• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11b
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• pp.2845-2849
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• 2008

Long Term Asset Management(LTAM) means a plan developed by using LCM(Life Cycle Management) process for optimum life cycle management of significant plant assets at each plant across the fleet. As a part of development of LTAM Strategies on nuclear turbines, a method so as to determine the future failure rates for low pressure turbine facilities at a nuclear plant was studied and developed by using both plant specific and industry-wide performance data. INPO's EPIX data were analyzed and some failure rate evaluation values considering preventive maintenance practices were calculated by using EPRI's PM Basis software. As the result, failure rate functions applicable to a priori and a posteriori replacement of low pressure turbines at a nuclear plant were developed and utilized in an assessment of economics of LCM alternatives on the nuclear turbine facilities in the respects of 40-year and 60-year operation bases.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.330-336
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• 2021

A typical way to reduce the number of hardware redundancy configurations is to implement them as analytical techniques for detecting, identifying and accepting failures with micro-controller. In this paper, one of the analytical techniques, the fault detection filter, is applied to aircraft turbofan engine system. The fault detection filter is a special type of observer that has the advantage of being able to determine the location of failures by maintaining a constant direction in the output space in the event of a particular failure. We present a single input/output dynamic system modeling of air turbine system in turbofan engine, a fault detection filter design, and simulation results applying it. Simulation results show that fault detection can be effectively applied as a sensitivity effect to the directionality of the detection filter.

• JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL WORLD
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• s.313
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• pp.75-80
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• 2003

에너지와 환경을 조화시킨 자원순환형 사회의 실현을 위해 하수처리장에서도 하수열이나 소화가스 등의 미이용(未利用)네어지의 유효활용이 기대되고 있다. 소화가스는 하수처리장에서 발생하는 에너지 중에서는 큰 비중을 차지하고 있으나 소화조의 가온을 위해 사용되고 있는 정도로 반드시 유효하게 활용되고 있다고는 말할 수 없다. 또 가스엔진의 코제너레이션에 의해 유효하게 할용되고 있는 처리장도 있으나 메인터넌스 비용 등의 문제로 보급되고 있지 않은 것이 실제의 상황이다. 한편, 마이크로가스터빈은 그 구조의 심풀성 때문에 가스엔진과 비교하여 메인터너스 비용의 저감이 기대되고 있어, 소화가스를 연료로 하는 코제너레이션 시스템으로서 앞으로의 보급이 기대되는 발전시스템이다. 그래서 소화가스의 마이크로가스터빈용 연료로서의 적용을 위한 검증과 운영상의 과제를 밝힐 것을 목적으로 북견시 정화센터의 처리장 내에 설치하여 실증시험을 하고 있다. 지금까지 약 4,000시간의 운전실적에서 소화가스에 기인하는 본질적인 문제도 없고 시스템이 안정되게 동작하는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 실증시험설비에는 마이크로가스터빈의 운전상태를 24시간 리모트 감시하는 리모트감시장치를 설치하고 있는데, 운전데이터의 파악과 이상 발생시의 고장진단/기술검토에 유효하게 사용되었다.

• Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.25-31
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• 2007

헬리콥터와 같이 비행 중 고장 또는 작동 불능 시 대처가 용이하지 않고 대형의 참사로 이어지는 비행체에 대해서는 안전이 최우선으로 고려되어야 한다. 미국의 국가교통안전위원회에서는 1963년부터 1997년까지 34년간 민간부문의 회전익기의 사고를 조사하여 분석한 바 있다. 본 논문은 터빈엔진 헬리콥터의 사고 동향을 파악하여 헬리콥터 안전 운항에 기여하고, 또한 한국형 중형 민수헬기를 개발하기에 앞서 주요 설계요소를 고려하기 위하여 NTSB에서 미국의 민수용 단발 및 쌍발 터빈 엔진 헬리콥터 사고에 대하여 유형별로 집계, 조사한 결과를 인용하여 전반적인 사고 경향, 사고 유형 또는 원인, 활동별, 운용 단계 별에 사고에 대하여 심층적으로 비교, 분석하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.379-384
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• 2014

