• 기술사
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.28-32
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• 2001

Using the CNG(compressed natural gas) and LPG(liquified petroleum gas) as the automotive fuel will be expanded because of their clean effect to the environmental air qualify. But these programs of gas using expansion would have a difficulty due to public consideration of gas utilities as a big hazard. The Ministry of Environment has an ambitious plan to substitute more than 25,000 buses with CNG and ensure more than 200 CNG refueling stations as well by the year of 2007. However, it is very difficult to establish new CNG and LPG refueling stations because of expanded safety distance than ever before by several major explosion accidents.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2011

대형 디젤엔진은 주행거리가 길고 배기량이 크기 때문에 차량의 대수는 상대적으로 적지만 대기환경에 미치는 영향은 크다. 시내를 주행하는 시내버스의 경우 한일 월드컵을 계기로 CNG 버스로 전환되었다. 그러나 대형트럭과 장거리 시외버스의 경우 주행거리가 길고 CNG 충전소가 대도시의 시내버스 차고지 위주로 설치되어 있어 이용이 불가능하였다. 단열용기의 적용으로 천연가스를 압축상태가 아닌 액체 상태로 보관이 가능해져 주행거리가 긴 대형트럭이나 장거리 시외버스로의 적용이 가능해졌으며, 혼소엔진의 경우 LNG 충전이 어려운 지역에서는 디젤로 운행이 가능하다. 이와 같은 장점으로 인하여 석유 의존도를 크게 낮출 수 있어 에너지원의 다변화가 가능하며, 디젤차의 고질적인 단점으로 여겨왔던 매연 및 질소산화물뿐만 아니라 저탄소 연료를 사용함으로서 대표적인 온실가스중의 하나인 이산화탄소도 10%이상 저감할 수 있었다.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.57-67
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• 2004

Diesel 버스가 대체적으로 주류를 이루는 일반버스들에 대한 위험도 평가결과 첫째, 순간적인 누출이 일어날 빈도는 1.4E-3/bus/year이었으며, 이로 인한 하부사상으로 Fireball의 결과를 초래할 확률은 1.7E-4이었다. 또한 그 중 CNG 버스에서 순간적인 누출이 일어날 수치는 0.002 event/year로 나타났다. 둘째, 균열에 기인되어 점차적인 누설이 일어날 빈도는 3.7E-s/year로 평가되었으며, 이에 대한 하부사상으로서 jet flame의 결과를 초래할 확률은 1.2E-3으로 나타났다. 또한 CNG 버스에서 점차적인 누출이 일어날 수치는 0.04 event/year이었다. 아울러 피해 예측 면에서 CNG버스와 디젤버스의 운송거리에 대해 화재 사상자들을 비교하였을 때, 디젤버스는 0.091 Fire fatalities/100-million miles이었으며, CNG버스는 대략 0.17 Fire fatalities/100-million miles이었다. 이 의미는 화재로 인한 치명적인 사상자수를 비교했을 때 CNG버스는 디젤버스에 비해 평균 두 배가 위험하다는 것을 보여 주는 것이고, 결국 CNG버스들이 디젤버스들에 비해 주요 화재에 대해 민감하다는 것을 말해 주는 것이다. 본 연구에서 CNG버스들의 위험도를 평가하기 위해 사용된 총칭적인 모델들과 고장 데이터들은 적정하다. 그러나 CNG버스와 관련된 연구에 있어서 더욱 더 정확한 결과를 제공하기 위해서는 향후 더 정확한 물리적인 면에 기초한 모델들과 CNG버스에 대한 자료 확충 및 데이터베이스화가 요구된다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권3호
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• pp.343-351
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• 2018

Renewable energy sources has drawn considerable attention as clean energy sources because of changing public attitudes regarding greenhouse gas and fine dust. Recently, in this respect, the government provides the drivers of electric vehicles with various benefits such as tax reduction, financial incentives and free parking from the public to the private sector. Plug-in electric vehicles are the most common in the private sector. Otherwise, different types of battery-based buses in the public sector are being developed, and there are three main types of charging: plug-in, battery swapping and wireless. Therefore, economic assessment of charging types in each bus route is required in order to facilitate the use of battery-based buses instead of the existing CNG buses. In this paper, net present value(NPV) and B/C ratio of charging types are evaluated in consideration of the bus schedule, the cost of charging station, and the life cycle of battery, etc. per each bus route. In case study, main bus routes in Daegu City are simulated with the proposed evaluation method to validate the eco-bus project.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.215-220
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• 1997

CNG dual fuel engine for heavy duty diesel engine developed by AFS International in Canada has been equipped to a Korean city bus engine and tested to compare the engine performance and the emission characteristics with the existing diesel fueled engine. Also the dual-fuel engine was applied to the city bus for road test. The results are summarized as follows. Performance optimization has been carried out to have engine power equivalent to or better than the diesel fueled engine. Smoke is decreased by 85% by Korean smoke 3 mode test. By 13 mode test CO is increased by 453% and THC is increased by 2, 086%. NOx is decreased by 7% in laboratory. D-13 test mode was changed in 1996 Korean regulation. Even though THC is increased very much, it's not too serious problem since CO and HC emission of diesel engine is very little compared to gasoline engine and more than 75% of THC is CH$_4$. But the reduction technologies of CO and HC has to be considered.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.6-11
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• 2004

