• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.207-215
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• 2018

Almost all countries of the world have recently made great efforts to reduce green-house gases to alleviate the global warming threatening human survival, because a huge amount of carbon dioxide as one of the main green-house gases has been emitted from the combustion processes of fossil fuels such as coal and oil. $CO_2$ capture and storage (CCS) technology is a representative method to diminish the green-house gases, and actively investigated by many countries. This study focuses on the design and construction of a high pressure $CO_2$ injection facility to store it to underground, which is the first $CO_2$ injection in Korea following the steps of the $CO_2$ capture from large $CO_2$ emission sources and transportation to the sea. Injection tests of $CO_2$ on the platform on the sea were carried out in Yeongil Bay of Pohang city in the early 2017. Thus, we were able to perceive the necessary operating conditions of the injection facility, injection characteristic, and knowhow of the injection facility. The results obtained from the injection test shall be utilized for facility upgrades and scale-ups.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.192-192
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• 2011

교토의정서에서 지구온난화의 원인이 되는 온실가스로 $CO_2$, $CH_4$, $N_2O$, HFCs, PFCs, $SF_6$를 규제하고 있다. 규제하는 6대 온실가스 가운데 $CO_2$가 가장 대표적이며, 우리나라의 연료연소에 의한 $CO_2$ 배출량은 세계 10위로 기후변화 진행속도는 세계 평균속도보다 빠르게 진행되고 있다. 이러한 기후변화에 대응하기 위하여는 온실가스 배출로 인한 DB구축 연구가 선행되어야 하며, 산림부분에 있어서는 연료의 열적특성 구명 연구가 극도로 미진한 국내현실에서 기초 data 확보를 위한 연구가 시급한 실정이다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 산불발생 시 온실가스 배출량의 DB를 구축하기 위하여 산불발생 시 배출되는 탄소배출량을 예측하고자 산림 가연물의 연소실험을 수행 하였다. 연소실험은 산림 연료 가운데 지표연료 10가지(소나무낙엽, 굴참나무낙엽, 소나무솔방울, 밤나무밤송이껍질, 방아풀, 주름조개풀, 칡, 엉겅퀴, 김의털, 고비)를 대상으로 콘칼로리미터 장비를 이용하여 이산화탄소와 일산화탄소 배출량을 분석하였다. 탄소배출량 실험에 앞서 지표연료들의 함수율을 측정한 결과, 10가지 지표연료 가운데 고사한 연료(낙엽, 솔방울, 밤송이)는 9~24% 정도, 생연료인 초본류 6가지는 181~484% 정도인 것으로 나타났으며, 솔방울과 밤송이의 경우 9~10%로 가장 수분을 적게 함유하고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 탄소배출량 분석 결과, 50g 중량에 대한 10가지 지표연료들의 이산화탄소 총배출량은 28~98g 정도, 일산화탄소 총배출량은 0.76~4.08g 정도 배출하는 것으로 나타나 연료별 차이를 보였으며, 특히, 고사한 연료와 생연료의 탄소배출량 차이는 큰 것으로 나타났다. 일산화탄소 총배출량은 고사한 연료(소나무낙엽, 굴참나무 낙엽, 소나무 솔방울, 밤나무 밤송이)는 3.24~4.08g 정도, 생연료 초본류 6가지(방아풀, 주름조개풀, 칡, 엉겅퀴, 김의털, 고비)는 0.76~2.73g 정도 배출하는 것으로 나타났다. 이산화탄소 총배출량은 함수율이 현저히 낮은 4가지 연료(소나무 낙엽, 굴참나무 낙엽, 소나무 솔방울, 밤나무 밤송이 껍질)들은 52~98g 정도, 함수율이 높은 6가지 초본류는 28~48g 정도의 이산화탄소를 배출하는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서, 고사한 연료인 소나무 낙엽, 굴참나무 낙엽, 소나무 솔방울, 밤나무 밤송이는 초본류 보다 상대적으로 이산화탄소와 일산화탄소 배출량이 많은 것으로 나타났으며, 특히, 소나무 솔방울은 가장 많은 이산화탄소와 일산화탄소를 배출하는 것으로 나타났다. 상대적으로 방아풀과 주름조개풀은 각각 28g과 35g으로 이산화탄소 배출량이 작은 것으로 나타났다. 따라서, 산불발생 시, 소나무의 솔방울은 10가지 지표연료 가운데 상대적으로 많은 이산화탄소와 일산화탄소를 배출할 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.78-83
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• 2018

