• 한국진공학회지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.237-243
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• 1992

Two gaskets of Al 2024-T4 and annealed al 2024-T4 were made. We had acquired 2 $\times$ 10-12torr in a chamber using them. Microstructures, hardness and stress concentration of the gaskets were examined before and after baking. Knife edge damages such as decrease of edge height(H) and increase of edge angle() were found on knife edges when the Al 2024-T4 gasket was used. But no damage was found with the annealed Al 2024 gasket.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.488-494
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• 2011

Gasket plays an important role on sealing of the polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) stack. Stack requires gaskets in each cell to keep the hydrogen and air/oxygen within their respective regions. The failure of the gasket creates the problems of fuel leakage, mixing, damage on parts and can be a direct reason for the degrading the efficiency of fuel cell. The purpose of this paper researches on how mechanical properties of EPDM gasket in PEMFC are changed after long-term operations. The EPDM (ethylenepropylene-diene monomer) gaskets are obtained from the stack after long-term operations. DMA (dynamic mechanical analysis) is conducted to access the change of mechanical properties of the EPDM gasket. SEM/EDS (scanning electron microscope/energy dispersive spectroscopy) was used to show the surface topography and chemical characterization on the sample surface.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.68-75
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• 2010

The one of the major problems in the development of PEMFC was regarding to the assurance of sealing on stack. The failure on the sealing creates the problems of fuel leakage, mixing, internal combustion, damage on parts and can be a direct reason for the degrading the efficiency of fuel cell. This paper studies on the analytical approach for improving the contacting pressure distribution on the gasket at the evaluation on the sealing of fuel cell stack. So, the assembly analysis on multi layered fuel cell stack was performed. The research on the simplification of finite element model was performed for three dimensional analysis at the multi layered state. The improved contact pressure distribution was obtained through the case studies on gasket for better sealing. In addition, the number of the cell was determined for the effective analysis and the structural characteristics were evaluated based on this research.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.153-161
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• 1998

The knock in a spark ignition engine has been investigated to avoid the damage to the engine and unpleasant feeling caused by the pressure waves propagating across the combustion chamber. Knock intensity and knock onset angle were used as physical parameters to quantify the knock characteristics. The knock intensity is defined as a peak to peak value of the bank pass filtered combustion pressure signal and the knock onset angle is determined as the crank angle at which this signal exceeded the threshold level on each cycle. The cyclic variation of knock in four valve single cylinder engine was investigated with these two parameters. The location of autoignition was also examined by ion probes in the cylinder head gasket and squish region in the combustion chamber. For this measurement, a single cylinder engine was modified to accept the pressure transducer, 18 ion probes in the squish region and 8 ion probes in the specially designed PCB (Printed \ulcornerCircuit Board) cylinder head gasket.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.48-53
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• 2012

이 논문의 목적은 LPG 자동차의 액상 분사시스템에 관련된 고장사례를 연구하는 것이다. LPi 분사시스템인 인젝터를 점검한 결과, 인젝터에 카본이 누적되어 운전 중에 간헐적으로 연료를 분사하는 인젝터의 미세한 홀을 막아 연비를 5% 정도 떨어뜨리는 것으로 확인되었다. 엔진의 공회전을 조절하는 시스템인 공회전 조절장치 부품과 엔진에 공기를 공급하는 시스템인 스로틀 보디에 카본이 퇴적되어 공기의 흐름을 간섭함으로써 연비가 7% 악화된 것을 확인되었다. 엔진의 흡기 매니폴드 개스킷의 일부가 찢어져, 실린더 헤드와 실린더 블록의 밀착성이 약화되어 흡기행정에서 외부의 공기가 이 틈새로 간헐적으로 유입되면서 증가된 공기량만큼 연료량의 증가를 가져와 엔진의 회전수가 증가하여 부조화 현상이 발생되어 정상적인 상태보다 연비가 3% 정도 악화된 것으로 확인되었다. 이러한 고장사례는 운전중에 엔진의 출력 성능을 떨어뜨리고, 자동차의 연비를 악화시키는 요인이 된다. 따라서 품질확보에 철저하게 대처하여 고장현상을 최소화 하여야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.893-900
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• 2008

The heat exchangers in the ships have been changed from the conventional shell & tube type to the plate type due to some merits as a compactness, a high thermal efficiency and a light-weight. In recent. it is reported that the vacuum phenomena were occurred in the seawater outlet piping of a main central cooler (MCC) on the ships. From the viewpoints of a common sense, the vacuum pressure in the seawater piping is rare event and difficult to be convinced because the seawater is pumped into the piping by a seawater pump with a high discharge head. However, the occurrence of a vacuum pressure in the seawater line of an MCC is real situation and often gives a severe damage to a rubber gasket of an MCC with a plate type heat transfer area. In this study, we analyzed the vacuum pressure in the seawater line of an MCC by using the simpl Bernoulli's equation and found that the vacuum pressure in the seawater line of an MCC is inevitable untill the installation postion of an MCC is not lowered.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권9호
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• pp.2847-2858
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• 2021

When a nuclear reactor with rectangular fuel assemblies runs for a long time, impurities and debris may be taken into coolant channels, which may cause flow blockage, and the blocked fuel assemblies might be destroyed. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to perform a thermal-hydraulic analysis of a rectangular fuel assembly by STAR-CCM+, under the condition of one subchannel with 80% blockage ratio. A rectangular fuel assembly of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 10 MW material test reactor (MTR) is chosen. In view of the gasket material taken into the coolant channel is close to the single side of the coolant channel, in the flow blockage accident of the Oak Ridge Research Reactor (ORRR), a new blockage category called single side blockage is attempted. The blockage positions include inlet, middle and outlet, and the blockage is set as a cuboid. It is found by simulations that the blockage redistributes the mass flow rate, and large vortices appear locally. The peak temperature of the cladding is maximum, when the blockage is located at the single side of the coolant channel inlet, and no boiling occurs in all blockage cases. Moreover, as the height of the blockage increases, the damage caused by the blockage increases slightly.

• 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.