• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.65-70
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to verify availability of the acoustic emission in-situ monitoring method to the internal leak and operating conditions of the turbine major valves relating to safety for turbine operating and prevention of turbine trouble at nuclear power plants. In this study, acoustic emission tests are performed when the pressurized electro-hydraulic control oil flowed through turbine electro-hydraulic controller oil check valve and turbine power/trip fluid solenoid valve in the condition of actual turbine operating. The acoustic emission method was applied to the valves at the site, and the background noise was measured far the abnormal plant condition. To judge for the leak existence ell the object valves, voltage analysis and frequency analysis of acoustic signal emitted from infernal leak in the valve operating condition are performed. It was conformed that acoustic emission method could monitor for valve internal leak to high sensitivity.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.37-46
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• 1991

The pitch estimation algorithms witch have proposed until now are difficult to detect wide range pitches regardless of age or sex. A little deviation are observed with reference to the center pitch in the distribution diagram of pitches, since pitches are characterized by a physical limitation of the coarticulation mechanism. If the center pitches are refered to the accurate pitch extraction procedure, the algorithms will be not only simplified in procedure but also improved in accuracy. In this paper, we proposed an algorithm that the center pitches are accurately detected by using the spectrum leakage phenomenon for the noise speech signals.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.394-398
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• 2014

Steam leakage is one of the major issues for the structural fracture of pipes of nuclear power plants. Therefore a method to inspect a large area of piping systems quickly and accurately is needed. Recently, the research detecting the steam leakage by using camera image is introduced. However, this method has a disadvantage. If a camera oscillates, it cannot detect a steam leakage exactly. In this paper, the technique that reduces the error due to a camera shaking is proposed. To verify the proposed method, we have performed the experiments for the oil leakage experiments. The results show that the technique can calibrate the error due to camera shaking.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.24 no.10
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• pp.795-801
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• 2014

Steam leakage is one of the major issues for the structural fracture of pipes of nuclear power plants. Therefore a method to inspect a large area of piping systems quickly and accurately is needed. Recently, the research detecting the steam leakage by using camera image is introduced. However, this method has a disadvantage. If a camera oscillates, it cannot detect a steam leakage exactly. In this paper, the technique that reduces the error due to a camera shaking is proposed. To verify the proposed method, we have performed the experiments for the oil leakage experiments. The results show that the technique can calibrate the error due to camera shaking.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.52 no.10
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• pp.475-483
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• 2003

In this paper, dynamic characteristics of the magnetic flux leakage(MFL) type non-destructive testing(NDT) are analyzed. Effects of a sensor speed in MFL PIG system and remanent magnetization of the gas pipeline are analyzed by using 3 dimensional nonlinear finite element analysis including eddy current and hysteresis characteristics. Results show that the speed of the sensor reduces the magnitude of the sensing signals where as the hysteresis of the pipeline distorts the sensing signals.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.39-44
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to verify availability of the acoustic emission in-situ monitoring method to the internal leak and operating conditions of the major valves at nuclear power plants. In this study, acoustic emission tests are performed when the pressurized temperature water and steam flowed through glove valve(main steam dump valve) and check valve(main steam outlet pump check valve) on the normal size of 12 and 18". The valve internal leak monitoring system for practical field was designed. The acoustic emission method was applied to the valves at the site, and the background noise was measured for the abnormal plant condition. To improve the reliability, a judgment of leak on the system was used various factors which are AE parameters, trend analysis, frequency analysis, voltage analysis and amplitude analysis of acoustic signal emitted from the valve operating condition internal leak.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.63-68
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• 2004

The high pressure vessels that are constructed by welding process have many welding lines and most of the leakage defects are occurred on these welding lines. The acoustic emission(AE) technique has adopted to detect the defect location and leakage on welding parts, but the AE signal in leakage are incomplete due to the attenuation, reiteration, instability and limit of defect size. To overcome these troubles, the experiments in this study are conducted to measure the indirect media-propagated AE signal perpendicular to the leakage hole. The AE signals that are acquired from the direct and indirect media are analyzed, and the reliability of the indirect media-propagated AE signal are examined experimentally. By AE signal investigation, this method can be adopted to detect efficiently the leakage in welding parts.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.9B
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• pp.1330-1341
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• 2010

Power analysis (PA) is known as a powerful physical attack method in the field of information security. This method uses the statistical characteristics of leaked power consumption signals measured from security devices to reveal the secret keys. However, when measuring a leakage power signal, it may be easily distorted by the noise due to its low magnitude values, and thus the PA attack shows different performances depending on the noise level of the measured signal. To overcome this vulnerability of the PA attack, we propose a noise-reduction method based on wavelet de-noising. Experimental results show that the proposed de-noising method improves the attack efficiency in terms of the number of signals required for the successful attack as well as the reliability on the guessing key.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.392-397
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• 1997

고리 2호기 주급수 차단밸브의 경우 다른 호기와는 달리 구동용 질소압력 측정스위치에 의한 닫힘 연동신호가 설치되어 있다. 이러한 연동신호는 벨브 구동용 반구내 질소 압력 스위치 "고" 오동작에 의한 밸브차단 가능성이 있으며 이 경우 질소압력스위치가 저/고 경보창에 COMMON되어 있어 원인 규명에 어려움이 있다. 또한 질소압력 스위치 고장 및 질소가스 누설시 작업수행이 어렵고 위험이 따른다. 이러한 70년대 발전소 설계의 과잉설비를 제거하므로서 최적운전과 경제성 향상에 기여할 수 있으며 아울러 유지정비의 용이성과 밸브 불시닫힘을 미연에 예방할 수 있으리라 예상된다. 이와 관련하여 발전소 계통안전성, 기기안전성을 평가한 결과 기존의 안전해석결과가 유효하며 또한 FSAR 수정없이 이러한 설비변경이 가능하다는 결론에 도달하였다.결론에 도달하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07g
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• pp.2433-2435
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• 1998

원자력발전소의 증기발생기는 기능상으로도 중요한 역할을 하지만 증기발생기 내의 전열관 손상이나 누설은 바로 방사능 누출의 원인이 되므로 원자력 발전소의 안전성 측면에서 보면 매우 중요한 설비이다. 따라서, 증기발생기 전열관은 정기보수시 마다 전열관 각각에 대해 비파괴검사의 일종인 와전류검사(Eddy Current Testing, ECT)를 통해 건전성을 평가하고 있다. 현재는 신호를 취득하고 평가하는 업무가 별개의 기관에서 수행하고 있으며 이를 위해 현장에 관련 인력과 장비가 이동되어야 한다. 그러나, 취득한 신호를 평가자가 on-line으로 받을 수 있고 그 결과를 이용하여 즉시 피드백이 가능하다면 평가기관의 인력은 현장에 있지 않더라도 평가가 가능하다. 그러므로, 원격 평가 환경을 구축한다는 것은 평가자가 굳이 현장에 가지 않더라도 지역에 상관없이 LAN을 활용하여 전국 어디서든 평가가 가능하도록 하고자 함에 있다.