• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.510.1-510
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• 2001

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.2589-2595
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• 2009

An electromagnetic pump has been designed using Load Distribution Method and Equivalent Circuit Method, and installed in a liquid metal flow system. The relation between the driving power of he electromagnetic pump and the flow rate was proposed. Also, the flow velocity and flow rate has been calculated by treating the Lorentz force as a source term in the Navier-Stokes equation. The calculation results were analyzed and compared with data from a commercial Code, FLUENT. They agreed well with each other within an error of 5%.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2007.05b
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• pp.2638-2641
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• 2007

The magnetohydrodynamic(MHD) pressure drop along a liquid sodium flow was measured in a rectangular duct under a transverse magnetic field. The test section was made of a 3 mm thick stainless steel SUS304 with a $74{\times}5mm^2$ rectangular flow channel. The range of experimental parameters was roughly B=0${\sim}$0.18T and U=0${\sim}$0.9m/s at around $200^{\circ}C$. The differential pressure was measured by a diaphragm seal-type pressure transmitter filled with a high temperature silicon oil within 0.1MPa. The experimental results show a similar pressure drop with the theoretical estimation according to a change of the flow velocity and the magnetic field.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.63-68
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• 2011

The flow-field of a liquid-metal system is very important for the safety analysis and the design of the steam generator of liquid-metal fast breeder reactor. Dynamic neutron radiography (DNR) is suitable for a visualization and measurement of a liquid metal flow and a two-phase flow in a metallic duct. However, the three dimensional DNR techniques is not enough to obtain the velocity information in the wide channel up to now. In this research, a high speed DNR technique was applied to visualize the heavy liquid-metal flow field in the narrow channel with the HANARO-beam facility. The images were taken with a high frame-rate neutron radiography at 250 fps and analyzed with a Particle Image Velocimetry(PIV) method. The images were compared with the results of the commercial CFX code to study the feasibility of DNR technique for the measuring the heavy liquid-metal flow field. The PIV images could discern the turbulent vortex flow in the two-dimensional narrow channel.

• Transactions of the KSME C: Technology and Education
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.257-264
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• 2015

To maintain sustainability of nuclear energy as an important energy source, both safety problem and Spent Nuclear Fuels(SNFs) problem should be solved. In case of Gen-IV reactors such as fast reactor, SNFs can be used as fuels by using fast neutrons. It can be a suitable treatment method of high-level waste in near future. Liquid metals such as Sodium or Lead-Bismuth Eutectic (LBE) can be possibly used as a coolant to use fast neutrons. In this paper, it was described that natural circulation parameter studies, design analyses, material selections and a completion of facilities. To develop a natural circulation facility, thermal hydraulic analyses were performed. Installation technique of liquid metal natural circulation were secured.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.185.1-185
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06b
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• pp.386-391
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• 2001

In this paper, the vibration characteristics of IHTS(Intermediate Heat Transfer System) piping system of LMR(Liquid Metal Reactor) conveying hot liquid sodium are investigated to eliminate the pipe supports for economic reasons. To do this, a 3-dimensional straight pipe element and a curved pipe element conveying fluid are formulated using the dynamic stiffness method of the wave approach and coded to be applied to any complex piping system. Using this method, the dynamic characteristics including the natural frequency, the frequency response functions, and the dynamic instability due to the pipe internal flow velocity are analyzed. As one of the design parameters, the vibration energy flow is also analyzed to investigate the disturbance transmission paths for the resonant excitation and the non-resonant excitations.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.332-338
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• 1990

본 연구는 절연유가 금속 파이프 중을 통과할 때 흐르는 유동전류 특성에 대하여 실험적으로 규명하였다. 유동전류는 파이프 길이, 절연유의 속도 및 온도에 따라 변하는 것이 관측되는데 파이프 길이가 4-6cm부근에서 피이크치가 나타나고 유속의 증가에 따라서는 선형적으로 증가하며 그리고 유의 온도가 약 50.deg.C 부근에서 또한 피이크가 나타나고 있다. 절연유에 전하를 주입시키는 수단으로 코로나 방전을 이용하였으며 부코로나 대전된 절연유의 유동전류가 코로나 대전 시키지 않은 절연유나 정코로나 대전된 절연유의 것보다 큰 값이 관측되었다. 이 결과로부터 고체 액체 접촉시 액체중의 음이온이 화학 포텐셜에 의하여 고체 표면에 흡착된다는 사실과 유동전류의 방향 및 발생기구를 해석할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1996.05b
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• pp.135-140
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• 1996

액체금속로 계통의 중간열교환기 (IHX) 설계 및 해석을 위한 방법론을 개발하기 위한 일차적인 작업으로 일반적인 관-통형 열교환기의 통측 압력 손실에 대한 연구를 수행하여 통측의 유동 특성을 조사하고 이러한 특성을 바탕으로 압력 손실 분석모형 전산 코트 ASTEEPL 을 개발하여 측정자료와 비교한 결과 그 분석결과가 잘 일치하였으며 개발된 분석 모형을 이용하여 관-통형 열교환기 설계 인자와 압력 손실 및 교환기내의 유량간의 관계를 분석 하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.28 no.10
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• pp.1271-1278
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• 2004

In order to measure non-intrusively velocity profile in liquid metal flow, a modified electromagnetic flowmeter was designed, which was based on electromagnetic tomography technique. Under the assumption that flow is fully-developed, axisymmetric and rectilinear, the velocity profile was reconstructed after the flowmeter equation, the first kind of Fredholm integration equation, was linearized. In reconstruction process Tikhonov regularization method with regularization parameter was used. The reconstructed velocity profile had the nearly same as turbulent flow profile which was approximately represented as log law. In addition, flowmeter output fur a fixed magnet rotation angle was linearly proportional to flow rate. When magnet rotation angle was 54$^{\circ}$, axisymmetric weight function was nearly uniform so that the flowmeter gives a constant signal for any fully-developed, axisymmetric and rectilinear profile with a constant flow rate.