The most critical rotating parts of a gas turbine engine are turbine blades and disc, given that they must operate under severe conditions such as high turbine inlet temperature, high speeds, and high compression ratios. Owing to theses operating conditions and high rotational speed energy, some failures caused by turbine disks and blades are categorized into catastrophic and critical, respectively. To maximize the margin of structural integrity, we aim to optimize the vulnerable area of disc-blade interface region. Then, to check the robustness of the obtained optimized solution, we evaluated structural reliability under uncertainties such as dimensional tolerance and fatigue life variant. The results highlighted the necessity for and limitations of optimization which is one of deterministic methods, and pointed out the requirement for introducing reliability-based design optimization which is one of stochastic methods. Thermal-structural coupled-filed analysis and contact analysis are performed for them.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.42-49
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• 2008

제주 행원 풍력발전단지 내의 풍력발전시스템을 대상으로 연도별 풍력발전시스템의 운전특성과 고장원인이 분석되었다. 이용된 데이터는 2005년과 2006년 4월에서 9월 사이의 기상데이터와 풍력발전기의 운전데이터이다. 그 결과, 풍력자원은 해에 따라 변동이 있음을 확인할 수 있었고, 풍력발전기의 발전량 역시 해에 따라 변동함을 알 수 있었다. 또한 풍력발전기의 고장 또는 정지로 인하여 발전량이 떨어지고 있음을 확인하였고, 후류로 인한 발전량 손실도 추정할 수 있었다. 같은 해에 풍력발전기 1, 2호기를 운전 개시하였지만, 고장 또는 정지원인은 일관성이 없이 다양함을 알 수 있었다. 이 연구에서 시스템이 가장 많은 시간동안 정지한 원인은 기어박스와 요잉장치의 고장으로 분석되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.56-66
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• 2016

Robustness is essential for model based FDI (Fault Detection and Isolation) and it is inevitable to have modeling errors and sensor signal noises during the process of FDI. This study suggests an improved method by applying NARX (Nonlinear Auto Regressive eXogenous) model and Kalman estimator in order to cope with problems caused by linear model errors and sensor signal noises in the process of fault diagnoses. Fault decision is made by the probability of the trend of gradually accumulated errors applying Fuzzy logic, which are robust to instantaneous sensor signal noises. Reliability of fault diagnosis is verified under various fault simulations.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.397-402
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• 2016

To produce adequate electricity in nuclear and thermal power plants, an optimal amount of steam should be supplied to a generator connected to high- and low-pressure steam turbines. A turbine output control device, which is a special steam valve employed to supply or interrupt the steam to the turbine, is operated using a hydraulic servo actuator. In power plants, the performance of servo actuators is degraded by the air generated from the hydraulic system, or causes frequent failures owing to an increase in the wear of the seal. This is due to the seal being burnt as generated heat using the produced compressed air. Some power plants have exhausted air using a fixed orifice, and thus they encounter power loss due to mass flow exhaust. Failures are generated in hydraulic pumps, electric motors, and valves, which are frequently operated. In this study, we perform modeling and analysis of the load-sensing air-exhaust valves, which can be passed through very fine flow under normal use conditions, and exhaust mass flow air at the beginning stage as with existing fixed orifices. Then, we propose a method to prevent failures due to the compressed air, and to ensure the control accuracy of hydraulic servo actuators.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.97-102
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• 2012

Alternate alternating current (AAC) is used in nuclear power plants (NPPs) in order to cope with station black outs (SBOs). AAC has been provided using diesel engine drive types in Korea's NPPs. The structure of gas turbine generators (GTGs) is simpler than that of diesel generators (DGs), and GTGs have the advantage of longer maintenance intervals. However, GTG-AAC was not used in NPPs in Korea because of the lack of operation/maintenance experience. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the safety of APR+ considering a diversity of AAC types. This paper analyzes reliability data, mechanical specifications of DGs and GTGs, and the sensitivity of core damage frequency to the ACC type.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.107-111
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• 2017

The reliability on high cycle fatigue damage mechanism for new blades manufactured by reverse-engineering is demonstrated by success-run test. Turbine blades always experience various dynamic loads in turbine operation, as well as being in resonance condition and forced by fluid-induced vibrations mostly during run-up/down, which may accumulate high cycle damage to the blades. The accidents caused by blade failure especially incur not only a lot of troubles to the machinery but also huge financial losses. Therefore it is necessary to verify the reliability of blades in advance for the safe use. The success run test for the reliability demonstration is designed and performed for the new blades using the technique known as resonant high cycle fatigue testing.