The purpose of this paper is to study for failure examples of emission gas recirculation and air control and catalyzed particulate filter system in diesel engine vehicle. The first example, the researcher found the fact that the much engine oil came into the intake manifold causing diaphragm damage of EGR valve. The engine oil entered into combustion chamber of engine so that a car emit the polluted exhaust gas when driving. The second example, the researcher certified the sticking phenomenon of carbon and foreign substance with the throttle flap so that the exhaust fumes discharged exhaust port. The third example, the regeneration function don't activated to not detect the temperature of exhaust gas because of damage in the sensor. Thus, the researcher must meticulously manage his car not in order to take place the problem of environmental pollution.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.54 no.6
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• pp.838-846
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• 2016

Most of combustion processess used in industries require recovering or removing flue gas components. Recently a new MBA (moving bed adsorption) process for recovering $CO_2$ using zeolite 13X was developed. In this study, adsorption experiments for carbon dioxide, nitrogen, sulfur dioxide, and water vapor on zeolite 13X were carried out. Adsorption equilibrium and adsorption rate into solid particle were investigated. Langmuir, Toth, and Freundlich isotherm parameters were calculated from the experiment data at various temperatures. Experimental results were consistent with the theoretically predicted values. Also $CO_2$ adsorption amount was measured under the conditions with impurities such as $SO_2$ and $H_2O$. Binary adsorption data were well fitted to the extended Langmuir isotherm using parameters obtained from pure component experiment. However, $H_2O$ impurity less than, roughly, ${\sim}10^{-5}H_2O\;mol/g$ zeolite 13X enhanced slightly $CO_2$ adsorption. Spherical particle diffusion model well described experimentally measured adsorption rate. Diffusion coefficients and activation energies of $CO_2$, $SO_2$, $N_2$, $H_2O$ were obtained. Diffusion coefficients of $CO_2$ and $SO_2$ decreased with small amount of preadsorbed impurity. Parameter values from this study will be helpful to design of real commercial adsorption process.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.62-66
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• 2009

Utilization and interest of unconventional fuel and process residue such as oil sand and its residue, oil sand coke, have been increased because of the continuous rise of fuel price and conventional fuel availability. In this study, the gasification of oil sand coke produced from coking process of oil sand was performed to utilize as an energy resource using lab-scale fixed bed gasification system. The combustion characteristics of oil sand bitumen and oil sand coke were investigated by using TGA and lab-scale gasification system was applied to reveal the characteristics of produced syngas composition with oxygen/fuel ratio, temperature and steam injection rate. Oil sand coke shows a high carbon content, heating value and sulfur content and low ash content and reactivity. In case of oil sand coke gasification, generally with increasing temperature, the amount of steam introduced and decreasing oxygen injection rate, $H_2$ content in product gas increased while the $CO_2$ content decreased. The calorific value of syngas shows about $2100kcal/Nm^3$ and this result indicates that the oil sand coke can be used as a resource of hydrogen and fuel.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.927-933
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• 2016

In a solid propulsion system, the rocket nozzle is exposed to high temperature combustion gas. Hence, choosing an appropriate material that could demonstrate adequate performance at high temperature is important. As advanced materials, carbon/silicon carbide composites (C/SiC) have been studied with the aim of using them for the rocket nozzle throat. However, when compared with typical structural materials, C/SiC composites are relatively weak in terms of both strength and toughness, owing to their quasi-brittle behavior and oxidation at high temperatures. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the thermal and mechanical properties of this material before using it in this application. This study presents an experimental method to investigate the fracture behavior of C/SiC composite material manufactured using liquid silicon infiltration (LSI) method at elevated temperatures. In particular, the effects of major parameters, such as temperature, loading, oxidation conditions, and fiber direction on strength and fracture characteristics were investigated. Fractography analysis of the fractured specimens was performed using an SEM.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2008

