• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.144-151
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• 2016

This study effect of engine oils on regulated fuel economy and emissions including particulate matter (PM) to provide basic data for management of engine oil in vehicles. Three engine oils (Group III base oil, Group III genuine oil with additive package and synthetic oil with poly alpha olefins (PAOs)) were used in one gasoline, one LPG(liquefied petroleum gas) and two diesel vehicles. In the case of diesel vehicles, one is a diesel vehicle without DPF (diesel particulate filter) other is a diesel vehicle with DPF. In this study, the US EPA emission test cycle FTP-75, representing city driving, was used. HORIBA, PIERBURG, and AVL gas analyzers were used to measure the fuel economy and regulated emissions such as CO, NOx, and THC. The number of PM was measured using a PPS (pegasor particle sensor). And, the shape of PMs was analyzed by SEM (scanning electron microscope). The effects of oil type on fuel economy, exhaust gas, and PM were not significant because engine oil consumption by evaporation and combustion in the cylinder is very tiny. Fuel and vehicle type were dominant factors in fuel economy and emissions. HC emission from gasoline vehicles was higher than that from other vehicles and NOx emission from diesel vehicles was higher than that from other vehicles. The number of PM was not affected by the engine oil, but by the driving pattern and fuel. The shapes of the PM, sampled from each vehicle using any test engine oil, were similar.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.517-521
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• 1999

가스연료 중의 부취제 농도를 기체 크로마토그래피법으로 분석하기 위해 황화합물에 대한 선택성, 직선성, 감도가 매우 우수한 황 화학광 검출기(SCD)를 이용하여 측정하였다. 그리고, 기존의 GC-SCD에 의한 황화합물 분석방법과는 달리 황화합물의 흡착으로 인한 반복성 및 재현성 문제를 해결하는 실험방법을 이용하였다. 이러한 방법에 의하여, 액화석유가스에 첨가하고 있는 황화이메틸, t-부틸메르캅탄, 황화에틸메틸에 대하여 얻은 검정 곡선은 직선성을 잘 보여주고 있다. 실제 시료 중 위의 세가지 황화합물에 대한 실험결과의 정밀성을 측정한 결과, 4일동안 각3회 반복실험하였을 때 높은 재현성을 보여주었고, 농도의 변동계수(coefficient of variation)가 3% 미만의 값을 나타내었다. 결과적으로, 본 연구에 의한 실험방법은 저유소 및 충전소의 액화석유가스 시료에 첨가된 황 함유 부취제의 농도를 신속, 정확하게 측정하는, 매우 정밀성이 높고 유용한 방법이다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.56-61
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• 2017

Purpose: High energy requirement and long cooking time are limiting consumption of pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), a nutritious food. This study was performed to estimate energy and time demand by different methods of cooking pigeon pea. Methods: Pigeon pea (150 g) was soaked in 2.0 L of water at ambient temperature ($29{\pm} 2^{\circ}C$) to determine hydration behavior. Cooking experiments were conducted using aluminum and pressure-cooking pots. Efficiency of cooking was evaluated using four types of cooking appliances (kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), electric, and charcoal stoves). Normal (continuous heating until the food was satisfactorily cooked) and control (controlling the energy input to closely match the actual energy required) cooking were conducted. Energy requirement and duration of cooking were determined using standard procedures. Results: Soaking increased moisture content from 11.99 to 30.01% in 90 min, while water absorption rate decreased with soaking duration. In cooking 150 g of pigeon pea using kerosene stove, presoaked normal pressure-pot cooking method consumed the least energy (10 800 kJ) and time (205 min), while unsoaked normal cooking consumed the highest energy (18 450 kJ) and time (336 min). Using LPG stove, unsoaked normal cooking method required the highest energy (52 470 kJ), while presoaked control pressure-pot required the least energy (14 405 kJ). For electric stove, the lowest energy (15 560 kJ) and shortest duration (105 min) were recorded during control cooking of presoaked sample in the pressure-pot. Conclusions: Control cooking was not practicable using charcoal stove. Generally, kerosene stove consumed the least energy, while electric stove was found to have the shortest duration of cooking.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.570-577
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• 2018

