• Nuclear industry
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• 제20권6호통권208호
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• pp.31-44
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• 2000

본 연구에서 액체금속로의 노심용융(core meltdown)으로 인한 초 즉발 임계(super-prompt critical)의 출력 폭주 사고시, 노심의 반응도 및 열수력 특성 변화와 에너지 방출량등을 계산하기 위하여, Bethe-Tait 방버론을 수정, 보완한 분석 모델이 개발되었다. 주요 보완 내용으로서는, 금속 연료 노심의 단상 액체 영역에서의 선형의(Linear) threshold 형태의 상태 방정식뿐만 아니라 포화 증기(saturated fuel vapor) 영역에서의 상태 방정식이 개발되었고, 이에 따른 노심 붕괴 반응도(disassembly reactivity)의 분석 모델이 개발되었다. 또한 도플러 반응도 효과를 고려하기 위한 분석모델도 아울러 개발되었다. 상기 보완 모델을 실행할 수 있는 수치 해석 프로그램이 개발되었고, 이를 활용하여 KALIMER에서 HCDA가 발생하였을 경우 노심에서의 에너지 방출량 계산이 수행되었다. 분석결과 도플러 효과와 포화 증기 영역에서의 압력 증가 및 노심팽창의 중요성이 확인되었다. 도플러 효과가 고려되지 않을 경우 HCDA는 분석된 모든 반응도 삽입률에 대하여 폭발적인 에너지 방출과 함께 사고가 종결되는 것으로 평가되었다. 그러나 도플러 상수가 최적 평가치인 -0.002인 경우 50$/s이하의 반응도 삽입률에서는 노심은 비등점(0.8KJ/g)에 도달치 않았으며, 설계 기준 사고인 100$/s의 경우에도 노심은 포화 증기 영역에 머물고 압력이 급격히 증가하는 단상(single phase)액체 영역의 threshold 값에 미치지 않기 때문에 사고는 핵연료 증기(vapor)의 점진적인 분산과 함께 종결되는 것으로 분석되며, 총 에너지 발생량은 약 1,800MJ로서 기계적 손상 에너지로 전환되는 분율을 고려할 때 KALIMER 원자로 용기의 구조 설계 기준치에 비해 상당한 여유도를 갖는 것으로 평가되었다.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.237-246
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• 2002

If the safety depressurization system of APR-1400, the Korean next generation reactor, is in operation, water, air and steam are successively discharging into a in-containment refueling water storage tank through spargers. Among the phenomena occurring during the discharging processes, the air bubble clouds produce a low-frequency and high-amplitude oscillatory loading, which may result in the most significant damages to the submerged structures if the oscillation frequency is the same or close to the natural frequency of the structures. The involved phenomena are so complicated that most of the prediction of frequency and pressure loads has been resorted to experimental work and computational approach has been precluded. This study deals with a numerical simulation on the behavior of air bubble clouds discharging into a water pool through a sparger, by using a commercial thermal hydraulic analysis code, FLUENT, version 4.5. Among the multiphase flow models, the VOF (Volume Of Fluid) model was selected to simulate the water, air and steam flows. A satisfactory result was obtained comparing the analysis results with the ABB-Atom test results which had been performed for the development of sparser.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.30-38
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose a method for extracting thermal data from thermal image and improving detection of heating equipment using the data. The main goal is to read the data in bytes from the thermal image file to extract the thermal data and the real image, and to apply the composite image obtained by synthesizing the image and data to the deep learning model to improve the detection accuracy of the heating facility. Data of KHNP was used for evaluation data, and Faster-RCNN is used as a learning model to compare and evaluate deep learning detection performance according to each data group. The proposed method improved on average by 0.17 compared to the existing method in average precision evaluation.As a result, this study attempted to combine national data-based thermal image data and deep learning detection to improve effective data utilization.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.328-339
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• 1991

A multi-purpose research reactor called KMRR has been developed by Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute(KAERI) to generate a maximum thermal output of 30 MW. As a part of thermal hydraulics study, pressure drop characteristics of the longitudinally finned fuel rod bundles were experimentally investigated in a recirculating water test loop. The present study is focused on the investigation of fin effects on pressure drop and the development of pressure drop correlation for the finned rod bundles in a wide range of flow conditions. Friction factor correlations for each design of the finned rod bundles are developed. The value of friction factor for the finned rod bundles was higher than the analytical solution (64/Re) of laminar circular channel new but became lower than the Blasius equation as Reynolds number was increased.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.259-266
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• 2003

Load reduction ring (LRR) was installed on the ABB-Atom sparger to reduce the oscillatory loadings due to the air bubble clouds in the water pool in case of safety relief system operations. In order to investigate the effect of LRR on the pressure field, a numerical simulation on the behavior of air bubble clouds discharging into a water pool through a ABB-Atom sparser without LRR was performed by using a commercial thermal hydraulic analysis code, FLUENT 4.5. Among the multi-phase models contained in the code, the VOF (Volume Of Fluid) model was used to simulate the interface of water, air and steam flows. By comparing the analysis results with the previous ones, the load reduction ring has an effect on reducing the oscillatory loads at the wall. It also includes the effect of air mass and inlet boundary conditions of the pipe on the pressure oscillations at the wall.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.1-8
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• 1985

