• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.59-68
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• 2020

In this study, the authors designed a reduced-scale railway vehicle fire, which was necessary for evaluating the fire safety of railway tunnels using a reduced model. To overcome the shortcomings of the methods used in conventional reduced-scale railway tunnel tests, the authors simulated the fire source of a railway vehicle using a methanol fire source for fire buoyancy, and a smoke cartridge for smoke visualization. Therefore, the heat release mass consumption rates of various methane trays were measured using a cone calorimeter (ISO 5660). The critical ventilation velocity in the railway tunnels was obtained using the designed fire source of the railway vehicle, which was evaluated by the measured temperature at the top of the tunnel as well as laser visualization.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.15-20
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• 2012

In this paper, we carried out separation of membrane and leaching of Pt and Ru using hydrochloric acid from MEA(membrane-electrode assembly) of fuel cell. In this method, these were separated from MEA of fuel cell using the distilled water, 10 vol.% butanol solution and 15 vol.% cationic surfactant(Koremul-LN-7) by dipping method without the dispersion of catalyst particles. And the leaching of Pt and Ru containing in the separated carbon paper catalysts has been studied by hydrochloric acid using $HNO_3$ or $H_2O_2$ as a oxidant. The leaching ratio of Pt and Ru were higher when $H_2O_2$ was used as a oxidant and the optimum conditions were obtained in 8M HCl, the amount of $H_2O_2$ 5M and 6 hours of leaching time at $90^{\circ}C$. In this condition, extraction of Pt and Ru were 98% and 71.5%, respectively.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.232-234
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• 2009

신재생에너지 보급 확산을 위해서 정부에서는 2009년부터 2030년까지의 시평을 가진 '제3차 신재생에너지 기술개발 및 이용 보급' 기본계획을 수립하고, 이의 달성을 위하여 예산투자와 함께 기술개발 지원, 보급 보조 및 융자, 발전차액지원제도, 그린홈 100만호 보급사업 등을 다각적으로 추진하고 있다. 이러한 보급지원제도의 하위제도로써의 융자지원제도는 신재생에너지 설치자 및 생산자를 대상으로 장기저리의 융자지원을 해주는 제도이다. 이를 통해 초기 투자비를 경감, 사업적 경제성을 확보하여 신재생에너지설비 및 관련 산업을 보급, 육성하고자 하는 것이다. 융자지원을 위한 금리는 기준금리(국고채 3년물 수익률)에 연동하여 분기별로 조정되고, 시설자금, 생산자금, 운전자금으로 분류하여 태양열, 태양광, 바이오, 폐기물, 수력, 지열, LFG, 풍력, 연료전지 등의 분야에 지원한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 융자지원제도 현황을 고찰하고, 기준금리의 변동에 따른 융자지원 금리의 변동을 함께 살펴보았다. 각 에너지원별 지원에 어떠한 영향을 주는지 알아보았다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.05b
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• pp.1045-1048
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• 2010

본 연구는 LPG 충전소 등에서 운용하는 저장탱크에 대하여 퓨방법을 통하여, 기존의 지상형과 지하형의 장점과 단점을 비교 판정하여 혁신시공법으로 고객만족을 실현시키기 위함이다. 자동차 연료로서 LPG(Liquefied Petroleum Gas)의 사용은 대기오염을 줄이는데 효과적으로 사용이 빠르게 확산되고 있다. 하지만 가스사용이 늘어나면서 폭발과 화재에 의한 인명피해가 해마다 발생하고 있으며, 특히 대규모 저장시설에서의 가스사고는 사회적으로 심각한 문제를 야기하고 있다. 따라서, 본 연구는 LPG를 대량으로 취급 저장하는 시설에서 운용하는 저장탱크의 설치방법을 개선하기 위하여 아이디어 판단기법중 하나인 퓨(Pugh) 방법으로 판단하면 기존의 지상형과 지하매몰형, 지하격납형에서 안전성과 토지이용률이 우수한 지하격납저장탱크가 가장 효과적임을 알 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.58-63
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• 1998

AMBIDEXTER(Advanced Molten-Salt Break even Inherently-Safe Dual-Mission EXperiment & TEst Reactor)는 토륨-우라늄 연료주기의 핵적자활성 요건을 설계하는 방법으로써 핵분열중간 생성물인 $^{233}$ Pa의 시간격리, 노내 방사성물질 농도저감, 잉여반응도 및 증식률향상을 위해 핵분열 생성물질의 온라인 정화.처리.재생 개념을 채택하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 AMBIDEXTER 로심의 핵분열성물질의 연소와 온라인 정화.처리에 따른 핵연료내 원소분포 변화를 기술하기 위해 핵분열생성물질의 평형포화농도에 대응하는 등가연소도(Equivalent Burnup)를 정의하고 이를 노심의 핵적자활성 요건에 대해 최적화하는 핵연료 정화공정의 시간상수 특성을 시뮬레이션 하였다. 핵분열생성물질농도의 동특성은 ORIGEN2 코드에 내장된 연속재처리 모델을 이용하여 해석하였으며 실용화가 입증된 후보정화공정들을 고려하여 모든 핵종을 5종의 핵종군으로 분류하여 평가하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 유효정화주기를 0.1 (노심장전량/일)로 연속재처리 할 때 노심내 포화등 가연소도는 약 650 (MWD/TeH.E.)로 대응되며 이때 동일한 핵연료량으로부터 생성된 노내 핵분 열생성물질 평형농도는 최대연소도 33000MWD/TeU의 PWR 평형노심 BOC시의 대비해 약 1/10 에 해당하는 양이 잔유하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.515-551
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• 2014

