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Calculation of Smoke Temperature/Volume Folw rate in Tunnel Fires (철도터널에서의 화재시 발생되는 연기 온도/발생량 계산)

  • Park, Won-Hee;Jang, Yong-Jun
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.1218-1222
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    • 2007
  • Under various tunnel fires, smoke average temperature and volume flow rate in a tunnel fire are calculated. To obtain realistic results, enthalpy of smoke which composites combustion gases and entrainment air is calculated from curvefit polynomials by temperature.

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The Jet-fan Model Test for a Road Tunnel Ventilation (도로터널 제트팬 모형 실험)

  • Ryu, Jae-Hong;Yoo, Young-Ho;Kim, Jin
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.15 no.8
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    • pp.630-640
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    • 2003
  • As tunnel ventilation has recently been playing a major role in the tunnel construction and maintenance, longitudinal ventilation systems with jet fans have been utilized a great deal because they are economical and effective. However, due to the length of tunnels and heavy traffic, it is hard to take the field measurements. In this study, therefore, the computer simulation and the model experiment of producing a wind tunnel were carried out simultaneously and the results were compared. The ultimate objective of this research was to interpret the air flow pattern inside the tunnel with a jet-fan was set up, and to offer the useful data for jet-fan installation and operation. The experiment was carried out with varying the jet-fan diameters, location of installation, the discharge velocity. Result showed that as the initial static pressure came up with the negative pressure, the tunnel air flowed into the inside of tunnel from outside due to the entrainment-effect and the backflow-phenomenon by separation-effect was observed in the lower half part of the tunnel. As the jet-fan was getting closer to the tunnel wall, the entrainment-effect caused by the interaction with the wall was increased; however, the mixing distance and irregular flow section became longer, and also the air pressure loss generated by wall friction was large.

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS ON THE COOLING PERFORMANCE OF GLASS FIBER COOLING UNIT WITH HELIUM GAS INJECTION (헬륨가스 주입식 유리섬유 냉각장치의 냉각성능 해석)

  • Oh, I.S.;Kim, D.;Umarov, A.;Kwak, H.S.;Kim, K.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.110-115
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    • 2011
  • A modern optical fiber manufacturing process requires the sufficient cooling of glass fibers freshly drawn from the heated and softened silica preform in the furnace, since the inadequately cooled glass fibers are known to cause improper polymer resin coating on the fiber surface and to adversely affect the product quality of optical fibers. In order to greatly enhance the fiber cooling effectiveness at increasingly high fiber drawing speed, it is necessary to use a dedicated glass fiber cooling unit with helium gas injection between glass fiber drawing and coating processes. The present numerical study features a series of three-dimensional flow and heat transfer computations on the cooling gas and the fast moving glass fiber to analyze the cooling performance of glass fiber cooling unit, in which the helium is supplied through the discretely located rectangular injection holes. The air entrainment into the cooling unit at the fiber inlet is also included in the computational model and it is found to be critical in determining the helium purity in the cooling gas and the cooling effectiveness on glass fiber. The effects of fiber drawing speed and helium injection rate on the helium purity decrease by air entrainment and the glass fiber cooling are also investigated and discussed.

Ignition of a Vertically Positioned Fuel Plate by Thermal Radiation (열복사에 의한 수직연료면의 점화현상 해석)

  • 한조영;백승욱
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.19 no.9
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    • pp.2353-2364
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    • 1995
  • The ignition phenomena of a solid fuel plate of polymethyl-methacrylate(PMMA), which is vertically positioned and exposed to a thermal radiation source, is numerically studied here. A two-dimensional transient model includes such various aspects as thermal decomposition of PMMA, gas phase radiation absorption, gas phase chemical reaction and air entrainment by natural convection. Whereas the previous studies considers the problem approximately in a one-dimensional form by neglecting the natural convection, the present model takes account of the two-dimensional effect of radiation and air entrainment. The inert heating of the solid fuel is also taken into consideration. Radiative heat transfer is incorporated by th Discrete Ordinates Method(DOM) with the absorption coefficient evaluated using gas species concentration. The thermal history of the solid fuel plate shows a good agreement compared with experimental results. Despite of induced natural convective flow that induces heat loss from the fuel surface, the locally absorbed radiant energy, which is converted to the internal energy, is found to play an important role in the onset of gas phase ignition. The ignition is considered to occur when the rate of variation of gas phase reaction rate reaches its maximum value. Once the ignition takes place, the flame propagates downward.