Composite pressure vessels made through filament winding are widely used in various fields. Numerous studies regarding composite pressure vessels have been conducted in the automotive industry to improve the space efficiency of trunks as well as the fuel efficiency. Compared with steel liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) vessels used in the conventional LPG vehicles, the use of type 4 composite pressure vessels has advantages in terms of reduction of the weight of vehicles. This study focused on development of type 4 composite pressure vessels that can be installed in the spare tire well. Those type 4 composite pressure vessels are designed with torispherical dome shapes instead of geodecis dome shapes because of the space limitation. To reduce deformation due to the stresses in the axial direction of the vessels, thereby securing the safety of the container, the reinforcing bar concept was applied. A structural analysis software, ABAQUS, confirmed the effect of the reinforcing bar on the axial deformation through the type 4 composite pressure vessel. As a result, the final winding angle of the composite layer was analyzed by applying $26^{\circ}/28^{\circ}/26^{\circ}/28^{\circ}/26^{\circ}/88^{\circ}$ The tensile stress was 939.2 MPa and the compressive stress was 249.3 MPa.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제27권11호
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• pp.1548-1562
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• 2003

This paper is the first of several companion papers which compare the methods of Air-fuel ratio determination. There are many methods which calculate Air-Fuel ratio from exhaust emission. Most of them are based on the simple chemical equations, which use balance of atom, and the error of the calculation is negligible as far as the instrumentation accuracy is guaranteed. They assume homogeneous mixture and complete combustion to the extent of oxygen availability. Because of these simple assumptions, they cannot offer the information about the fuel distribution state and the malfunction of instrument. For these limitations, Eltinge offered new one based on stricter mathematical model. This result coincides with the others very well and gives more information about the mixture state and instrumentation. Consequently this might be a general solution for Air-fuel ratio determination and exhaust composition. The objects of the calculation, however, were not commercial fuels except gasoline and the compensation method of unburned hydrocarbon was not appropriate to recent analyzer. Moreover he did not consider the fuel which contains oxygen, such as methanol, ethanol and blend of gasoline-alcohol. In this paper, Eltinge chart is expanded to the arbitrary fuel composition as the reference exhaust compositions for the purpose of further discussions about Air-fuel ratio determination methods and the charts fur gasoline, diesel, methanol, M85, liquefied petroleum gas(LPG), natural gas(NG), propane, butane are illustrated.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.593-602
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• 2016

The physicochemical characteristics of particulate matter emissions from various vehicle's fuel types were studied at the facility of Transport Pollution Research Center(TPRC), National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER), Korea. Three different types of fuels such as gasoline, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and diesel were tested on the NIER driving mode and the constant speed modes(30, 70, and 110 km/h). Chemical composition of submicron particles from vehicle emissions was measured by the High Resolution Time of Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS) during running cycles. Organics were dominant chemical species of particulate matter emissions for all three different vehicles' fuel types. Moreover, regardless of fuel types, emission rate of organics and inorganics decreased as the average speed of vehicle increased. The portion of fully oxidized fragment families of $C_xH_yO_z$ accounted for over 98% of organic aerosol(OA) in LPG and diesel vehicles, while the relatively high fraction of $C_xH_y$ in OA was observed in gasoline vehicle.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.511-519
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 국내에서 운영 중인 대형 LPG(Liquefied petroleum gas: 액화석유가스) 지하공동저장소 주변 오염지하수 내 TOC(total organic carbon: 전유기탄소)를 효과적으로 제거할 수 있는 탈기법(air-stripping) 기반의 정화공정을 개발하기 위해, 국내 LPG 지하저장소 주변 두 종류의 오염 지하수 시료(초기 TOC 농도는 각각 608 mg/L와 153 mg/L)를 대상으로 TOC 제거 실내 실험을 하였다. 다양한 air-stripping 조건(공기주입량 변화, 온도 변화, 초음파 처리 연계 등)에서 처리수의 TOC 제거효율을 비교함으로써, 최적의 TOC 제거효율을 가지는 air-stripping 기반의 지하수 정화공정을 개발하고자 하였다. Air-stripping의 공기 주입량 변화 실험 결과, 공기주입량이 2 L/min에서 11 L/min로 많아질수록, stripping 시간이 1시간에서 24시간으로 길어질수록, 오염지하수의 TOC 제거율은 증가하였지만, 처리 후 지하수의 TOC 농도는 방류수 수질 기준(100 mg/L 이하)보다 높았다. 정성분석 결과 실험에 사용한 LPG 지하저장소 주변 오염지하수의 TOC 주요 성분은 메탄올과 프로판으로 나타났으며, 메탄올의 경우 물과의 친화성에 의해 air-stripping 효과가 프로판보다 낮아, 장시간의 stripping이 필요한 것으로 판단되었다. 상온(20℃)에서 공기주입량 4 L/min로 24시간 air-stripping 후 오염 지하수의 TOC 제거효율은 59.1%였으나, 온도를 30℃와 40℃로 상승시켰을 때 제거효율은 각각 80.0%와 82.8%로 증가하여, 온도 증가에 따라 TOC 제거효율도 증가하였다. 다만 오염지하수의 온도를 40℃로 유지하여도 24시간 이상 air-stripping을 해야 처리수의 TOC 농도가 방류수 수질 기준을 만족하였다. Air-stripping의 TOC 제거효율을 높이기 위해, 초음파 처리 과정을 병행한 경우, 공기주입량 9 L/min 조건으로 air-stripping을 적용한 결과 5시간 만에 87.8%의 높은 제거효율을 나타내어(처리 후 TOC 농도: 72.4 mg/L) 방류수 수질 기준(100 mg/L)을 만족하였다. 초기 TOC 농도가 낮은 오염지하수의 경우에도 초음파 처리와 air-stripping을 동일한 조건으로 병행한 경우, TOC 제거효율은 89.7%(처리 후 TOC농도: 18.9 mg/L)를 나타내었다. 연구 결과로부터 TOC로 오염된 대형 LPG 지하공동저장소 주변 지하수에 대하여 초음파 처리와 air-stripping을 연계한 정화법을 적용하는 경우, 비교적 짧은 시간(6시간 이하)에 효과적으로 지하수 내 TOC를 제거할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.950-958
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• 2002

