• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.280-283
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• 2008

This study is concerned with development of air supply system in 250kW MCFC fuel cell system. The turbo blower is decided as an air supply system to increase the efficiency of fuel cell system. The turbo blower consists of an impeller, two vaneless diffuser, a vaned diffuser and a volute. The cascade diffuser is used to raise the efficiency of turbo blower. An aerodynamic design was done by applying the repeating design procedure including a meanline design, a 3D geometry generation and fluid dynamic calculation. It is confirmed from meanline and 3D flow analysis results that the operating range is enough and design requirements are successfully achieved. The performance test results were also included in this paper.

• 한국공작기계학회논문집
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.81-87
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• 2004

A 3-D FEM (Finite Element Method) analysis of the turbo-blower shaft attached to a fuel cell was performed using Lanczos algorithm. The modal analysis was analyzed in order to investigate natural frequency and maximum displacement for 10 times. It was found that the first mode of natural frequency is 109.1Hz with the maximum displacement of 0.16mm while the tenth mode of natural frequency is 2464Hz with the maximum displacement of 0.25mm. Consequently, the results of modal analysis of the turbo-blower for a fuel cell system show good dynamic responses.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.87.2-87.2
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• 2011

1kW급 가정용 연료전지 블로어는 다이어프램방식에 의해 고압 및 일정유량의 가스를 이송시키는 역할을 하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 연료전지 중 연료승압블로어를 대상으로 흡입 및 토출시의 다이어프램 캐비티(Cavity) 내의 공기유동 특성을 수치해석을 적용하여 평가하였다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.675-682
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• 2017

New government, the market for stationary fuel cell systems in domestic is expected to expand in line with the policy for expanding new and renewable energy. In order to promote and expand the domestic market for stationary fuel cell systems, it is required to do research and develop for cost reduction and efficiency improvement technologies through the localization of BOP. In this study, the safety performance including the power consumption, flow rate, noise and air-tightness of the domestic fuel booster blower and the foreign fuel booster blower was evaluated and the performance improvement of the domestic blower was confirmed. As a result of the power consumption measurement and the flow rate according to the back pressure of the A company 2nd prototype and B company, the values were 73 W, 27 LPM, and 55 W, 25 LPM. These results are attributed to the improvement of performance through design changes such as CAM angle and diaphragm material.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.36-44
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• 2017

건물용 연료전지 시스템은 공기와 수소의 전기화학반응을 통하여 전기와 열을 생산하는 신재생에너지 시스템이다. 국내의 건물용 연료전지 시스템은 매년 수백기가 판매될 정도로 진행이 되고 있으며, 건물용 연료전지 시스템내에 많은 부품이 국내제품이 아닌 외국 제품에 의존하고 있다. 건물용 연료전지시스템의 중요부품인 연료처리장치를 한국가스공사에서 개발하여 현재 장기내구성 평가를 진행하고 있으며, 국내외에서 개발된 연료승압 블로워를 평가하고, 한국가스공사의 연료처리장치와 BOP와 연계하여 평가를 진행하였다. 한국가스공사에서 개발된 연료처리장치는 76%이상의 효율과 3,000시간 운영에도 일정한 성능을 유지하는 것을 확인할 수 있었고, 국내에서 개발된 연료승압 블로워는 후단압력 및 온도에 따른 소비전력의 평가시 국외의 연료승압 블로워와 대등한 특성을 나타내었으며, 연료처리장치와 BOP가 연계된 연료처리장치 모듈평가시에도 우수한 성능을 나타내었다.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.6-13
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• 2012

This paper describes unsteady internal flow characteristics of a cathode air blower, used for the 1 kW fuel cell system. The cathode air blower considered in the present study is a diaphragm type blower. To analyze the flow field inside the diaphragm cavity, compressible unsteady numerical simulation is performed. Moving mesh system is applied to the numerical analysis for describing the volume change of the diaphragm cavity in time. Throughout a numerical simulation by modeling the inlet and outlet valves in a diaphragm cavity, unsteady nature of an internal flow is successfully analyzed. Variations of mass flow rate, force and pressure on the lower moving plate of a diaphragm cavity are evaluated in time. The computed mass flow rate at the same pressure and rotating frequency of a motor has a maximum of 5 percent error with the experimental data. It is found that flow pattern at the suction process is more complex compared to that at the discharge process. Unsteady nature of internal flow in the cathode air blower is analyzed in detail.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2008

The durability test of turbo-blower for PEM fuel cell is very important process of BOP development. It is a major barrier to the commercialization of these systems for stationary and transportation power applications. Commercial viability depends on improving the durability of the air supply system to increase the reliability and to reduce the lifetime cost. In this study, turbo-blower supported by oil-free bearing is introduced as the air supply system used by 80kW proton exchange membrane fuel systems. The turbo-blower is a turbo machine which operates at high speed, so air foil bearings suit their purpose as bearing elements. The impeller of blower was adopted mixed type of centrifugal and axial. So, it has several advantages for variable operating condition. The turbo-blower test results show maximum parasitic power levels below 1.67kW with the 30,000 rpm rotating speed, the flow rate of air has maximum 163SCFM(@PR1.1). For proper application of FCV, these have to durability test. This paper describes the experiment for confirming endurance and stability of the turbo-blower for 500 hours.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제24권10호
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• pp.739-744
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• 2012

This paper describes the blower performance used for single-stage high pressure regenerative blower. The blower considered is widely applied to the field of a fuel cell system, a medical equipment and a sewage treatment plant. Flow rate and rotating frequency of a impeller of the blower are considered as design parameters for the proper operation of the blower. Three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations are introduced to analyze the performance and internal flow of the blower. Relatively good agreement between experimental measurements and numerical simulation is obtained. Throughout a numerical simulation, it is found that small and stable vortical flow generated inside the blade passage is effective to increase pressure and efficiency of the blower. Large local recirculation flow having low velocity in the blade passage obstructs the generation of stable vortical flow, thus increases the pressure loss of the blower. Detailed flow field inside the blower is also analyzed and discussed.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2010년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.599-606
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• 2010

This paper presents dynamic analysis of FCEV (Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle) Turbo Blower. To analyze the dynamic characteristics of Turbo Blower, finite element model which consists of solid elements is constructed. Evaluation of stress for safety of rotor sleeve due to centrifugal force, Shrink fit analysis in maximum rotation speed is performed. Rotor dynamic analysis of Turbo blower is conducted using Campbell diagram and FEA (Finite element analysis) results are compared with experimental results to evaluate of validity of finite element model. To evaluate of Structure vibration characteristics, Modal analysis and forced vibration analysis are performed through FEA and experiment.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.181-189
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• 2018

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) system receives great attention as a promising power device for automotive applications. For the wide commercialization, the efficiency and performance of automotive PEMFC system should be further improved in terms of total system (stack and balance of plant [BOP]). Air supply module, which is a major part of the BOP, greatly affects the efficiency of automotive PEMFC system. In this paper, a systematic study on the low-pressure automotive PEMFC system was made in an attempt to enhance the net system efficiency. This study mainly presents an investigation of the effect of blower configuration (1-blower and 2-blower) on the net system efficiency of automotive PEMFC system. For this purpose, the effect of operating pressure and cathode stoichiometry on the system efficiency was investigated with stack temperature under the fixed net system power condition. Results indicate that 1-blower system is better in system efficiency over 2-blower system under an air stoichiometry of 2. However, 2-blower system is better in system efficiency under an air stoichiometry of 3. The simulation results show that the optimum operating strategy needs to be established for various blower system configurations considering blower performance maps.