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OH Radical Distribution and Sooting Characteristics in Co-Flow Diffusion Flames (동축류 확산화염의 OH 라다칼 분포 및 매연 특성)

  • Lee, Won-Nam;Song, Young-Hoon;Cha, Min-Suk
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1997.06a
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 1997
  • The soot and OH radical distributions have been experimentally studied in ethylene and propane laminar diffusion flames. The integrated soot volume fraction was measured along the centerline of a flame using a laser light extinction method. Planar laser light scattering and PLIF techniques are employed for the soot and OH radical distribution measurements utilizing Nd:YAG laser and OPO, FDO system. The concentration of OH radical is rapidly decreased at the edge of sooting region, which implies the importance of OH radical species on the soot oxidation process. For ethylene flames, the addition of air in fuel moves the OH radical distribution towards the center line of a flame at the soot oxidation region, while the concentration of OH radical remains relatively high at the soot formation region. The interaction between soot particles and OH radicals becomes more active with fuel-air at the soot oxidation region. For propane flames, however, any indication of the increased interaction between soot particles and OH radicals with fuel-air was not noticed.

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Power Control and Ground Fault Simulations for a Distribution System with a Fuel Cell Power Plant

  • Hwang, Jin-Kwon;Choi, Tae-Il
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.24 no.7
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    • pp.9-19
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    • 2010
  • Fuel cell (FC) distributed generation (DG) is gradually becoming more attractive to mainstream electricity users as capacity improves and costs decrease. New technologies including inverters are becoming available to provide a uniform standard interconnection of DGs with an electric power system. Some of the operating conflicts and the effect of DG on power quality are addressed and investigated through simulations on a real distribution network with an FC power plant. The results of these simulations have proved load tracking capability following the real and reactive power change of the load and have shown the flow of overcurrent from an FC power plant during the ground fault of a distribution line.

A Study on the Spray Characteristics with Ultrasonic added Fuel Injection System (초음파 연료분사장치의 분무특성에 관한 연구)

  • Yoon, M.K.;Ryu, J.I.
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.85-91
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    • 1996
  • This experiment was undertaken to investigate spray characteristics of the conventional inject ion system and the ultrasonic energy added inject ion system. Sauter mean diameter was mesured under the variation of inject ion pressure and the spray distance. To measure the droplet size we used the Malvern system 2600C. The spray angle and mass distribution was analyzed to the CCD camera and the patternater. After experiment, it was found that the ultrasonic energy added injection system had smaller sauter men diameter of droplet, wider mass distribution and wider spray angle than the conventional inject ion system had.

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Voltage THD Mitigation of Power Distribution System using Z-Source Active Power Filter with a Fuel Cells Source (연료전지 전원을 갖는 Z-소스 능동전력필터에 의한 장거리 배전선로의 전압 THD 저감)

  • Jung, Young-Gook
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.57 no.12
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    • pp.2161-2166
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    • 2008
  • This paper deals with a Z-source active power filter(Z-AFU) for mitigation voltage THD(total harmonic distortion) due to voltage harmonic propagation(amplification) in 6.6kv power distribution system. Bus voltage harmonic signal is detected by 60Hz butterworth BPF(band pass filter). As an ESS(energy storage system) of the proposed system, PEM fuel cells(Ballard NEXA, 1.2kw) is employed. Test results based on PSIM(power electronics simulation tool) validate the proposed approach.

Design of flow path with 2 inlet and outlets to improve cell performance and prevent cell degradation in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC 셀 성능 향상 및 수명 저하 방지를 위한 입구와 출구 2개의 유로 설계)

  • Kim, Dongwoo;Yeom, Eunseop
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.56-62
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    • 2021
  • Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) is the high efficiency fuel cell operating at high temperatures ranging from 700-1000℃. Design of the flow paths of the fuel and air in SOFCs is important to improve cell performance and prevent cell degradation. However, the uneven distribution of current density in the traditional type having one inlet and outlet causes cell degradation. In this regard, the parallel flow path with two inlet and outlets was designed and compared to the traditional type based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. To check the cell performance, hydrogen distribution, velocity distribution and current density distribution were monitored. The results validated that the parallel designs with two inlets and outlets have a higher cell performance compared to the traditional design with one inlet and outlet due to a larger reaction area. In case of uniform-type paths, more uniform current density distribution was observed with less cross-sectional variation in flow paths. In case of contracted and expanded inflow paths, significant improvement of performance and uniform current density was not observed compared to uniform parallel path. Considering SOFC cell with uniform current density can prevent cell degradation, more suitable design of SOFC cell with less cross-sectional variation in the flow path should be developed. This work can be helpful to understand the role of flow distribution in the SOFC performance.

