암모니아는 지구 온난화의 주범인 이산화탄소 배출이 없는 선박용 친환경 연료이다. 그러나 암모니아는 독성가스이면서 동시에 폭발성 및 부식성 가스로서, 선박용으로 사용되려면 누출에 대비한 안전성이 충분히 확보되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 선박 연 료 준비실에서 암모니아 누출이 발생한 경우, 급․배기구의 위치 변화에 따른 누출 특성에 대하여 해석을 수행하고 환기 거동을 분석 하였다. 누출량은 0.1kg/s로 하고 통풍량은 30 ACH로 하였다. 급기구가 Aft-Top-Stbd, 배기구가 Fwd-Top-Stbd 에 위치 할 경우(Case 1) 가 100 초뒤 평균 암모니아 농도가 가장 높았고 급기구가 Aft-Bottom-Stbd, 배기구가 Fwd-Bottom-Port에 위치하는 경우(Case 14)가 가 장 낮았다. 50초 이후 Case 1은 약 1500ppm 이상의 암모니아 가스가 Aft 쪽으로, Case 14는 Fwd 벽면으로 정체부가 일정하게 나타났 다. 급·배기구 위치와 장비의 배치와 크기에 따라 높이별 암모니아 농도 및 속도가 다르게 분포되고 속도가 상대적으로 느린 부분에 서 정체부가 발생되고 암모니아 농도가 높아졌다. 소량의 암모니아가 10초 동안 0.1kg/s로 누출할 경우 폭발가스의 범위가 높이 1m 정도로 누출 지점 근처에서 형성되어 소량의 암모니아 누출 시 폭발성은 매우 낮았다. 본 연구에서 최적의 급·배기구 위치 조합을 통 해 암모니아 농도를 효과적으로 제어할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 이는 암모니아를 선박 연료로 사용할 때 안전성을 확보하기 위한 설계 기준 마련에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

Ammonia is considered a promising hydrogen carrier due to its high hydrogen density and liquefaction temperature. Considering that the energy efficiency generally decreases as chemical conversion is repeated, it is more efficient to directly use ammonia as a fuel for fuel cells. However, catalysts in direct ammonia fuel cells have the critical issues of sluggish ammonia oxidation reaction (AOR) rate and poisoning of reaction intermediates. In particular, the use of precious metal as cathodic catalysts has been limited due to ammonia crossover and poisoning. In this study, we introduce Fe-based single-atom catalysts with selective activity for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) even in the presence of ammonia. As the Fe content increased, the single-atom structure of the catalysts changed into Fe nanoparticles or carbides. Among our Fe–N–C catalysts, FeNC-50 with a Fe loading amount of 0.34 wt% showed the highest ORR performance regardless of the ammonia concentration. In particular, the difference in activity between the catalysts increased as the concentration increased. The FeNC-50 catalyst showed remarkable stability after 1000 cycles. Therefore, we believe that single-atom dispersion is an important factor in the development of stable non-precious catalysts with high activity and inactivity for the ORR and AOR, respectively.

Livestock wastewater has high potential as one of energy resources because this wastewater is including high organic matter. Therefore the studies attempting to bio-gasification and bio-electricity generation using livestock wastewater is being tried. The pre-treatment system used in this study was the purpose to control the ammonia nitrogen in conjunction with the system and the microbial fuel cell. Because ammonia nitrogen is to inhibit the electricity generation efficiency of microbial fuel cell. These studies were to ascertain the effect of oxidants on the nitrogen removal in the pre-treatment system using catalyst and microbubbles to treat the ammonia nitrogen. The three kinds of oxidant such as air, oxygen (O2), and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) were used to know the ammonia and nitrate nitrogen removal. This system was operated with four kinds of conditions. First method is O2 gas with 100 mL/min with 1ml of 30% H2O2 was supplied to the wastewater. A second method, the O2, with 400 and 1,000 mL/min was supplied through the flow meter before livestock wastewater was flow in the reactor. The last method, air was supplied 800 mL/min. The nitrate removal had no significant difference all conditions except the air supply. On the other hand, the ammonia and nitrate nitrogen removal when oxygen was supplied with 1000 mL O2/min was higher than that of the other conditions. The removal rate when air was supplied 800 mL/min was similar to the value in the supplied with 400 ml O2/min. This result showed that oxidant was important factor to improve the ammonia nitrogen removal rate.