Carbon dioxide($CO_2$) agent, which has more safely extinguished fire than any other gaseous fire extinguishing agents, has been widely used in various protected enclosures and types of fires. According to the concept of performance-based design(PBD). $CO_2$ extinguishing system to be designed is needed to be evaluated for the performance of fire suppression with possible fire scenarios in an enclosure. In this paper, CFD simulations were carried out to study the effects of opening area on the performance of $CO_2$ extinguishing system and the flow characteristics in the machine room of $100m^3$ in which kerosene spill fire happened. This study showed that time of fire suppression increased linearly in proportion to the size of opening area, and fires for each model were completely suppressed prior to the end of discharge of $CO_2$ agent. It was shown that mass flow rate through opening was influenced by the combined effects of heat release rate of fire and discharge of $CO_2$ agent. After $CO_2$ agent was completely discharged, oxygen concentrations in enclosures for each model were lower than the limit concentration of combustion.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.82-88
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• 2010

In this study, we have performed several tests for composite plastic materials to be applied on interior materials of a vehicle to identify their combustion characteristics using cone calorimeter, smoke density chamber and toxicity index chamber. We have prepared a total of 12 samples for 4 major parts of a vehicle wherein each major part has 3 different materials. The results of cone calorimeter test showed ignition time of PVC sheet and PVC leather were 2s. The 8 samples showed under less than 10s of ignition time. The sample comprising Nylon and PE had the biggest maximum heat release rate of 635 $kW/m^2$. The sample comprising Rubber showed the smallest maximum heat release rate but with the biggest total heat release. The results of smoke density chamber test showed the sample that is made up with Rubber had the biggest specific optical smoke density. The sample comprising PVC leather and PUR showed the biggest VOF4 which enables the initial smoke production. The results of toxicity index test showed that all samples contained carbon dioxide content exceeding its lethal concentration. The sample comprising PVC showed high content of hydrogen chloride and hydrogen bromide. The PVC sheet showed the biggest toxicity index calculated by using lethal concentration and test results. Toxicity index of all sample wes over 1.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.119-125
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• 2017

Ablative material in a rocket nozzle is exposed to high temperature combustion gas, thus undergoes complicated thermal/chemical change in terms of chemical destruction of surface and thermal decomposition of inner material. Therefore, method for conjugate analysis of thermal response inside carbon/phenolic material including rocket nozzle flow, surface chemical reaction and thermal decomposition is developed in this research. CFD is used to simulate flow field inside nozzle and conduction in the ablative material. A change in material density and a heat absorption caused by the thermal decomposition is considered in solid energy equation. And algebraic equation under boundary layer assumption is used to deduce reaction rate on the surface and resulting destruction of the surface. In order to test the developed method, small rocket nozzle is solved numerically. Although the ablation of nozzle throat is deduced to be higher than the experiment, shape change and temperature distribution inside material is well predicted. Error in temperature with experimental results in rapid heating region is found to be within 100 K.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.269-276
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• 2007

$TiO_2$-containing pitch fibers were prepared and various stabilization variables were investigated by characterizations of the fibers and behaviors of $TiO_2$ particles in the optimum stabilization conditions. When pitch fiber was stabilized by air at the optimum condition, the fiber weight increased as an increase of the stabilization temperature and a decrease of $TiO_2$ concentration. The carbonization yield was 71~82 wt.%, showing a decrease of the yield with the $TiO_2$ increase caused by the catalytic activity of $TiO_2$ to combustion. During the stabilization, newly developed carbonyl and carboxyl groups were introduced on the fiber surface and cross-linking reactions were progressed resulting the thermosetting property, which was verified by the replacement of hydrogen with oxygen. Pore size of the activated carbon fiber was increased by an increase in $TiO_2$ concentration. In the considerations of the aggregation behaviors of the $TiO_2$ particles, the optimum stabilization conditions of 0.5 wt.% $TiO_2$ containing petroleum-based pitch fiber were suggested as $280^{\circ}C$, 3 hr.