• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제40권5호
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• pp.234-240
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• 2007

As a reactor coolant pump (RCP) is operated in the nuclear power system for a long time, so its surface is continuously contaminated by radioactive scales. In order to maintain for RCP internals, a special chemical decontamination process should be used to reduce the radiation from the RCP surface. In this study, applicable possibility in chemical decontamination for RCP was investigated for the various stainless steels. The stainless steel (STS) 304 showed the best electrochemical properties for corrosion resistance and the lowest weight loss ratio in chemical decontamination process model 3-1 than other materials. However, the pitting corrosion was generated in both STS 415 and STS 431 with the increasing numbers of cycle. The intergranular corrosion in STS 415 was sporadically observed. The sizes of their pitting corrosion were also increased with increasing cycle numbers.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.475-483
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• 1999

A lab-scale test was carried out to study the reduction of electrical energy consumption in the pulsed corona discharge process for nitrogen oxides removal. The experiment was mainly focused on 1) the activation of pollution removal reactions by chemical additives and 2) the optimization of electrical circuit for the efficient energy transfer from the power supply to the corona reactor. Hydrocarbon chemical additives used in the experiment are thought to be responsible for the enhancement of the NO conversion through the chain reactions of free radicals such as, R, RCO, and RO. Electrical energy consumption per converted NO molecule has a minimum value of 17 eV when pentanol is injected. When ethylene and propylene are injected, 30 eV and 22 eV of electrical energy consumption is required for the conversion of NO molecule respectively. The ratio of the pulse forming capacitance$(C_e)$ to the reactor capacitance$(C_R)$ plays an important role in the energy transfer efficiency to the reactor. Maximum energy transfer efficiency of approximately 72% could be obtained by using the pulse forming capacitance which is 3.4 times larger than the reactor capacitance, and also the maximum NO conversion efficiency was observed with the same condition.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.39-45
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• 1993

The effect of concentrations of phosphate buffer and acrylonitrile, pH, and various salts on the operational stability of the immobilized cells of Brevibacterium CH2 in a packed bed reactor were investigated. The effects of salts and carriers on the swelling of the immobilized beads during hydrolysis in a columnreactor were also investigated. Immobilization of the cells in Ba-alginate was more desirable than those in polyacrylamide and Ca-alinate for the swelling of the immobilized beads and the desired quality of the acrylamide produced. High quality acrylamide was produced using the Ba-alginate beads in a recycle fed-batch reactor without using an isotonic substrate. The conversion yield was nearly 100％, including a trace amount of acrylic acid produced as a by-product.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.86-93
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• 2012

A numerical investigation is conducted to search for the optimal flow rate for a rotating-disk chemical vapor decomposition reactor operating at a high temperature and a low pressure. The flow of a gas mixture supplied into the reactor is modeled by a laminar flow of an ideal gas obeying the kinetic theory. The axisymmetric two-dimensional flow in the reactor is simulated by employing a CFD package FLUENT. With operating pressure and temperature fixed, numerical computations are performed by varying rotation rate and flow rate. Examination of the structures of flow and thermal fields leads to a flow regime diagram illustrating that there are a stable plug-like flow regime and a few unfavorable flow regimes induced by mass unbalance or buoyancy. The criterion for sustaining a plug-like flow regime is discussed based on a theoretical scaling argument. Interpretation of the flow regime map suggests that a favorable flow is attainable with a minimum flow rate at the smallest rotation rate guaranteeing the dominance of rotation effects over buoyancy.

• Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering
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• 제35권12호
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• pp.2327-2335
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• 2018

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is an important chemical process that is widely used to produce valuable petrochemical products by cracking heavier components. However, many difficulties exist in modeling the FCC process due to its complexity. In this study, a dynamic process model of a FCC process is suggested and its structural observability is analyzed. In the process modeling, yield function for the kinetic model of the riser reactor was applied to explain the product distribution. Hydrodynamics, mass balance and energy balance equations of the riser reactor and the regenerator were used to complete the modeling. The process model was tested in steady-state simulation and dynamic simulation, which gives dynamic responses to the change of process variables. The result was compared with the measured data from operating plaint. In the structural analysis, the system was analyzed using the process model and the process design to identify the structural observability of the system. The reactor and regenerator unit in the system were divided into six nodes based on their functions and modeling relationship equations were built based on nodes and edges of the directed graph of the system. Output-set assignment algorithm was demonstrated on the occurrence matrix to find observable nodes and variables. Optimal locations for minimal addition of measurements could be found by completing the whole output-set assignment algorithm of the system. The result of this study can help predict the state more accurately and improve observability of a complex chemical process with minimal cost.

