• 설비공학논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.86-93
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• 2007

The PEM (polymer electrolyte membrane) fuel cell is one of the promising fuel cell systems as a new small power generating device for automobiles and buildings. The optimal design of cooling plates installed between MEA (membrane electrode assembly) is very important to achieve high performance and reliability of the PEMFC because it is very sensitive to temperature variations. In this study, six types of cooling plate models for the PEMFC including basic serpentine and parallel shapes were designed and their cooling performances were analyzed by using three-dimensional fluid dynamics with commercial software. The model 3 designed by revising the basic serpentine model represented the best cooling performance among them in the aspect of uniformity of temperature distribution and thermal reliability, The serpentine models showed higher pressure drop than the parallel models due to a higher flow rate.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.70-75
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• 2013

It has fabricated membrane electrode assemblies (MEA) for proton exchange membrane fuel cell by hot-pressing method. The hot-pressing was used for the fabrication of MEA which is composed of commercial platinum electrode on carbon paper. The performance of MEA was studied with different fabrication conditions of temperature, pressure and torque. As the temperature increased, the performance of MEA was increased. and started to decrease l after arrived at the maximum performance of MEA. This is related with good contact between electrode and polymer electrolyte membrane at high temperature and microstructural change at much higher temperature. Similarly, as the pressure increased, the performance of the MEA increased up to highest values and start to decrease. According to the our results, the maximal performance of the MEA was at the temperature of $140^{\circ}C$ and the pressure of $1.5{\times}10^3$ kPa. The optimal torque to assemble the single stack was 3.2 N m.

• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.207-219
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• 2024

Metal-N-C (MNC) catalysts have been anticipated as promising candidates for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) to achieve low-cost polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. The structure of the M-N_x moiety enabled a high catalytic activity that was not observed in previously reported transition metal nanoparticle-based catalysts. Despite progress in non-precious metal catalysts, the low density of active sites of MNCs, which resulted in lower single-cell performance than Pt/C, needs to be resolved for practical application. This review focused on the recent studies and methodologies aimed to overcome these limitations and develop an inexpensive catalyst with excellent activity and durability in an alkaline environment. It included the possibility of non-precious metals as active materials for ORR catalysts, starting from Co phthalocyanine as ORR catalyst and the development of methodologies (e.g., metal-coordinated N-containing polymers, metal-organic frameworks) to form active sites, M-N_x moieties. Thereafter, the motivation, procedures, and progress of the latest research on the design of catalyst morphology for improved mass transport ability and active site engineering that allowed the promoted ORR kinetics were discussed.

• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.146-152
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• 2016

A combined system with PEMFC and reformer is introduced and optimized for the real use of this kind of system in the future. The hydrogen source to operate the PEMFC system is methanol, which needs two parts of methanol reforming reaction and preferential oxidation (PROX) for the hydrogen fuel process in the combined operation PEMFC system. With the optimized methanol steam reforming condition, we tested PROX reactions in various operation temperature from 170 to 270 ℃ to investigate CO concentration data in the reformed gases. Using these different CO concentration, PEMFC performances are achieved at the combined system. Pt/C and Ru promoted Pt/C were catalysts were used for the anode to compare the stability in CO contained gases. The alloy catalyst of PtRu/C shows higher performance and better resistance to CO than the Pt/C at even high CO amount of 200 ppm, indicating a promotion not only to the activity but also to the CO tolerance. Furthermore, in a system point of view, there is a fluctuation in the PEMFC operation due to the unstable fuel supply. Therefore, we also modified the methanol reforming by a scaled up reactor and pressurization to produce steady operation of PEMFC. The optimized system with the methanol reformer and PEMFC shows a stable performance for a long time, which is providing a valuable data for the PEMFC commercialization.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.55-58
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• 2006

An experimental study is performed to evaluate the performance and the efficiency by humidifying MEA and by making the double-layered catalyst in a fuel cell system which is taken into account the physical and thermal concept. An electrical output produced by PEMFC(Polymer Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell) is measured to assess the performance of the stack and the efficiency is also evaluated according to the different situation in which is placed with and without the humidification of MEA(Membrane Electrolyte Assembly). Subsequently, It is found that the measured values of MEA voltage and current are influenced by the MEA temperature, humidification, and the double-layered catalyst which gives more enhanced values to apply for electric units.

