• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.51-59
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• 2005

수소 분리막의 적용 분야는 석탄가스, 천연가스, 메탄가스 혼합기체이며, 고온/고압 및 수소농도가 낮은 혼합기체에서 고순도의 수소를 제조하는 곳이다. 특히 치밀질 세라믹 멤브레인은 고온에서 가스화한 석탄가스나 차세대의 쓰레기 처리 기술인 가스화 용융처리에서 생긴 고온가스로부터 고순도의 수소를 분리할 수 있다. 분리한 수소는 고온을 유지하기 때문에 연료전지 발전에 최적이다. 종래의 연료전지는 발전을 위해서 수소의 가열이 필요했으나 이것이 불필요하게 되어 발전 전체의 효율이 향상된다. 석유화학 산업에서 발생하는 혼합기체에서 수소를 분리하여 사용하고 남은 기체는 연료로 재사용할 수 있다. 분리막의 재질로는 고분자계가 개발되고 있으며 고분자 지지체에 백금이나 로듐과 같은 촉매를 코팅하는 방법이다. 이는 기공의 제어가 용이하고 대량생산이 가능한 장점이 있지만 고온에서 사용이 불가능하고 입자상 물질에 의해 분리막의 손상이 문제가 되고 있다. 이에 비해 치밀질 세라믹 멤브레인은 세라믹의 특성에 의해 고온 및 고압에서도 적용이 가능하며, 실온이나 저압의 조건에서도 적용이 가능한 특징을 가진다. $900^{\circ}C$의 고온에서 적용시 세라믹 멤브레인에는 특성열화가 없어 수명이 긴 장점을 가지게 된다. 수소가 포함되어 있는 기체에서 수소 만을 분리하는 방법은 흡착이나 분리막을 이용하는 방법이 일반적이며 흡착에 의한 방법은 일부 실용화가 진행되고 있다. 고효율의 수소를 분리하는 방법으로 분리막을 이용하는 방법이 있다. 현재 치밀질 수소 분리막의 연구는 외국(미국, 일본 등)에서도 초기 연구 단계이다. 국내에서도 이런 연구가 선행되어 외국과의 기술 격차를 줄이고 에너지 자원에 대한 확보가 필요하기 때문에 이 연구가 수행되었다. 치밀질 멤브레인의 소재로는 proton 및 전자전도가 가능한 소재로서 Ba-Ce-Y계를 기본조성으로 하여 내구성과 전기전도도를 향상시키기 위해 Ca, La, In, Yb를 치환하였다. 제조한 재료의 물리화학적 특성을 평가하였고, 수소여과 장치를 이용하여 여과 효율을 평가하였다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.59 no.2
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• pp.200-208
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• 2021

Compare to the gaseous hydrogen, liquid hydrogen has various advantages: easy to transport, high energy density, and low risk of explosion. However, the hydrogen liquefaction process is highly energy intensive because it requires lots of energy for refrigeration. On the other hand, the cold energy of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) is wasted during the regasification. It means there are opportunities to improve the energy efficiency of the hydrogen liquefaction process by recovering wasted LNG cold energy. In addition, hydrogen production by natural gas reforming is one of the most economical ways, thus LNG can be used as a raw material for hydrogen production. In this study, a novel hydrogen production and liquefaction process is proposed by using LNG as a raw material as well as a cold source. To develop this process, the hydrogen liquefaction process using hydrocarbon mixed refrigerant and the helium-neon refrigerant is selected as a base case design. The proposed design is developed by applying LNG as a cold source for the hydrogen precooling. The performance of the proposed process is analyzed in terms of energy consumption and exergy efficiency, and it is compared with the base case design. As the result, the proposed design shows 17.9% of energy reduction and 11.2% of exergy efficiency improvement compare to the base case design.