인류에 필수불가경한 에너지는, 석유, 석탄과 같은 화석연료에 의한 염에너지와 수력, 조력, 파력, 풍력 등의 비열에너지가 있으나, 에너지이용량중 열에너지가 절대적 우위를 점하고 있다. 열에너 지는 전기한 화석연료 뿐만 아니라, 태양집, 태양열발전소와 같은 태양열에너지의 직접이용, 핵에 너지의 열에너지전환, 지열, 해수의 온도차이용등, 열에너지는 다량하면서 막대한 에너지량을 보 유하고 있는 실정이지만, ㅈ로 석유자원에 의존하여 온 것이 현상이다. 그러나, 1970년대 초기에 엄습한 석유파동이래, 세계적으로 에너지위기감에 사로잡혀, 세계각국은 탈석유화에 따른 에너지 의 다양화와 에너지절약이 감소되게 되었다. 연료절약에 관하여 말하면, 에너지이요의 효율화를 적극적으로 도모함에 있어서 열에너지이용에 관한 평가방법에 새로운 검토가 가해져서, 더 합 리적인 평가방법의 확립이 필요하게 되었다. 이를 위해서는 종래의 열역학 제1법칙에 의한 열 에너지의 양적평가 뿐만 아니라, 열역학 제2법칙에 의한 질적평가의 중요성이 인식되어, 유효에 너지(available energy) 또는 엑세르기(Exergie)의 개념이 위상되고 있다. 물론 이 개념을 적용 하여 열역학 제2법칙에 의한 해석에 따른 일정산(heat balance)에 있어서 전혀 새로운 결과가 얻어지는 것은 아니지만, 지금까지는 열정산에 있어서 열역학 제1법칙에 의한 평가방법만이 강 조되어, 열역학 제2법칙에 의한 평가방법은 거의 도외시되어온 것이 실정이며, 우리나라에서 발 간되는 열역학에 관한 도서에서도 이에 관한 검토 내용이 거의 찾아볼수 없거나, 가령 언급된 것이 있다 하더라도 그 내용이 간략하여 그 중요성이 경시되어온 것이 사실이다. 그러나 열역학 제2법칙에 의한 에너지정산에 의하여, 제1법칙에 의한 것보다 열에너지의 합리적이고 또한 유 효한 과학적평가가 가능하게 되어, 장치나 기기의 개선에 구체적이면서 합리적인 지침이 주어 지게 된다. 그리하여 이들 개념과 방법의 소개가 필요하다고 생각되어, 지금부터 우리들이 잘 아는 용어를 사용하여 해설을 서로 하기로 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.71-79
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• 2014

A parallelization of the bi-conjugate gradient solver for the pressure equation of the CUPID (component unstructured program for interfacial dynamics) code, which was developed for analyzing the components of a pressurized water-cooled reactor, was studied in a symmetric multi-processing system. The parallel performance was investigated for three typical parallel programming models (MPI, OpenMP, Hybrid) by solving incompressible backward-facing step flow at various grid resolutions. It was confirmed that parallel performance was low when problem size was small or the memory requirement for each thread was considerably higher than the cache memory. Furthermore, it was shown that MPI was better than OpenMP regardless of the problem size, and Hybrid was the best when the number of threads was relatively small.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.168-177
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• 1992

The importance of the study of two phase flow phenomena has increased for both fuel performance and safety analysis of nuclear power plants. In the analysis of two phase flow system, an accurate prediction of local void fractions is very important. In this study, a vertical rectangular subchannel having 4 electrically heated rods is constructed for the measurement of local void fraction under two phase flow. The measurement has been conducted by electrical conductivity probes and signal processing circuit which are known to be adequate to measuring local void fraction. Also experiments are performed with varying the inlet flow rate to search for radial void fraction profile accordingly to the different flow rate even with the same averaged void fraction. From the result of experiments, the validity of electrical conductivity probe and electrical circuit is confirmed.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2011

In this study, we investigated the hydrodynamic and thermal performance of constructal architectures on the basis of the mass flow rates for a given pressure drop, and we determined the thermal resistance and flow uniformity. The five flow configuration used in this study were the first construct with optimized hydraulic diameter, the second construct with optimized hydraulic diameter, the first construct with non-optimized hydraulic diameter, second construct with non-optimized hydraulic diameter, and a serpentine configuration. The results of our study suggest that the best fluid-flow structure is the second constructal structure with optimized constructal configurations. We also found that in the case of the optimized structure of cooling plates, the heat transfer was remarkably higher and the pumping power was significantly lower than those of traditional channels.

• Journal of computational fluids engineering
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2014

We develop a numerical method for solving the radiation hydrodynamic equations in one-dimensional spherical coordinates. The present method is validated through simulations of shock tube, thermal radiative diffusion and point explosion problems. The transient growth of the fireball is investigated by varying explosion yields. The present study clearly captures well-known breakaway phenomena related to the shock separation between pressure waves and thermal shock front. The fireball radius at the breakaway point is roughly increased by the yield to power of 0.4.