• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.63-68
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• 2003

Recently, a fuel cell is remarkable for new generation system. The fuel cell generation system converts the chemical energy of a fuel directly into electrical energy. The fuel cell generation is characterized by low voltage and high current. For connecting to general load, it needs both a step up converter and an inverter. The step up converter makes DC to DC and the inverter changes DC to AC. In this paper, full bridge converter and the single phase inverter are designed and installed for fuel cell. Simulation and experimental results are displayed under several load conditions.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.293-300
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• 2006

KIER has been developing a Ru-based preferential oxidation catalysts and a novel fuel processing system to provide hydrogen rich gas to residential PEMFCs system. The catalytic activity of Ru-based catalysts was investigated at different Ru loading amount and different support structure. The obtained result indicated that 2 wt% loaded Ru-based catalyst supported on ${\alpha}-Al_2O_3$ showed high activity in low temperature range and suppressed the methanation reaction. The developed prototype fuel processor showed thermal efficiency of 78% as a HHV basis with methane conversion of 92%. CO concentration below 10 ppm in the produced gas is achieved with separate preferential oxidation unit under the condition of $[O_2]/[CO]=2.0$. The partial load operation have been carried out to test the performance of fuel processor from 40% to 80% load, showing stable methane conversion and CO concentration below 10 ppm. The durability test for the daily start-stop and 8 h operation procedure is under investigation and shows no deterioration of its performance after 50 start-stop cycles. In addition to the system design and development.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.551-560
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• 2011

This paper proposes a grid-tied power conditioning system for the fuel cell power generation, which consists of a 2-stage DC-DC converter and a 3-phase PWM inverter. The 2-stage DC-DC converter boosts the fuel cell stack voltage of 26-48V up to 400V, using a hard-switching boost converter and a high-frequency unregulated LLC resonant converter. The operation of the proposed power conditioning system was verified through simulations with PSCAD/EMTDC software. Based on the simulation results, a laboratory experimental set-up was built with a 1.2kW PEM fuel-cell stack to verify the feasibility of hardware implementation. The developed power conditioning system shows a high efficiency of 91%, which is a very positive result for the commercialization.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.611-612
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• 2006

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• summer
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• pp.204-208
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• 2004

Embedded business will be expanded market more and more since customers seek more wearable and ubiquitous systems. Cellular telephones, PDAs, notebooks and portable multimedia devices could bring higher microprocessor revenues and more rewarding improvements in performance and functions. Increasing battery capacity is still creeping along the roadmap. Until a small practical fuel cell becomes available, microprocessor developers must come up with power-reduction methods. According to MPR 2003, the instruction and data caches of ARM920T processor consume $44\%$ of total processor power. The rest of it is split into the power consumptions of the integer core, memory management units, bus interface unit and other essential CPU circuitry. And the relationships among CPU, peripherals and caches may change in the future. The processor working on higher operating frequency will exact larger cache RAM and consume more energy. In this paper, we propose advanced low power trace cache which caches traces of the dynamic instruction stream, and reduces cache access times. And we evaluate the performance of the trace cache and estimate the power of the trace cache, which is compared with conventional cache.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.207-207
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• 2009

