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Development of a 25kW-Class PEM Fuel Cell System for the Propulsion of a Leisure Boat (선박 추진용 25kW급 고분자전해질 연료전지 시스템 개발)

  • Han, In-Su;Jeong, Jeehoon;Kho, Back-Kyun;Choi, Choeng Hoon;Yu, Sungju;Shin, Hyun Khil
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.271-279
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    • 2014
  • A 25kW-class polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell system has been developed for the propulsion of a leisure boat. The fuel cell system was designed to satisfy various performance requirements, such as resistance to shock, stability under rolling and pitching oscillations, and durability under salinity condition, for its marine applications. Then, the major components including a 30kW-class PEM fuel cell stack, a DC-DC converter, a seawater cooling system, secondary battery packs, and balance of plants were developed for the fuel cell system. The PEM fuel cell stack employs a unique design structure called an anodic cascade-type stack design in which the anodic cells are divided into several blocks to maximize the fuel utilization without hydrogen recirculation devices. The performance evaluation results showed that the stack generated a maximum power of 31.0kW while maintaining a higher fuel utilization of 99.5% and an electrical efficiency of 56.1%. Combining the 30-kW stack with other components, the 25kW-class fuel cell system boat was fabricated for a leisure. As a result of testing, the fuel cell system reached an electrical efficiency of 48.0% at the maximum power of 25.6kW with stable operability. In the near future, two PEM fuel cell systems will be installed in a 20-m long leisure boat to supply electrical power up to 50kW for propelling the boat and for powering the auxiliary equipments.

Optimization of Vent Logic for Cascade Type Fuel Cell Module (캐스캐이드형 연료전지 모듈 벤트 로직 최적화)

  • Lim, Jongkoo;Park, Jongcheol;Kwon, Kiwook;Shin, Hyun Khil
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.87.2-87.2
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    • 2011
  • Many type of fuel cell stacks have been developed to improve the efficiency of reactants usage. The cascade type fuel cell stack using dead end operation is able to attain above 99% usage of hydrogen and oxygen. It is sectionalized to several parts and the residual reactants which are used previous parts would be supplied again to next parts which have less number of cells in dead end operation stack. The oversupply of reactants which is usually 120%~150% of the theoretical amount to generate current for preventing the flooding effect could be provided to each part except the last one. The final section which is called monitoring cells is supposed to be supplied insufficient the fuel or oxidant that would have some accumulated inert gas from former parts. It makes some voltage drop in the part and the fresh reactants must be supplied to the part for recovering it by venting the residual gas. So the usage of fuel and oxidant is depend on the time and frequency of opening valves for venting of residual gas and it is important to optimize the vent logic for achieving higher usage of hydrogen and oxygen. In this research, many experiments are performed to find optimal condition by evaluating the effect of time and frequency under several power conditions using over 100kW class fuel cell module. And the characteristics of the monitoring cells are studied to know the proper cell voltage which decide the condition of opening the vent valve for stable performance of the cascade type fuel cell module.

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Development of Separator for Cascade Type Fuel Cell Stack (케스케이드 연료전지 스택용 기액분리기 개발)

  • Lim, Jong-Koo;Park, Jong-Cheol;Kang, Moo-Seong;Kwon, Ki-Wook;Shin, Hyun-Khil
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.170-170
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    • 2009
  • AIP(Air Independent Propulsion)시스템에 적용되는 연료전지 스택의 경우 연료의 이용율을 극대화시키는 것이 매우 중요하다. 일반적인 연료전지 스택은 물배출과 성능의 안정화를 위해 이론적 요구량보다 양론적으로 많은 양을 공급하여, 반응에 사용되지 않고 배출되는 연료 가스가 많아 이용율이 낮다. 여러 단으로 구성되어 전 단에서 사용하고 남은 연료 가스를 다음 단에 재공급하여 사용하는 케스케이드 구조의 연료전지 스택을 적용하게 되면 연료이용율을 90% 이상으로 높일 수 있다. 그러나 연료전지 스택에서 반응에 의해 발생한 물과 응축된 가습수가 재공급되면 연료전지 스택의 성능과 내구성에 악영향을 주는 플러딩현상이 발생하게 된다. 반면 반응수와 응축수를 제거할 때 스택에 재공급되는 연료 가스의 가습수가 같이 제거되면 낮은 가습도로 스택에 공급되는 문제점도 있다. 따라서 연료 가스의 가습도를 잘 유지하면서 액화된 물만 원활하게 제거할 수 있는 기액분리기의 개발이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics)해석을 활용하여 다양한 디자인의 기액분리기를 설계하고 실험을 통해 각 디자인의 장단점을 분석하였다. 결과를 바탕으로 최적의 기액분리기를 개발하고 제작 및 평가를 통해 성능을 검증하였다.