• 공업화학
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• 제10권8호
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• pp.1200-1209
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• 1999

무수프탈산 생산 공정의 조업 조건에서 실측한 이중 고정층 촉매 반응기의 온도분포, 수율 및 냉매의 입출구 온도에 대한 최적 적합으로부터 최적 매개변수 값을 추정함으로써 예측 모델을 구성하였다. 최대 전화율과 수율을 얻을 수 있는 고정층 촉매 반응기를 설계하기 위하여 반응기 길이 및 반경을 변화시켜 그 영향을 고찰하였다. 활성이 균일한 단일 고정층 촉매 반응기의 경우, 반응기 반경 r =0.01241 m에서 전 촉매층 길이 z =2.8 m, 그리고 이중층 반응기의 경우, 반응기 반경 r = 0.01254 m에서 전 촉매층 길이 2,80 m(상부촉매층: 1.88 m, 하부촉매층: 0.92 m)에서 우수한 성능을 보였다. 반응기 반경 변화의 경우, 반경 증가는 냉매로의 열전달 시간의 지연에 의해 열점 온도가 상승하였으며, 반경의 감소는 그 반대의 결과를 보였다.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2003년도 생물공학의 동향(XIII)
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• pp.129-134
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• 2003

Anaerobic hydrogen production was executed using mixed anaerobic sludge. pH control (pH $5.5^{\sim}6.2)$ and heat treatment of anaerobic sluge at $92^{\circ}C$ was not effective for repressing the methane formation. The addition of $nitrate(500^{\sim}2,000\;mg/L\;KNO_3)$ made it possible to repress the methane formation, which resulted in the improvement of hydrogen production. By using SEM(Scanning Electron Microscope), less methane forming microbial with spagetti shape was observed when nitrate was supplied to anaerobic reactor.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1999년도 제14차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.49-52
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• 1999

A subspace-based identification method of the Wiener model, consisting of a state-space linear block and a polynomial static nonlinearity at the output, is used to retrieve from discrete sample data the accurate information about the nonlinear dynamics. Wiener model may be incorporated into model predictive control (MPC) schemes in a unique way which effectively removes the nonlinearity from the control problem, preserving many of the favorable properties of linear MPC. The control performance is evaluated with simulation studies where the original first-principles model for a continuous MMA polymerization reactor is used as the true process while the identified Wiener model is used for the control purpose. On the basis of the simulation results, it is demonstrated that, despite the existence of unmeasured disturbance, the controller performed quite satisfactorily for the control of polymer qualities with constraints.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1998년도 제13차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.501-506
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• 1998

A mathematical model is developed to describe the relationship between the manipulated variables (e.g. jacket inlet temperature and feed flow rate) and the important qualities (e.g conversion and weight average molecular weight (Mw)) in a continuous polymerization reactor. The subspace-based identification method for Wiener model is used to retrieve from the discrete sample data the accurate information about both the structure and initial parameter estimates for iterative parameter optimization methods. The comparison of the output of the identified Wiener model with the outputs of a non-linear plant model shows a fairly satisfactory degree of accordance.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.396-399
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• 2007

폐 EPS 열분해반응으로부터 원료인 스티렌모노머를 회수하는 반응과정에서 오일의 생성과 스티렌모노머, 에틸벤젠, 알파메틸스티렌 및 dimer와 같은 오일의 조성은 반응 잔류물에 큰 영향을 받으므로 새로운 반응기의 개발을 위한 연구를 수행하였다. 본 연구에서는 회분식반응기와 달리 주입되는 원료가 벽을 통해 흐르면서 반응하고 생성되는 잔류물은 연속적으로 외부로 배출됨에 따라 생성오일의 조성에 영향을 주지 않도록 고안한 새로운 형태의 wetted-wall 형 반응기를 제안하였다. Wetted-wall 형 반응기를 이용하여 반응온도, 원료주입속도를 비롯하여 반응기 내부의 증발가스를 배출시키기 위해 주입되는 질소 유량 등의 변수들을 고찰하였다. 또한 반응으로부터 선정된 최적조건으로부터 연속운전을 수행하여 스티렌모노머의 수율은 65% 이상의 일정한 수준으로 유지되는 결과를 얻었다.