• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.12-16
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• 2007

Copper-Zinc Oxide를 촉매로 사용하는 메탄올 자열 개질 반응기의 온도제어 연구를 하였다. 반응기 hot-spot에서 1 cm 벗어난 지점의 반응기 내부 온도를 피제어변수로, 공기 유량을 조작변수로 사용하였다. 일차 시간 지연 모델을 얻었으며, 이로부터 IMC-PI 법을 적용하여 제어기 값을 구할 수 있었다. 이 제어기로 100시간 이상 개질 반응기 내부의 온도를 ${\pm}5^{\circ}C$ 내에서 제어할 수 있었다. 촉매활성의 저하로 인한 hot-spot 지점의 변화를 조사하여, 적응 제어의 설계에 이용할 수 있게 하였다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회B
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• pp.3353-3358
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• 2007

The present paper is devoted to investigate dynamic effect and steady-state performance of methane autothermal reformer theoretically and numerically. In order to simplify the complicated phenomena in the system, axisymmetric heterogeneous reactor model is developed. As autothermal reaction takes places on catalyst surface between bulk gas and catalyst, volume averaging method is incorporated using porous medium approach. To understand the start-up process which occurs in the reactor is highly important. Therefore, in this paper we get various goverining equations to find out transient and steady solutions and time scale for start-up introducing dimensionless variables. Start-up is a significant issue in reforming reaction for automobile system and fueling of SOFC-based auxiliary power units. This paper deals with characteristics of heat and mass transfer and predicted light-off time in the reformer as oxygen to carbon ratio ($O_2$/C) and amount of feeding gas.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.67-70
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• 2007

Diesel autothermal reforming has several problems such as carbon deposition in reforming reactor, sulfur poisoning of catalyst, difficulty of aromatics decomposition and mixing problems of reactants(diesel, steam, oxygen). Severe carbon deposition causes the rapid performance degradation of reformer. Carbon deposition is formed from ethylene, carbon precursor. Ethylene was generated at the homogeneous reaction zone of the reactor entrance. This phenomenon is closely linked to the mixing of reactants. In this investigation, we try to minimize the ethylene generation at the reactor entrance atomization technique.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2010년도 추계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.115.2-115.2
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• 2010

Autothermal reforming(ATR) processes of hydrocarbon liquids such as diesel fuels are spotlighted as methods to produce hydrogen for Fuel cell. However, the use of heavy hydrocarbons as feedstocks for hydrogen production causes some problems which increase the catalyst deactivation by the carbon deposition. Coking can be inhibited by increasing the water dissociation on the catalyst surface. This results in catastrophic failure of whole system. Performance degradation of diesel autothermal reforming leads to increase of undesirable hydrocarbons at reformed gases and subsequently decrease the performance. In this study, perovskite-based catalysts were investigated as alternatives to substitute the noble metal catalyst for the ATR of diesel. The investigated perovskite structure was based on LaCrO3. and metals were added at the A-site to enhance oxygen ion mobility, transition metals were doped on the B-site to enhance the reformation. Substituted Lanthanum chromium perovskite were made by aqueous combustion synthesis, which can produce high surface area. And for the homogeneous fuel supply, we made ultrasonic injection system for reforming. We compared durability of evaporation system and ultrasonic system for fuel injection.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.321-328
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• 2011

The autothermal reforming reaction of methane was investigated to produce hyd rogen with Ni/$CeO_2-ZrO_2$, Ni/$Al_2O_3$-MgO and Ni-Ru/$Al_2O_3$-MgO catalysts. Honeycomb metalli c monolith was applied in order to obtain high catalytic activity and stability in autothermal r eforming. The catalysts were characterized by XRD, BET and SEM. The influence of various catalysts on hydrogen production was studied for the feed ratio($O_2/CH_4$, $H_2O/CH_4$). The $O_2/CH_4$ and $H_2O/CH_4$ ratio governed the methane conversion and temperature profile of reactor. Th e reactor temperature increased as the reaction shifted from endothermic to exothermic reactio n with increasing $O_2/CH_4$ ratio. Among the catalysts used in the experiment, the Ni-Ru/$Al_2O_3$-MgO catalyst showed the highest activity. The 60% of $CH_4$ conversion was obtained, and th e reactor temperature was maintained $600^{\circ}C$ at the condition of GHSV=$10000h^{-1}$ and feed ratio S/C/O=0.5/1/0.5.

