• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.5-11
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• 2004

The failure frequency of the Emergency Diesel Generator(EDG) at Nuclear Power Plants(NPPs) is not so much lower than that of the Marine engines, whereas the running hours of the diesel engine at NPPs is much less than those of the engines for commercial service. The primary factor results from the severe surveillance test requirements such as fast start, large number of starting test, fast load-run, high load running, etc. The other factor comes from the excessive maintenance based on the engine maker's instruction manual that did not incorporate the peculiar characteristics of the diesel engines at NPPs. In this paper, the present preventive maintenance program on the basis of the Pielstick diesel engines was reviewed for the purpose of securing the reliability of the emergency diesel generator at NPPs and the ways for its improvement were presented by referring to the overseas cases for their applications.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.119-120
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• 2018

국내 원자력 발전소의 비상전원공급을 위하여 대체교류디젤 발전기와 납축전지를 사용하고 있다. 납축전지는 온도, 방전 전류, 수명 및 안정성 등에서 리튬계열전지와 비교되고 있으며, 전기적 특성이 우수하고 안정성이 높은 리튬계열전지의 사용이 고려되고 있다. 본 논문은 원전의 비상전원 설계를 위하여 납축전지와 리튬계열전지의 전기적 특성을 비교 분석하였다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.92-92
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• 2010

여수 국가산업단지, 삼성전자 정전사례에서 볼 수 있듯이 대규모 정전사고는 수백억 이상의 경제적 손실이 뒤따른다. 공장 내에 자체 발전소가 있지만 매번 이런 사고가 재연되어 근본적인 해결책이 필요한 상황이다. UPS 및 디젤발전기를 사용하는 경우, 정전사고로 시 UPS DC bus전압이 일정 수준 이하로 떨어지면 발전기가 기동하여 에너지를 공급하는데 발전기의 특성에 따라 전압의 변동이 심하고 초기기동실패 사례가 종종 보고되고 있다. 본 연구는 연료전지와 전력저장장치의 연계를 통해 산업설비에 안정적으로 전원을 공급하고자 하는 방법에 관한 것으로 연계 제어 로직개발과 Load Leveler, Compensator, STS 등 구성요소 개발을 주요 연구 내용으로 하고 있다. 고온형 연료전지의 열적 안정성을 유지하면서 독립전원의 부하 변동에 대응하기 위한 부가 설비가 기존 제품에 추가 장착되어야 하며, 연계 제어 알고리즘의 확보를 위하여 연료전지 모델링 및 통합시스템 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 본 연구에서는 이상과 같은 시뮬레이션 및 백업 모듈 설계 결과를 제시하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1987.11a
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• pp.139-142
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• 1987

It is important to evaluate the voltage characteristics of diesel generator as an emergency power supply in nuclear power plant. On loss of offsite power sources, emergency safeguard loads required to safely shutdown the reactor should be supplied by diesel generator. This paper presents the dynamic stability program to evaluate diesel generator performance as an emergency power system. The results Indicate the diesel generator ability to start the motors successfully seems to life in its impedances and inertias.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.35 no.10
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• pp.1047-1052
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• 2011

Diesel engines are widely used as power supplies for isolated islands as well as emergency power supplies for large-capacity power plants because of their rapid response to operation, high reliability, and good durability. However, diesel engines are also vulnerable to damage or degradation of reliability when high levels of vibration are generated in them. This paper shows experiments and analysis for the determination of the causes of high-vibration phenomena in large-scale diesel engines, which have experienced various power decreases over several years because of the high levels of vibration. The main cause of the vibration is identified as the resonance created by the torsional vibration of its crank axis, and the appropriate countermeasures that were designed worked well when applied in field tests.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.108-118
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• 1997

A commercial nuclear power station contains at least two emergency diesel generates(EDG) to control the risk of severe core demage during the station blackout accidents. Therefore the reliability of the EDG's to start and load-run on demend must be maintained at a sufficiently high level. Until now, a simple assessment of start and load-run success rates was used to calculate the EDG's reliability. However, this method has been found to contain many defects. Recently, the work of Martz et al.(1996) proposed the use of the Bayes estimator to find the EDG's reliability. In this paper, we will propose confidence interval for the Bayes estimator, compare the above two methods and, using practical examples, illustrate why the Bayes estimator method is more reasonable in our situation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.111-118
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• 2006

The Emergency Diesel Generator(EDG) is a very important piece of equipment for the safety of a Nuclear Power Plant(NPP). In this study, the operating vibration or three kinds or EDG system was measured. The target EDG systems art Yonggwang 5 unit, Ulchin 2 unit and Ulchin 3 unit. The Yonggwang 5 and Ulchin 3 unit EDG system is the same type but the foundation systems are different. One is an anchor bolt type and the other is a spring and viscous-damper type. The purpose of this measurement is for a verification of the vibration isolation effect according to the foundation system. As a result. it can he said that the spring and viscous damper system of the EDG performed well for the vibration isolation.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.67-72
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• 2015

The reliable operation of onsite emergency diesel generator(EDG) should be ensured by a conditioning monitoring system designed to maintain, monitor and forecast the reliability level of diesel generator. The purpose of this paper is to develop condition diagnosis algorithm(logic) and analysis program of engine for the accurate diagnosis in actual condition of emergency diesel generator engine. As a result of this study, we confirmed that developed engine condition diagnosis algorithm and analysis program could be efficiently applied for actual EDG engine in nuclear power plant.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.2036-2037
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• 2008

An Emergency Diesel Generator (EDG) manufactured by a French company Wartsila SACM, is a tandem type engine, consisted of two 10 cylindered diesel engines on each side. Manual provided by the manufacturer states that engine bearing requires inspection every 15 years. However, it is difficult for an inspector to access through a manhole located in the lower compartment of engine. Furthermore, during a routine or scheduled maintenance, it is not possible to disassemble main engine bearing and crank shaft, and perform inspection. Two methodologies are suggested here to resolve the problem. One method is to lift the engine and partially perform the maintenance service, and the other method is to disassemble the engine completely and to perform maintenance service by the manufacturer. Pros and cons of two methodologies were thoroughly compared.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.217-222
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• 2007

An Emergency Diesel Generator (EDG) is one of the safety related equipments of a Nuclear Power Plant. The seismic capacity of an EDG in nuclear power plants influences the seismic safety of the plants significantly. A recent study showed that the increase of the seismic capacity of the EDG could reduce the core damage frequency (CDF) remarkably. It is known that the major failure mode of the EDG is a concrete coning failure due to a pulling out of the anchor bolts. The use of base isolators instead of anchor bolts can increase the seismic capacity of the EDG without any major problems. This study introduces a seismic risk analysis method and presents sample results about the seismically isolated and conventional EDG system.