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Development of a High Efficiency Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Stack under Pressurized Operating Conditions (고효율 가압형 고분자전해질 연료전지 셀스택 개발)

  • Han, In-Su;Seo, Hakyu;Jung, Jeehoon;Kim, Minsung;Shin, Hyunkhil;Hur, Taeuk;Cho, Sungbaek
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.125.1-125.1
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    • 2010
  • A high efficiency polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack was developed for pressurized pure hydrogen and oxygen supplying conditions. The design objective for the cell stack was to maximize the electric efficiency and to minimize exhaust-gas emissions from it simultaneously. To achieve this objective, the cell stack was designed to use pure hydrogen and oxygen as fuel and oxidant, respectively, and to be operated under high gas inlet pressures and in a stage-wise dead-end operation mode. Major components constituting the cell stack, such as membrane electrode assembly, bipolar-plate, and gasket, have been developed to meet a target durability even in severe operating conditions: high gas inlet pressures and usage of pure oxygen. A high-power fuel cell stack was assembled using these components to verify the performance. The cell stack showed a good performance in terms of the efficiency and maximum power output.

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Failure Prediction of Metal Oxide Varistor Using Nonlinear Surge Look-up Table Based on Experimental Data

  • Kim, Young Sun
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.317-322
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    • 2015
  • The metal oxide varistor (MOV) is a major component of the surge protection devices (SPDs) currently in use. The device is judged to be faulty when fatigue caused by the continuous inflow of lightning accumulates and reaches the damage limit. In many cases, induced lightning resulting from lightning strikes flows in to the device several times per second in succession. Therefore, the frequency or the rate at which the SPD is actually exposed to stress, called a surge, is outside the range of human perception. For this reason, the protective device should be replaced if it actually approaches the end of its life even though it is not faulty at present, currently no basis exists for making the judgment of remaining lifetime. Up to now, the life of an MOV has been predicted solely based on the number of inflow surges, irrespective of the magnitude of the surge current or the amount of energy that has flowed through the device. In this study, nonlinear data that shows the damage to an MOV depending on the count of surge and the amount of input current were collected through a high-voltage test. Then, a failure prediction algorithm was proposed by preparing a look-up table using the results of the test. The proposed method was experimentally verified using an impulse surge generator

Small-Capacity Solar Cooling System by Desiccant Cooling Technology (태양열 이용 소용량 제습냉방시스템)

  • Lee, Dae-Young;Kwon, Chi-Ho
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.154-156
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    • 2008
  • A prototype of the desiccant cooling system with a regenerative evaporative cooler was built and tested for the performance evaluation. The regenerative evaporative cooler is to cool a stream of air using evaporative cooling effect without an inc6rease in the humidity ratio. It is comprised of multiple pairs of dry and wet channels and the evaporation water is supplied only to the wet channels. By redirecting a portion of the air flown out of the dry channel into the wet channel, the air can be cooled down to a temperature lower than its inlet wet-bulb temperature at the outlet end of the dry channels. Incorporating a regenerative evaporative cooler eliminates the need for deep dehumidification in the desiccant rotor that is necessary to achieve low air temperature in the system with a direct evaporative cooler. Subsequently, the regenerative evaporative cooler enables the use of low temperature heat source to regenerate the dehumidifier permitting the desiccant cooling system more beneficial compared with other thermal driven air conditioners. At the ARI condition with the regeneration temperature of $60^{\circ}C$, the prototype showed the cooling capacity of 4.4 kW and COP of 0.75.

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Characteristics and Temporal Distribution of Airborne Pollen in an Urban Area of Japan

  • Ma Chang-Jin;Kasahara Mikio;Tohno Susumu;Kang Gong-Unn
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.21 no.E3
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    • pp.107-113
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    • 2005
  • Using a sampling device of our own making, airborne pollen has been monitored in Kyoto, Japan from the middle of February to the end of May 2004. From the morphological analysis of pollen grains by Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), it was possible to identify some pollen types like Cryptomeria, Pine, Alder, Cyclobalanopsis, Chamaecyparis, and Equisetum. Daily average airborne pollen counts show strong variations from the day to day which makes the appropriate daily forecasts that could be of practical use for patients difficult. Diurnal variation of airborne pollen grains at our local sampling site is very irregular and shows no similarity between pollen types. The highest concentrations of Cryptomeria and Alder pollens in the south -west wind directions might be attributed to the airborne pollen transport, while the increase in Pine pollen grain in the southern wind direction was probably due to the local spread. Prevailing wind direction (SW) during the pollinating periods of Cryptomeria and Alder pollens could suggest a long-distance transport from a distant mountain.

Critical Cleaning Requirements for Back End Wafer Bumping Processes

  • Bixenman, Mike
    • Proceedings of the International Microelectronics And Packaging Society Conference
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    • 2000.04a
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    • pp.57-64
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    • 2000
  • As integrated circuits become more complex, the number of I/O connections per chip grow. Conventional wire-bonding, lead-frame mounting techniques are unable to keep up. The space saved by shrinking die size is lost when the die is packaged in a huge device with hundreds of leads. The solution is bumps; gold, conductive adhesive, but most importantly solder bumps. Virtually every semiconductor manufacturer in the world is using or planning to use bump technology fur their larger and more complex devices. Several wafer-bumping processes used in the manufacture of bumped wafer. Some of the more popular techniques are evaporative, stencil or screen printing, electroplating, electrodes nickel, solder jetting, stud bumping, decal transfer, punch and die, solder injection or extrusion, tacky dot process and ball placement. This paper will discuss the process steps for bumping wafers using these techniques. Critical cleaning is a requirement for each of these processes. Key contaminants that require removal are photoresist and flux residue. Removal of these contaminants requires wet processes, which will not attack, wafer metallization or passivation. research has focused on enhanced cleaning solutions that meet this critical cleaning requirement. Process parameters defining time, temperature, solvency and impingement energy required to solvate and remove residues from bumped wafers will be presented herein.

