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Development of the Educational Micro Gas Turbine Engine Performance Test System (교육용 마이크로 가스터빈 엔진 성능 시험장치 개발)

  • Kho, Seong-Hee;Ki, Ja-Young;Park, Mi-Young;Kong, Chang-Duk;Lee, Kyung-Jae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.31-35
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    • 2008
  • This test cell is developed to provide the fundamentals of operational mechanism and structural configuration, and further to verify thermodynamic calculation with this test data to the institutes or laboratories research and study gas turbine engine for academic purpose. The test cell is installed to monitor and collect real-time data as to temperature, pressure, thrust, fuel flow, and air flow etc. using by NI DAQ(Data acquisition)device and LabVIEW program based on 30lbf-micro turbojet engine.

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The Effect of Spent Medium Recycle on Cell Proliferation, Metabolism and Baculovirus Production by the Lepidopteran Se301 Cell Line Infected at Very Low MOI

  • Beas-Catena, Alba;Sanchez-Miron, Asterio;Garcia-Camacho, Francisco;Contreras-Gomez, Antonio;Molina-Grima, Emilio
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.23 no.12
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    • pp.1747-1756
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    • 2013
  • The aim of this paper was to study the effect of spent medium recycle on Spodoptera exigua Se301 cell line proliferation, metabolism, and baculovirus production when grown in batch suspension cultures in Ex-Cell 420 serum-free medium. The results showed that the recycle of 20% of spent medium from a culture in mid-exponential growth phase improved growth relative to a control culture grown in fresh medium. Although both glucose and glutamine were still present at the end of the growth phase, glutamate was always completely exhausted. The pattern of the specific glucose and lactate consumption and production rates, as well as the specific glutamine and glutamate consumption rates, suggests a metabolic shift at spent medium recycle values of over 60%, with a decrease in the efficiency of glucose utilization and an increase in glutamate consumption to fuel energy metabolism. Baculovirus infection provoked a change in the metabolic pattern of Se301 cells, although a beneficial effect of spent medium recycle was also observed. Both growth rate and maximum viable cell density decreased relative to uninfected cultures. The efficiency of glucose utilization was dramatically reduced in those cultures containing the lowest percentages of spent medium, whereas glutamine and glutamate consumption was modulated, thereby suggesting that infected cells were devoted to virus replication, retaining their ability to incorporate the nutrients required to support viral replication. Recycle of 20% of spent medium increased baculovirus production by around 90%, thus showing the link between cell growth and baculovirus production.

Effect of Interconnect Structure on the Cell Performance in Anode-supported Tubular SOFC Using Three-dimensional Simulation (3차원 수치모사를 통한 연료극 지지식 관형 고체산화물 연료전지의 전지 성능에 대한 연결재 구조 효과)

  • Hwang, Ji-Won;Lee, Jeong-Yong;Jo, Dong-Hyun;Jung, Hyun-Wook;Kim, Sung-Hyun
    • Clean Technology
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.297-303
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    • 2010
  • Effect of interconnect structure on the cell performance in anode-supported tubular solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) has been investigated in this study, employing the Fluent CFD solver. For the robust and reliable theoretical analysis corroborating experimental results, it is of great importance to elucidate the role of interconnect which is electrically connected with electrodes on the cell characteristics. From the fact that the thin interconnect provides the enhanced cell performance, it is revealed that the interconnect thickness is a key parameter that is able to effectively control the ohmic resistance. Under the constant thickness condition, the cell performance does not considerably change with the variation of interconnect width. This is because the current passage along with circumferential direction is not effectively altered by the change of interconnect width in tubular SOFC system.

The Study of the Design and Control for the Hydrogen Recirculation Blower Noise and Vibration Reduction (수소 재순환 블로어 소음 진동 저감을 위한 설계 및 제어에 관한 연구)

  • Bae, Ho June;Ban, Hyeon Seok;Noh, Yong Gyu;Jang, Seok Yeong;Lee, Hyun Joon;Kim, Chi Myung;Park, Yong Sun
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.509-515
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    • 2014
  • At the fuel processing system (FPS) of fuel cell vehicle, hydrogen recirculation blower (HRB) is used for the recirculation of remained hydrogen after reaction. In this paper, noise and vibration improvement of HRB is studied by changing design and control. It is checked the campbell diagram and critical speed for stability of rotor, and housing stiffness is improved using simulation of frequency response function (FRF). A method is suggested that can decrease the unbalance amount of the rotor and impeller which main source of noise and vibration. In order to reduce the noise during deceleration of blower, electrical braking is applied and tested the risk impact of durability. Founded the optimum switching frequency of the motor control, and reduced the idle rpm by increasing of aerodynamic performance. The superiority of paper is proved by measurement of the improved product's noise and vibration.

The implementation of remote IPMC control system using android smartphone (안드로이드 스마트폰 기반의 원격 IPMC 제어시스템 구현)

  • Kim, Gwan-Hyung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.533-539
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    • 2013
  • Recently, Ionic Polymer Metal Composite (IPMC) systems receive great attention in the fields of the medical and biomedical Engineering because of several merits in terms of new actuators and sensors and fuel cell materials. When the voltage is excited to IPMC system, it moves. Conversely, if there are any movement on the IPMC, the IPMC has charge voltage by the internal properties. Therefore the IPMC can be used as a motion sensor or force sensor. In this paper, we identify characteristics of the IPMC and control its movements from remote locations by the smart-phone system based on visual information for monitoring. Additionally, control of movements of the IPMC is realized by transmit motion commands using the smart-phone system with the blue-tooth communication. Unfortunately, there are some deficiencies to perfectly attain physical properties of the IPMC systems from our experiments in this paper. However, in its utilization point of view, we demonstrate that the IPMC has some potentials as new sensors, actuators, and fuel cells.