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Recent Progress in Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Research : A Review of Papers Published in the Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering in 2015 (설비공학회 분야의 최근 연구 동향 : 2015년 학회지 논문에 대한 종합적 고찰)

  • Lee, Dae-Young;Kim, Sa Ryang;Kim, Hyun-Jung;Kim, Dong-Seon;Park, Jun-Seok;Ihm, Pyeong Chan
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.256-268
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    • 2016
  • This article reviews the papers published in the Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering during 2015. It is intended to understand the status of current research in the areas of heating, cooling, ventilation, sanitation, and indoor environments of buildings and plant facilities. Conclusions are as follows. (1) The research works on the thermal and fluid engineering were carried out in the areas of flow, heat and mass transfer, cooling and heating, and air-conditioning, the renewable energy system and the flow inside building rooms. Research issues dealing with air-conditioning machines and fire and exhausting smoke were reduced. CFD seems to be spreading to more research areas. (2) Research works on heat transfer area were carried out in the categories of heat transfer characteristics, pool boiling and condensing heat transfer and industrial heat exchangers. Researches on heat transfer characteristics included the economic analysis of GHG emission, micro channel heat exchanger, effect of rib angle on thermal performance, the airside performance of fin-and-tube heat exchangers, theoretical analysis of a rotary heat exchanger, heat exchanger in a cryogenic environment, the performance of a cross-flow-type, indirect evaporative cooler made of paper/plastic film. In the area of pool boiling and condensing, the bubble jet loop heat pipe was studied. In the area of industrial heat exchangers, researches were performed on fin-tube heat exchanger, KSTAR PFC and vacuum vessel at baking phase, the performance of small-sized dehumidification rotor, design of gas-injection port of an asymmetric scroll compressor, effect of slot discharge-angle change on exhaust efficiency of range hood system with air curtain. (3) In the field of refrigeration, various studies were carried in the categories of refrigeration cycle, alternative refrigeration/energy system, system control. In the refrigeration cycle category, a cold-climate heat pump system, $CO_2$ cascade systems, ejector cycles and a PCM-based continuous heating system were investigated. In the alternative refrigeration/energy system category, a polymer adsorption heat pump, an alcohol absorption heat pump and a desiccant-based hybrid refrigeration system were investigated. In the system control category, turbo-refrigerator capacity controls and an absorption chiller fault diagnostics were investigated. (4) In building mechanical system research fields, eighteen studies were reported for achieving effective design of the mechanical systems, and also for maximizing the energy efficiency of buildings. The topics of the studies included energy performance, HVAC system, ventilation, and renewable energies, piping in the buildings. Proposed designs, performance tests using numerical methods and experiments provide useful information and key data which can improve the energy efficiency of the buildings. (5) The field of architectural environment was mostly focused on indoor environment and building energy. The main researches of indoor environment were related to the user and location awareness technology applied dimming lighting control system, the lighting performance evaluation for light-shelves, the improvement evaluation of air quality through analysis of ventilation efficiency and the evaluation of airtightness of sliding and LS window systems. The subjects of building energy were worked on the energy saving estimation of existing buildings, the developing model to predict heating energy usage in domestic city area and the performance evaluation of cooling applied with economizer control. The studies were also performed related to the experimental measurement of weight variation and thermal conductivity in polyurethane foam, the development of flame spread prevention system for sandwich panels, the utilization of heat from waste-incineration facility in large-scale horticultural facilities.