• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.55 no.12
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• pp.4382-4394
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• 2023

Passive auto-catalytic recombiners (PARs) are widely used to mitigate a hydrogen hazard. The first step to evaluate the hydrogen safety by PARs is to obtain qualified test data of the PARs for validation of their analytical model. SPARC PAR tests SP8 and SP9 were conducted to evaluate the hydrogen recombination characteristics of a honeycomb-shaped catalyst PAR. To obtain the hydrogen recombination rate from the PAR test data, two methods, Method-1 and Method-2, introduced by the THAI project, were applied. Since a large gradient of hydrogen concentration developed during hydrogen injection can cause a large error in the hydrogen mass obtained by integrating the measured hydrogen concentrations, a gate was installed at the PAR inlet to homogenize hydrogen in the test vessel before the PAR operation in the tests. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code with a PAR model was also applied to evaluate the characteristics of the PAR recombination according to the PAR inlet conditions, and the results were compared with those from Method-1 and Method-2. It was confirmed that the recombination rates from Method-1 require a correction factor to be compatible with results from Method-2 and the CFD simulation in the case of the SPARC-PAR tests.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.42 no.12 s.283
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• pp.860-864
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• 2005

In this study, we fabricated honeycomb type Mixed-Gas Fuel Cell (MGFC) which has advantages of stacking to the axial direction and increasing volume power density. Honeycomb-shaped anode with four channels was prepared by dry pressing method. Two alternative channels were coated with electrolyte and cathode slurry in order to make cathodic reaction sites and the others were filled with partial oxidation (POX) catalyst to increase fuel conversion. Furthermore we employed the sol-gel technique which can increase cell performance and decrease carbon coking.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.670-678
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• 1996

The characterization of catalysts for the selective catalytic reduction(SCR) was investigated to remove NOx discharge from radioactive waste incinerator. The catalyst was prepared by impregnating $V_2O_5$, $MoO_3$, and $SnO_2$ on honeycomb shaped $TiO_2$. The effects of the type of catalysts, reaction temperature, feed composition, and mole ratio of $NH_3/NO$ on the reaction characteristics were evaluated in a laboratory scale reactor. The 10% $V_2O_5/TiO_2$ catalyst showed the highest NO to $N_2$ conversion of 94.4% at $350^{\circ}C$ and the temperature range for higher conversion was broadened by adding thermally stable promoters, $MoO_3$.