(biomass)로부터 다양한 에너지 및 물질을 생산하는 연구는 석유고갈과 환경문제 해결의 한 방안으로서 활발히 진행되어 왔으며, 앞으로도 그 지속 가능성과 환경 친화성에 의해 바이오에너지 이용 및 보급은 꾸준한 증가세를 보일 것으로 전망된다. 바이오디젤, 바이오에탄올의 경우는 미국, 브라질, EU, 한국 등에서 상용화되어 사용되고 있으며 그 생산량이 계속적으로 증가하고 있다. 하지만, 바이오연료의 보급 증가는 식량 자원과의 충돌과 열대우림 파괴 등의 부작용을 일으키고 있다. 이러한 문제 해결의 일환으로 단위면적당 생산성이 대두, 유채보다 월등한 것으로 보고되는 미세조류에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있으며 우수 미세조류종 개발, 미세조류 고속배양 및 수확, 미세조류로부터 에너지 및 유용물질, 소재 생산에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 미세조류로부터 바이오디젤 원료유를 생산하기 위해 Soxhlet을 이용한 추출 방법을 이용하였다. 추출되는 오일은 사용 용매의 극성에 따라 물성과 추출 효율에 차이가 큰 것으로 나타났다. 강한 극성의 용매일 경우, 엽록소와 단백질이 같이 추출되는 문제가 있으며 약한 극성 용매는 세포벽의 방해로 용매가 세포내부로 흡수되지 못하는 문제가 있다. 추출 효율이 높은 극성용매의 경우 불순물을 제거해야 고순도의 바이오디젤의 생산이 가능하고 비극성 용매는 추출 오일의 물성은 좋으나 수율이 매우 낮게 측정되었다. 이러한 동시추출을 방지함과 동시에 추출 효율을 높이기 위해 본 연구에서는 세포벽 파괴 후 용매추출하는 방법으로서 미세조류를 Microwave에 노출시켜 오일 추출율을 증가시키는 전처리 연구를 수행하였다. 전처리시, Microwave에 의한 열 발생은 미세조류를 탄화시키기 때문에 열매체로서 물을 혼합하여 탄화를 방지하고 세포벽 내외부의 가열효과로 세포벽을 파괴하고자 하였다. Microwave에 의한 에너지 손실을 줄이며 세포벽 파괴에 효과적인 수분혼합비를 조사하였으며 Microwave에 노출 후 잔류수분을 건조하고 효율적으로 용매를 접촉시키기 위해 분쇄를 수행하였다. 모든 전처리 반응을 거친 미세조류에서 약 2배 증가된 추출수율을 얻을 수 있었으며, SEM을 통해 전처리 미세조류와 미전처리 미세조류를 분석해본 결과 전처리 미세조류의 다공성이 증가함을 확인하였다. 또한, 90%의 메탄올에 미세조류를 녹여 엽록소 함유량을 측정한 결과, 전처리 미세조류의 엽록소가 미전처리 미세조류보다 약 7배가량 감소함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.577-596
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• 2018

ASEAN countries consist of vast coastal areas and thousands of islands that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change on sea level rise. It is believed that this will play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions globally in order to minimize the damage suffered by ASEAN countries. To overcome this issue, biofuels have been used to minimize the impact on the environment by replacing fossil fuels and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In those cases of United States, Brazil and Europe, where biofuels are highly utilized, research, development and investment in this field have been actively conducted in the past. In ASEAN countries, however, it has not been a long time since the biofuel policies were established. To overcome this problem, we investigated the renewable fuel policy in the United States, Brazil and the European Union. Based on this, we suggested the utilization plan and prospect of biofuel policy in ASEAN countries.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.61-66
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• 2009

An experimental investigation was conducted to analyze the effects of biodiesel-ethanol and biodiesel-diesel blended fuels on the characteristics of combustion and exhaust emissions, and size distributions of particulate matter in a single cylinder diesel engine. The three types of test fuel were biodiesel and two blended fuels which were added ethanol and diesel by 20 % volume based fraction into biodiesel, respectively. In this study, the injection rate, combustion pressure, exhaust emissions and size distributions of particulate matter were measured under various injection timings and injection pressures. The experimental results show that biodiesel-ethanol blended fuel has lengthened ignition delay and low combustion pressure in comparison with those of biodiesel and biodiesel-diesel blended fuel even if all fuels indicated similar trends of injection rate under equal injection pressures. In addition, the ethanol blended fuel significantly reduced nitrogen oxidies (NOx) and soot emissions. And then the size distribution of particulate matters shows that blended fuels restrain the formation of particles which were beyond the range of 150nm comparison with biodiesel fuel.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.159-164
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• 1996

Transesterification of used frying oil was investigated to produce the bio-diesel oil. Experimental conditions included molar ratio of used frying oil to alcohol (1:3, 1:5 and 1:7), concentration of catalyst (0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 wt.%), ippe of catalyst(sodium melhoxide, NaOH and KOH), reaction temperature (30, 45 and $60^{\circ}C$), and types of alcohol(methanol, ethanol and butanol). The conversion of used frying oil increased with the alcohol mixing ratio and with the reaction temperature. The effect of the type of catalysts on conversion was not significant. The highest conversion was obtained when methanol was used as alcohol. Viscosity was a little higher with the ester product over grade #2 diesel oil. But the physical properties improved significantly with transesterification, resulting in similar fuel properties with those obtained for grade #2 diesel fuel.