• Clean Technology
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.191-200
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• 2013

Researches on developing photocatalyst materials for hydrogen production from solar water splitting attract great attentions due to the unlimited and clean characteristics of the solar energy. In this review, photocatalysts used for hydrogen production from the solar water splitting are discussed in terms of material characteristics. In addition, various modification techniques applied to the photocatalysts for improving hydrogen production efficiency are summarized. Finally, light characteristics such as intensity, illumination density and wavelength cutoff are also discussed for the importance of hydrogen production rate.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.22-27
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• 2011

This study was performed to find out the optimum condition for hydrogen production by changing mixture ratio from 3:7(food waste water : swine wastewater) without pre-treatment of food wastewater and swine wastewater using a continuous reaction process. It was confirmed that hydrogen generation according to pH is the highest in a condition of pH 5.5, and that the optimum pH for hydrogen production in case of mixing food wastewater with swine wastewater is 5.5 through this. Hydrogen generation according to HRT showed high hydrogen generation rate in case of 4 days rather than 3 days, and this involves largely in vitality of hydrogen producing bacteria according to variation of the HRT value, so it is judged that HRT also acts as an important factor to hydrogen producing bacteria. The organic removal efficiency recorded a removal efficiency of maximum TS 52%, VS 71%, TSS 83% and VSS 89% at the 6th day of operation, and it was confirmed that organic removal efficiency is possible even through an hydrogen production process.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.375-378
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• 2002

Hydrogen producing bacterium, strain Ye13-6 was isolated from the sludge of the factory areas in Gunpo through the acclimation in basal salt medium(BSM) supplemented with 10g/ ${\ell}$ of sucrose. Isolated strain Ye13-6 was a facultative anaerobe which could grow in both aerobic and anaerobic environments. Effects of the concentrations of glucose and sucrose on the hydrogen production rate and the hydrogen production yield were investigated. When glucose in the range of 1${\sim}$12g/ ${\ell}$ was supplemented to the BSM, strain Ye13-6 could grow without lag phase. An increased glucose concentration increased the specific hydrogen production rate linearly to 60mmol-$H_2$ ${\cdot}$ mg-$DCW^{-1}$ ${\cdot}$ $h^{-1}$. The hydrogen production yield was maintained over a range from 2.6 to 3.1mol-$H_2$ ${\cdot}$ mol-$glucose^{-1}$. When sucrose in the range of 1${\sim}$12g/ ${\ell}$ was supplemented to the BSM, strain Ye13-6 could grow after ten hours. An increased sucrose concentration increased the specific hydrogen production rate and the hydrogen production yield to 163mmol-$H_2$ ${\cdot}$ mg-$DCW^{-1}$ ${\cdot}$ $h^{-1}$ and to 4.5mol-$H_2$ ${\cdot}$ mol-$sucrose^{-1}$, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.70-76
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• 2003

Continuous anaerobic hydrogen production with a mixed culture was investigated. With a sucrose concentration of 5g COD/L in the feed, hydrogen production exceeded $0.5mole\;H_2/mole\;hexose$ was found at the early stage, however it did not maintain longer than 9days. It was assumed that the failure was caused by insufficient active hydrogen producing bacteria in the reactor. Therefore, effects of pH control, repeated heat treatment and substrate concentration on sustainable continuous anaerobic hydrogen production was examined to find out operating conditions to sustainable hydrogen production. Decrease of hydrogen production was not overcome by only pH control at 5.3. Repeated heat treatment could recover hydrogen producing activity without any external inoculum supply. However, frequent heat treatment was needed because the treated sludge also showed the tendency in decrease of hydrogen production. With a sucrose concentration of 30g COD/L in the feed, hydrogen production maintained $1.0-1.4mole\;H_2/mole\;hexose$ in continuously stirred tank reactor and $0.2-0.3mole\;H_2/mole\;hexose$ in anaerobic sequencing batch reactor) for 24days. More than 90% of soluble organics in effluent was organic acids, in which n-butyrate was the most one.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.266-266
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• 2015

