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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2010.34.7.935

Vibration Analysis of a Cooling Fan Gear Reducer of the Secondary Cooling Tower in HANARO  

Park, Young-Chul (Dev. of Research Reactor Engineering, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.34, no.7, 2010 , pp. 935-941 More about this Journal
Abstract
HANARO is an open-tank-in-pool-type Korean research reactor that generates 30MW of thermal power. It differs from power plant reactor in that the heat generated by HANARO is exhausted into the atmosphere through a secondary cooling tower, thus maintaining the core temperature constant. During every monthly inspection of the cooling tower, large vibrations that exceeded the permissible limit were observed at cooling fan gear reducer No. 4 of the cooling tower. The purpose of this study is to identify the origin of the large vibration and to repair it. FFT spectrum analysis is performed to identify the part that caused the large vibration. The results of the frequency analysis showed that the vibration frequency was 354 Hz, which is twice the natural frequency of the pinion gear. A check of the pinion gear revealed that there was a crack on the surface of the pinion gear. After the gear was replaced, the reducer operated normally.
Keywords
HANARO; Cooling Tower; Gear Reducer; High Vibration Analysis;
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