• 한국연소학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.34-43
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• 2014

The reformer system is a method for hydrogen production from hydrocarbon fuels such as natural gas under high temperature environment($about{\sim}1,000^{\circ}C$). The premixed swirl burner with mixing swirler and combustion swirler designed to deliver fuel cell electric output from 0.5 kW to 1.5 kW. Premixed swirl burner experiments using natural gas and mixture of natural gas and anode off gas were carried out to analyse flame patterns and stability by equivalence ratio respectively. The results show that the stable swirl flame can be established for all cases of fuels type using the premixed swirl burner. The swirl flame had a wide stability region and it showed very low CO(50 ppm) and $NO_x$(20 ppm) emission at different fuel type and various equivalence ratio conditions. The operating range of premixed swirl burner for stable swirl flame is found to exist between equivalence ratio of 0.70 to 0.90 for turn down ratio of 3:1.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.25-28
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• 2006

수소는 청정에너지로서 미래에너지의 대안으로 여겨지고 있기 때문에 수소에너지 관련 기술은 미래 국가 경쟁력을 좌우할 것으로 예상되며 이러한 수소에너지의 핵심인 수소스테이션 관련 기술은 국가연료전지 시장을 비롯한 수소자동차 사업 전반에 커다란 영향을 미칠 것으로 예상되고 있다. 이에 따라 전 세계적으로 수소에너지를 차세대 에너지원으로 개발하기 위하여 전력을 다하고 있으며, 수소연료전지자동차 개발과 아울러 수소스테이션 개발에 대한 인프라 구축 및 실증연구가 본격적으로 이루어지고 있다. 국내에서도 가스공사를 비롯한 에너지 관련 기업에서 수소스테이션 건설이 추진되고 있으며, 본 연구에서도 수소인프라 구축의 일환으로 추진되고 있는 수소스테이션 개발 현황에 대하여 논의하고자 한다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.819-826
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• 2022

Fuel cell systems are being supplied to households and buildings to reduce greenhouse gases. The fuel cell systems have problems of high cost and slow startup due to fuel processors. Greenhouse gas reduction of the fuel cell systems is also limited by using natural gas. The problems can be solved by using a hydrogen generator consisting of a reformer and pressure swing adsorption (PSA). However, part load operation of the hydrogen generator is required depending on the hydrogen consumption. In this paper, PSA operation strategies are investigated for part load of the hydrogen generator. Adsorption and purge time were changed in the range of part load ratio between from 0.5 to 1.0. As adsorption time increased, hydrogen recovery increased from 29.09% to 48.34% at 0.5 of part load ratio. Hydrogen recovery and hydrogen purity were also improved by increasing adsorption and purge time. However, hydrogen recovery dramatically decreased to 35.01% at 0.5 of part load ratio.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제45권12호
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• pp.772-776
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• 2008

The Korea Electric Power Research Institute (KEPRI) has been developing planar solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and power systems for combined heat and power (CHP) units. The R&D work includes solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) materials investigation, design and fabrication of single cells and stacks, and kW class SOFC CHP system development. Anode supported cells composed of Ni-YSZ/FL/YSZ/LSCF were enlarged up to $15{\times}15\;cm^2$ and stacks were manufactured using $10{\times}10\;cm^2$ cells and metallic interconnects such as ferritic stainless steel. The first-generation system had a 37-cell stack and an autothermal reformer for use with city gas. The system showed maximum stack power of about $1.3\;kW_{e,DC}$ and was able to recover heat of $0.57{\sim}1.2\;kW_{th}$ depending on loaded current by making hot water. The second-generation system was composed of an improved 48-cell stack and a prereformer (or steam reformer). The thermal management subsystem design including heat exchangers and insulators was also improved. The second-generation system was successfully operated without any external heat source. Under self-sustainable operation conditions, the stack power was about $1.3\;kW_{e,DC}$ with hydrogen and $1.2\;kW_{e,DC}$ with city. The system also recuperated heat of about $1.1\;kW_{th}$ by making hot water. Recently KEPRI manufactured a 2kW class SOFC stack and a system by scaling up the second-generation 1kW system and will develop a 5kW class CHP system by 2010.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2010년도 추계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.111.1-111.1
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• 2010

This paper focuses on a systematic configuration of steam reforming fuel processor, particularly designed for small and medium sized hydrogen production application. In a typical integration of the fuel processor, there exist significant temperature gradients over the entire system which has negative effect on both catalyst life-time and system performance. Also, the volumetric inefficiency should be avoided to obtain the possible compactness for the commercial purpose. In the present work, the computational analysis will be performed to gain the fundamental insight on the transport phenomena and chemical reactions in the reformer consisting of preheating, steam reforming (SR), and water gas shift (WGS) reaction beds in the flow direction. Also, the fuel processing system includes a top-fired burner providing necessary thermal energy for endothermic catalytic reactor. A fully two-dimensional numerical modeling for a integrated fuel processing system is introduced for in-depth analysis of the heat and mass transport phenomena based on surface kinetics and catalytic process. In the model, water gas shift reaction and decomposition reaction were assumed to be at equilibrium. A kinetic model was developed and then computational results were compared with the experimental data available in the literature. Finally, the case study was done by considering the key parameters, i.e. steam to carbon (S/C) ratio and temperature. The computer-aided models developed in this study can be greatly utilized for the design of advanced fast-paced compact fuel processors research.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.641-648
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• 2011