전 세계적으로 무한한 청정에너지 개발에 대한 연구가 주목받고 있다. 그 중, 수소에너지는 화석연료의 고갈과 환경문제를 동시에 해결할 수 있는 자원이며 수소 생산 방법 중에서도 태양에너지를 이용한 수소 생산 기술은 가장 이상적인 수소 생산 시스템이라 할 수 있다. 대표적인 광전극 소재로는 $WO_3$, ZnO, $Fe_2O_3$, $BiVO_4$ 등과 같은 무기 소재가 주로 사용되고 있으며, 최근에는 Si, CIGS 등과 같은 태양전지와 상기 광전극을 집적하는 탄뎀형 소재/소자가 개발되고 있다. 광전반응이 우수한 전도성 고분자는 광전기화학 전지의 소재로 개발되고 있다. 그러나 유기물의 수중 불안전성 문제 때문에 직접적으로 물에 침전시키는 것이 아니라 외부의 인가 전원용으로 그 사용이 제한적이다. 본 연구에서는 유기계 소재의 direct energy conversion을 위한 효율 및 수중 안정성 향상을 위하여 Ni계 촉매 및 그래핀옥사이드가 융합된 유기기반 광전기화학전지를 개발하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.02a
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• pp.215-215
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• 2012

급속한 산업의 발달은 심각한 환경오염 및 에너지 문제를 가져왔다. 이를 해결하기 위한 방안으로 수소에너지에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있으며, 수소에너지를 생산하는 방법 중 하나로 태양에너지를 원천으로 하는 광촉매(photocatalyst)에 대한 연구가 점차적으로 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 현재 광촉매로 가장 많이 사용되는 $TiO_2$의 경우, 뛰어난 광활성과 저렴한 가격, 광 안정성, 화학적 안정성을 가짐에도 불구하고, 3.2 eV라는 넓은 band gap을 가지기 때문에 385 nm 이상의 긴 파장을 갖는 가시광선은 흡수할 수 없다. 또한, 광촉매 반응과정 중 recombination으로 인한 효율의 손실이 크기 때문에 이러한 문제들을 해결하기 위해 많은 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 ICP-assisted DC magnetron sputtering 방법을 이용하여 높은 결정성을 갖는 $TiO_2$ 박막을 제조하였다. 제작된 $TiO_2$ 박막은 높은 광촉매 특성을 나타냈으며, 또한 $TiO_2$의 anatase phase와 rutile phase의 bilayer structure를 통하여 recombination을 감소시킴으로써 높은 효율을 갖는 광촉매를 제작하였다. 박막의 chemical state와 crystallinity를 확인하기 위하여 X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy와 X-ray diffractometer를 이용하여 분석을 수행하였으며, 물 분해 장치(water splitting device)를 제작하여 수소와 산소 생성시 흐르는 전류를 측정하여 광촉매 특성을 평가하였다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.52 no.4
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• pp.459-466
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• 2014

SI Cyclic process is one of the thermochemical hydrogen production processes using iodine and sulfur for producing hydrogen molecules from water. VHTR (Very High Temperature Reactor) can be used to supply heat to hydrogen production process, which is a high temperature nuclear reactor. IHX (Intermediate Heat Exchanger) is necessary to transfer heat to hydrogen production process safely without radioactivity. In this study, the strategy for the optimum design of IHX between SI hydrogen process and VHTR is proposed for various operating pressures of the reactor, and the different cooling fluids. Most economical efficiency of IHX is also proposed along with process conditions.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.36 no.10
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• pp.672-678
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• 2014

In this study, variations of fermentative hydrogen production and microbial community were investigated with different nitrogen concentration of food waste. Optimum hydrogen production rate was acquired at 200 mg/L nitrogen concentration of the food waste. Which was eqivalent to 83.43 mL/g dry biomass/hr. However, bio-hydrogen production was inhibitedly reduced at over 600 mg/L of nitrogen concentration whereas proportional relation between hydrogen production and B/A ratio were not observed. Most dominant specie of the microbial community analyzed was Clostridium sp. throughout PCR-DGGE analysis of 16S rDNA. It revealed that most contributing microorganism producing hydrogen were Enterococcus faecium partial, Klebsiella pneumoniae strain ND6, Enterobacter sp. NCCP-231, and Clostridium algidicarnis strain E107 in this experiment.