POWER AND ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES FOR NEXT GENERATION HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE (차세대 복합형 전기자동차의 전력 및 에너지 저장장치)

  • Kim, Min-Huei
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.31-41
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    • 1998
  • Fuel conservation and environmental pollution control are the principal motivating factors that are urging at present widespread research and development activities for electric hybrid vehicles throughout the world. The paper describes different possible energy storage devices, such as battery, flywheel and ultra capacitor, and power sources, such as gasoline engine, diesel engine, gas turbine and fuel cell for next generation hybrid electric vehicle. The technology trend and comparison in energy storage and power devices indicate that battery and gasoline engine, respectively will remain the most viable devices for hybrid vehicle at least in the near future.

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Development and Performance Tests of the Bridge-Transported Servo Manipulator System for Remote Maintenance Jobs in a Hotcell

  • Jin Jaehyun;Park Byungsuk;Ko Byungseung;Yoon Jisup;Jung Ki-Jung
    • Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.257-268
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, a prototype of the Bridge-Transported Servo Manipulator (BTSM) system is introduced, which has been developed to do operation and maintenance jobs remotely in a hot cell. The system consists of a telescopic transporter, a slave arm, a master arm, and a control system. Several tests such as a positional tracking, a weight handling, reliability, and operability have been performed and test results are presented. Based on the test results, an upgraded system which will be used during demonstrations of the advanced spent fuel conditioning process (ACP) has been designed.

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Water Repellent Coating of GDL with Different Concentration of Nano-sized PTFE Solution (나노사이즈 불화탄소수지 용액 농도에 따른 GDL 발수 코팅)

  • Jeong, Moon-Gook;Song, Ki-Se;Cho, Tae-Hwan;Choi, Weon-Kyung
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.323-330
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    • 2009
  • Efficiency of a fuel cell is determined by the generated water. If water is not removed sufficiently, water will be accumulated at GDL, which causes flooding. Therefore, water control is regarded as a crucial factor to sustain fuel ell performance. In this study, PTFE coating on the surface of carbon paper was carried out to establish optimum process for hydrophobic treatment of GDL. Carbon paper was immersed at different concentrations of nano-sized PTFE coating solution. Their characteristics were analyzed systematically by FE-SEM, water contact angle, cyclic voltamogam, XRD and FT-IR. The quantitative correlation between the amount of coated-PTFE on a carbon paper and concentration of coating solution was carefully investigated. It is suggested that the amount of PTFE-coating on a carbon paper can be managed by means of controling concentration of coating solution.

Analysis on the In-cylinder Flow of HIMSEN 6H21/32 Engine (HIMSEN 6H21/32 엔진 실린더 내 유동해석)

  • Yoon, Wook-Hyun;Kim, Jin-Won;Ha, Ji-Soo
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.11b
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    • pp.934-939
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    • 2001
  • In computational study of the flow in piston engines and the flow through moving valves, the use of moving vertices is essential for modelling flows with moving boundaries. The positions of cell vertices in such cases must be allowed to vary with time. To simulate 3-dimensional port-valve and piston-cylinder of HIMSEN 6H21/32 engine, a commercially available code, STAR-CD, was used. Changes in mesh geometry was specified by PROSTAR commands.(i.e. the Change Grid operation in the EVENTS command module.) Control of the intake flow is expected to play an important role as designers seek to obtain better fuel spray characteristics, fuel mixing and mixture preparation, combustion performance, and emissions reductions to meet national standards. As a result of analysis, velocity fields indicate the presence of a structured flow comprised of one pair of counter-rotating vortices under the intake valve during the early induction process. These flow structures remain visible for most of the intake process. As the piston moves towards BDC, these vortices develops into a larger tumbling motion that dominates the flow structure.

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Development of the 3kW Class Low Cost Fuel Inverter System for Residential Power Generation - DC-DC Converter Design and Control for Fuel Cell System (3kW급 주택용에 사용되는 저가의 연료전지용 인버터 시스템 - 연료전지 시스템용 DC-DC 컨버터 설계 및 제어)

  • Lee, S.H.;Cho, M.C.;Hwang, G.D.;Mun, S.P.;Suh, K.Y.;Kwon, S.K.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.07b
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    • pp.1161-1162
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    • 2006
  • 본 논문은 3[kW]급 연료전지와 연료전지의 저전압$[40{\sim}60[Vdc]$)을 승압(380vdc)하기 위한 풀-브리지 DC-DC 컨버터, 그리고 승압된 링크전압을 교류 상용전압(220[Vac], 60[Hz)으로 변환하기위한 단상 풀-브리지 인버터로 구성된 연료전지 발전용 전력변환시스템 중 연료전지 시스템용 DC-DC 컨버터를 제안하였다. 제안한 연료전지 시스템용 DC-DC 컨버터는 변압기 2차측에 배전류 정류회로를 삽입하여 기존의 고주파 변압기 보다 간단하면서 무게 및 부피를 줄였다. 그리고 위상 천이 PWM 제어로 출력 전압을 가변시켜 영전압 스위칭을 달성 함으로써 스위칭 손실을 줄였으며. 효율을 95%이상 달성 하였다.

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