• Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.219-233
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• 2009

Mobile devices in the next generation such as camera, cell phone, network, Note PC, etc. require higher power and energy sources due to convergences of various functions. Direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) has been focused as an attractive power source, but there are critical issues involved in its commercialization with regard to the core technologies of materials, components, and system. The requirements of key technologies are differentiated from applications and fuel supply methods. Here, the roles of the proton-conducting membrane are discussed and the current status of DMFC systems is discussed in terms of proton conductivity, methanol permeability, and water management. Materials such as perfluorinated and partially fluorinated membranes, hydrocarbon membranes, composite membranes, and other modified ionomers have been studied. These would explain the critical issues of DMFC and the role of membranes for commercialization.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.115-121
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• 2008

In this paper, a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamic model of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell(PEMFC) with serpentine flow channel is presented. A steady state, single phase and isothermal numerical model has been established to investigate the influence of the GDL (Gas Diffusion Layer) parameters. The GDL is made of a porous material such as carbon cloth, carbon paper or metal wire mesh. For the simplicity, the GDL is modeled as a block of material having numerous pathways through which gaseous reactants and liquid water can pass. The porosity, permeability and thickness of the GDL, which are employed in the model parameters significantly affect the PEMFC performance at the high current region.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.553-554
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• 2006

This paper presents the effects of different operating parameters on the performance of a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell by a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model. The effects of different operating parameters on the performance of PEM fuel cell studied using pure hydrogen on the anode side and air on the cathode side. The various parameters are temperatures, pressures, humidification of the gas steams and various combinations of these parameters. In addition, geometrical and material parameters such as the gas diffusion layer (GDL) thickness and porosity as well as the ratio between the channel width and the land area were investigated.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.415-415
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• 2000

The functions of a mobile robot such as obstacle knowledge and collision avoidance for in-door cleaning are necessary features, as has been much studied in the field of industrial automatic guided vehicle or general mobile robot. A mobile robot, in order to avoid collision with obstacles, has to gather data with environment knowledge sensors and recognize environment and the shape of obstacles from the data. In the study, a wall-following algorithm was suggested as a autonomous moving algorithm in which a mobile robot can recognize obstacles in indoor like environment and do cleaning work in effect. The system suggested in the study is for cleaning of nuclear material dusts generated in the process of nuclear fuel manufacturing and decontamination of devices in disorder which is performed in M6 radioactive ray shield hot-cell in IMEF(Irradiated Material Examination Facility) in the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.311-314
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• 2009

Recently by the development of the electronic engineering technology various mobile devices are developed. But their operation time need to be extended although capacity of the batteries are limited. We focused our attention to the portable SOFC system. Because SOFC has the high efficiency and a lot of strongness in comparison with other kinds of fuel cells, We evaluated hydrogen fed SOFC 50W system theoretically and got the results about the operating condition range from the comparison of the power efficiency, exhaust gas temperature, required heat for maintaining the operation temperature and operation time.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.467-470
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• 2006

For a mobile application such as cellular phone, micro fuel cells should be extremely compact and thin. RHFC can be an alternative solution because RHFC gives higher power density than DMFC and does not need ahydrogen storage vessel In this paper, RHFC using methanol fuel is made as a novel planar design without a PROX. Both reformer and cell are made closely in a same plate to share the heater of reformer with the cell. The PBI membrane is used in the cell. The reason is that high temperature of reformer can cause a performance drop when perfluorosulfonic acid membrane such as Nafion is used such a high temperature operation also guarantees the higher CO tolerance to MEA catalyst. The cell is designed as an air-breathing type which the cathode of the cell is opened to the air. The commercial Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 steam reformer catalyst is packed in reformer channel. The active area of MEA is $11.9cm^2$ and the peak power density was $27.5mW/cm^2$.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2007.05b
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• pp.2648-2653
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• 2007

Recently, increasing demand on not only lighter but also extremely mobile battery make micro fuel cell device very attractive alternative. By reducing the size of fuel cell, surface tension becomes dominant factor with minor gravitational effect. Therefore, it is very difficult to detach the $CO_2$ bubble generating on a cathode side in ${\mu}DMFC$ (micro direct methanol fuel cell). The degassing of a $CO_2$ bubble has drawn quite attention especially for ${\mu}DMFC$ due to its considerable effect on overall machine performance. Our attention has been paid to the dynamic behavior of immiscible bubble attached to the one side of the wall on 2D rectangular channel subject to external shear flow. We use Level Contour Reconstruction Method (LCRM) which is simplified version of front tracking method to track the bubble interface motion. Effects of Reynolds number, Weber number, advancing/receding contact angle and property ratio on bubble detachment characteristic has been numerically identified.

