• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.35 no.10
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• pp.1105-1110
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• 2011

Flow-accelerated corrosion (FAC) is a well-known phenomenon that may occur in piping and components. Most nuclear power plants have carbon-steel-pipe wall-thinning management programs in place to control FAC. However, various other erosion mechanisms may also occur in carbon-steel piping. The most common forms of erosion encountered (cavitation, flashing, Liquid Droplet Impingement Erosion (LDIE), and Solid Particle Erosion (SPE)), have caused wall thinning, leaks, and ruptures, and have resulted in unplanned shutdowns in utilities. In particular, the damage caused by LDIE is difficult to predict, and there has been no effort to protect piping from erosive damage. This paper presents an evaluation method for LDIE. It also includes the calculation results from prediction models, a review of the experimental results, and a comparison between the UT data in the damaged components and the results of the calculations and experiments.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.35 no.10
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• pp.1097-1103
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• 2011

Liquid droplet impingement erosion (LDIE) is caused by the impact of high-velocity droplets entrained in steam or air on metal. The degradation caused by the LDIE has been experienced in steam turbine internals and high-velocity airplane components (particularly canopies). Recently, LDIE has also been observed in the pipelines of nuclear plants. LDIE among the pipelines occurs when two-phase steam experiences a high pressure drop (e.g., across an orifice in a line to the condenser). In 2011, a nuclear power plant in Korea experienced a steam leak caused by LDIE in a pipe through which a two-phase fluid was flowing. This paper describes a study on the design change of a pipe affected by LDIE in order to mitigate the damage. The design change has been reviewed in terms of fluid dynamics by using the FLUENT code.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.201-205
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• 2015

This paper describes thermal flow characteristic in various pipelines: straight pipeline and curved pipeline. In the Arctic and ocean area, pipelines are exposed to a extremely low temperature ($0{\sim}-40^{\circ}C$). In this situation, three-dimensional flow analysis should be analyzed to investigate thermal effects such as pressure drop, temperature change, velocity deficit and distribution change of liquid droplet of internal fluid. Also, due to freezing of water droplet, impingement erosion is expected in the curved pipeline. The stability of the pipelines can be influenced by impingement erosion. In this paper, multi-phase and multi-species analysis was introduced to analyze the flow characteristics and impingement erosion of Arctic and ocean pipelines.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.44 no.12
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• pp.1027-1034
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• 2016

In this research, experimental study about size effect of solid particles on erosion resistance is presented. A high-density polyethylene particle with a mm-sized diameter is accelerated using a two-stage light gas gun up to Mach number of approximately 3.0. An accelerated particle impacts aluminum alloy such as Al1050 and Al6061 T6, and infrared windows such as ZnS and sapphire specimens. For the aluminum alloy, craters that form on the surface of the specimens are measured to characterize the erosion resistance of the material. For the infrared windows, repetitive tests are conducted until a linear or circumferential crack is found to create damage threshold curves that define a material's erosive resistance. From the comparison of test data for various sizes of high-density polyethylene particles, it is found that erosion resistance of material is linearly dependent on the size of particles.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.448-448
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• 2015

급경사면의 세류간 토양침식은 지표면과의 강우입자 충돌에 의한 튀김현상과 면상흐름에 의한 토사이송 능력의 상호작용에 의해 영향을 받는다. 강우운동에너지와 면상흐름이 세류간 토양침식 및 토사유출 발생에 있어서 상대적인 기여도에 대한 연구는 국내뿐만 아니라 전 세계적으로도 미흡하다. 본 연구에서는 강우현상을 재현할 수 있는 강우모의 실험장비와 사면 토양침식 실험을 위한 소규모 토양플롯을 제작하여 실험에 사용하였다. 강우모의에 의한 강우운동에너지는 자연강우의 운동에너지 산정식의 계산결과와 비교했을 때, 약 0.58배의 규모를 재현했다. 강우입자의 충돌을 제어하기 위한 스트립을 토양플롯에 올려놓은 경우와 커버가 없는 나지상태에서 강우모의 실험을 한 경우 사면에서 발생한 지표유출수, 지표하유출수 및 토사유출 자료를 측정하고 분석하였다. 강우강도가 증가함에 따라 지표유출량은 증가하고, 지표하유출량은 상대적으로 감소했다. 지표커버는 지표유출의 첨두유량 발생시간을 지연시켰으며, 지표유출량과 지하수량의 변화를 초래했다. 지표커버에 의해 지표유출량은 평균 1.82배 감소하지만, 토사유출량은 평균 4.93배로 상대적으로 크게 감소하였다. 단위수류력과 토사유출량과 관계를 분석한 결과 강우운동에너지는 토양입자의 튀김현상에 의한 침식을 증가시킬 뿐만 아니라 지표유출수의 유속을 증가시켜 토사이송능력을 가중시키는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.1059-1060
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• 2012

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.1057-1058
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• 2012

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.9-15
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• 2013

Wall thinning of pipeline in power plants occurs mainly by flow acceleration corrosion (FAC), cavitation erosion (C/E), liquid droplet impingement erosion (LDIE). Wall thinning by FAC and C/E has been well investigated; however, LDIE in plant industries has rarely been studied due to the experimental difficulty of setting up a long injection of highly-pressurized air. In this study, we designed a long-term experimental system for LDIE and investigate the behavior of LDIE for three kinds of materials (A106B, SS400, A6061). The main control parameter was the air-water ratio (${\alpha}$), which was defined as the volumetric ratio of water to air (0.79, 1.00, 1.72). In order to clearly understand LDIE, the spraying velocity (${\nu}$) of liquid droplets was controled larger then 160 m/s and the experiments were performed for 15 days. Therefore, this research focuses relation between erosion rate and air-water ratio on the various pipe-flow materials. NPP(nuclear power plant)'s LDIE prediction theory and management technique were drawn from the obtained data.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.21-26
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• 2014

EU-APR1400, the Korean nuclear reactor design for European market adopts a so-called core catcher for ex-vessel molten corium retention and cooling as a severe-accident mitigation system. Sacrificial material, which controls melt properties and modifies melt conditions favorable for corium cooling and retention, is usually employed to protect core catcher body from molten corium. Since molten corium can be ejected through a breach of a reactor pressure vessel and impinged on the sacrificial material with enhanced heat transfer at a severe accident, it is very important to predict ablation rate of sacrificial material due to corium jet impingement accurately for core catcher design. In this paper, sacrificial-material ablation model based on boundary layer theory is suggested and compared with the experimental results by KAERI.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.117-122
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• 2002

This study assesses the wear process of particle impingement erosion which is a major source of erosion among fluid power components. First, Bitter's theory was modified to simplify engineering calculations. Second, actual experiments were conducted to validate the modified equation. And the effect of concentration and size distribution of impinging particles was tested. Little deviation from the prediction of the modified equation was observed. To develop complete analytical approach to the erosion mechanism, further experimental data are required to establish a correlation with other engineering parameters.