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Frictional Characteristics of Stainless Steel Lubricated with Pressurized Water at High Temperature (고온 고압하에서 물로 윤활되는 스테인레스 강의 마찰 특성)

  • 이재선;김지호;김종인
    • Tribology and Lubricants
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.21-25
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    • 2003
  • The 440C stainless steel is used for ball bearings and bevel gears in the control rod drive mechanism for the integral reactor, SMART. The friction characteristics of 400C stainless steel a investigated in sliding motion using the reciprocating tribometer which can simulate the operating conditions of the control rod drive mechanism. Highly purified water is used as lubricant, and the water is heated and pressurized in the autoclave. Friction force on the reciprocating specimens is measured by the load cells and transformed into friction coefficient. It is verified that frictional characteristic of the 440c steel is not drastically changed up to operating temperature and variation of friction coeffcient at operating temperature from room temperature to 160$^{\circ}C$ is within 5%.

Study for the Energy Efficiency of Hydraulic System of Turnover-Type Sluice Gate (전도 수문용 유압장치의 에너지 효율에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Seong-Rae
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.1225-1230
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    • 2007
  • The turnover-type sluice gate is typically actuated by the hydrauic system. The hydraulic system may be a open circuit type or a closed circuit type. The open circuit type hydraulic system is composed of a uni-directional pump, a directional control valve, pilot operated check valves, flow control valves, single-rod cylinders. The closed circuit type hydraulic system is composed of a bi-directional pump, pilot operated check valves, check valves, a counter balance valve, single-rod cylinders. The energy efficiencies of two hydraulic systems for the turnover-type sluice gate are compared here.

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Design Characteristics Analysis for Very High Temperature Reactor Components (VHTR 초고온기기 설계특성 분석)

  • Kim, Yong Wan;Kim, Eung Seon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.85-92
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    • 2016
  • The operating temperature of VHTR components is much higher than that of conventional PWR due to high core outlet temperature of VHTR. Material requirements and technical issues of VHTR reactor components which are mainly dominated by high temperature service condition were discussed. The codification effort for high temperature material and design methodology are explained. The design class for VHTR components are classified as class A or B according to the recent ASME high temperature reactor design code. A separation of thermal boundary and pressure boundary is used for VHTR components as an elevated design solution. Key design characteristics for reactor pressure vessel, control rod, reactor internals, graphite reflector, circulator and intermediate heat exchanger were analysed. Thermo-mechanical analysis of the process heat exchanger, which was manufactured for test, is presented as an analysis example.

A study on developing MES(Manufacturing Execution System) in the piston rod manufacturing process for automobile shock absorber (자동차 쇽옵소버 피스톤로스 제조공정에서 MES 구축에 관한 연구)

  • Sin, Dong-Ju;Kim, Tae-Cheol;Lee, Hyeong-Ho;Kim, Gyeong-Rok;Jeong, Ho-Yeon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.286-289
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    • 2008
  • Production Information System make it possible to check and control the information of manufacturing processes. Based on this information companies are able to act to the price strategy and marketing strategy timely. In this study we will examine developing the MES(Manufacturing Execution System) as Production Information System in the Automobile Shock Absorber Piston rod Manufacturing Process of which processes are composed of heat treatment, lathing, grooving, milling, rolling, inspection and packing processes in order to control its production information efficiently.

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The first application of modified neutron source multiplication method in subcriticality monitoring based on Monte Carlo

  • Wang, Wencong;Liu, Caixue;Huang, Liyuan
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.52 no.3
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    • pp.477-484
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    • 2020
  • The control rod drive mechanism needs to be debugged after reactor fresh fuel loading. It is of great importance to monitor the subcriticality of this process accurately. A modified method was applied to the subcriticality monitoring process, in which only a single control rod cluster was fully withdrawn from the core. In order to correct the error in the results obtained by Neutron Source Multiplication Method, which is based on one point reactor model, Monte Carlo neutron transport code was employed to calculate the fission neutron distribution, the iterated fission probability and the neutron flux in the neutron detector. This article analyzed the effect of a coarse mesh and a fine mesh to tally fission neutron distributions, the iterated fission probability distributions and to calculate correction factors. The subcriticality before and after modification is compared with the subcriticality calculated by MCNP code. The modified results turn out to be closer to calculation. It's feasible to implement the modified NSM method in large local reactivity addition process using Monte Carlo code based on 3D model.

