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Design of the Stand-alone Autothermal Reformer for Natural Gas (자체 기동형 천연가스 자열개질기 설계)

  • Koo, Jeongboon;Kim, Youngae;Kwon, Hyunji;Kwak, Inseob;Sin, Jangsik
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.11a
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    • pp.113.1-113.1
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    • 2010
  • 본 연구에서는 중 소형 SOFC에 적용할 수 있는 연료 변환 시스템으로 자체 기동 및 독립운전이 가능한 천연가스 자열개질(ATR) 반응기를 $10Nm^3/hr$급으로 개발하고자한다. 설계된 천연가스 자열개질기는 자열개질 촉매를 코팅한 금속 모노리스형 촉매체를 반응기 내에 장착함으로써 반응열을 신속하게 제거 또는 공급할 수 있는 시스템으로 구성되었다. 이는 금속 모노리스의 뛰어난 열전도 능력에 의해 반응기 내의 촉매층 전체 온도 분포를 균일하게 유지할 수 있는 저에너지형 자열개질 반응기이다. 또한 빠른 기동 특성을 실현하기 위하여 전기 발열식 촉매체(EHC ; Electically Heated Catalyst)를 장착한 start-up 시스템을 적용하여 천연가스 자열개질 반응기의 신속한 기동과 장치 간편화를 실현하였으며, 합성 syngas의 배열 회수를 위한 최적 열교환 시스템을 설계/적용함으로써 에너지 효율 향상을 도모하였다. 이와 같은 촉매 및 구조 시스템을 가지는 천연가스 자열개질 반응용 소형 연료변환 시스템을 원통형의 이중관 구조로 구성하고, 독립운전 모드로 개발함으로써 소형 SOFC의 연료 변환장치의 적용에 용이하게 하고자 한다.

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Self-sustainable Operation of a 1kW class SOFC System (1kW급 고체산화물 연료전지 발전시스템 자열운전)

  • Lee, Tae-Hee;Choi, Jin-Hyeok;Park, Tae-Sung;Yoo, Young-Sung
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.57-60
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    • 2008
  • KEPRI has studied planar type SOFC stacks using anode-supported single cells and kW class co-generation systems for residential power generation. A 1kW class SOFC system consisted of a hot box part, a cold BOP part and a water reservoir. A hot box part contains a SOFC stack made up of 48 single cells and ferritic stainless steel interconnectors, a fuel reformer, a catalytic combustor and heat exchangers. Thermal management and insulation system were especially designed for self-sustainable operation. A cold BOP part was composed of blowers, pumps, a water trap and system control units. When a 1kW class SOFC system was operated at $750^{\circ}C$ with hydrogen after pre-treatment process, the stack power was 1.2kW at 30 A and 1.6kW at 50A. Turning off an electric furnace, the SOFC system was operated using hydrogen and city gas without any external heat source. Under self-sustainable operation conditions, the stack power was about 1.3kW with hydrogen and 1.2kW with city gas respectively. The system also recuperated heat of about 1.1kW by making hot water.

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Design and Self-sustainable Operation of 1 kW SOFC System (1kW 고체산화물 연료전지(SOFC) 시스템 설계 및 자열운전)

  • Lee, Tae-Hee;Choi, Jin-Hyeok;Park, Tae-Sung;Yoo, Young-Sung;Nam, Suk-Woo
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.384-389
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    • 2009
  • KEPRI (Korea Electric Power Research Institute) has studied planar type solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stacks using anode-supported cells and kW class co-generation systems for residential power generation. In this work, a 1 kW SOFC system consisted of a hot box part, a cold BOP (balance of plant) part, and a hot water reservoir. The hot box part contained a SOFC stack made up of 48 cells, a fuel reformer, a catalytic combustor, and heat exchangers. Thermal management and insulation system were especially designed for self-sustainable operation in that system. A cold BOP part was composed of blowers, pumps, a water trap, and system control units. When the 1 kW SOFC stack was tested using hydrogen at $750^{\circ}C$, the stack power was about $1.2\;kW_e$ at 30 A and $1.6\;kW_e$ at 50 A. Turning off an electric furnace, the SOFC system was operated using hydrogen and city gas without any external heat source. Under self-sustainable operation conditions, the stack power was about $1.3\;kW_e$ with hydrogen and $1.2\;kW_e$ with city gas respectively. The system also recuperated heat of about $1.1\;kW_{th}$ by making hot water.