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Critical Cleaning Requirements for Back End Wafer Bumping Processes

  • Bixenman, Mike
    • Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 2000
  • As integrated circuits become more complex, the number of I/O connections per chip grow. Conventional wire-bonding, lead-frame mounting techniques are unable to keep up. The space saved by shrinking die size is lost when the die is packaged in a huge device with hundreds of leads. The solution is bumps; gold, conductive adhesive, but most importantly solder bumps. Virtually every semiconductor manufacturer in the world is using or planning to use bump technology for their larger and more complex devices. Several wafer-bumping processes used in the manufacture of bumped wafer. Some of the more popular techniques are evaporative, stencil or screen printing, electroplating, electroless nickel, solder jetting, stud humping, decal transfer, punch and die, solder injection or extrusion, tacky dot process and ball placement. This paper will discuss the process steps for bumping wafers using these techniques. Critical cleaning is a requirement for each of these processes. Key contaminants that require removal are photoresist and flux residue. Removal of these contaminants requires wet processes, which will not attack, wafer metallization or passivation. Research has focused on enhanced cleaning solutions that meet this critical cleaning requirement. Process parameters defining time, temperature, solvency and impingement energy required to solvate and remove residues from bumped wafers will be presented herein.

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The Copper Rotor Die-casting of Single Phase Induction Motor and the Stator Design for Reducing Loss (단상유도전동기의 동 다이캐스팅과 손실 저감을 위한 고정자 설계)

  • Lee, Sang-Hoon;Kim, Ki-Chan;Kim, Kwang-Soo;Kim, Won-Ho;Kim, Soo-Yong;Lee, Ju
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2008.07a
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    • pp.705-706
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    • 2008
  • There has been, in recent years, effort to make cast copper rotors for industrial use of induction motors. Because the incorporation of copper for the conductor bars and end rings of the induction motor in place of aluminum would result in attractive improvements in motor energy efficiency. The purpose of this method is a reducing the copper loss as using higher conductivity of copper. In this paper as the single phase induction motor is studied, the stator slots and coil turn number is designed for adjusting the slot fill factor and improving its efficiency. At this time design is basis on calculation of reducing loss. And finally this paper shows that the before and after result is compared and analyzed.

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Analytical vibration of FG cylindrical shell with ring support based on various configurations

  • Hussain, Muzamal;Selmi, Abdellatif
    • Advances in concrete construction
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.557-568
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    • 2020
  • In this study, the impact of ring supports around the shell circumferential has been examined for their various positions along the shell axial length using Rayleigh-Ritz formulation. These shells are stiffened by rings in the tangential direction. For isotropic materials, the physical properties are same everywhere where the laminated and functionally graded materials, they vary from point to point. Here the shell material has been taken as functionally graded material. The influence of the ring supports is investigated at various positions. These variations have been plotted against the locations of ring supports for three values of length-to-diameter ratios. Effect of ring supports with middle layer thickness is presented using the Rayleigh-Ritz procedure with three different conditions. The influence of the positions of ring supports for clamped-clamped is more visible than simply supported and clamped-free end conditions. The frequency first increases and gain maximum value in the midway of the shell length and then lowers down. The Lagrangian functional is created by adding the energy expressions for the shell and rings. The axial modal deformations are approximated by making use of the beam functions. The comparisons of frequencies have been made for efficiency and robustness for the present numerical procedure. Throughout the computation, it is observed that the frequency behavior for the boundary conditions follow as; clamped-clamped, simply supported-simply supported frequency curves are higher than that of clamped-simply curves. To generate the fundamental natural frequencies and for better accuracy and effectiveness, the computer software MATLAB is used.

Evaluation of Suitable Application of ultra high-strength Concrete to V.H Separated Placement (VH분리타설 공법의 초고강도 콘크리트 적용성 평가)

  • Kim, Hak-Young;Ki, Jun-Do;Park, Hyun;Lim, Byung Chun;Lee, Young Do;Jung, Sang Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.23-26
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    • 2009
  • Despite vigorous studies on ultra high-strength concrete in Korea, it still faces many challenges in application to on-site construction methods. This study intends to evaluate the applicability of the VH separated-pouring method which is currently used and was designed to pour ultra high-strength concrete with a design strength of 60, 100N/㎟ separately to girder and beam. When it comes to VH separated-pouring, there is a difference in the required design strength between a girder and a beam, which tends to be larger for ultra high-strength concrete. The tensile strength and cold joint at the joint end have not been commonly evaluated and thus the inevitably of its use is dependent on a structural analysis of the structural stress of reinforcement. In the study, potential problems with respect to the building material which might occur during the pouring of ultra high-strength concrete was evaluated and issues on joint surface performance, the hydration energy contained in the members, and the effects of contraction in concrete were considered as the key elements for study.

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Interfacial and Rheological Properties of Selected Hydrogel Formulations for Soft Contact Lens (소프트 콘텍트 렌즈용 하이드로젤의 계면학적 및 유변학적 특성 연구)

  • Noh, Hye-Ran
    • Polymer(Korea)
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.190-195
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    • 2012
  • Interfacial and rheological properties of selected hydrogel formulations were studied to understand the contact-lens comfort in end use. It was concluded that protein adsorption from aqueous solution decreased monotonically with increasing surface energy (water wettability) of tested hydrogels. Also, it has revealed that friction coefficient of polydimethylsiloxane-polyvinylpyrrolidone (PDMS-PVP) was significantly larger that 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) based hydrogels. Interestingly, in artificial tear solution, friction coefficients of HEMA based hydrogels were larger than silicone hydrogels.