Aspen plus는 Aspentech사에서 개발한 공정모사용 프로그램으로서 다양한 화학종의 열역학적 자료를 기반으로 공정설계, 공정최적화, 공정모니터링 등 공정개발에 활용되고 있다. 연료개질기는 수증기 개질반응, 수성가스전이반응, 선택적화학반응으로 구성된 소규모 수소생산공정에 해당된다. 따라서 Aspen 전산모사를 통해 다양한 조건에서의 운전결과를 모사하여 개질기에 미치는 영향을 분석함으로써 운전조건을 최적화 할 수 있다. 연료개질기의 성능에 영향을 미치는 주요인자는 주로 수증기개질 촉매층 출구온도 및 수증기/탄소 비이다. 수증기개질 촉매층의 출구온도를 $660{\sim}740^{\circ}C$로 변화시키면서 개질가스의 조성, 카본 전환율, 개질효율 등을 비교 분석하였다. 또한 수증기/탄소 비를 3~5의 범위에서 변화시키면서 영향을 살펴보았다. 수증기개질 촉매층의 온도가 높을수록 수소생산량이 증가에 따른 효율 증가가 나타났으며 수증기/탄소 비가 증가할 경우에도 개질효율에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것을 확인하였다. 하지만 실제 개질기의 운전에서는 소재의 제약에 따라 운전 온도에 제약이 있으며 수증기/탄소비의 증가 역시 개질기의 부피 증가로 이어지는 단점이 있다는 것을 고려해야 한다. 따라서 반응기 재질, 크기, 운전온도와 개질효율과의 상관관계를 파악하여 개질기의 특성을 최적화 하여야 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.493-499
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• 2010

Steam reforming (SR) of glycerol, a main by-product of manufacturing process of bio-diesel, for the production of hydrogen was investigated over the Ni-based catalysts. The Ni-based catalysts were prepared by an impregnation method, and characterized by $N_2$ physisorption, CO chemisorption, XRD and TEM techniques. It was found that the Ni/${\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalyst showed higher conversion and catalytic stability for the carbon formation than the other catalysts in the steam reforming of glycerol under the tested conditions. The results suggest that the steam reforming of glycerol over modified Ni/${\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalyst minimized carbon formation can be applied in hydrogen station for fuel-cell powered vehicles and fuel processor for stationary and portable fuel cells.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.17 no.7 s.94
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• pp.1813-1822
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• 1993

An algorithm of fuzzy variable structrue control is proposed to design a closed loop fuel-injection system for the emission control of automotive gasoline engines. Fuzzy control is combined with sliding control at the switching boundary layer to improve the chattering of the stoichiometric air to fuel ratio. Multi-staged fuzzy rules are introduced to improve the adaptiveness of control system for the various operating conditions of engines, and a simplified technique of fuzzy inference is also adopted to improve the computational efficiency based on nonfuzzy micro-processors. The proposed method provides an effective way of engine controller design due to its hybrid structure satisfying the requirements of robustness and stability. The great potential of the fuzzy variable structure control is shown through a hardware-testing with an Intel 80C186 processor for controller and a typical engine-only model on an AD-100 computer.

• Prospectives of Industrial Chemistry
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.10-25
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• 2011

지속적으로 증가하고 있는 에너지 수요에 대처하기 위해 신재생에너지 기술 확보를 위한 노력이 계속되고 있다. 연료전지는 풍력, 태양전지와는 달리 환경적 제약 없이 연속적인 에너지 공급이 가능하여 건물용 분산발전용으로 적합한 요건을 갖추고 있다. 최근 시작된 시범보급 사업으로 건물용 연료전지의 초기 시장 진출이 시작되었고 공공 기관 대체에너지의무화와 그린홈 보급사업 시행으로 시장 확대가 기대된다. 본 논문에서는 건물용 연료전지 시스템의 기본원리와 국내외 개발 동향에 대해 살펴보았으며 핵심부품에 대한 기술개발 현황에 대해 기술하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.106-112
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• 2012

As a fuel cell converts the chemical energy of the fuel cell into electrical energy by electrochemical reaction, the fuel cell system is uniquely integrated technique including fuel processor, fuel cell stack, power conditioning system. The residential fuel cell-PCS(Power Conditioning System) needs to convert efficiently the DC current produced by the fuel cell into AC current using single-phase DC-AC inverter. A single-phase DC-AC inverter has naturally low frequency ripple which is twice frequency of the output current. This low frequency(120Hz) ripple reduces the efficiency of the fuel cell. This paper presents notch filter with IP voltage controller to reject specific 120Hz current ripple in single-phase inverter. The notch filter is designed that suppress just only specific frequency component and no phase delay. Finally, the proposed notch filter design method has been verified with computer simulation and experimentation.