• 폴리머
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2010

본 연구는 직접메탄을 연료전지에 적용하기 위하여 poly(vinyl alcohol)를 주쇄부로 하여 poly(acrylic acid-co-maleic acid)(PAM)와 [3-(trihydroxysilyl)-1-propanesulfonic acid](THS-PSA)를 도입하여 열 가교된 막을 제조하였다. 제조된 막의 특성화를 평가하기 위하여 FT-IR, 열 중량분석, 함수율, 이온교환용량, 이온전도도, 메탄올 투과도 등의 측정을 실시하여 Nafion 115와 비교하였다. 제조된 막의 이온교환용량은 Nafion 115의 0.91 meq./g membrane보다 향상된 1.6~1.8 meq./g membrane을 얻었다. 또한, 이온전도도의 경우 THS-PSA을 도입하여 Nafion 115($0.024\;S{\cdot}cm^{-1}$)보다 우수한 $0.042{\sim}0.056\;S{\cdot}cm^{-1}$을 얻을 수 있었으며, 가교온도에 의하여 영향을 받는다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 메탄올투과도의 경우 PAM과 THS-PSA의 도입으로 인하여 이온교환용량 및 이온전도도가 증가한 반면에 메탄올투과도는 모든 막의 경우 Nafion 115의 경우보다 높은 메탄올투과도를 나타냄을 확인하였다.

• 폴리머
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.296-301
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• 2011

본 연구는 고내구성을 가진 고분자 전해질막을 제조하는 것으로 연료전지에 적용하기 위하여 poly(vinyl alcohol)을 주사슬부로 하여 poly(styrene sulfonic acid-co-maleic acid) (PSSA-MA)를 다공성 polyethylene(PE) 막에 함침시켜 막을 제조하였다. 제조된 막을 함수율, 접촉각, FTIR, 이온교환용량, 이온전도도 메탄올 투과도 열 중량분석, 탄성계수 등의 측정을 통해 친수성 고분자가 함침된 막의 특성평가를 실시하였다. 접촉각 측정과 FTIR 분석을 통해 PE 막에 함침된 막에서의 친수성기의 존재를 확인하였다. PSSA-MA의 함량이 10 wt% 함침된 막의 경우, 이온교환 용량은 Nafion 115의 0.91보다 향상된 1.2 meq./g dry membrane을 얻었다. 또한 탄성계수의 경우 PE 막에 비하여 3~3.6 배 높은 강도를 나타내었으며, 함수율과 메탄올 투과 실험을 통해 PSSA-MA의 함량이 늘어남에 따라 높은 치수안정성과 낮은 메탄올 투과결과를 확인하였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.202-210
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• 2011

Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell is one of the popular renewable energy sources and widely used in commercial medium power areas from portable electronic devices to electric vehicles. In addition, the increased integration of the PEM fuel cell with power electronics, dynamic loads, and control systems requires accurate electrical models and simulation methods to emulate their electrical behaviors. Advancement in parallel computation techniques, various real-time simulation tools, and smart power hardware have allowed the prototyping of novel apparatus to be investigated in a virtual system under a wide range of realistic conditions repeatedly, safely, and economically. This paper builds up advancements of optimized model constructions for a fuel cell stack system on a real-time simulator in the view points of improving dynamic model accuracy and boosting computation speed. In addition, several considerations for a power hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL) simulation are provided to electrically emulate the PEM fuel cell stack system with power facilities. The effectiveness of the proposed PHIL simulation method developed on Opal RT's RT-Lab Matlab/Simulink based real-time engineering simulator and a programmable power supply is verified using experimental results of the proposed PHIL simulation system with a Ballard Nexa fuel cell stack.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 추계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.89.2-89.2
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• 2011

In automotive applicatons or water vehicles, the polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell(PEMFC) stack is keep moving while their operation. Especially the inclination environment can take a effect to fuel cell stack perfromance, because this condition can cause a bad effect to water exhaust of fuel cell stack. In this study, a large scale stack(over 100kW power) is inclined upto 30 degree in lengthwise and crosswise using stack lift equipment. And the stack is operated in 10~100% load. No significant change has appeared in crosswise inclined condition and lenthwise low angle. But in lenthwise large angle tilting condition, the fuel cell performance has significantly decreased. And this performance decrease is aggravated in low load. An active water exhaust device is applied to the stack to prevent the performance decrease. And in lenthwise large angle tilting condition, this device cause a good effect to fuel cell stack performance.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.227-236
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• 2019

In this work, preparation and characterizations of hybrid membranes containing sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) (SPES) and sulfonated poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (SPVdF-co-HFP) (20, 30 or 40 wt%) were carried out. The structure of hybrid membranes was confirmed using X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis and the Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. The prepared SPAES/SPVdF-30 membrane exhibits higher ionic conductivity of 68.9 mS/cm at $90^{\circ}C$ and 100% RH. Besides, the other studies showed that the hybrid membrane has good oxidation stability, thermal stability, and mechanical stability. Thus, we believe that the prepared hybrid membrane is suitable for the development of membranes for fuel cell applications.