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Flow Field Design and Stack Performance Evaluation of the Thin Plate Separator for High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (고온 고분자전해질 연료전지 박판형 분리판의 유로 설계 및 스택 성능 평가)

  • KIM, JI-HONG;KIM, MINJIN;KIM, JINSOO
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.442-449
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    • 2018
  • Research on High temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cell (HT-PEMFC) has actively been conducted all over the world. Since the HT-PEMFC can be operated at a high temperature of $120-180^{\circ}C$ using phosphoric acid-doped polybenzimidazole (PBI) electrolyte membrane, it has considerable advantages over conventional PEMFC in terms of operating conditions and system efficiency. However, If the thermal distribution is not uniform in the stack unit, degradation due to local reaction and deterioration of lifetime are difficult to prevent. The thin plate separator reduces the volume of the fuel cell stack and improves heat transfer, consequently, enhancing the cooling effect. In this paper, a large area flow field of thin plate separator for HT-PEMFC is designed and sub-stack is fabricated. We have studied stack performance evaluation under various operating conditions and it has been verified that the proposed design can achieve acceptable stack performance at a wide operating range.

Study on the Control Performance Evaluation of the Exhaust Stack used in High Riser Public House (초고층공동주택 국소배기용 입상덕트시스템의 제어성능평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, Yong-Il;Ahn, Jung-Hun
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.103-108
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    • 2009
  • Local exhaust system used in toilet and cooking place of low-rise public house installed roof ventilator at terminal of stack. There are many high riser public houses in Korea. These buildings were not viewed as being major contributors to exhaust pollutants producted in indoor. It was because many engineers thought that exhaust in high riser public house depends on stack effect. But Neutral pressure level represents in a terminal of stack with air tightness for the best exhaust efficiency. Thereby, lower floors have the worst indoor air quality. This paper focuses mainly on the exhaust efficiency improved by roof fan with motor installed in high riser public house. It is observed there is higher exhaust efficiency than the existing natural roof ventilator.

The Effect of Similarity Condition for the Test Results in a Wind Tunnel Test (풍동실험에서 상사조건이 실험결과에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • 봉춘근
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.351-362
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    • 2000
  • To set the similarity conditions between a prototype usually in the field and its reduced-scale model is a crucial part in model tests. No technique is available to keep perfect similarity for this procedure so far. The experimental work using a wind tunnel is not exceptional. based on the field measurements, the effect of stack parameters and wind conditions on the dispersion of stack plume has been investigated in the laboratory. in this paper intensive methodology is focused on matching these similarities. Due to the limitations to keep perfect similarity conditions some simplifications are involved in common. In this study geometric conditions and kinematic conditions using Froude number and Reynolds number have been con-sidered to keep the similarity conditions required. From the tests it is found that the critical Reynolds number (Recrit) is 2,700 when the height of stack discharge is 50mm. The dispersion has a similar trend for the higher Reynolds number than the critical Reynolds number. It is also found that different Froude number does not make any significant influence for the normalized tracer gas concentrations at the recipient providing the same ratio of the wind speed to the discharge speed. No significant effect of stack diameter is observed in the normalized tracer gas concentrations with the same Frounde number. The similarity conditions therefore used in this study are reliable to simulate the conditions in prototype into the wind tunnel tests.

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The Effect of Liquid Water in Fuel Cell Cathode Gas Diffusion Layer on Fuel Cell Performance (가스 확산층(GDL)내부의 물이 연료전지 성능에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Sang-Kyun
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.374-380
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, a dynamic model describing the 2 phase effect on the gas diffusion layer depending on load change of a fuel cell stack was developed to examine the effects of liquid water in fuel cell cathode gas diffusion layer on the fuel cell performance. For the developed model, 2 phase effect on the performance of a fuel cell stack depending on the load changes, concentration distribution of water vapor and oxygen inside a gas diffusion layer, the effect of the thickness and porosity of the gas diffusion layer on the fuel cell stack voltage were examined. As a result, a fuel cell stack voltage for the 2 phase model within the scope of the research become lower than that for the 1 phase model regardless of the load. Although oxygen molar concentration for the gas diffusion layer adjacent to the catalyst layer was the lowest, water vapor concentration is the highest. In addition, as thickness and porosity of the gas diffusion layer increased and decreased, respectively, the fuel cell stack voltage decreased.

