• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.251-253
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• 2015

선박에 의한 위험물 운송의 증가로 제정된 IMDG Code를 제정하고, 선원들은 그 규정에 따라 업무를 수행하고 있으며 몇 차례 개정이 되면서 위험물 안전운송 전문교육을 의무화하고 있다. 하지만 해마다 위험물에 의한 선박화재 및 폭발사고는 계속 일어나고 있으며, 이것은 위험물에 대한 기본 정보와 규정만 있으나 위험화물에 대한 자체 반응경로나 왜 규정대로 해야 하는지에 대한 정보가 선원들에게는 부족하다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 그리하여 최근에 발생한 선박화재 및 폭발사고 사례를 조사해보고, 적재된 화학물질 에 대한 기본정보를 분석하고 화재가 일어날 수 있는 가능성에 대해 화학적으로 접근 해석해 보았다. 화재의 원인은 다양하지만 기상 실험을 할 수 없는 어려움이 있어, 적재된 위험물의 정보와 대표적인 반응을 알아보고 화재원인을 가정해 보았다. 선원들은 IMDG Code에 대한 규정 이외에도 이러한 기본정보와 반응경로에 이해를 한다면 위험화물의 운송에 있어 위험한 환경요소를 제거할 수 있어 화재 및 폭발사고를 예방 할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.784-789
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• 1997

원자력 발전소에서의 중대사고시, 고온의 노심 용융물이 원자로 공동으로 떨어지면 노심용융물과 콘크리트간의 반응(MCCI)에 의한 여러가지 현상으로 인해 격납용기의 건전성을 위협할 수 있다 본 연구에서는 국내 원전에서의 MCCI 현상에 대한 실험과 해석결과를 살펴보았다. 실험은 영광원전 3,4호기 원자로 공동구조물의 콘크리트를 대상으로 thermite 20kg을 사용한 것이며 해석은 MELCOR 코드내의 MCCI 상세해석 모듈인 CORCON-MOD3를 이용하였다. 해석에 사용된 콘크리트의 화학성분과 열물성은 실험을 통하여 측정한 값을 사용하였으며 해석결과는 실험 결과와 비교하였다. 또한 GORCON 코드에서의 MCCI 현상의 해석시 용융물의 초기온도, 용융물의 질량, 콘크리트의 종류에 따른 예측결과들을 비교하였다. MCCI 현상의 해석시 콘크리트의 종류에 따른 가스발생량과 구성성분의 변화가 크게 나타남으로 콘크리트의 화학적 구성성분을 적합하게 입력하여야 한다. 콘크리트로의 종류에 따른 하부로의 열유속은 크게 차이가 없으나 침식율은 크게 차이가 나며 이는 콘크리트의 상변화 잠열의 차이에서 기인한 것이다. CORCON 코드는 실험에 비해 작은 침식율을 예측하고 있으며 콘크리트의 침식율은 용융물의 양에 비해 초기온도의 변화에 더 큰 영향을 받는 것으로 예측하고 있다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.425-430
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• 2012

In this study, a preconverter of an MCFC for an emergency electric power supplier is numerically simulated to increase the hydrogen production from natural gas (methane). A commercial code is used to simulate a porous catalyst with a user subroutine to model three dominant chemical reactions-steam reforming, water-gas shift, and direct steam reforming. To achieve a fuel conversion rate of 10% in the preconverter, the required external heat flux is supplied from the outer wall of the preconverter. The calculated results show that the temperature distribution and chemical reaction are extremely nonuniform near the wall of the preconverter. These phenomena can be explained by the low heat conductivity of the porous catalyst and the endothermic reforming reaction. The calculated results indicate that the use of a compact-size preconverter makes the chemical reaction more uniform and provides many advantages for catalyst maintenance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.93-98
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• 1997

도시폐기물의 효율적인 소각 처리를 위해서 폐기물 처리량 50 ton/day의 화격자 소각로를 대상으로 화학반응을 고려하여 연소실 내부의 열유동 현상을 전산모사하였다. 수치해석 프로그램으로 상용코드인 PHOENICS를 사용하여 3차원 모사를 하여 실험으로 파악할 수 없는 연소실 내부의 유동 및 폐기물과 산화제와의 반응을 계산하였다. 건조부, 주연소부, 후연소부에 1차연소용공기, 연료의 분포 및 폐기물의 발열량이 노내 열유동 현상에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 1차연소용 공기의 분포에 따라 노내 유동장의 형태에 변화가 있었으며, 벽면에서의 복사열전달을 고려한 경우 2차연소실과 출구근처에서 온도분포가 파일롯트 플랜트 실험결과와 잘 일치하는 r서으로 나타났다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.365-373
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• 2010

