• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2010

Current distribution measurement technique based on a segmented bipolar plate (BP) has been widely adopted to visualize the distribution of current density in a polymer electrolyte membrane. However, a concern is raised how closely the current density of a segmented BP can approach that of a corresponding non-segmented membrane. Therefore, in this paper, the accuracy of the measurement technique is numerically evaluated by applying a three-dimensional, two-phase fuel cell model to a $100\;cm^2$ area fuel cell geometry in which segmented BPs and non-segmented membrane are combined together. The simulation results reveal that the errors between the current densities of the segmented BPs and non-segmented membrane indeed exist, predicting the maximum relative error of 33% near the U-turn regions of the flow-field. The numerical study further illustrates that the erroneous result originates from the BPs segmented non-symmetrically based on the flow channels that allows some currents bypassing flow channels to flow into its neighboring segment. Finally, this paper suggests the optimal way for bipolar plate segmentation that can minimize the deviation of current measured in a segmented BP from that of a corresponding membrane region.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.256-259
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• 2008

Ejector system is a device to transport a low-pressure secondary flow by using a high-pressure primary flow. Ejector system is, in general, composed of a primary nozzle, a mixing section, a casing part for suction of secondary flow and a diffuser. It can induce the secondary flow or affect the secondary chamber pressure by both shear stress and pressure drop which are generated in the primary jet boundary. Ejector system is simple in construction and has no moving parts, so it can not only compress and transport a massive capacity of fluid without trouble, but also has little need for maintenance. Ejectors are widely used in a range of applications such as a turbine-based combined-cycle propulsion system and a high altitude test facility for rocket engine, pressure recovery system, desalination plant and ejector ramjet etc. The primary interest of this study is to set up an applicable model and operating conditions for an ejector in the condition of sonic and subsonic, which can be extended to the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. Experimental and theoretical investigation on the sonic and subsonic ejectors with a converging-diverging diffuser was carried out. Optimization technique and numerical simulation was adopted for an optimal geometry design and satisfying the required performance at design point of ejector for hydrogen recirculation. Also, some ejectors with a various of nozzle throat and mixing chamber diameter were manufactured precisely and tested for the comparison with the calculation results.

• 대한설비공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한설비공학회 2008년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.1053-1058
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• 2008

Porous medium was considered in the present study for the heat transfer enhancement. This was attributed to its high surface area to volume ratio as well as intensive flow mixing by tortuous flow passages. But when the air or water flow through in the porous medium, it is occurred the pressure drop between inlet and outlet. So in the present study investigated simulation result about the pressure drop in the porous medium before apply to heat exchanger. In this simulation, the thickness of the solid inside the porous medium region was varied 0.2 mm to 0.4 mm. And then the simulation result were compared the pressure drop in the same unit cell ($0.5\;mm{\times}0.5\;mm{\times}0.5\;mm$). To make the analysis model, it was assumed the 14-sided tetrakaidecahedron cell which has long been considered the optimal packing cell first proposed by the Lord Kelvin in 1887. And then the simulation is carried out using by STAR-CCM+ which is commercial software. The simulation result can be showed quantified pressure drop by solid effect in the porous medium.

• 청정기술
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.229-234
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• 2015

