• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2011

Sulfur-Iodine (SI) cycle, which thermochemically splits water to hydrogen and oxygen through three stages of Bunsen reaction, HI decomposition, and $H_2SO_4$ decomposition, seems a promising process to produce hydrogen massively. Among them, the decomposition of $H_2SO_4$ ($H_2SO_4=H_2O+SO_2+1/2O_2$) requires high temperature heat over $800^{\circ}C$ such as the heat from concentrated solar energy or a very high temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor. Because of harsh reaction conditions of high temperature and pressure with extremely corrosive reactants and products, there have been scarce and limited number of data reported on the pressurized $H_2SO_4$ decomposition. This work focuses whether the $H_2SO_4$ decomposition can occur at high pressure in a noble-metal reactor, which possibly resists corrosive acidic chemicals and possesses catalytic activity for the reaction. Decomposition reactions were conducted in a Pt-lined tubular reactor without any other catalytic species at conditions of $800^{\circ}C$ to $900^{\circ}C$ and 0 bar (ambient pressure) to 10 bar with 95 wt% $H_2SO_4$. The Pt-lined reactor was found to endure the corrosive pressurized condition, and its inner surface successfully carried out a catalytic role in decomposing $H_2SO_4$ to $SO_2$ and $O_2$. This preliminary result has proposed the availability of noble metal-lined reactors for the high temperature, high pressure sulfuric acid decomposition.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.421-428
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• 2012

The Sulfur-Iodine (SI) thermochemical hydrogen production process is one of the most promising thermochemical water splitting technologies. In the integrated operation of the SI process, the $O_2$ produced from a $H_2SO_4$ decomposition section could be supplied directly to the Bunsen reaction section without preliminary separation. A $HI_x$ ($I_2+HI+H_2O$) solution could be also provided as the reactants in a Bunsen reaction section, since the sole separation of $I_2$ in a $HI_x$ solution recycled from a HI decomposition section was very difficult. Therefore, the Bunsen reaction using $SO_2-O_2$ mixture gases in the presence of the $HI_x$ solution was carried out to identify the effect of $O_2$. The amount of $I_2$ unreacted under the feed of $SO_2-O_2$ mixture gases was little higher than that under the feed of $SO_2$ gas only, and the amount of HI produced was relatively decreased. The $O_2$ in $SO_2-O_2$ mixture gases also played a role to decrease the amount of a impurity in $HI_x$ phase by only striping effect, while that in $H_2SO_4$ phase was hardly affected.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.71-76
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• 2008

CuFeOx/$Al_2O_3$ catalysts are developed for the use in sulfuric acid decomposition which is a subcycle in thermochemical iodine-sulfur cycle to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Both Cu and Fe components are co-precipitated with Al component to enhance distribution of active components. Developed catalysts are improved in the capability of sulfuric acid decomposition and endurance under highly acidic environment compared to commercial catalysts such as Pt/$Al_2O_3$ and $2CuO{\cdot}Cr_2O_3$. Developed CuFeAlOx catalysts exhibited higher sulfuric acid decomposition ability than $2CuO{\cdot}Cr_2O_3$ and longer endurance trends than Pt/$Al_2O_3$ maintaining comparable performance, respectively.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.507-515
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• 2015

HI decomposition reaction requires a catalyst for the efficient production of hydrogen as a key reaction for hydrogen production in sulfur-iodine thermochemical water-splitting (SI) cycle. As a catalyst used in the reaction, the performance of platinum catalyst is excellent. While, the platinum catalyst is not economical. Therefore, studies of a nickel catalyst that could replace platinum have been carried out. In this study, the characteristics of the catalytic HI decomposition on the amount of loaded nickel (Ni = 0.1, 0.5, 1, 3, 5, 10 wt%) were investigated. As the supported Ni amount increased up to 3 wt%, HI decomposition was found to increase in linear proportion. However, the conversion of $Ni/Al_2O_3$ catalyst loaded above 3 wt% was not linear. It was thought that the different HI decomposition characteristics was caused in the size and metal dispersion of Ni particles of catalyst. The physical property of catalyst before and after HI decomposition reaction was characterized by BET, chemisorption, XRD and SEM analysis.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.157-164
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 SI 공정 시스템에서 헬륨 가열 장치에 대한 설계와 건조 데이터 확보를 위한 파이롯 규모의 헬륨 가열 장치 시스템에 대한 예비 설계 및 해석을 수행하였다. 헬륨 가열기는 LPG연소로를 활용하도록 설계하였고, 열유동 해석을 수행한 결과, 열교환기 출구측에서 LPG 연소가스의 유속이 약 40 m/s가 되었다. 최대온도는 6개의 베플이 설치된 경우가 4개의 베플이 설치된 경우보다 높게 나타나며, 이는 6개의 베플일 때 연소가스에서 헬륨가스로의 열전달이 좋아질 것임을 의미한다. 더불어, 베플수가 많아지면 LPG 연소가스의 유량을 감소시킬 수 있어 연료비용을 저감할 수도 있음을 의미한다. 다만, 베플수를 무한정 증가시키면 입출구의 압력차가 증가되기 때문에 최적의 베플수 선정이 중요하다. 열유동 해석에 이어 수행한 구조해석에서는 헬륨의 유량을 3.729 mol/s, 출구 온도를 $910^{\circ}C$로 유지할 경우 관의 양 끝단에서 지지하는 경우 중간부분의 팽창률이 3.86 mm임을 확인하였다. LPG 연소로 헬륨 가열시스템에서 shell & tube type의 열교환기를 적용하여 $135^{\circ}C$의 헬륨이 $910^{\circ}C$로 가열하여 유출하기 위해서 약 $1300^{\circ}C$의 연소가스 온도 및 52 g/s의 연소가스 유량이 확보되어야 함을 확인하였다.