Development of an Exclusive Sensor for Detecting Positions of Field Robot Arms

  • Kim, Jong-Hwa;Yang, Yong-Soon
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.51.4-51
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    • 2001
  • In order to comprise a basic closed-loop control system for a field robot it is necessary to detect the piston rod stroke of a hydraulic cylinder. There are mary conventional type sensors which can detect the displacement of cylinders. However, they cannot reveal the original performance normally or the cannot be applied at all where the operating circumstance of cylinders is beyond specifications of sensors. In this paper, an exclusive method for detecting the piston rod stroke is suggested, which adopts a remote detecting technique using optical fiber sensors. Several experiments using the prototype are executed for verifying the effectiveness of the suggested method and the possibility of the accurate detection of stroke.

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In vitro Biological Control Against Trichoderma harzianum Using Antifungal Bacteria

  • Lee, Ho-Yong;Hyun, Soung-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.441-446
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    • 2000
  • Trichoderma harzianum is an aggressive causal agent of green mold disease on mushroom cultivation. Some bacterial strains isolated, from oyster mushroom compost in Wonju, were found to have in vitro antifungal activity against Trichoderma harzianum ATCC 6385, 6504, and our isolates Trichoderma spp. Y and G. Further in vitro antifungal studies on several strains of phytopathogenic fungi showed that all of 12 phytopathogenic fungal strains were significantly inhibited by the isolated antifungal bacteria in Petri dishes. Of these, KATB 99121 showed the broadest inhibiting effect and displayed as negative coagulase, negative sulfide production and rod shape. KATB 99121 was resistant to ampicillin, chlorampenicol, and kanamycin. Identification of isolates was determined by Biolog GN system, and KATB 99121 was identified as Photobacterium logei because of 96 probability, 0.65 similarity, and 4.97 disturbance. With electron microscopy, thin section of KATB 99121 strain revealed typical rod-like shaped cell (0.6-0.8${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$$\times$1.5-2.0${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$) with prokaryotic structure and organization.

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Development of the Predictive Maintenance Methodology for Rod Control System in Nuclear Power Plant (원전 제어봉제어시스템 예방정비 방법론 개발)

  • Yim, Hyeong-Soon;Hong, Hyeong-Pyo;Han, Hee-Hwan;Koo, Jun-Mo;Kim, Hang-Bae
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2002.07d
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    • pp.2058-2060
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    • 2002
  • The demand for safety and reliability of Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) has been constantly increasing and economical operation is also an important issue. Developing and adopting predictive maintenance technology for the major systems or equipment is considered as one way to achieve these goals. This paper suggests the predictive maintenance methodology that can be applied to NPPs and describes a sample application of the Rod Control System (RCS) to verify the effectiveness of the methodology. It is expected that the same methodology can be adopted for other systems of NPPs and general industry fields when its effectiveness is verified.

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Design of SOFLIC for reactor rod control system in nuclear power plant (원자력발전소 원자로 제어봉 제어계통에 대한 자기조정 퍼지제어기 설계)

  • 남해곤;문채주;최홍관
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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    • 1995.10b
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    • pp.145-152
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    • 1995
  • This paper presents a novel SOFLIC(self organizing fuzzy logic intelligent controller) for reactor rod control system in nuclear power plant. The output of fuzzy controller is gener ated by using two signal : the error between reference and average temperature, and the error between reference and neutron flux-converted temperatures. Flexibility of the controller is enhanced by using self-organizing feature and the controller respond to variation of system parameter with more precision. performances of the SOFLIC and PID are simulated with the model developed for a nuclear power plant. The SOFLIC is superior to PID : SOFLIC provides more rapid load following capability. more robustiness for variation in process dynamics and minimization of engineer's mistakes in controller design.

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Temperature Coefficient of Reactioity (원자로의 반응도와 온도계수)

  • 노윤래
    • 전기의세계
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 1966
  • The stability and safety of operation of a reactor is determined mainly by the sign and magnitude of its reactivity responses to temperature changes. Reactors are subject to temperature fluctuations due to the changes in reactor power and ambient temperature. These temperature fluctuations cause reactivity disturbances through changes in the nuclear and physical properties of the core. Because of these important phenomena by the temperature effects, a large portion of study and testing on a reactor design has been conducted. In this experiment the overall temperature coefficient of the TRIGA MARK-II reactor is measured. The basic procedure is to change the tgemperature of the water moderator, and from the movements of a newly recalibrated control rod(this is necessary due to the effects of fuel burn-up and control rod depression) required to mintain criticality, the reactivity worth of the temperature change is determined. From this measurement, the overall temperature coefficient seems to be smoothly varying, almost a linear function of temperature, and a value of approximately -0.267${\c}$/$^{\circ}C$ can be obtained for an average temperature range from $17.6^{\circ}C$ to $32.5^{\circ}C$.

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