• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2011년 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.46-53
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• 2011

Water is continuously produced in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), and is transported and exhausted through polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM), catalyst layer (CL), microporous layer (MPL), and gas diffusion layer (GDL). The low operation temperatures of PEMFC lead to the condensation of water, and the condensed water hinders the transport of reactants in porous layers (MPL and GDL). Thus, water flooding is currently one of hot issues that should be solved to achieve higher performance of PEMFC. This research aims to study liquid water transport in porous layers of PEMFC by using pore-network model, while the microscale pore structure and hydrophilic/hydrophobic surface properties of GDL and MPL were fully considered.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.320-325
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• 2013

TUnitized reversible fuel cells (URFC) combine the functionality of a fuel cell and electrolyzer in one unitized device. For a URFC with proton exchange membrane, a titanium (Ti)-felt is applied to the gas diffusion layer (GDL) substrate at the oxygen electrode, and additionally titanium (Ti)-powders and TiN-powders are loaded in the GDL substrate as a micro porous layer (MPL). Double porous layer with TiN MPL was not acceptable for the URFC because both of fuel cell performance and electrolysis performance are degraded. The double porous layer with Ti-powder loading in the Ti-felt substrate influence rearly for the electrolysis performance. In contrast, the change of pore-size distribution brings a significant improvement of fuel cell performance under fully humidification conditions. This fact indicates that the hydrophobic meso-pores in the GDL play an important role for mass transport.

• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.203-221
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• 2016

The present study deals with the numerical modelling for the one dimensional contaminant transport through saturated homogeneous and stratified porous media using meshfree method. A numerical algorithm based on element free Galerkin method is developed. A one dimensional form of the advectivediffusive transport equation for homogeneous and stratified soil is considered for the analysis using irregular nodes. A Fortran program is developed to obtain numerical solution and the results are validated with the available results in the literature. A detailed parametric study is conducted to examine the effect of certain key parameters. Effect of change of dispersion, velocity, porosity, distribution coefficient and thickness of layer is studied on the concentration of the contaminant.

• 공업화학
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.332-339
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• 2021

최근 화석 연료 고갈과 지구 온난화를 가속화하는 온실 가스 배출에 대한 우려로 온실 가스를 배출하지 않는 청정 에너지원인 수소 에너지 기술의 중요성이 강조되고 있다. 그 중 물을 전기분해하여 수소를 얻는 수전해 기술은 그린 수소 기술로 궁극적인 청정 미래 에너지 자원으로 주목받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 양이온 교환막 수전해(proton exchange membrane water electrolysis, PEMWE)의 셀 구성요소 중 하나인 확산층(porous transport layer, PTL)을 sandpaper를 이용한 표면 처리를 통하여 표면 특성을 제어하였으며, 이러한 표면 특성 개선을 통하여 과전압을 줄이고 성능과 안정성을 높이기 위한 연구를 진행하였다. Sandpaper 400, 180, 100방을 준비하여 PTL 표면을 sanding하여 처리하였으며, 처리 후 1000방의 고른 sandpaper로 표면을 매끄럽게 처리하였다. 준비된 확산층은 물접촉각을 측정하여 친수성 정도를 분석하였으며, SEM 분석을 통하여 표면 형태를 관찰하였다. 전기화학적 특성 분석을 위하여 I-V 성능곡선, 임피던스 측정을 진행하여 성능 개선 여부를 확인하였다.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.53-78
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• 2013

Methane carbon dioxide reforming (MCDR) is a promising way of utilizing greenhouse gas for hydrogen-rich fuel production. Compared with other types of reactors, Compact Reformers (CRs) are efficient for fuel processing. In a CR, a thin solid plate is placed between two porous catalyst layers to enable efficient heat transfer between the two catalyst layers. In this study, the physical and chemical processes of MCDR in a CR are studied numerically with a 2D numerical model. The model considers the multi-component gas transport and heat transfer in the fuel channel and the porous catalyst layer, and the MCDR reaction kinetics in the catalyst layer. The finite volume method (FVM) is used for discretizing the governing equations. The SIMPLEC algorithm is used to couple the pressure and the velocity. Parametrical simulations are conducted to analyze in detail the effects of various operating/structural parameters on the fuel processing behavior.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.98-105
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 전기장에 의하여 유발되는 자연대류의 영향을 줄이기 위하여 수평 다공성 유체층에 열적 성충화를 유지하여 부력과 유체층의 안정화 효과를 체계적으로 조사하였다. 이를 위하여 수평 다공성 유체층에서 이중확산대류에 의한 물질전달 상관식을 이론적으로 유도하고, 전기화학 실험을 통하여 이론에 의한 모델을 보완하였다. 물질전달 상관식은 다공성 매질층에 대한 유동 방정식으로 Forchheimer모델을 사용하고 미세 난류 모델을 적용하여, 용질 및 열 Darcy-Rayleigh수와 Lewis 수로 유도하였다. 실험에서는 다공성매질에 포화된 황산구리황산용액내의 구리이온을 전기 화학적 방법을 통하여 확산 또는 자연대류에 의한 물질전달 실험을 수행하였다. 이론 및 실험적 해석 결과를 종합하면 다공성 매질 내에서 구리이온의 이중확산대류에 의한 물질전달 상관식은 다음과 같다. $$Sh=\frac{0.03054(Rs_D-LeRa_D)^{1/2}}{1-3.8788(Rs_D-LeRa_D)^{-1/10}}$$ 본 연구의 결과는 실험치와 잘 부합되었으며, 모델식의 원형은 열 및 물질전달계에서 자연대류의 영향을 효과적으로 제어할 수 있는 방안으로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 열처리공학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.65-73
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• 2012

