• Composites Research
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.179-185
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• 2016

A self-charging supercapacitor is constructed through simple integration of the energy storage and photo exited materials at the photo electrode. The large band gap of $NiO/Fe_3O_4$ heterostructure generates photo electron at the photo electrode and store the charges through redox mechanism at the counter electrode. Sulfanilic acid azocromotrop/reduced graphene oxide layer at the photo electrode trapped the photo generated hole and store the charge by forming double layer. The solar supercapacitor device is charged within 400 s up to 0.5 V and exhibited a high specific capacitance of ~908 F/g against 1.5 A/g load. The solar illuminated supercapacitor shows a high energy and power density of 33.4 Wh/kg and 385 W/kg along with a very low relaxation time of ~15 ms ensuring the utility of the self charging device in the various field of energy storage and optoelectronic application.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.826-831
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• 2019

소형 독립형 태양광 전원장치는 조명장치, CCTV 등에 많이 활용되고 있다. 이러한 장치가 경쟁력을 가지기 위해서는 배터리와 같은 전력저장장치 수명이 매우 중요하다. 하이브리드 커패시터는 고밀도와 장수명의 장점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 하이브리드 커패시터를 이용한 독립형 태양광 전원장치를 제안한다. 전력변환장치의 구성하기 위해 하이브리드 커패시터의 충방전 특성 및 내부저항을 측정하였다. 일사량 변화에도 안정적인 최대 출력점 추종제어 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 제시한 시스템의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 18W의 하이브리드 커패시터와 10W태양광 전지를 이용하여 시제품을 제작하고 실험하였다.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.17-30
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• 2021

This is an investigation for a more electric regional aircraft, considering the ATR 72 aircraft as an example and the electrification of its four double slotted flaps, which were estimated to require an energy of 540 Wh for takeoff and 1780 Wh for landing, with a maximum power requirement of 35.6 kW during landing. An analysis and evaluation of three energy harvesting systems has been carried out, which led to the recommendation of a combination of a piezoelectric and a thermoelectric harvesting system providing 65% and 17%, respectively, of the required energy for the actuators of the four flaps. The remaining energy may be provided by a solar energy harvesting photovoltaic system, which was calculated to have a maximum capacity of 12.8 kWh at maximum solar irradiance. It was estimated that a supercapacitor of 232 kg could provide the energy storage and power required for the four flaps, which proved to be 59% of the required weight of a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery while the supercapacitor also constitutes a safer option.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2017년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.735-737
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• 2017

An Off grid or remote solar electric systems are an energy supply to our home or to our companies without the utility of Grid at all. Off grid solar systems are very important for those who live in remote locations especially for developing countries where getting the electric grid is extremely expensive, inconvenient or for those who doesn't need to pay a monthly bill with the electric bill in general. The main critical components of any solar power system or renewable energy harvesting systems are the energy storage systems and its charge controller system. Energy storage systems are the essential integral part of a solar energy harvesting system and in general for all renewable energy harvesting systems. To provide an optimal solution of both high power density and high energy density at the same time we have to use hybrid energy storage systems (HESS), that combine two or more energy storage technologies with complementary characteristics. In this present work, design and simulation we use two storage systems supercapacitor for high power density and lithium based battery for high energy density. Here the system incorporates fast-response supercapacitors to provide power to manage solar smoothing and uses a battery for load shifting. On this paper discuss that the total energy throughout of the battery is much reduced and the typical thermal stresses caused by high discharge rate responses are mitigated by integrating supercapacitors with the battery storage system. In addition of the above discussion the off grid solar electric energy harvesting presented in this research paper includes battery and supercapacitor management system, MPPT (maximum power point tracking) system and back/boost convertors. On this present work the entire model of off grid electric energy harvesting system and all other functional blocks of that system is implemented in MATLAB Simulink.

• 센서학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.379-384
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• 2012

This paper presents the power source of wireless sensor node (WSN) using supercapacitors and a solar cell. Supercapacitors have high lifetime cycling compared to that of batteries. Supercapacitors are connected in series to achieve higher voltage and a voltage balancing circuit is required to ensure that no individual cell goes overvoltage. We employ an active balancing circuit that draws minimal current by using transistors. A diode is connected in series with each supercapacitor. A new balancing circuit that equalize the cells-voltage reduces energy consumption of supercapacitors. Voltage of operating WSN is applied 2.2-3.3V by DC/DC converter and supercapacitor voltage 2.2-5.1V. Maximum operating time of wireless sensor node is about 16 hours in full charging.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제26권11호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2021

