• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.102-107
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• 2012

황화수소가 고분자 전해질막 연료전지의 연료극에 공급되었을 때 전지 성능의 저하와 황화수소 피독 후 순환전류 전압법(CV) 스캔을 통해 전지의 성능 회복에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 수소에 30 ppm의 황화수소를 희석하여 연료극에 공급하고 전류밀도를 $0.5A/cm^2$로 고정하여 1시간 동안 3차례 피독한 후 CV를 5회 스캔하여 단위전지의 성능회복을 확인한 결과 피독 전 단위전지의 초기 성능은 0.60 V에서 $1.16A/cm^2$이였으며, 30 ppm의 황화수소를 한 시간 동안 피독한 결과 $0.77A/cm^2$로 그 성능이 감소하였고, 피독 횟수가 증가함에 따라 성능이 0.57 V까지 감소하였다. 그리고 황화수소 피독 후 각 스텝에서 CV 스캔을 5회 실시하였을 때 단위전지의 성능이 90.3%까지 회복하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 황화수소 피독 후 단순히 고순도의 수소 가스만 연료극에 주입하여도 약 80% 정도의 성능회복이 가능하였다. 이러한 현상으로 판단할 때 황화수소 가스의 백금 촉매층에의 흡착은 그리 강하지 않음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.252.1-252.1
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• 2010

These studies convert to useful electricity from swine wastewater and to treat this wastewater. In order to operate the microbial fuel cell(MFC) for the swine wastewater, the anode volume of MFCs was scaled up with 5L in the vacant condition. Graphite felts and low-priced mesh stainless-less as electrode had mixed up and packed into the anode compartment. The meshed stainless-less electrode could also be acted the collector of electron produced by microorganisms in anode. For a cathode compartment, graphite felt loaded Pt/C catalyst was used. Graphite felt electrode embedded in the anode compartment was punched holds at regular intervals to prevent occurred the channeling phenomenon. The sources of seeding on microbial fuel cell was used a mixture of swine wastewater and anaerobic digestion sludge(1:1). It was enriched within 6 days. Swine wastewater was fed with 53.26 ml/min flow rate. The MFCs produced a current of about 17 mA stably used swine wastewater with $3,167{\pm}80mg/L$. The maximum power density and current density was 680 $mW/m^3$ and 3,770 $mA/m^3$, respectively. From these results it is showed that treatment of swine wastewater synchronizes with electricity generation using modified low priced microbial fuel cell.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.997-1001
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• 2016

Conductive ceramics are being developed to replace current Pt anodes in the electrolytic reduction of spent oxide fuels in pyroprocessing. While several conductive ceramics have shown promising electrochemical properties in small-scale experiments, their long-term stabilities have not yet been investigated. In this study, the chemical stability of conductive $La_{0.33}Sr_{0.67}MnO_3$ in $LiCl-Li_2O$ molten salt at $650^{\circ}C$ was investigated to examine its feasibility as an anode material. Dissolution of Sr at the anode surface led to structural collapse, thereby indicating that the lifetime of the $La_{0.33}Sr_{0.67}MnO_3$ anode is limited. The dissolution rate of Sr is likely to be influenced by the local environment around Sr in the perovskite framework.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.150-155
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• 2001

ICR계 주령 생쥐에 PQ를 투여한 후 TS, PD, PT를 경구 투여하여 생쥐 간에 미치는 항산화 효소(SOD, CAT)활성 증대 효과를 알아보기 위하여 효소 활성도와 전기영동상밴드의 변화를 조사하였다. SOD의 활성은 PQ+PD 투여군, CAT의 활성은 PQ+PD 투여군이 활성화되었으며, SOD isozyme은 전기영동상에서 3개의 밴드를 나타내었는데 이중 한 개의 밴드는 음극에 가까이 위치하고 다른 2개의 밴드는 양극 쪽에 위치하였고, KCN 처리한 결과 Cu, Zn-SOD는 음극 쪽에 위치한 반면 Mn-SOD는 양극쪽에 있었다. 이러한 결과를 종합하여 볼때 홍삼 사포닌의 항산화 효과는 항산화 효소인 SOD, CAT의 직접적인 작용으로 인하여 산화적 손상에 대한 보호 능력을 증대시큰 것으로 생각된다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.775-780
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• 2011

