The change in the open porosity of bulk graphite as a function of the uniaxial molding pressure during manufacturing is studied using artificial graphite powder. Subsequently, the graphite is impregnated to determine the effect of the open porosity on the impregnation efficiency and to improve the density of the final bulk graphite. Bulk graphite is manufactured with different uniaxial molding pressures after mixing graphite powder, which is the by-product of processing the final graphite products and phenolic resin. The bulk density and open porosity are measured using the Archimedes method. The bulk density and open porosity of bulk graphite increase as the molding pressure increases. The open porosity of molded bulk graphite is 25.35% at 30 MPa and 29.84% at 300 MPa. It is confirmed that the impregnation efficiency increases when the impregnation process is performed on a specimen with large open porosity. In this study, the bulk density of bulk graphite molded at 300 MPa is 11.06% higher than that before impregnation, which is the highest reported increase. Therefore, it is expected that the higher the uniaxial pressure, the higher the density of bulk graphite.

The object of this paper is to examine the optimum sintering condition which have excellent mechanical properties compared to the conventional oilless bearing. It is shown that the sintering rate is the most excellent at 850°C, especially KAB-23, KAB-23G, PBF-8 specimens. With increasing the nitrogen injection rate, the apparent porosity increased gradually. In contrast, with increasing the hydrogen injection rate, the apparent porosity decreased gradually. It is shown that the apparent porosity is very useful in the range of nitrogen injection rate 2Nm 3 and hydrogen injection rate 10Nm 3 .

A numerical analysis was performed to study PEMFC performance characteristics depending on the flow direction of cathode reactant gas, cathode relative humidity, and porosity of gas diffusion layer. As cathode relative humidity decreases and porosity increases, current density increases due to better diffusion of reactant gas to cathode surface. As current density increases, power density increases initially and then decreases with its maximum located around current density value of 2.2 Amperes per square centimeter. From the analysis of current density distribution inside membrane, the counter-flow cases show more uniform profile across the membrane than the co-flow cases due to more uniform reactant gas supply.

In this paper, a three dimensional numerical analysis tool was applied to study the PEMFC performance characteristics. The porosity and electrical conductivity of GDL and CL as well as the relative humidity of anode and cathode channel gas were selected as simulation parameters. The porosity of GDL and CL was varied as 0.3, 0.5, and 0.7. The relative humidity of anode and cathode was varied as 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, and 100 percent. The electrical conductivity of GDL and CL was varied as 1, 5, 10, 50, 102, and 104 1/Ω·m. For a constant cell voltage condition, the maximum current density was obtained at GDL porosity of 0.7, anode relative humidity of 100 percent, cathode relative humidity of 60 percent, and electrical conductivity of 104 1/Ω·m for GDL and CL. As the porosity of GDL and CL increases, current density increases because reactant gases diffuse well. As the electrical conductivity of GDL and CL increases, current density increases due to increased electron transfer rate. As anode relative humidity increases, current density increases. Unlike anode, current density increases when cathode relative humidity increases from 0 percent to 60 percent. Then current density decreases when cathode relative humidity increases from 60 percent to 100 percent.

A numerical analysis was performed to study PEMFC characteristics depending on GDL porosity and the inlet direction in cathode gas channel using the FLUENT. As GDL porosity increases, temperature increases. For the both of co-flow and counter-flow cases, temperature is higher near the hydrogen inlet region where the chemical reaction rate is high. As GDL porosity increases, current density increases. In overall, counter-flow case gives higher current density compared to co-flow case for the same operating conditions. However, the difference in the current density is not high. The water mass fraction is also higher near the hydrogen inlet region due to the chemical reaction rate for the both of co-flow and counter-flow cases.

In this paper, the PEMFC performance was studied using three dimensional numerical analysis. The effect of GDL porosity and cathode inlet humidity on the cell polarization curve was analyzed. The GDL porosity of 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and cathode inlet humidity of 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 percent were selected as simulation cases while the anode inlet humidity was maintained as 100 percent. For a constant cell voltage condition, the highest current density was obtained at GDL porosity of 0.7 and cathode inlet humidity of 20 percent. As GDL porosity increases, the amount of hydrogen diffusion to membrane from the anode increases and chemical reaction also increases. As cathode inlet humidity decreases, oxygen mass fraction of cathode gas channel increases and chemical reaction also increases.

콘크리트는 일반적으로 구조물에 활용되는 재료로써 다양한 환경조건에 노출된다. 특히 물과 같은 매체를 통해 콘크리트에 유해한 인자가 유입되므로 많은 피해를 야기 시킨다. 이에 콘크리트 내구성을 높이기 위해 많은 재료가 개발되고 있는 실정이다. 그중에 실란과 실록산 화합물은 흡수방지제로 활용도가 높은 재료로 알려져 있다. 그러나 노후화되거나 열화된 콘크리트에 처리할 경우 기재 자체가 약해 쉽게 박리되어 그 기능을 상실하는 문제점이 있다. 그래서 본 연구에서는 실록산 화합물로 표면 처리된 멜라민-포름알데히드 수지를 활용해 콘크리트에 흡수방지제 효과와 동시에 표면강화 성능을 부여하기 위한 실험을 진행하였고, 이를 확인하기 위해 콘크리트의 기공률 및 표면경도 특성을 연구하였다.