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Disposable Power Generator with Tubular PEMFC and H2 Generator for the Power Source of Microfluidic Devices (튜브형 고분자전해질 연료전지와 일회용 수소발생소자를 결합한 미세유체소자용 전원공급소자)

  • Kim, Kwang-Ho;Seo, Young-Ho;Kim, Byeong-Hee
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.34 no.7
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    • pp.829-835
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents a disposable power generator for microfluidic devices; the power generator has a tubular PEMFC and a $H_2$ generator. The tubular PEMFC has a tubular MEA (diameter: 1.52 mm) that is supported by a spiral wire electrode. The $H_2$ generator supplied $H_2$ to the tubular PEMFC; $H_2$ was generated via the reaction of Al foil (27 mg) and 5 M NaOH (0.12 ml). The open circuit voltage and power density of a unit cell of the tubular PEMFC were 0.81 V and $16.4\;mW/cm^2$ (0.35 V), respectively. The $H_2$ generator generated 11.6 ml $H_2$ for 15min. The power generator was continuously operated for 15 min at 0.64 mW (0.71 V) and for 10 min at 1.06 mW (0.46 V). We experimentally verified that it is feasible to use the proposed power generator as a power source for microfluidic devices; in the experiment, an LED (2.5 mW; 1.8 V) was lit for 10 min by using three serially connected TPEMFCs and one $H_2$ generator.

Performance Characteristics of Small Tubular-type Hydroturbine according to the Guide Vane Opening Angle by Experiment and CFD (실험 및 CFD에 의한 가이드베인 개도에 따른 소형 튜블러 수차의 성능특성)

  • Nam, Sang-Hyun;Kim, You-Taek;Choi, Young-Do;Lee, Young-Ho
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.44-49
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    • 2008
  • As the alternative energy, renewable energy should have been developing by many techniques, in order to substitute the fossil fuel which will be disappeared in the near future. One of the small hydropower generator, main concept of tubular turbine is based on using the different water pressure levels in pipe lines, energy which was initially wasted by using a reducing valve at the end of the pipeline, is collected by turbine in the hydro power generator. A propeller shaped hydro turbine has been used in order to use this renewable pressure energy in order to acquire basic design data of tubular type hydraulic turbine, output power, head, efficiency characteristics due to the guide vane opening angle are examined in detail. First, it ensures the reliance of CFD by that of compared with experiment data. After all, the results of performance characteristics of the CFD and experiment show to confirm the data that power, head and efficiency of less than 4%, 2% and 5% respectively. Moreover influences of pressure, tangential and axial velocity distributions on turbine performance are investigated.

Evaluation of Installation and Arrangement Effects of Internal Ring Stiffener for Tubular K-joints with Axially Loaded Braces (지부재에 축하중을 받는 K형 관이음부의 내부 환보강재의 설치 및 배치효과 평가)

  • Cho, Hyun-Man;Ryu, Yeon-Sun;Lim, Dong-Joo
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.267-274
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    • 2011
  • The effect of internal ring stiffeners is numerically evaluated for reinforcement of tubular K-joints. Finite element analyses are performed to compute stress of un-stiffened and ring-stiffened K-joints subjected to axial loading. The influence of loading condition and geometrical parameters of ring stiffener on joint behavior is assessed to determine the installation effect of single and double ring stiffeners. The arrangement effect of ring stiffener are evaluated using quantitative analysis compared single ring with double ring stiffeners. Based on the numerical results, practical size of ring stiffener is proposed for design of tubular K-joints.