고온 발전용 연료전지인 MCFC의 연료극에서 방출되는 미반응 가스를 촉매연소의 열원으로 사용하고, 촉매연소 반응에 의해 발생한 열을 개질 반응에 필요한 공급열로 이용하는 통합형 촉매연소-개질 반응기에 있어서 MCFC의 운전 조건 변경에 따른 반응기의 열적 거동과 반응 특성을 실험적으로 연구하였다. 특히, 연료극에서 연료 이용률을 변동될 때 슬립가스의 조성이 바뀌는 것을 고려하여 촉매연소측에 공급해줄 혼합가스의 조성을 실험조건으로 설정하였다. 또한 개질측에서는 S/C(수증기/탄소)의 비를 운전조건의 변동 조건으로 설정하였다. 실험적으로 얻어진 데이터는 보다 현실적인 통합형 촉매연소-개질반응기를 설계하고 제작하는데 필요한 기본 자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.700-704
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• 2009

GTL(gas-to-liquid) 합성유 제조용 SCR(steam carbon dioxide reforming) 공정의 시뮬레이션 연구를 수행하였다. 온도 및 $CH_4/steam/CO_2$ 반응물 비와 같은 변수를 바꾸어 가면서 SCR 공정을 위한 최적 운전조건을 살펴보았다. 공정 시뮬레이션을 위해 Aspen Plus를 사용하였다. 또한 정상상태 가정하의 열역학적 물성치 계산을 위해 Aspen Plus의 RSK (Redlich-Kwong-Soave) 상태방정식을 사용하였다. FT 공정을 위한$H_2/CO$ 비, $CH_4$ 전환율, $CO_2$ 전환율을 살펴봄으로써 최적의 온도와 최적의 반응물 비를 결정하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과, SCR reformer 촉매층 출구 최적온도는 상압에서 $850^{\circ}C$ 였으며, 이 온도에서 $CH_4$ 전환율은 99%, $CO_2$ 전환율은 49%로 계산되었고, $CH_4/steam/CO_2$ 최적 반응물 비율은 1.0/1.6/0.7로 나타났다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.244-249
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• 2012

최근 화석연료 사용으로 인한 에너지 위기와 환경오염 문제가 사회적 문제점으로 떠오르고 있어 친환경 에너지 개발에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. PEMFC는 기본적으로 수증기 개질반응을 통해 고순도 수소를 얻고 있지만 운전 시 기동시간이 길고 빠른 기동을 필요로 하는 곳에는 문제가 있다. 따라서 본 연구실에서는 1KW급 평판형 STR 반응기에 적용할 연소기의 고효율 및 균일가열을 목표로 세라믹 허니컴을 적용하는 가능성을 알아본다. 한편, 축열체의 열량 보존시간에 대한 실험결과는 마일드연소기 개발에서 공기의 고온화를 위한 기초자료로 활용하고자 한다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.382-390
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• 2007

To check the feasibility of SMART(Steam Methane Advanced Reforming Technology) system, an experimental investigation was performed. A fluidized bed reactor of diameter 0.052m was operated cyclically up to 10th cycle, alternating between reforming and regeneration conditions. FCR-4 catalyst was used as the reforming catalyst and calcined limestone(domestic, from Danyang) was used as the $CO_2$ absorbent. Hydrogen concentration of 98.2% on a dry basis was reached at $650^{\circ}C$ for the first cycle. This value is much higher than $H_2$ concentration of 73.6% in the reformer of conventional SMR (steam methane reforming) condition. The hydrogen concentration decreased because the $CO_2$ capture capacity decreased as the number of cycles increased. However, the average hydrogen concentration at 10th cycle was 82.5% and this value is also higher than that of SMR. Based on these results, we could conclude that the SMART system can replace SMR system to generate pure hydrogen without HTS (high tempeature shift), LTS (low temperature shift) and $CO_2$ separation process.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제32권11호
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• pp.849-855
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• 2008

The paper addresses modeling and analysis of the part load performance of a hybrid fuel cell system integrating a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell(PEMFC) and a gas turbine(GT). The system is a pressurized one where the working pressure of the PEMFC is higher than the ambient pressure. In addition to the two major components, the system also includes auxiliary parts such as a steam reformer, a humidifier, and afterburner and so on. Based on design analysis, component off-design models are incorporated in the analysis program and part load operation is simulated. The mode for the part load operation of the PEMFC/GT hybrid system is a variable rotational speed operation. The operating characteristics and variations in the system efficiency and component performance parameters at part load are analyzed.