A chemical reactor model (CRM) was developed for a jet stirred reactor (JSR) to predict the emission of exhaust such as NOx. In this study, a two-PSR model was chosen as the chemical reactor model for the JSR. The predictions of NO formation in lean premixed methane-air combustion in the JSR were carried out by using CHEMKIN and GRI 3.0 methane-air combustion mechanism which include the four NO formation mechanisms. The calculated results were compared with Rutar's experimental data for the validation of the model. The effects of important parameters on NO formation and the contributions of the four NO pathways were investigated. In the flame region, the major pathway is the prompt mechanism, and in the post flame region, the major pathway is the Zelodovich mechanism. Under the lean premixed condition, the N2O mechanism is the important pathway in both flame and postflame regions.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.4 no.1 s.9
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• pp.40-48
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• 2000

A fuel cell is an electrochemical device continuously converting the chemical energy in a fuel and an oxidant to electrical energy by going through an essentially invariant electrode-electrolyte system. Phosphoric acid fuel cell employs concentrated phosphoric acid as an electrolyte. The cell stack in the fuel cell, which is the most important part of the fuel cell system, is made up of anode where oxidation of the fuel occurs cathode where reduction of the oxidant occurs; and electrolyte, to separate the anode and cathode and to conduct the ions between them. Fuel cell performance is associated with many parameters such as operating and design parameters associated with the system configuration. In order to understand the design concepts of the phosphoric fuel cell and predict it's performance, we have here introduced the simulation of the fuel-cell stack which is core component and modeled in a 3-dimensional grid space. The concentration of reactants and products, and the temperature distributions according to the flow rates of an oxidant are computed by the help of a computational fluid dynamic code, i.e., FLUENT.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.225-232
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• 2012

A chemical reactor network (CRN) was developed for a lean premixed gas turbine combustor to predict the emission of pollutants such as NOx and CO. In this study, the predictions of NOx and CO emissions from lean premixed methane-air combustion in the gas turbine were carried out using CHEMKIN and a GRI 3.0 methane-air combustion mechanism, which includes the four NO formation mechanisms for various load conditions. The calculated results were compared with experimental data obtained from a modified test combustor to validate the model. The contributions of the four NO pathways were investigated for various load conditions. The effects of nonuniformity of the mass flux and of the equivalence ratio of the injector on the NOx formation were investigated, and a method of reducing the pollutant formation was suggested for the development of a sub-10 ppm gas turbine combustor.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.157-163
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• 2010

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are commonly composed of ceramic compartments, and it is known that the physical properties of the ceramic materials can be changed according to the operating temperature. Thus, the physical properties of the ceramic materials have to be properly predicted to develop a highly reliable simulation model. In this study, several physical properties that can affect the performance of SOFCs were selected, and simulation models for those physical properties were developed using our own code. The Gibbs free energy for the open circuit voltage, exchange current densities for the activation polarization, and electrical conductivity for the electrolyte were calculated. In addition, the diffusion coefficient-including the binary and Knudsen diffusion mechanisms-was calculated for mass transport analysis at the porous electrode. The physical property and electrochemical reaction models were then simulated simultaneously. The numerical results were compared with the experimental results and previous works studied by Chan et al. for code validation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.42-53
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• 2009

Gas turbine engine simulation program has been developed. In compressor and turbine, 2-D NS implicit code is used with k-$\omega$ SST turbulent model. In combustor, 0-D lumped method chemical equilibrium code is adopted under the limitations, the products are only 10 species of molecular and air-fuel is perfectly mixed state with 100% combustion efficiency at constant pressure. Fluid properties are shared on interfaces between engine components. The outlet conditions of compressor have been used as the inlet condition of combustor. The inlet condition of turbine comes from the compressor The back pressure in compressor outlet is transferred by the inlet pressure of turbine. Unsteady phenomena at rotor-stator in compressor and turbine is covered by mixing-plane method. The state of engine can be determined only by given inlet condition of compressor, outlet condition of turbine, equivalence ratio and rotating speed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.383-391
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• 2009

The detonation wave characteristics of JP-7 and oxygen mixture is investigated by one-step induction parameter model (IPM) obtained from a detailed chemistry mechanism. A general procedure of obtaining reliable one-step kinetics IPM for hydrocarbon mixture from the fully detailed chemistry is described in this study. The IPM is obtained by the reconstruction of the induction time database obtained from a detailed kinetics library. The IPM was confirmed by the comparison of the induction time calculations with that from detailed kinetics. The IPM is later implemented to a fluid dynamics code and applied for the numerical simulation of detonation wave propagation. The numerical results show the detailed characteristics of the detonation wave propagation in JP-7 and oxygen mixture at affordable computing time, which is not be possible by the direct application of the detailed chemical kinetics mechanism of hydrocarbon fuel combustion.