The Gas Diffusion Layer (GDL) of fuel cell, are required to provide both delivery of reactant gases to the catalyst layer and removal of water in either vapor or liquid form in typical PEMFCs. In this study, the fabrication of GDL containing Micro Porous Layer (MPL) made of the slurry of PVDF mixed with carbon black is investigated in detail. Physical properties of GDL containing MPL, such as electrical resistance, gas permeability and microstructure were examined, and the performance of the cell using developed GDL with MPL was evaluated. The results show that MPL with PVDF binder demonstrated uniformly distributed microstructure without large cracks and pores, which resulted in better electrical conductivity. The fuel cell performance test demonstrates that the developed GDL with MPL has a great potential due to enhanced mass transport property due to its porous structure and small pore size.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.571-583
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• 1996

1 mM의 $[Fe(CN)_{6}]^{3-}/[Fe(CN)_{6}]^{4-}$ 이온이 첨가된 0.5 M $K_{2}SO_{4}$용액에서 Impedance spectroscopy를 통하여 비교적 porous한 표면조직을 갖는 흑연재료인 electrographite와 graphite foil의 계면의 전기화학적 거동을 조사하였다. 이들 두 흑연재료의 변전위 전류 전압곡선의 경우 전극표면의 구조로 인하여 비교적 높은 전류가 나타났으며, graphite foil의 경우 높은 이중층 용량이 나타났다. 또한 두 재료 모두 field transport의 작용에 의해 분극증가에 따른 임피던스 스펙트럼의 변화와 Faraday-임피던스의 변화가 크게 나타나지 않았다. 특히 electrographite의 경우 전극계면에서 흡착현상이 나타났으며, 양극분극의 증가에 의해 흡착현상은 현저하게 증가하였다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제45회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.319.1-319.1
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• 2013

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have been recognized as one of emerging renewable energy sources, due to minimized pollutant production and high efficiency in operation. The performance of SOFCs is largely dependent on the electrode polarization which involves the oxidation/reduction in cathodes and anodes along with the charge transport of ions and electronic carriers. Atomic layer deposition is based on the alternate chemical surface reaction occurring at low temperatures with high uniformity and superior step coverage. Such features can be extended into the coating of metal oxide and/or metal layer onto the porous materials. In particular, the atomic layer deposition is can manipulated in controlling the charge transport in terms of triple phase boundaries, in order to control artificially the electrochemical polarization in electrodes of SOFC. The current work applied atomic layer deposition of metal oxides intro the electrodes of SOFCs. The corresponding effect was monitored in terms of the electrochemical characterization. The roles of atomic layer deposition in solid oxide fuel cells are discussed towards optimized towards long-term durability at intermediate temperature.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2015년도 제49회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.150.2-150.2
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• 2015

In this study, we analyzed the electric and optical characteristics by using various deposition rate ($0.5{\AA}$, $1.0{\AA}$ and $1.5{\AA}/s$) in order to enhance the performance in organic light-emitting devices (OLED). The organic multi-layer structures were deposited with NPB ($500{\AA}$ as hole transport layer), Alq3 ($600{\AA}$ as electron transport layer and emission layer) and LiF ($8{\AA}$ as electron injection layer) via SUNIC PLUS200 on Glass/ITO substrates. In this experiment, we examined the relationship between porous state of organic deposition and mobility of the organic materials. Among the three deposition rates, $0.5{\AA}/s$ achieved the highest performance of (10,786cd/m2, 4.387cd/A) comparing with that of $1{\AA}/s$ (7,779cd/m2, 3.281cd/A) and $1.5{\AA}/s$ (5,167cd/m2, 2.693cd/A). We confirmed that low deposition rate helps to arrange organic materials densely and to move easily another atomic location using inter-chain transporting by orbital overlap.