50 $cm^2$의 활성면적을 가진 셀을 이용하여 5-셀 DMFC 스택을 제작하고 4 A의 부하로 4,000 시간 운전한 후 성능감소 및 성능 감소 원인을 분석하였다. 4,000 시간 운전 후 10 A에서 스택의 전력 밀도가 28.7% 감소하였으며 다섯개의 셀 중 두 개는 거의 성능저하가 일어나지 않았고 두 개는 약 40%의 성능 저하, 한 개는 약 60%의 성능 저하를 보였으며 각 셀별 성능저하의 정도의 차이는 스택 내에서의 위치와 상관관계가 없었다. 스택 내의 다섯 셀 중 가장 성능감소가 심하였던 셀의 경우 연료극 촉매층의 Pt 입자 크기가 증가하였으며 연료가 들어가는 쪽의 Pt 입자의 크기 증가가 더 심하였다. 그러나 4,000 시간 장기운전 후 공기극 촉매층에서는 Pt 입자 크기의 변화는 거의 없었다. 스택 내의 모든 셀에서 4,000 시간 운전 후 연료극 촉매에서 공기극 촉매로의 루테늄의 크로스오버가 SEM-EDX로 관찰되었으며 특히 성능감소가 심하였던 셀의 경우 공기극 촉매층에서 Ru/Pt의 비율이 가장 컸다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제52권6호
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• pp.695-700
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• 2014

고분자전해질 연료전지로 물을 전기분해하여 수소와 산소를 발생시킬 수 있다. 그러나 1.7V 이상의 높은 전압에서 수전해 반응이 일어나므로 전극과 고분자 전해질 막의 열화가 빠르게 진행된다. 수전해 과정에서 anode의 열화를 방지하기 위해 촉매로 지지체 없는 $IrO_2$를 보통 사용하는데 본 연구에서는 고분자전해질 연료전지용 Pt/C 촉매를 수전해 반응에 그대로 사용했을 때 전극과 막의 열화 현상을 분석하였다. 1.8~2.0 V 전압 범위에서 수전해 반응 후 고분자 전해질 연료전지 구동 조건에서 I-V, CV, 임피던스, LSV를 측정했다. 수전해 전압이 높을수록 전극과 막의 열화 속도가 증가하였다. 2.0 V에서 1분 동안 수전해 반응했을 때 수소 수율은 88%였고, 전극과 고분자 막이 열화되어 0.6 V에서 성능이 49% 감소하였다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.1175-1182
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• 2014

In this study, we examined the effect of cathode from electrolysis reactor for treating ballast water. We are going to select a suitable cathode for seawater electrolysis after considering the effect on the generation of the oxidant of cathode and the electrode deposition materials adhering to the surface of cathode. Anode is Ru-Ti-Pd electrode and cathode are Ti, Pt, JP520 (Ni-Pt-Ce) electrodes. Using the cathode of the three types, experiments were conducted to examine the effects of TRO (total residual oxidants) generation concentration and RNO (N, N-Dimethyl-4-nitrosoaniline, indicator of the generation of OH radical) degradation concentration (in 1, 35 psu), ohmic drop, FESEM(field emission scanning electron microscope) observation of cathode surface and EDX (energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy) measurements of attached fouling material. The results showed that TRO generation concentration and RNO degradation concentration in according to each type of cathode are not different. The attached fouling materials were observed on the surface of Ti and the JP520 electrode by the observation of SEM after electrolysis for two hours, but it was not observed on the surface of Pt electrode. When considering the surface ohmic drop of cathode and the attached fouling materials, Pt electrode was judged as the excellent cathode.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2008

A Pt-layer was deposited on the anode side of a Nafion membrane via a sputtering method in order to reduce methanol crossover in a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC). The methanol permeation and the proton conductivity through the modified membranes were investigated. The performances of the direct methanol fuel cell were also tested using single cells with a Nafion membrane and the modified membranes. The Pt-layers on the membrane blocked both methanol crossover and proton transport through the membranes. Methanol permeability and proton conductivity decreased with an increase of the platinum layer thickness. At methanol concentration of 2 M, the DMFC employing the modified membrane with a platinum layer of 66 nm-thickness showed similar performance to that of a DMFC with a bare Nafion membrane in spite of the lower proton conductivity of the former. The maximum power density of the cell using the modified membrane with a platinum layer of 66 nm-thickness increased slightly while that of the cell with the bare membrane decreased abruptly when a methanol solution of 6M was supplied.

• 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.

• Carbon letters
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.37-42
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• 2007

Carbon nanofiber (CNF) grown catalytically was chemically activated with KOH to attain structural change of CNF. The structural changes of CNF through KOH activation were investigated by using BET and SEM. From the results of BET, it was found that KOH activation was effective to develop particular sizes of pores on the CNF surface, increasing the surface area of CNF. Activated CNF was applied as an anode catalyst support of fuel cell. The effects of different activation conditions including the activation temperature and the activation time on the specific surface area of the CNF activated with KOH were investigated to obtain appropriate structure as a catalyst support. The 60 wt% Pt-Ru catalyst prepared was observed by using TEM and XRD.