A Basical Study about Ventilation Performance of Natural Smoke Ventilators through Stack Effect in High-rise Building (고층건축물에서의 연돌효과에 따른 배연창의 배연성능에 관한 기초적 연구)

  • Kim, Hye-Won;Jin, Seung-Hyun;Koo, In-Hyuk;Kwon, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2017.11a
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    • pp.54-55
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    • 2017
  • The High-rise building has a problem the ventilation performance of natural ventilator by stack effect that it occurs by pressure difference. For that reason the study about natural smoke ventilator of High-rise building consistently needs. Therefore on this study does analysis of difference with abroad through investigate of Natrual smoke ventilator's law, it conducts of natural smoke ventilator's research on the actual condition. As a result on this study, in the case of abroad that it states more specific standards than domestic. Also the result of a field study, it shows that the natural smoke ventilator is installed same size and the number regardless of building's pressure difference.

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Mass Flow Rates and Performance of Natural Smoke Ventilators in High-rise Buildings (초고층건물에서 배연창의 풍량해석 및 배연성능)

  • Lim, Chae-Hyun;Kim, Bum-Gyu;Park, Yong-Hwan
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.91-97
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    • 2009
  • The mass flow rates and performance of natural smoke ventilators in high-rise buildings with 40, 80, 120 stories were evaluated using CONTAMW tool. The results showed that only limited part of smoke ventilators can have positive exhaust flow in high-rise buildings due to stack effect and wind velocities. In the higher story buildings larger stack effect can overcome outside strong wind effect to give more ventilation performance. The air tightness of the building have strong effect on the exhaust performance of the ventilators to give lower performance with loose air tightness of the exterior walls.

Challenges in the Architectural Technical Design of the New Generation of Supertall Buildings

  • Weismantle, Peter A.
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.85-93
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    • 2018
  • The design of a supertall building poses many challenges to the architect and engineer. Using Jeddah Tower as a case study; this paper intends to discuss a few of those challenges specifically related to the arrangement of programmed spaces in the tower, their functional connection by means of the vertical transportation system and physical connection with shafts which introduces the potential for stack effect in the building. The measures applied in response to and mitigation of these issues are discussed.

Optimization of Gate Stack MOSFETs with Quantization Effects

  • Mangla, Tina;Sehgal, Amit;Saxena, Manoj;Haldar, Subhasis;Gupta, Mridula;Gupta, R.S.
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.228-239
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, an analytical model accounting for the quantum effects in MOSFETs has been developed to study the behaviour of $high-{\kappa}$ dielectrics and to calculate the threshold voltage of the device considering two dielectrics gate stack. The effect of variation in gate stack thickness and permittivity on surface potential, inversion layer charge density, threshold voltage, and $I_D-V_D$ characteristics have also been studied. This work aims at presenting a relation between the physical gate dielectric thickness, dielectric constant and substrate doping concentration to achieve targeted threshold voltage, together with minimizing the effect of gate tunneling current. The results so obtained are compared with the available simulated data and the other models available in the literature and show good agreement.

Humidification Optimization in Silicon-based Miniaturized Fuel Cell (실리콘으로 제작된 소형 연료 전지에서 가습 조건의 최적화)

  • Kwon, Oh-Joong;Won, Ho-Youn;Kim, Jae-Jeong
    • Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.104-109
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    • 2007
  • Single fuel cell was fabricated with a MEA (membrane electrode assembly) that had a $4cm^2$ active area and with silicon bipolar plates those were introduced to miniaturize the fuel cell by replacing heavy weight graphite plates. Optimum humidification condition for the single cell was selected based on performance results obtained varying humidifier temperature at a fixed feed rate of hydrogen and oxygen. Furthermore, to study the effect of humidification condition on the performance of a fuel cell stack, the fuel cell stack consisting of two MEAs and silicon bipolar plates was studied, then problems and characteristics of silicon-based fuel cell stack were examined.

Reduction Characteristics on Perpendicular Magnetization Loss in Transposed Stacking Conductor of Striated YBCO CC (분할형 YBCO CC들을 전위한 적층도체의 수직 자화손실 저감 특성)

  • Lee, J.K.;Byun, S.B.;Han, B.W.;Park, S.H.;Choi, S.J.;Kim, W.S.;Park, C.;Choi, K.D.
    • Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.15-19
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    • 2009
  • Recently, it is proposed to make striations on the YBCO coated conductor and to transpose each other as one of the solutions to decrease the perpendicular magnetization loss. For large power application using HTS, the stacked conductor packing the YBCO coated conductors should be used because single conductor is limited in flowing of demanded large current. In this paper, we research the affect of the striation and continuously transposed stacking geometry on the magnetization loss in perpendicularly exposed magnetic field. Several short samples having different number of striation and continuously transposed stack are prepared and tested in perpendicularly exposed magnetic field for the magnetization loss characteristics. The magnetization loss of striated sample was lower than sample without striation. The reduction effect on magnetization loss by the striation is obviously appeared in higher field and lower number of stack and decreased as increasing the transposed stacking number. Also, the reduction effect by transposed stack is obviously appeared in lower field at lower number of striation and isn't appeared at higher striation number and higher magnetic field.