본 논문은 충전식 배터리의 단점을 보완하여 급속 충전과 방전이 가능하고 높은 전력 효율 및 반영구적인 충·방전 사이클 수명의 특성을 갖는 수퍼커패시터를 보조 전력 저장장치로 사용하여 전력 관리 시스템에 결합한 프로토타입 플랫폼을 제안한다. 본 논문의 플랫폼을 위해 물리적인 환경 변화에 따른 태양광 패널에서의 공급 전력 차단 혹은 재개 상태를 마이크로컨트롤러에 연결된 인터럽트를 통해 감지할 수 있는 기법을 개발하였다. 연속적인 전원 공급이 보장되지 않는 컴퓨팅 환경에서 데이터의 유실을 방지하기 위해 전원 공급이 차단되는 경우 휘발성 메모리에 있는 프로그램 문맥 및 데이터를 비휘발성 메모리로 이전하는 낮은 수준의 시스템 소프트웨어를 마이크로컨트롤러에 구현하였다. 실험을 통해 슈퍼커패시터가 보조 전력 저장장치로서 일시적 전원 공급에 효과적으로 하는지를 검증하였으며 다양한 벤치마크를 통해 전원 상태 감지 및 휘발성 메모리에서 비휘발성 메모리로의 프로그램 문맥 및 데이터의 이전 기법이 낮은 오버헤드를 갖음을 확인하였다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2011년도 전력전자학술대회
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• pp.251-252
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• 2011

This paper describes the development of hardware simulator for the operation analysis of DC microgrid, which has a wind power, solar power and fuel cell as a distributed generation, and a supercapacitor and battery as an energy storage. A detailed simulation model for the DC microgrid was developed for operation analysis. Based on simulation results a hardware simulator was built in the lab for the purpose of operation analysis. The developed hardware simulator can be utilized to evaluate with practical manner the performance of actual microgrid in the field.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.519-533
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• 2023

This paper implements a simultaneous solar and thermal energy harvesting system, as a hybrid energy harvesting (HEH) system, to convert ambient light into electrical energy through photovoltaic (PV) cells and heat absorbed in the body of PV cells. Indeed, a solar panel equipped with serially connected thermoelectric generators not only converts the incoming light into electricity but also takes advantage of heat emanating from the light. In a conventional HEH system, the diode block is used to provide the path for the input source with the highest value. In this scheme, at each time, only one source can be handled to generate its output, while other sources are blocked. To handle this challenge of combining resources in HEH systems, this paper proposes a method for collecting all incoming energies and conveying its summation to the load via the current mirror cells in an approach similar to the maximum power point tracking. This technique is implemented using off-the-shelf components. The measurement results show that the proposed method is a realistic approach for supplying electrical energy to wireless sensor nodes and low-power electronics.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2011년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.1.1-1.1
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• 2011

Electrospinning has known to be very effective tool for production of versatile one-dimensional (1D) nanostructured materials such as nanofibers, nanorod, and nanotubes and for easily assembly to two-, three-dimensional(2D, 3D) nanostructures such as thin film, membrane, and nonwoven web, etc. We have studied on the electrospinning technology for novel energy storage and conversion materials such as advanced separator, dye sensitized solar cell, supercapacitor, etc. High heat-resistive nanofibrous membrane as a new separator for future lithium ion polymer battery was prepared by electrospinning of PVdF based composite solution. The novel nanofibrous composite nonwovens have tensile strength of above 50 MPa and modulus of above 1.3 GPa. The internal structure of the electrospun composite nanofiber with a diameter of few hundreds nanometer were composed of core-shell nanostructure. And also electrospun $TiO_2$ nanorod/nanosphere based dye-sensitized solar cells with high efficiency are successfully prepared. Some battery performance will be introduced.

• 청정기술
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.277-290
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• 2021

슈퍼커패시터는 일반 커패시터(축전지, 콘덴서)에 비해 정전용량이 매우 큰 커패시터로 전기화학 커패시터 혹은 울트라 커패시터(ultracapacitor) 라고도 부르는데, 화학반응을 이용하는 배터리와 달리 전극과 전해질 계면의 단순한 이온 이동이나 표면화학반응에 의한 충전현상을 이용한다. 짧은 충전시간(~ 30초), 우수한 출력특성, 반영구적 수명(~ 100,000 cycle), 낮은 유지비용, 빠른 응답특성, 높은 안정성 등을 특징으로 하여, 백업용 전원, 무정전전원장치, 수송 기계 및 스마트 그리드의 고출력 보조 전원 등 급속 충방전이 필요한 전자기기 및 고출력이 요구되는 산업분야에서 활용되고 있다. 태양광과 풍력 같은 불규칙적인 전력원을 활용하는 발전에서 2차 배터리와 함께 에너지저장장치로 구성되어 상대적으로 느린 배터리의 충·방전 특성을 보상하고 배터리 수명연장에 기여하며 시스템의 전체 전력 품질을 향상시킬 수 있다. 본 고에서는 이처럼 에너지저장장치로 다양한 분야에서 활용되고 있는 슈퍼커패시터에 대해, 전극 재료에 따른 에너지 저장 원리 및 메커니즘, 분류를 간략하게 살펴보고, 국내외 제품 연구, 특허, 시장 및 제품 현황을 제시하여 활용성을 검토하고 향후 전망을 살펴보았다. 에너지 저장 소자로 슈퍼커패시터가 관련 산업 수요에 대응하기 위해서는, 고전압 모듈 기술, 고효율 충전, 안전성, 추가적인 성능개선 및 비용경쟁력 등 아직까지 해결해야 할 과제들이 많다.