Effect of the Molar H2O/ and the Molar O2/C Ratio on Long-Term Performance of Diesel Autothermal Reformer for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (고체산화물 연료전지용 디젤 자열개질기의 장기성능에 미치는 H2O/C와 O2/C 몰 비의 영향)

  • Yoon, Sang-Ho;Kang, In-Yong;Bae, Gyu-Jong;Bae, Joong-Myeon
    • Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.110-115
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    • 2007
  • Solid oxide fuel cell(SOFC) has high fuel flexibility due to its high operating temperatures. Hydrocarbonaceous fuels such as diesel has several advantages such as high energy density and established infrastructure for fuel cell applications. However diesel reforming has technical problems like coke formation in a reactor, which results in catastrophic failure of whole system. Performance degradation of diesel autothermal reforming (ATR) leads to increase of undesirable hydrocarbons at reformed gases and subsequently degrades SOFC performance. In this study, we investigate the degradation of SOFC performance(OCV, open circuit voltage) under hydrocarbon(n-Butane) feeds and characteristics of diesel performing under various ratios of reactants($H_2O/C,\;O_2/C$ molar ratios) for improvement of SOFC performance. Especially we achieved relatively high performance of diesel ATR under $H_2O/C=0.8,\;O_2/C=3$ condition.

Start-up and operation of Gasoline Fuel Processor for Isolated Fuel Cell System (독립형 연료전지 시스템을 위한 가솔린 연료프로세스의 시동 및 운전)

  • Ji, Hyunjin;Bae, Joongmyeon
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.76-85
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    • 2016
  • This study introduces the system layout and control strategy necessary to start and operate a fuel processor in a wide range of temperatures where a gasoline was selected as the fuel of fuel processor considering logistic support of Korea Army. The autothermal reformig(ATR) catalyst is heated to light-off temperature by combustion method in the initial stage. In order to ignite the gasoline and air mixture stably, the glow plug is installed after ATR catalyst. When the catalyst is increased to light-off temperature, the reformer is operated from initiation to steady state conditions as follows: Partial oxidation(POX) mode, partial ATR mode, full ATR mode. Finally the start-up and control strategy is validated by the operational test of gasoline fuel processor at low and room temperature. As a result the gasoline fuel processor is able to start-up within 40 min and to produce the reformate gas which has 37 ~ 42 vol.%(dry basis) of $H_2$ and 0.3 vol.% of CO.

Experiments of dimethyl ether autothermal reforming optimization (디메틸에테르(DME) 자열개질 운전조건 최적화에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Seunghyeon;Bae, Joongmyeon;Kim, Taehun;Jang, Duckjin;Kim, Doyoun
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.97.1-97.1
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    • 2011
  • Dimethyl ether (DME) is an attractive fuel as a hydrogen carrier for mobile PEMFC applications. However, its reforming technologies are rarely studied especially by using autothermal reforming (ATR) method. This work explored the impact of operating conditions to the performance of DME ATR. Temperature, Steam to carbon ratio(SCR), Oxygen to carbon ratio(OCR) and Gas hourly space velocity(GHSV) were considered as the operating conditions. As results, conversion efficiency was increased as the temperature increased, but saturated around $700^{\circ}C$. There was no significant effect of SCR on conversion efficiency, but high SCR led reactions in endothermic manner. High OCR substantially suppressed conversion efficiency, but it helped to sustain the temperature by stimulating exothermic reactions. Conversion efficiency was decreased as GHSV increased. The optimized operating conditions was suggested: $700^{\circ}C$, SCR of 1.5, OCR of 0.45 and GHSV below 15000/h and conversion efficiency was ~85% at the conditions.

