• 제목/요약/키워드: Fuel conversion

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초음파 압력장에서 미세조류 응집 거동에 관한 비정상상태 수치해석 연구 (A numerical study on the unsteady agglomeration behavior of algae in the ultrasonic wave pressure field)

  • 하지수;심성훈;정상현
    • 에너지공학
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    • 제26권4호
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    • pp.67-73
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    • 2017
  • 미세조류를 바이오 연료로 전환하여 이용하기 위해서는 미세조류의 배양, 응집 수거, 바이오 지질 추출, 에너지 전환 등 여러 공정을 거친다. 각 부분 공정 마다 필요한 비용이 발생하며 이러한 비용을 합산하여 미세조류의 에너지화로의 생산 단가가 만들어진다. 미세조류의 생산비용은 기존의 바이오 연료에 비하여 아직 높은 수준이다. 각 공정에서 생산 비용을 저감하는 것이 미세조류의 바이오 연료로서 가격 경쟁력을 높이는 것이다. 미세조류의 응집 수거는 미세조류가 물과 유사한 밀도로 물에서 분리하기가 어려운 물질이기 때문에 저비용으로 미세조류를 응집하고 수거하는 기술이 필요하다. 미세조류의 응집과 수거를 위해 초음파를 이용하는 공정은 기존 공정에 비하여 환경 위해 요소가 거의 없으며 저비용 고효율의 공정으로써 연구가 필요한 분야이다. 본 연구는 미세조류를 응집 수거하는 방법으로 초음파를 조사할 때 일어나는 유동과 미세조류 거동에 대한 메카니즘을 수치해석을 통해 규명하고자 수행 하였다. 이를 위해 미세조류가 포함된 유체를 배관에 흐를 때 초음파 압력장에서 미세조류가 응집이 일어나는 현상을 비정상상태 유동해석으로 시간 변화에 따라 속도, 압력, 미세조류의 농도 변화를 관찰하여 초음파를 이용한 미세조류 응집에 대한 최적 설계의 토대를 정립하는 것을 목적으로 수행하였다.

선박 전원용 고체산화물형 연료전지(SOFC) 스택 성능에 관한 연구 (A Study on Performance of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Stack for Ship Applications)

  • 박상균;김영진;노길태;김만응
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • 제35권4호
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    • pp.406-413
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    • 2011
  • 최근 선박에서 배출되는 온실가스를 저감하기 위한 기술로 연료전지가 주목 받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 메탄을 연료로 사용한 내부개질형 500kW급 고체산화물 연료전지의 선박 적용을 가정하여 연료전지 스택을 모델링하여 스택을 구성하는 셀의 수, 수소 변환율, 셀의 반응면적에 따른 출력 및 효율에 관한 특성을 평가하고, 공기와 메탄의 공급조건이 연료전지 스택의 성능에 미치는 영향 등에 관하여 검토하였다. 그 결과 셀의 수, 수소 변환율, 셀의 반응면적 및 공급 공기 유량이 증가할수록 스택의 출력 및 효율이 증가하였고, 메탄 공급 유량이 증가하면 출력은 증가하지만 효율은 감소하였다. 또한 Case 3의 경우에 전류가 976.4 A, 전압이 529.1 V에서 출력이 516.6 kW이고 이때의 연료전지 스택의 효율은 42.91%를 얻을 수있었다.

5MW급 바이오 가스터빈용 전처리시스템 설계연구 (Design Study of Fuel Supply System for 5MW-class Bio Gasturbine by Using Food Waste Water)

  • 허광범;박정극;윤은영;이정빈
    • 신재생에너지
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.10-17
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    • 2011
  • Korea is the 11th largest energy consumption country and 96% of its total energy consumption depends on imports from overseas. Therefore it is a very important task to secure renewable energy sources which can reduce both the carbon-dioxide emission and dependency on overseas energy imports. Among the various renewable energy sources, organic wastes are important sources. In Korea, 113 million toe of methane is generated from organic wastes annually, but only 3.7% is effectively used for energy conversion. Thus, it is very important to make better use of organic wastes, especially for power generation. The goals of this project are to develope the fuel supplying system of Bio Gasturbine (GT) for 5MW-class co-generation system. The fuel supplying system mainly consists of $H_2S$ removal system, Bio Gas compression system, Siloxane removal system and moisture separating systems. The fuel requirement of 5MW-class GT is at around 60% of $CH_4$, $H_2S$ (<30 ppm), Siloxane(<10 mg/$nm^3$) and supply pressure (> 25 bar) from biogas compressor. Main mechnical charateristics of Bio Gasturbine system have the specific performance; 1) high speed turbine speed (12,840 rpm) 2) very clean emmission NOx (<50 ppm) 3) high efficiency of energy conversion rate. This paper focuses on the development of design technology for food waste biogas pretreatment system for 5MW-class biogas turbine. The study also has the plan to replace the fuel of gas turbine and other distributed power systems. As the increase of bioenergy, this system help to contribute to spread more New & Renewable Energy and the establishment of Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) for Korea.