A Calculation Model for Fuel Constituent Redistribution and Temperature Distribution on Metallic U-10Zr Fuel Slug of Liquid Metal Reactors

  • Nam, Cheol;Hwang, Woan
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.507-517
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    • 1998
  • Unlike conventional fuel types, fuel constituent redistribution and sodium intrusion into the fuel slug are the unique phenomena of the irradiated metallic fuel. A thermal calculation model on metallic U-10 wt.%Zr fuel rod for LMRs is developed with considerations given to these phenomena. The amount of constituent redistribution is estimated based on the thermotransport process. The temperature profile of fuel slug is predicted by taking into account of Zr redistribution, porosity formation and sodium logging effects. A sample calculation is performed and compared to experimental data in literature. As a result, the predicted redistribution and temperature profile are well agreed with experimental data, assuming that 15 times increment of ex-reactor diffusivity, $Q_{r}$ $^{*}$ is -50 kJ/mole and sodium is infiltrated only outside of the fuel slug. Furthermore, the redistribution effects on fuel integrity and fuel temperature profile are discussed.d.

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Study of neutron energy and directional distribution at the Beloyarsk NPP selected workplaces

  • Pyshkina, Mariia;Vasilyev, Aleksey;Ekidin, Aleksey;Nazarov, Evgeniy;Nikitenko, Vitaly;Pudovkin, Anton
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.53 no.5
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    • pp.1723-1729
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    • 2021
  • Energy and directional distribution of neutrons at the Beloyarsk NPP workplaces is a subject of this study. Measurements of H*(10) rate and neutron energy distribution were taken at 8 workplaces, which can be divided into three categories: work with spent or fresh nuclear fuel, work with radionuclide neutron sources, work at the rooms adjusted to reactors. The Hp(10) measurements were performed only at 6 out of 8 locations, due to the fact that long term placing of an effective neutron moderator in fresh nuclear fuel storage facility is forbidden. As a result of the research energy and direction distribution of the neutron fields at 8 locations of the Beloyarsk NPP workplaces was obtained. To estimate the accuracy of the H*(10) rate and Hp (10) measurements the reference values of dose equivalents were calculated using energy and directional distribution. To take into account the difference between the reference values and the measured results site-specific correction factors were calculated.

ANALYSIS OF IN-CYLINDER FUEL-AIR MIXTURE DISTRIBUTION IN A HEAVY DUTY CNG ENGINE

  • Lee, Seok-Y.;Huh, Kang-Y.;Kim, Y.M.;Lee, J.H.
    • International Journal of Automotive Technology
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.93-101
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    • 2001
  • Distribution of fuel-air mixture has a strong influence on performance and emissions of a compressed natural gas (CNG) engine. In this paper, parametric study is performed by KIVA-3V to investigate fuel-air mixture with respect to injection timing, cycle equivalence ratio and engine speed. With open-valve injection intensive mixing during intake and compression stroke results in relatively homogeneous mixture in the cylinder. Sequential induction of fuel-air mixture and fresh air results in stratification in the cylinder among the test cases at closed-valve injection. There is close similarity in the calculated distributions of the mixture in the cylinder with different cycle equivalence ratios and engine speeds. The results are compared against pressure traces and flame images obtained in a single cylinder engine converted from a 11L six-cylinder heavy duty diesel engine.

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A Study on a Design of Bipolar Plate for PEMFC System (PEMFC 시스템용 바이폴라 플레이트의 디자인에 관한 연구)

  • Yoon, Hyung-Sang;Cha, In-Su;Lee, Jeong-Il;Yoon, Jeong-Phil
    • New & Renewable Energy
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.5-10
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    • 2008
  • Hydrogen fuel cell is clean and efficient technology along with high energy densities. While there are many different types of fuel cells, the proton exchange membrane fuel cell stands out as one of the most promising for transportation and small stationary applications. This paper focuses on design of bipolar plate for proton exchange membrane fuel cell. The bipolar plate model is realistically and accurately simulated velocity distribution, current density distribution and its effect on the PEMFC system using CFD tool FLUENT.

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