• 한국전기화학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기화학회 2004년도 수소연료전지공동심포지움 2004논문집
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• pp.277-280
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• 2004

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제32권7호
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• pp.558-565
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• 2008

Solid oxide fuel cell(SOFC) has a higher fuel flexibility than low temperature fuel cells, such as polymer electrolyte fuel cell(PEMFC) and phosphoric acid fuel cell(PAFC). SOFCs also use CO and $CH_4$ as a fuel, because SOFCs are hot enough to allow the CH4 steam reformation(SR) reaction and water-gas shift(WGS) reaction occur within the SOFC stack itself. Diesel is a good candidate for SOFC system fuel because diesel reformate gas include a higher degree of CO and $CH_4$ concentration than other hydrocarbon(methane, butane, etc.) reformate gas. Selection of catalyst for autothermalr reforming of diesel was performed in this paper, and characteristics of reforming performance between packed-bed and microchannel catalyst are compared for SOFC system. The mesh-typed microchannel catalyst also investigated for diesel ATR operation for 1kW-class SOFC system. 1kW-class diesel microchannel ATR was continuously operated about 30 hours and its reforming efficiency was achieved nearly 55%.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제50권5호
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• pp.802-807
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 메탄으로부터 합성가스를 만드는 자열 개질(Autothermal reforming)반응 특성을 Ni (15 wt%)-Ru (1 wt%)/$Al_2O_3$-MgO 금속모노리스 촉매체와 전기 발열식 촉매를 사용하여 조사하였다. 자체 가동 형 반응기는 자열 개질 반응기에 $700^{\circ}C$ 반응물을 공급하는데 걸리는 start-up 시간이 2분 이내였다. 반응물의 $O_2/CH_4$와 $H_2O/CH_4$ 비가 메탄의 전환율과 반응기의 온도 분포에 미치는 영향은 매우 크다. 반응기의 온도는 $H_2O/CH_4$ 비가 감소할수록 흡열반응에서 발열반응으로 전환되어 증가한다. 또한 $H_2O/CH_4$ 비가 증가함에 따라 수성가스화 전이반응에 의하여 생성물 중에 $CO_2$양이 증가한다. $GHSV=10,000\;h^{-1}$, 반응물 조성($H_2O/CH_4=0.6$과 $O_2/CH_4=0.5$)의 자열 개질반응에서, 97%의 메탄의 전환율을 얻었으며, 반응기의 온도는 $600^{\circ}C$로 유지되었다. 이 반응조건에서 170 cc 금속모노리스 촉매체를 충진한 반응기에서 자열개질 반응으로 생성된 최대 합성가스의 유량은 $0.94\;Nm^3/h$ 이었다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.474-480
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• 2011

Hydrocarbon is required to be converted to pure hydrogen without carbon monooxide (CO) for polymer exchange membran fuel cell (PEMFC) applications. In this paper, CO cleaning processes as the downstream of Dimethyl ehter (DME) autothermal reforming process were performed in micro-reactors. Our study suggested two kinds of water gas shift (WGS) reaction process: High Temperature shift (HTS) - Low Temperature shift (LTS), Middle temperature shift (MTS). Firstly, using perovskite catalyst for MTS was decreased effieiciency since methanation. Using HTS-LTS the CO concentration was decreased about 2% ($N_2$ & $H_2O$ free) with the reaction temperature of $420^{\circ}C$ and $235^{\circ}C$ for HTS and LTS, respectively. As the final stage of CO cleaning process, preferential oxidation (PROX) was applied. The amount of additional oxygen need 2 times of stoichiometric at $65^{\circ}C$. The total conversion reforming efficiency of 75% was gained.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제30권9호
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• pp.850-857
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• 2006

Hydrogen production using current fueling facilities is essential for near-term applications of fuel cells. A preliminary process for developing a natural gas autothermal reforming (ATR) reactor for fuel cells is presented in this paper. A experimental reactor for methane ATR was constructed and used for characterization of Jin reactor. Temperature profiles of the reactor were observed, and reformed gas compositions were analyzed to evaluate efficiency, conversion and reaction heat with varying amounts of $O_2/CH_4$ at selected furnace temperature and $H_2O/CH_4$. The amount of $O_2/CH_4$ showed strong offsets on reactor temperature, efficiency and conversion indicating that $O_2/CH_4$ is a crucial operation condition. Operation conditions which result in thermal neutrality of ATR reactor system were determined for two cases of an ATR system based on the estimation of enthalpy difference between reactants of assumed inlet temperatures and the products from experimental results. The determined conditions for thermally neutral operations could be used for guidelines to design reformers and for determining the operation parameters of a self sustaining ATR reactor.