현재 국내에서 수소 관련 연구에 대한 관심이 매우 크나 수소원으로 사용하는 디젤 등 연료 내 존재하는 황 화합물을 제거하는 흡착 시스템 개발 관련 연구는 매우 미흡한 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 수치해석을 통해 연료전지용 디젤 흡착 탈황반응기에 대한 기초 디자인 연구를 수행하였다. 유량에 따른 반응기 내부의 유동 변화와 출구에서의 황 화합물의 농도를 반응기의 지름 및 길이를 변화시켜가며 해석하여, 출구에서의 황 화합물의 기준 농도 (1 ppm)를 맞추기 위한 탈황 촉매의 성능을 예측하였으며 반응기의 길이 증가가 지름 증가보다 효율적임을 확인하였다. 또한, 충전된 탈황 촉매의 투과율에 따른 내부 유동 및 농도 변화를 살펴보았다. 본 연구 결과는 선박 연료전지용 디젤의 흡착 탈황 반응기 디자인 기초 자료로 활용될 것으로 기대된다. 또한, 연료전지뿐 아니라 일반적으로 정유사에서 생산되는 디젤유의 황 함유량을 감소시키는 저황 시스템 디자인에 활용할 수 있으며 이러한 의미에서 석유화학 산업의 청정화 기술 확보에 이바지할 것으로 기대된다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제24권12호
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• pp.1775-1780
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• 2003

A continuous flow system has been developed to determine trace Cu(II), Mn(II), Ni(II) and Zn(II) in a large volume of water samples by a solvent sublation technique. The mixed solution of 1,10-phenanthroline(phen) and thiocyanate ion was used as ligands for the formation of their ternary complexes. The continuous system was constructed in this laboratory with a peristaltic pump, a mini shaker, three mixing bottles and a flotation cell by connecting each part with a polyethylene tube. The flotation conditions such as the flow rate of sample solution and the injection rates of ligand, buffer and surfactant solutions have been investigated to obtain the best sublation efficiencies. Each solution flowed into the flotation cell through each polyethylene tube by the peristaltic pumps. The ternary complexes were floated and extracted into MIBK in a flotation cell of 2 L by bubbling a nitrogen gas. The absorbances of extracted analytes in MIBK were directly measured by graphite furnace-AAS. The concentrations of 1,10-phenanthroline and thiocyanate ion were $2.6\;{\times}\;10^{-3}$ M and $2.3\;{\times}\;10^{-2}$ M in the mixed solution, respectively. The pH of sample solution was adjusted to 5.0 with a buffer solution and 1%(m/v) sodium lauryl sulphate solution was added as a surfactant to support the effective flotation of the complexes. The $N_2$ gas was bubbled at 30 mL/min for 90 minutes for 20 L of sample. Reproducible results of less than 10% RSD and recoveries of 80-120% could be obtained in real samples.

• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.330-338
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• 2021

An integral electrode-bipolar plate assembly, which is composed of electrode, conductive adhesive film (CAF) and bipolar plate, has been developed and evaluated for application with a vanadium redox flow battery (VRB) to decrease contact resistance between electrode and bipolar plate. The CAF, made of EVA (ethylene-vinyl-acetate) material with carbon black or CNT (Carbon Nano Tube), is applied between the electrode and the bipolar plate to enable an integral assembly by adhesion. In order to evaluate the integral assembly of VRB by adhesive film, the resistivity of integral assembly and the performance of single cell were investigated. Thus, it was verified that the integral assembly is applicable to redox flow battery. Through resistance and contact resistance of bare EVA and CAF films on bipolar plate were changed. Among the adhesive films, CAF film coated with carbon black showed the lowest value in through resistance, and CAF film coated with CNT showed the lowest value in contact resistance, respectively. The efficiency of VRB single cell was improved by applying CAF films coated with carbon black and CNT, resulting in the reduced overvoltage in charging process. Therefore, the energy efficiency of both CAF films, about 84%, were improved than that of blank cell, about 79.5 % under current density at 40 mA cm^-2. The energy efficiency of the two cells were similar, but carbon black coated CAF improved the coulomb efficiency and CNT coated CAF improved the voltage efficiency, respectively.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제29권2B호
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• pp.121-129
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• 2009

