33 Prof. Chul Park
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 373-1 Guseong-dong Yuseong-gu Daejeon 305-701 Korea jckim@kari.re.kr. cpark216@kaist.ac.kr
Economy of Hydrogen Production by Parafoil-Pulled Ships
J. C. Kim1, C. Park2
1Korea Aerospace Research Institute, 2Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Economy of the method of producing hydrogen proposed ear-lier by the present authors, in which liquefied hydrogen is to be produced on board a ship pulled by parafoils, is examined. Performance calculation is made for two representative such ships, a one-thousand tonner made using currently availa-ble components and the other a ten-thousand tonner using upgraded components, while constraining the ship’s speeds to be those of existing similar ships. Price of liquefied hydro-gen so produced is estimated using the parameters extrap-olated from the data for existing liquefied natural gas tank-ers. Results show that the price of hydrogen produced by the one-thousand tonner would be 3.1 US dollar per gasoline gal-lon equivalent, which is nearly the same as that by the wind turbine-electrolysis method. The price of hydrogen produced by the ten-thousand tonner would be about 1.2 dollar per gasoline gallon equivalent, which is the same as that by the nuclear-thermochemical method.
Prof. Chul Park is a graduate of Imperial College London, 1964, worked in NASA for 37 years and in Tohoku University
for 3 years before joining Korea Advanced Institute of Sci-ence and Technology in 2003. He participated in the making of the Apollo vehicle, was recognized as one of the one-hun-dred people that made the Space Shuttle vehicle, and was a major contributor to the Project Galileo in which a space-craft was sent to the planet Jupiter. He is a Fellow of Amer-ican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a recipient of two medals from the U.S. government and two highest hon-ors from American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the author of the graduate textbook titled Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics used widely, and is one of the most quoted authors in the world.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology is South Korea’s premier Engineering University modeled after Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Park teach-es aerothermodynamics and hypersonic vehicle dteach-esign in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. He conducts research on many topics of high speed flight and green energy technology.
