• 공업화학
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.619-625
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• 2023

본 연구는 극초음속 비행체의 열부하로 인한 문제를 해결하기 위해 촉매의 Si/Al 비 최적화 및 니켈 이온교환을 통해 탄화수소 분해반응(흡열반응)의 성능 증진에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 4 MPa, 550 ℃ 조건에서, Si/Al 비 최적화 및 니켈 이온교환으로 제조된 촉매는 열분해 대비 흡열성능이 약 10% 개선되었음을 확인하였다. 활성 변화에 대한 영향 인자를 확인하기 위하여 FT-IR, NH₃-TPD 분석을 수행하였으며, HZSM-5 촉매의 Si/Al 비가 산점 발달 및 촉매 활성에 밀접한 상관성이 있음을 관찰하였다. 또한, 니켈이 첨가된 촉매의 탄소 침적 억제 특성을 관찰하기 위해 TGA, O₂-TPO 분석을 수행하였다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.468-475
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• 2012

A proper stacking force and assembly are important to the performance of fuel cell. Improper assembly pressure may lead to leakage of fuels and high interfacial contact resistance, excessive assembly pressure may result in damage to the gas diffusion layer and other components. The pressure distribution of gas diffusion layer is important to make interfacial contact resistance less for stack performance. To analyze the influence of design parameter factors for pressure distribution, and to optimize stack design, DOE (Design of Experiment) was used for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell stack pressure test. As commonly known, the higher clamping force improves the fuel cell stack performance. However, non-uniformity of stress distribution is also increased. It shows that optimization between clamping force and stress distribution is needed for well designed structure of fuel cell stack. In this study, stack design optimization method is suggested by using FEM (Finite Element Methode) and DOE for light-weighted fuel cell stack.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.109-116
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• 2012

현재 천공장비 및 천공방법에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되고 있지만 DTH hammer의 타격성능을 규명하고 최적화에 대한 연구는 전무하다. 또한 DTH drilling의 시험 장비를 구축하기 위해서는 막대한 비용과 많은 시간이 요구되기 때문에 성능규명에 있어 시험적으로 접근하기가 매우 곤란한 실정이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 DTH hammer의 구동원리를 파악 후 공압 해석을 이용하여 구동 특성 및 성능을 규명하였다. 또한 실험계획법을 이용하여 DTH hammer의 성능에 영향력이 있는 설계인자를 도출하고 이를 다구찌 기법에 적용해 DTH hammer의 타격성능인 타격수와 타격에너지의 최적화에 대한 연구를 수행하였다.

• 에너지공학
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2014

The more or less homogeneous fuel-air mixture that exists at the end of the compression process is ignited by an electric ignition spark from a spark plug shortly before top dead center. The actual moment of ignition is an optimization parameter; it is adapted to the engine operation so that an optimum combustion process is obtained. Brake mean effective pressure (BMEP) of the spark ignition energy control device (IECD) than conventional spark system at the stoichiometric mixture is increased about 9%. For lean burn engine, the lean limit is extended about 25% by using the IECD. It was considered the stability of combustion by the increase of flame kernel according to the high ignition energy supplies in initial period and discharge energy period lengthen by using the IECD.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.11-24
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• 2017

The present work focuses multi-objective optimization of blade sweep for a Wells turbine. The blade-sweep parameters at the mid and the tip sections are selected as design variables. The peak-torque coefficient and the corresponding efficiency are the objective functions, which are maximized. The numerical analysis has been carried out by solving 3D RANS equations based on k-w SST turbulence model. Nine design points are selected within a design space and the simulations are run. Based on the computational results, surrogate-based weighted average models are constructed and the population based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm gave Pareto optimal solutions. The peak-torque coefficient and the corresponding efficiency are enhanced, and the results are analysed using CFD simulations. Two extreme designs in the Pareto solutions show that the peak-torque-coefficient is increased by 28.28% and the corresponding efficiency is decreased by 13.5%. A detailed flow analysis shows the separation phenomena change the turbine performance.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.451-476
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• 2015