본 연구는 효율적이며 정확한 격자생성기법인 분할격자기법을 이용하여 댐붕괴 흐름을 수치모의한다. 분할격자기법은 부분적으로 비구조격자를 사용하지만, 대부분의 흐름영역을 균일한 크기의 Cartesian 격자로 이산화한다. HLLC Riemann 근사해법과 TVD-WAF기법의 유한체적기법을 적용하여 흐름률을 계산하고 분할격자의 영역을 위한 수치모형을 구성한다. 수치모형을 검증하기 위하여 이상적인 하도에서의 정상류, 불균일하도에 의해 형성되는 정상류 및 사각형수조의 자유진동흐름을 모의하여 해석해와 비교하였다. 마지막으로, 실험수로에서 발생한 댐붕괴파의 흐름을 모의하여 관측값과 비교하여 정확하고 안정된 결과를 확인하였다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.292-298
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• 2011

This study examines the effects of the ambient temperature (AT), methanol feeding temperature (MFT), methanol concentration (MC) and methanol flow rate (MFR) on the performance and cell temperature (CT) of a 5-stacked direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC). The AT, MFT, MC, and MFR are varied from $-10^{\circ}C$ to $+40^{\circ}C$, $50^{\circ}C$ to $90^{\circ}C$, 0.5M to 3.0M and 11.7 mL $min^{-1}$ to 46.8 mL $min^{-1}$, respectively. The performance of the DMFC under various operating conditions is analyzed from the I-V polarization curve, and the methanol crossover is estimated by gas chromatography (GC). The performance of the DMFC improves significantly with increasing AT. The open circuit voltage (OCV) decreases with increasing MC due to the enhanced likelihood of methanol crossover. The cell performance is improved significantly when the MFR is increased from 11.7 mL $min^{-1}$ to 28.08 mL $min^{-1}$. The change in cell performance is marginal with further increases in MFR. The CT increases significantly with increasing AT. The effect of the MFT and MFR is moderate, and the effect of MC is marginal on the CT of the DMFC.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.253-258
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• 2012

주조 유동 해석 분야에서 형상 고정 격자계(body-fitted coordinate; BFC)의 적용은 양질의 해석결과를 얻을 수 있음에도 불구하고 격자 생성의 어려움과 효율성으로 인해 많이 사용되지 않고 있다. 반면에 직교 격자계(Cartesian coordinate)는 상대적으로 격자 생성이 쉽고 빠르기 때문에 주조 공정에서 주로 사용되어 왔으나 이 역시 형상을 제대로 표현하지 못함으로써 발생하는 문제들로 인해 올바른 해석 결과를 얻을 수가 없다. 본 연구에서는 PCT(Partial Cell Treatment)를 기반으로 하는 Cut Cell 방법을 직교 격자계에 적용함으로써 이 격자계의 장점은 유지하면서도 정확한 유동 해석 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. Cut Cell 방법으로 간단한 형상의 테스트와 실제 주조 제품에 대한 적용을 해보았다.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.857-862
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to investigate the anti-proliferative mechanism by Trichosanthes kirilowii (TCK) in MCF-7 human breast carcinoma cell. In this study, we used human breast cancer cell line, Michigan cancer foundation-7 cells (MCF-7 cells). They were co-incubated with 30~200 ${\mu}g$/ml TCK for 48 hours, and cell viability was measured by Water-soluble tetrazolium salt-1 (WST-1) assay. After MCF-7 cells were exposed to 60 ${\mu}g$/ml of TCK for 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48 hours, We performed flow analysis cytometry sorting(FACS) and western blot analysis. We investigated the effect of dose-dependent cell growth inhibition by TCK, which could be proved by WST-1 assay. Also, flow cytometry analysis showed that TCK increased percentage of subG1 phase and G2/M phase cell cycle. In addition, TCK induced apoptosis through the expression of caspase-9, -3 and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase(PARP) activation. Moreover, we showed that ATM-dependent G2/M phase arrest by DNA damage and phosphorylation of chk2, cdc25C, cdc2(Tyr15). Taken together, these results suggest that by G2/M phase arrest through DNA damage and inducing of apoptosis through intrinsic pathway, TCK may have potential tumor suppressor in breast cancer.