Ru계 촉매의 CO 선택적 산화 반응 및 1 kW급 천연가스 연료처리 시스템의 성능 연구 (Performance of Ru-based Preferential Oxidation Catalyst and Natural Gas Fuel Processing System for 1 kW Class PEMFCs System)

  • 서유택;서동주;서용석;노현석;정진혁;윤왕래
    • 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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    • 제17권3호
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    • pp.293-300
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    • 2006
  • KIER has been developing a Ru-based preferential oxidation catalysts and a novel fuel processing system to provide hydrogen rich gas to residential PEMFCs system. The catalytic activity of Ru-based catalysts was investigated at different Ru loading amount and different support structure. The obtained result indicated that 2 wt% loaded Ru-based catalyst supported on ${\alpha}-Al_2O_3$ showed high activity in low temperature range and suppressed the methanation reaction. The developed prototype fuel processor showed thermal efficiency of 78% as a HHV basis with methane conversion of 92%. CO concentration below 10 ppm in the produced gas is achieved with separate preferential oxidation unit under the condition of $[O_2]/[CO]=2.0$. The partial load operation have been carried out to test the performance of fuel processor from 40% to 80% load, showing stable methane conversion and CO concentration below 10 ppm. The durability test for the daily start-stop and 8 h operation procedure is under investigation and shows no deterioration of its performance after 50 start-stop cycles. In addition to the system design and development.

Ce가 첨가된 Pt/γ-Al2O3 촉매의 선택적 CO 산화반응 특성 (Preferential CO Oxidation over Ce-Promoted Pt/γ-Al2O3 Catalyst)

  • 김기혁;구기영;정운호;윤왕래
    • 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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    • 제23권6호
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    • pp.640-646
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    • 2012
  • The effect of Ce promotion over 1wt% $Pt/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts on the CO conversion and $CO_2$ selectivity was investigated in preferential CO oxidation (PrOx) to reduce the CO concentration less than 10 ppm in excess $H_2$ stream for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). Ce-promoted 1wt% $Pt/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts were prepared by incipient wetness impregnation method and the loading amount of Pt was fixed at 1wt%. The content of Ce promoter which has excellent oxygen storage and transfer capability due to the redox property was adjusted from 0 to 1.5wt%. Ce-promoted 1wt% $Pt/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts exhibit high CO conversion and $CO_2$ selectivity at low temperatures below $150^{\circ}C$ due to the improvement of reducibility of surface PtOx species compared with the 1wt% $Pt/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalyst without Ce addition. When Ce content was more than 1wt%, the catalytic activity was decreased at over $160^{\circ}C$ in PrOx because of competitive $H_2$ oxidation. As a result, 0.5wt% Ce is optimal content not only to achieve high catalytic activity and good stability at low temperatures below $150^{\circ}C$ in the presence of $CO_2$ and $H_2O$ but also to minimize the $H_2$ oxidation at high temperatures.

촉매 연소를 열원으로 한 수증기-메탄개질반응 전산유체해석 (Numerical Analysis of Steam-methane Reforming Reaction for Hydrogen Generation using Catalytic Combustion)

  • 이정섭;이강훈;유상석;안국영;강상규
    • 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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    • 제24권2호
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    • pp.113-120
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    • 2013
  • A steam reformer is a chemical reactor to produce high purity hydrogen from fossil fuel. In the steam reformer, since endothermic steam reforming is heated by exothermic combustion of fossil fuel, the heat transfer between two reaction zones dominates conversion of fossil fuel to hydrogen. Steam Reforming is complex chemical reaction, mass and heat transfer due to the exothermic methane/air combustion reaction and the endothermic steam reforming reaction. Typically, a steam reformer employs burner to supply appropriate heat for endothermic steam reforming reaction which reduces system efficiency. In this study, the heat of steam reforming reaction is provided by anode-off gas combustion of stationary fuel cell. This paper presents a optimization of heat transfer effect and average temperature of cross-section using two-dimensional models of a coaxial cylindrical reactor, and analysis three-dimensional models of a coaxial cylindrical steam reformer with chemical reaction. Numerical analysis needs to dominant chemical reaction that are assumed as a Steam Reforming (SR) reaction, a Water-Gas Shift (WGS) reaction, and a Direct Steam Reforming(DSR) reaction. The major parameters of analysis are temperature, fuel conversion and heat flux in the coaxial reactor.