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Experimental study on operation of diesel autothermal reformer for SOFC system (SOFC 시스템용 디젤 자열개질기 운전을 위한 기초 연구)

  • Yoon, Sang-Ho;Kang, In-Yong;Bae, Joong-Myeon
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05b
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    • pp.2015-2020
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    • 2007
  • Diesel is an excellent candidate fuel for fuel cell applications due to its high hydrogen density and well-established infrastructure. But, it is hard to guarantee desirable performance of diesel reformer because diesel reforming has several problems such as sulfur poisoning of catalyst and carbon deposition. We have been focusing on diesel autothermal reforming(ATR) for substantial period. It is reported that ATR of diesel has several technical advantages such as relatively high efficiency and fuel conversion compared to steam reforming(SR) and partial oxidation(POX). In this paper, we investigate characteristics of diesel reforming under various ratios of reactants(oxygen to carbon ratio, steam to carbon ratio) for improvement of reforming performances(high reforming efficiency, high fuel conversion, low carbon deposition). We also exhibit calculated heat balance of autothermal reformer at each condition to help thermal management of SOFC system.

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Experimental study on self-sustaied $1kW_e$ liquid fuel reforming operation (자립형 $1kW_e$ 액체 연료 개질기 운전에 관한 연구)

  • Yoon, Sang-Ho;Bae, Gyu-Jong;Bae, Joong-Myeon
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.503-506
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    • 2008
  • Liquid hydrocarbon fuels, such as gasoline, kerosene, diesel and JP 8, can be good candidates for SOFC (solid oxide fuel cell) system fuel due to their high hydrogen density. Autothermal reforming (ATR) is suitable for liquid hydrocarbon fuel reforming because oxygen can decompose the aromatics in liquid fuel and steam can suppress the carbon deposition during catalytic reaction. The advantage of ATR is that it has a simple system construction due to exothermicity of ATR reaction. We control the exothermicity of reaction, make the reaction possible design a self-sustaining ATR reactor. A self-sustained 1kW-class kerosene autothermal reformer is introduced in this paper. The 1kW-class kerosene reformer was continuously operated for about 140 hours without degradation of reforming performance.

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Operating Characteristics of MCFC System on the Diversification of Fuel (연료 다변화에 따른 용융 탄산염 연료전지 시스템 운전 특성)

  • Im, Seokyeon;Sung, Yongwook;Han, Jaeyoung;Yu, Sangseok
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.156-163
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    • 2015
  • The fuel cells have been investigated in the applications of marine as the high efficient and eco-friendly power generating systems. In this study, modeling of IR Type molten carbonate fuel cell (Internal Reforming Type molten carbonate fuel cell) has been developed to analyze the feasibility of thermal energy utilization. The model is developed under Aspen plus and used for the study of system performances over regarding fuel types. The simulation results show that the efficiency of MCFC system based on NG fuel is the highest. Also, it is also verified that the steam reforming is suitable as pre-reforming for diesel fuel.

Methodology for removing unreacted low-hydrocarbons in diesel reformate for stable operation of solid oxide fuel cells (안정적인 SOFC 운전을 위한 디젤 개질기 내 미반응 저탄화수소 제거법)

  • Yoon, Sang-Ho;Bae, Joong-Myeon;Lee, Sang-Ho
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.773-776
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, new concept of the diesel fuel processing is introduced for the stable operation of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). Heavier hydrocarbons than $CH_4$, such as ethylene, ethane, propane, and etc., induce the carbon deposition on anode of SOFCs. In the reformate of heavy hydrocarbons (diesel, gasoline, kerosene, and JP-8), concentration of ethylene is usually higher than low hydrocarbons such as ethane, propane, and butane. So, removal of low hydrocarbons (over C1-hydrocarbons), especially ethylene, at the reformate gases is important for stable operation of SOFCs. New methodology as named "post-reformer" is introduced for removing the low hydrocarbons at the reformate gas stream. Catalyst of the NECS-PR4 is selected for post-reforming catalyst because the catalyst of NECS-PR4 shows the high selectivity for removing low hydrocarbons and achieving the high reforming efficiency. The diesel reformer and post-reformer are continuously operated for about 200 hours as integrated mode. The reforming performance is not degraded and low hydrocarbons in the diesel reformate are completely removed.

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