• Prospectives of Industrial Chemistry
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.52-61
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• 2021

2019년 정부의 '수소경제 활성화 로드맵' 발표 후 수소연료전지 보급에 추진 동력원이 되었고, 2020년 2월 '수소경제 육성 및 수소안전관리에 관한 법률'이 세계 최초로 제정되면서 수소연료전지의 안정적인 보급 확산을 견인하고 있다. 수소안전관리에 의한 법률에 의해 수소용품 4종 및 수소사용시설 1종에 대한 KGS Code 3종(수소추출설비, 고정형 연료전지, 수소연료사용시설)이 2021년 7월 제정되었고, 8월 2종(수전해설비, 지게차용 이동형 연료전지)이 추가 제정되어 2022년 2월부터 수소용품 및 시설에 대한 안전관리가 시작된다. 연료전지의 안정적인 보급을 위해서는 국내에 적합한 안전기준 개발이 필수적이다. 또한 신규 출현되는 제품 및 시설의 개발·보급 시기에 맞추어 안전 기준 개발이 병행되어야 할 것이다. 본고에서는 고정형 및 이동형 연료전지의 국내외 안전기준 분석 및 위험요소 분석 등을 통한 연료전지 안전기준 개발 현황을 소개하고자 한다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.335-335
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• 2009

산업의 고도화에 따라 소비자들이 사용하는 전기, 전자기기의 사용시간 연장에 대한 욕구가 강해지고 있으며, 이에 따라 기존 2차전지의 용량을 극대화하는 연구와 더불어 차별화하여 장시간 안정적으로 사용할 수 있는 신규 전원 개발이 요구되어 진다. 연료전지는 이러한 욕구를 충족시킬 수 있는 차세대 전지로서 충전 대기 시간 없이 연료의 교체만으로 언제 어디서나 전력을 공급할 수 있으며, 장시간 대용량이 요구되는 Outdoor 응용분야에서는 1, 2차 전지대비 무게/부피 에너지밀도(Wh/kg, Wh/L)와 에너지 비용($/Wh, \/Wh)면에서 높은 경쟁력을 가지고 있다. 이러한 휴대용 연료전지의 최근 개발동향을 소형 전자기기용 충전기, 산업용 UPS, APU 및 군사용 이동전원 분야로 나누어 소개하고자 한다. 또한, 이동용과 휴대용 연료전지에 대한 국제 연료전지 표준화기구의 최근 국제규격에 대해 소개하며, 이를 통해 대두되고 있는 기술적 이슈와 함께 국내 표준규격 채택에 필요한 제안을 하고자 한다. 국제표준화 분과위원회 (WG 7, 8, 9, 10)의 2009년 이후 표준화 활동계획을 공유함으로써 관련 연구개발 및 상용화 업체들의 이해를 돕고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.6-11
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• 2005

Direct borohydrides fuel cell (DBFC) was emerged to complement the problem of DMFC's low performance and methanol crossover to the cathode and to apply the fuel cell to portable and mobile devices. In this study, the characteristics of novel catalysts was tested to establish the electrode preparation process of DBFC. Pt black and carbon supported-Pt by paste method were used as the cathode catalysts. Pt black, carbon supported-Au and $AB_5$ alloy were used as the anode catalysts. The characteristics of the electrodes were analyzed by XRD, SEM, EDS. The performance test of single cell using the electrodes were carried out in order to evaluate the electrode performance. In the result, the maximum power output was obtained as 366 mW/mg when using Pt/C as anode and cathode catalysts.