Membrane distillation (MD), which can utilize low-grade thermal energy, has been extensively studied for desalination. By incorporating solar thermal energy, the solar membrane distillation desalination system (SMDDS) is a potential technology for resolving the energy and water resource problems. Small-scale SMDDS (s-SMDDS) is an attractive and viable option for the production of fresh water for small communities in remote arid areas. The minimum-cost design and operation of s-SMDDS are determined by a systematic method, which involves a pseudo steady state approach for equipment sizing and the dynamic optimization using overall system mathematical models. The s-SMDDS employing three MD configurations, including the air gap (AGMD), direct contact (DCMD) and vacuum (VMD) types, are optimized. The membrane area of each system is $11.5m^2$. The AGMD system operated for 500 kg/day water production rate gives the lowest unit cost of $5.92/m^3$. The performance ratio and recovery ratio are 0.85 and 4.07%, respectively. For the commercial membrane employed in this study, the increase of membrane mass transfer coefficient up to two times is beneficial for cost reduction and the reduction of membrane heat transfer coefficient only affects the cost of the DCMD system.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.1786-1795
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• 2021

Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger (PCHE) is a widely used heat exchanger in the supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO₂) Brayton cycle because it can work under high temperature and pressure, and has been a hot topic in Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) projects for use as recuperators and condensers. Most previous studies focused on channel structures or shapes. However, no clear advancement has so far been seen in the allover size of the PCHE. In this paper, we proposed an optimal size of the PCHE with a fixed volume. Two boundary conditions of PCHE were simulated, respectively. When the volume of PCHE was fixed, the heat transfer rate and pressure loss were picked as the optimization objectives. The Pareto front was obtained by the Multi-objective optimization procedure. We got the optimized number of PCHE channels under two different boundary conditions from the Pareto front. The comprehensive performance can be increased by 5.3% while holding in the same volume. The numerical results from this study can be used to improve the design of PCHE with straight channels.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.2422-2443
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• 2020

This paper studies a single-user Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) system where mobile device (MD) includes an application consisting of multiple computation components or tasks with dependencies. MD can offload part of each computation-intensive latency-sensitive task to the AP integrated with MEC server. In order to accomplish the application faultlessly, we calculate out the optimal task offloading strategy in a time-division manner for a predetermined execution order under the constraints of limited computation and communication resources. The problem is formulated as an optimization problem that can minimize the energy consumption of mobile device while satisfying the constraints of computation tasks and mobile device resources. The optimization problem is equivalently transformed into solving a nonlinear equation with a linear inequality constraint by leveraging the Lagrange Multiplier method. And the proposed dual Bi-Section Search algorithm Bi-JOTD can efficiently solve the nonlinear equation. In the outer Bi-Section Search, the proposed algorithm searches for the optimal Lagrangian multiplier variable between the lower and upper boundaries. The inner Bi-Section Search achieves the Lagrangian multiplier vector corresponding to a given variable receiving from the outer layer. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has significant performance improvement than other baselines. The novel scheme not only reduces the difficulty of problem solving, but also obtains less energy consumption and better performance.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.406-417
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• 2014

This paper presents a numerical optimization method to improve the performance of the propeller with Turbo-Ring using real-coded genetic algorithm. In the presented method, Unimodal Normal Distribution Crossover (UNDX) and Minimal Generation Gap (MGG) model are used as crossover operator and generation-alternation model, respectively. Propeller characteristics are evaluated by a simple surface panel method "SQCM" in the optimization process. Blade sections of the original Turbo-Ring and propeller are replaced by the NACA66 a = 0.8 section. However, original chord, skew, rake and maximum blade thickness distributions in the radial direction are unchanged. Pitch and maximum camber distributions in the radial direction are selected as the design variables. Optimization is conducted to maximize the efficiency of the propeller with Turbo-Ring. The experimental result shows that the efficiency of the optimized propeller with Turbo-Ring is higher than that of the original propeller with Turbo-Ring.

• 플랜트 저널
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.43-47
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• 2013

발전 플랜트의 발전량 최적화 및 발전효율 최적화는 에너지공학을 전공한 전문가일지라도 이해하기 힘든 개념이다. 본 연구에서는 엑서지 및 엑서지율이라는 열역학적 상태값을 적용하여 에너지 공학을 전공하지 않은 일반인일지라도 발전량 및 발전효율 최적화 개념을 쉽게 이해할 수 있는 차트가 개발되었다. 발전소의 성능을 파악할 수 있는 대표적인 물성치는 주증기의 온도 및 압력이다. 개발된 차트에서는 주증기의 온도 및 압력에 따른 최대 발전량 곡선과 최대 효율 곡선이 도시되어 있으므로, 해석하고자 하는 발전소의 온도 및 압력을 차트에 적용하여 그 발전소가 얼마만큼 최대 발전량과 최대 효율에 접근해 있는지를 쉽게 파악할 수 있다.