An Experimental Study on the Freeze-Thaw Resistance of Concrete Incorporating Waste Foundry Sand (폐주물사를 혼입한 콘크리트의 동결-융해 저항성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Yong, Suk-Ung;Lee, Joo-Hyung;Hong, Chang-Woo;Yun, Kyong-Ku;Park, Je-Seon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 1998.04a
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    • pp.117-122
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    • 1998
  • Concrete structures has been deteriorated by the freezing and thawing due to temperature gap. This study was conducted to evaluate durabilite of concrete which are increasingly demanded recently. Therefore the research of durability must be executed for application of waste foundry sand concrete real structures. Concrete durability must be executed for application of waste foundry sand concrete real structures. Concrete durability properties incorporating waste foundry sand was performed with the variable of W/C ratio, Sand/Waste foundry sand ratio and Air entrainment-Non air entrainment. Cylinder specimens were made and subjected to freezing and thawing cycle at $-18^{\cire}C$ and $4^{\cire}C$. Dynamic modulus of elasticity were evaluated as F/T cycle increase. The results show that strength of concrete is increased the W/C ratio decrease, the Sand/Waste foundry sand ratio increase when the concrete contains AE agent and decreasing WC ratio and AE concrete makes improved resistance of freezing and thawing improved. Especially, resistance of freezing and thawing is improved by Fine aggregate/Waste foundry sand ratio which is 50%, 25%, 0% in a row. Therefore it is turn out the waste foundry sand could be applied to concrete from the experiment.

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A Study on the Free Surface Vortex in the Pipe System (배관내 자유수면에서 와류현상에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Sang-Nyung;Jang, Wan-Ho
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.311-318
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    • 1992
  • During mid-loop operation of Nuclear Power Plant, to prevent the Decay Heat Removal System (DHRS) from failure due to air entrainment of free surface vortex in the piping system, a set of simulating experiments was performed. Through these experiments, a relation between the non-dimensionalized numbers, such as H/d, Froude number, Reynolds number, was found. It was also found that the perturbation of the system by the disturbance such as pump start, valve operation, etc., has a strong effect on the free surface vortex. Furthermore, from viewpoint of reactor safety, a modified inlet device which is reducer type is strongly recommended for the prevention of air entrainment into DHRS.

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Study of Meniscus Formation in a Double Layer Slot Die Head Using CFD (CFD를 이용한 Double Layer 슬롯 다이 헤드의 메니스커스 형성 연구)

  • Gieun Kim;Jongwoon Park
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.65-70
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    • 2024
  • Using a computational fluid dynamics(CFD) simulation tool, we have provided a coating guideline for slot-die coating with a double layer slot die head. We have analyzed the fluid dynamics in terms of the coating speed, flow rate ratio, and viscosity ratio, which are critical for the stability of coating meniscus. We have identified the common coating defects such as break-up, air entrainment, and leakage by varying the coating speeds. The flow rate ratio is the critical parameter determining the wet film thickness of the top and bottom layers. It is shown that when the flow rate ratio exceeds or equals 1.8, air entrainment occurs due to insufficient hydraulic pressure in the bottom layer, even though the total flow rate remains constant. Furthermore, we have found that the flow of the bottom layer is significantly affected by the viscosity of top layer. The viscosity ratio of 4 or higher obstructs the flow of the bottom layer due to the increased hydraulic resistance, resulting in leakage. Finally, we have demonstrated that as the viscosity ratio increases from 0.1 to 10, the maximum coating speed rises from 0.4 mm/s to 1.6 mm/s, and the minimum wet film thickness decreases from 800 ㎛ to 200 ㎛.

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The Ejector Design and Test for 5kW Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell (5kW 용융탄산염 연료전지 이젝터 설계 및 시험)

  • Kim, Beom-Joo;Kim, Do-Hyung;Lee, Jung-Hyun;Jung, Sang-Chun;Lee, Sung-Yoon;Kang, Seung-Won;Lim, Hee-Chun
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.53-56
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    • 2008
  • An ejector is a fluid machinery to be utilized for mixing fluids, maintaining vacuum, and transporting them. The Ejector is applied for a variety of industrial fields such as refrigerators and power plants. It is adopted to recycle anode off gas safely in 5kW Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell system of KEPRI(Korea Electric Power Research Institute). The ejector is placed at mixing point between the anode off gas and the cathode off gas or the fresh air. In this study, the entrainment ratio is measured according to the diametrical ratio of nozzle to throat. In addition, the performance curve of the ejector and the differential pressure in diffuser is observed.

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CFD analysis on the performance of steam ejector in multi effect desalination process

  • Utomo, Tony;Ji, Myeong-Kok;Choi, Du-Youl;Chung, Han-Shik;Jeong, Hyo-Min
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.623-628
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of geometry parameter on the ejector performance. The CFD results were verified with available experimental data. Flow field analysis was also carried out in this study. Variation on the geometry parameter was made by varying the angle of converging duct those are $0.5^{\circ}$, $2.0^{\circ}$ and $3.5^{\circ}$. The converging duct with an angle of $0.5^{\circ}$ gives the highest value of entrainment ratio that is 0.941. Furthermore, from this study it can be concluded that the entrainment ratio decreases with respect to the increase of angle of convergence duct.

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