Recently, there has been a debate as to whether bioethanol should replace some portion of gasoline for fuels in South Korea, as energy security as well as climate change issues are rising as a significant national agenda. However, a considerable amount of subsidy will be required to compensate for the higher price of bioethanol-blended gasoline. In this context, government subsidy will obtain justification only when the positive social gains from consuming bioethanol for fuels can exceed the negative social costs. Through a nation-wide choice experimental survey, we examine if South Koreans have a positive value as well as non-linear preferences on substituting bioethanol for gasoline. The results reveal that the willingness to pay for purely domestic bioethanol-blended gasoline within 10% is about 52 KRW; Koreans have concave preferences on the blending ratio of bioethanol to gasoline. The turning point of the blending ratio of bioethanol was 6.5%. Also, we found inverse U-shaped curve between income and bioethanol choice probability and the turning point of the income was calculated as 250~299million KRW. Politically conservative propensity advocates uses of bioethanol blended gasoline, but awareness on bioethanol or more weights on environmental conservation have significantly negative effects on the choice of bioethanol. However, the design of the survey questionnaire is incompatible with the RFS of Korea and assumes orthogonality among the following four interrelated attributes: (i) domestic or offshore procurement of feedstocks in the case of domestic production, (ii) domestic production or import of bioethanol, (iii) the blending ratios, and (iv) the retail price increases. In addition, the results of model estimation and of model selection test are not definite. Hence, the results in this study should not be directly applied to the design of the specifics of the Korean RFS. Hence, the results in this study require cautions in applying to the design of the Korean RFS policy.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.217-222
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• 2015

There has been increased amount of atmospheric pollutants including NOx and SOx which cause acid rain and photochemical smog as a result of increased use of fossil fuels. In order to reduce the amount of pollutants produced by fossil fuel, wet scrubber system is introduced in this experiment. Wet scrubber system is applied to a diesel engine (3,298 cc) and the amount of smoke is measured before and after the application in terms of aspect ratio, filling rate, and flow rate. The result showed a lot of smoke reduction when wet scrubber system was applied, and also the aspect ratios and water spray flow rate were the important factors to improve smoke reduction.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.643-648
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• 2010

Portable fuel cells are commonly operated in the dead-end mode because of such as high fuel utilization. However, the performance of such systems deteriorates continuously with an increase in the amount of by-products such as water vapor and nitrogen. In this study, to verify the effect of water vapor on Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs), constant-load experiments were carried out for a current density of 600 mA/cm2 and a voltage of 0.4 V, respectively. The performance of the cell was more stable under constant voltage conditions than under constant current density conditions. Condensed water accumulated in the anode channel near the cell outlet. The experimental results show how the relative humidity (RH = 0.15, 0.4 and 0.75) of air at the cathode side affect the performance of PEMFCs with dead-end anode. At RH values higher than 0.15, the mean power density increased by up to 51% and the mean purge duration decreased by up to 25% compared to the corresponding initial values.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.377-383
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• 2017

This paper presents the performance characteristics of a 1 kW solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack under various internal reforming and fuel utilization conditions. The Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology (RIST) developed the 9-cell stack using a $20{\times}20cm^2$ anode supported planar cell with an active area of $324cm^2$. In this work, current-voltage characteristic test, fuel utilization test, continuous operation, and internal reforming test were carried out sequentially for 765 hours at a furnace temperature of $700^{\circ}C$. The influence of fuel utilization and internal reforming on the stack performance was analyzed. When the 1 kW stack was tested at a current of 145.8 A with a corresponding fuel utilization of 50-70% (internal reforming of 50%) and air utilization of 27%, the stack power was approximately 1.062-1.079 kW. Under continuous operation conditions, performance degradation rate was 2.16%/kh for 664 hours. The internal reforming characteristics of the stack were measured at a current of 145.8. A with a corresponding fuel utilization of 60-75%(internal reforming of 50-80%) and air utilization of 27%. As fuel utilization and internal reforming ratio increased, the stack power was decreased. The stack power change due to the internal reforming ratio difference was decreased with increasing fuel utilization.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.666-671
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• 2023

As international environmental regulations on ship emissions are gradually strengthened, interest in electric propulsion and hybrid propulsion ships is increasing, and various solutions are being developed and applied to these ships, especially stabilization of the power system and system efficiency. The direct current distribution system is being applied as a way to increase the power. In addition, verification and testing of safety and performance of marine DC distribution systems is required. As a result of establishing a DC distribution test bed, verifying the performance of the DC distribution (variable speed power generation) system, and analyzing fuel consumption, this study applied a variable speed power generation system that is applied to DC power distribution for ships, and converted the power output from the generator into a rectifier. A system was developed to convert direct current power to connect to the system and monitor and control these devices. Through tests using this DC distribution system, the maximum voltage was 751.5V and the minimum voltage was 731.4V, and the voltage fluctuation rate was 2.7%, confirming that the voltage is stably supplied within 3%, and a variable speed power generation system was installed according to load fluctuations. When applied, it was confirmed through testing that fuel consumption could be reduced by more than 20% depending on the section compared to the existing constant speed power generation system.