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Activation Effect on Palladium Electroless Plating of Porous Stainless Steel Support (팔라듐 무전해 도금을 위한 활성화 처리에 대한 연구)

  • 허장은;우상국;서동수;한성욱;한인섭;서두원
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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    • 1999.05a
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    • pp.165-170
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    • 1999
  • Palladium membranes have high selectivity of separation and removal of hydrogen to chemical process at high temperature. For the development of hydrogen permeable membrane, palladium was deposited on porous stainless steel support by electroless plating method. In this work, the activation effect on the surface of stainless steel support has been investigated for the effective palladium plating. The morphology and microstructure were characterized by SEM and the composition was analyzed by EDX. It is found that the composition of deposited nuclei on the stainless steel support was changed in accordance with activation cycles. It is also observed that Sn-enriched nuclei has been changed to Pd-enriched nuclei over the fifteenth activation. The uniform deposition of the dense palladium layer on porous stainless steel support has been performing with Sn-enriched nuclei and comparing with Pd-enriched nuclei.

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Discernibly Temperature-insensitive Pressure Sensitivity in Porous Random-Hole Optical Fibers

  • Kim, Jeong;Kominsky, Dan;Pickrell, Gary
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.300-304
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    • 2013
  • Novel breakthrough random-hole optical fibers (RHOFs) are fabricated in a draw tower facility, by tapering an optical fiber preform packed with a silica powder mixture capable of producing air holes in situ at the high temperature of tens of hundreds in degrees Celsius. Structural and propagation characteristics of the porous RHOF are explained briefly. Experimental investigations of the invented RHOF are performed for pressure sensor applications. Remarkable results are obtained for the RHOF with desirable pressure sensitivity independent of temperature, as is required for harsh conditions as in oil reservoirs.

Production of Porous Metallic Glass Granule by Optimizing Chemical Processing

  • Kim, Song-Yi;Guem, Bo-Kyung;Lee, Min-Ha;Kim, Taek-Soo;Eckert, Jurgen;Kim, Bum-Sung
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.251-255
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    • 2014
  • In this study, we optimized dissolution the dissolution conditions of porous amorphous powder to have high specific surface area. Porous metallic glass(MG) granules were fabricated by selective phase dissolution, in which brass is removed from a composite powder consisting of MG and 40 vol.% brass. Dissolution was achieved through various concentrations of $H_2SO_4$ and $HNO_3$, with $HNO_3$ proving to have the faster reaction kinetics. Porous powders were analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry to observe crystallization behavior. The Microstructure of milled powder and dissolved powder was analyzed by scanning electron microscope. To check for residual in the dissolved powder after dissolution, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscory and elemental mapping was conducted. It was confirmed that the MG/brass composite powder dissolved in 10% $HNO_3$ produced a porous MG granule with a relatively high specific surface area of $19.60m^2/g$. This proved to be the optimum dissolution condition in which both a porous internal granule structure and amorphous phase were maintained. Consequently, porous MG granules were effectively fabricated and applications of such structures can be expanded.

Fabrication of High Porous Ceramic with Mullite Whisker from Fly Ash (석탄재를 이용한 뮬라이트 휘스커 고다공성 세라믹 제작)

  • Shin, Cheol;Hwang, Kwang-Taek;Kim, Ung-Soo;Han, Kyu-Sung;Choi, Jung-Hoon;Kim, Jin-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.258-263
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    • 2022
  • Porous ceramics have the advantages of low density, low thermal conductivity, and excellent mechanical properties. Among porous ceramic manufacturing methods, the replica template method allows the easy manufacturing of porous filters with the highest porosity and pores of the desired size, but it also has the disadvantage that the resulting filters have low mechanical strength. To overcome this shortcoming, mullite (3Al2O3·2SiO2) whiskers, which have excellent thermal stability and high mechanical strength, were introduced in porous ceramic structure. The mullite whiskers were synthesized using a composition of Al2O3, flyash and MoO3. The morphologies and crystal structures of the mullite whiskers with MoO3 contents were investigated in detail. When the porous ceramic with mullite whiskers was fabricated using 20 wt% MoO3 catalyst the most uniform microstructure was obtained, and the mullite whiskers showed the highest aspect ratio of 47.03. The porosity and compressive strength of the fabricated porous ceramic were 82.12 % and 0.83 MPa, respectively.

Microstructure and Wear Characteristics of Nickel Reinforced AC8A Composites

  • Kim, Hyung-Jin;Tulugan, Kelimu;Park, Won-Jo
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.50-55
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    • 2015
  • This study takes AC8A, which is a representative light weight alloy as matrix, and nickel as reinforcement for its superior properties. The manufacturing method applied in this study required low pressure for the infiltration of the metal matrix into the reinforcement. Porous Ni was applied as preform. The fabrication was conducted under 0.3 MPa at 600, 700 and 750 degrees centigrade, respectively. Intermetallic compounds Al3 generated between Al and Ni were observed in the composites. Microstructure, Vickers' hardness and wear characteristics of the composites were also investigated. The result indicates that the structures of compounds created at 650 degree centigrade were distributed densely; the grain size of the substances and the compounds was increased with the infiltration temperature.