The combustion characteristics of a low NOx burner using reburning technology have been experimentally studied. The return burner usually has three distinct reaction zones which include the primary combustion zone, the reburn zone and the burnout zone by provided secondary air. NOx is mainly produced in a primary combustion zone and a certain portion of NOx can be converted to nitrogen in the rebury zone. In the burnout zone, the unburned mixtures are completely oxidated by supplying secondary air. Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) was used as main and reburn fuels. The experimental parameters investigated involve the main/reburn fuel ratio, the primary/secondary air ratio, and the injection location of rebury fuel and secondary air. When the amount of return fuel reaches to the 20-30% of the total fuel used, the overall NO reduction of 50% is achieved. The secondary air is injected by two different ways including vertical and parallel injection. The injector of secondary air is located at the downstream region of furnace for a vertical-injection mode, which is also placed at the inlet primary-air injection region for a parallel-injection mode. In case of the vertical injection of the secondary air flow, the NOx formation of stoichiometric condition at a primary combustion zone is nearly independent of the rebury conditions (locations, fuel/air ratios) while the NOx emission of the fuel-lean condition is considerably influenced by the reburn conditions. In case of the parallel injection of the secondary air, the NOx emission is sensitive to the air ratio rather than the fuel ratio and the reburning process often coupled with the multiple air-staging and fuel-staging combustion processes.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.481-486
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• 2004

Vehicle occupant exposure to air pollutants has been a subject of concern in recent years because of higher levels of air pollutants inside gasoline or diesel-using vehicle, comparing to the surrounding atmosphere. Contrary to previous studies, fuel of vehicles operated in this study was liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). This study examined the potential exposure and removal efficiency of selected volatile organic compounds (VOCs), nitrogen dioxide ($NO_2$) and respirable suspended particle (RSP) by commercial air cleaning device inside vehicle under different ventilation conditions. Vehicle concentrations inside of benzene, toluene, m,p-xylene, $NO_2$ and RSP were lower under the low ventilation condition. This was indicated that outdoor air pollutants could affect the vehicle air quality inside in case metropolitan cities such as Daegu. The urban vehicle concentrations inside of benzene, toluene, m,p-xylene, $NO_2$ and RSP with air cleaning device were higher than those without air cleaning device. This means that the use of air cleaning device equipped with activated carbon filter, which was used in this study, in the interior of vehicles could be expected to reduce the vehicle occupants exposure to air pollutants effectively. In batch type reactor of laboratory scale, removal efficiencies of air cleaning device used were $97.0\%,\;95.7\%,\;94.6\%\;and\;85.5\%$ respectively in benzene, toluene, m,p-xylene and $NO_2$.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.74-82
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• 2010

In order to understand the behavior of transient gaseous injection used in an LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) engine, turbulent incompressible transient jets with butane and propane were measured and analyzed at pressures of 1.5 bar and 2.0 bar with injector diameters of 3 mm and 5 mm. Mie-scattering method with a tracer was used, and images were processed to investigate the behavior of butane and propane jets. Distances from the nozzle to transition region were measured as $L_e/d_{inj}$=4.35~19.4, where $L_e$ and $d_{inj}$ indicate respectively a distance from nozzle to transition point and nozzle diameter. Slits and tubes around jet at near-field were introduced to measure the effect of entrainment and the diameter of jet, which revealed that the entrainment of surrounding air is significant for developing jet diameter. When the entrainment is restricted, the behavior of jet became deviating from the baseline. It was found that the virtual origin located outside of a nozzle towards jet tip within the conditions of this work, and its location was estimated as $x_o/d_{inj}$=0.56~7.25, where $x_o$ is a distance from nozzle to virtual origin.