CNG buses were introduced in 2002 to reduce air pollution to the big cities. The durability and safety evaluation were performed for the NGV-2 type cylinders taken from two buses after 30 months of running. No external damage and no internal corrosion was observed on the container surfaces. Defect exceeding the allowable limit was not found in the UT test. Permanent volume expansion was about 1.2% which is much smaller than the required design limit. Cycling test showed no failure after 11,250cycles and burst pressures were still above the maximum design pressure. Both the longitudinal and circumferential failure mode were observed, where both the fracture strengths were far above the design limit. This study showed the present CNG fuel cylinders were safe enough for further usage.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2008

2005년부터 최근까지 국내의 CNG버스 사고가 3건 보고되었다. 1차와 2차 사고의 원인은 용기 결함 및 관리 결함으로 밝혀졌고 3차 사고는 가스 누출에 의한 화재로 판명되었다. 3건의 사고의 근본원인을 분석하여 CNG 버스의 안전성을 확보하는 방안을 제안하였다. 또한 용기폭발의 파괴력을 이론적으로 계산하고, 피해결과 예측 프로그램(PHAST)의 결과와 비교 고찰하였다. 이론적으로는 120 l, 20MPa의 메탄용기가 폭발할 경우 최대 1.2 kg의 TNT 폭발에 해당하였으며 과압의 크기를 비교해 보면 피해결과예측 프로그램이 이론적인 계산보다 더 큰 값을 산정하는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 실제 용기폭발의 피해는 이론적인 계산보다도 작았다. 성능기반설계 개념에 의해 설계된 CNG용기는 출고 후 성능시험이 기준대로 이루어졌는지 확인할 수 없는 단점이 있다. 용기의 인성 확보가 제대로 이루어지지 않으면 겨울철 새벽 운행시에 취성파괴에 취약할 수 있으며, 자긴 처리 압력이 적절하지 않으면 사용중 반복 충전에 의한 피로손상에 의해 균열이 발생할 가능성이 있다. 기존 사고의 CNG 저장용기의 파열에서 주는 중요한 교훈은 용기 폭발 직후에 화재로 전이되지 않았다는 점이다. 이는 천연가스의 확산이 매우 빨라 점화가 용이치 않기 때문으로 판단된다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.213-218
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• 1997

CNG dual fuel engine for heavy duty diesel engine has been equipped to a Korean bus engine and tested to compare th engine performance and the emission characteristics with the existing diesel fueled engine. The results are summarized as follows. Diesel fueled engine has the fuel injection timing of BTDC17°. The injection timing of CNG modified engine is retarded to BTDC14° for reduction of NOx. Performance optimization has been carried out to have engine power equivalent to or better than the diesel fueled engine. Smoke is decreased by 85% by Korean smoke 3 mode test. By 6 mode test CO is increased by 313% and THC is increased by 1407%. NOx is decreased by 27%. Even though THC is increased very much, it's not too serious problem since CO and THC emission of diesel engine are very little compared to gasoline engine and THC don't give bad effect on human health. But the reduction technologies of CO and THC need to be considered.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.109-116
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• 2011

To measure the traffic pollutants with high temporal and spatial resolution under real conditions a mobile emission laboratory (MEL) was designed and built in KIST with close-cooperation with KIMM and Yonsei university. The equipment of the mini-van provides gas phase measurements of CO, NOx, $CO_2$, THC (Total hydrocarbon) and number density & size distribution measurements of fine and ultra-fine particles by a fast mobility particle sizer (FMPS) and a condensation particle counter (CPC). The inlet sampling port above the bumper enables the chasing of different type of vehicles. This paper introduces the construction and technical details of the MEL and presents data from the car chasing experiment of diesel and CNG city bus. The dilution ratio was increased rapidly according to the chasing distance. Most particles from the diesel city bus were counted under 300 nm and the peak concentration of the particles was located between 40-60 nm. However, the most particles from the CNG city bus were nano particle counted under 50 nm.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2013

This paper focuses on cooling fan control by using a magnetic clutch type for the improvement of fuel economy on a heavy city bus. In general, Heavy duty vehicles use viscous clutch type cooling fan which has some disadvantages, such as slow response, wide temperature variation of engine coolant water. But a magnetic clutch type cooling fan can be controlled electronically so the engine coolant temperature can be precisely controllable and this effects could be used to reduce fuel consumption. A control system for applying the magnetic clutch type cooling fan was developed in this study and applied to the real field test and chassis dynamometer test. The result showed well controlled coolant temperature and enhancement of fuel economy.