• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.217-224
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• 2004

This research was conducted to test the feasibility of utilizing high-pressure water jets of over 1.0㎫ as a means of breaking and peeling garlic bulbs. High-pressure plunger pumps and flat-spray nozzles of varying orifice diameters and spray angles were utilized to supply water jets into a prototype peeling chamber made of transparent acrylic plates. Water jets were discharged from a total of six nozzles installed in such a way that three parallel nozzles face the other three. The cross-sectional area of the peeling chamber and the installation angle of the nozzles had critical effects on peeling performance. Small cross-sectional area was required so that total impact force of water jets on garlic could be increased. The optimum installation angles were around 4, 8, and 16$^{\circ}$ for the nozzles having 15, 40, and 65$^{\circ}$ spray angles, respectively. Best performance with 61.4% of completely-peeled garlics was obtained at a pressure of 1.94㎫ and a flow rate of 9.07 $\ell$/min for each nozzle. The peeling efficiency of the system was generally unsatisfactory due to the limited flow rate of the plunger pumps utilized. For better performance, it is recommended to increase flow rate while reducing operating pressure by utilizing other type of pumps.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제43권8호
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• pp.684-691
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• 2015

덕티드 로켓 가스발생기용 추진제 성능을 검증하기 위한 실험에서 직경이 10mm인 파이프와 최소 직경이 8.7mm인 수축 노즐을 배출 튜브로 사용하였을 때 급격한 압력 증가가 관찰되었다. 급격한 연소 압력 증가는 배출 튜브를 통과하는 유동의 열 질식(thermal choking) 때문인 것으로 판단하였다. 본 연구에서는 원형 파이프를 사용하는 경우, 배출 튜브 유동의 열 질식을 고려하여 가스발생기 연소 압력 변화를 예측하였다. 그 결과, 배출가스의 비-평형 화학반응으로 인한 배출 튜브 유동의 열 질식 발생이 급격한 연소 압력 증가의 원인임을 확인하였다. 특히 덕티드 로켓의 높은 압력 지수는 배출 튜브 내에서 발생하는 열에 매우 민감하게 반응하여 배출 튜브 내의 열 질식 가능성을 높이는 것으로 분석되었다. 또한 배출 튜브로 단면적의 변화가 있는 발산형 파이프를 사용하면 가스발생기의 급격한 연소 압력 증가를 예방할 수 있을 것으로 판단하였다.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2014

본 연구는 비가열 섭취 냉동 당근주스의 HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point)시스템 구축을 위하여 생물학적 위해요소분석을 위한 목적으로 2013년 6월 21일~2014년 3월 30일까지 약 270일간 제주도 제주시 구좌읍 소재에 있는 구좌농협에서 수행하였다. 일반적인 과채주스 제조업체의 제조공정을 참고로 하여 공정도를 작성하였으며, 원료 농산물(당근), 용수와 포장재료 입고, 보관, 세척, 분쇄, 착즙, 냉각, 내포장, 금속검출, 외포장, 보관 및 출하공정에 대하여 Fig. 1과 같이 작성하였다. 원료 당근의 세척 전, 세척 후의 Coliform group, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella spp., Bacillus cereus, Listeria Monocytogenes, 장출혈성대장균수를 측정한 결과 Bacillus cereus 는 세척 전 $4.70{\times}10^4CFU/g$이었으나, 세척 후 $1.02{\times}10^2CFU/g$ 검출되었으며, 나머지 병원성균은 검출되지 않았다. 자외선살균공정에서 당근주스의 유속를 변화시키면서 미생물의 변화를 시험한 결과 유속 4 L/min을 한계기준으로 결정하였다. 작업장별 공중낙하균(일반세균수, 대장균, 진균수) 시험결과 세척실의 미생물수는 20 CFU/Plate가 검출되었다. 작업자 손 세척 전후 시험결과 세척 전 일반세균수가 $6{\times}10^4CFU/cm^2$로 높게 나타났으나 손 세척 후에는 검출되지 않아 손 세척 및 소독에 대한 중요성을 교육하고 훈련해야 할 것이다. 제조설비 및 기구의 표면오염도를 검사한 결과 모든 시료에서 대장균군은 검출되지 않았고, 일반세균은 포장기 노즐에서 가장 많은 $8.5{\times}10^4CFU/cm^2$ 검출되었다. 위해분석 결과 병원성미생물을 예방, 감소 또는 제거할 수 있는 자외선살균 공정이 CCP-B (Biological)로 관리되어야 하고, 한계기준은 유속 4 L/min로 결정하였다. 따라서 Kwon의 유산균을 함유한 녹즙의 HACCP에 관한 연구에서와 같이 자외선살균 공정의 한계기준 및 이탈시 조치방법, 검증방법, 교육 훈련과 기록관리 등 철저한 HACCP 관리계획이 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.91-99
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• 2014

The common-rail injectors are the most critical component of the CRDI diesel engines that dominantly affect engine performances through high pressure injection with exact control. Thus, from now on the advanced combustion technologies for common-rail diesel injection engine require high performance fuel injectors. Accordingly, the previous studies on the numerical and experimental analysis of the diesel injector have focused on a optimum geometry to induce proper injection rate. In this study, computational predictions of performance of the diesel injector have been performed to evaluate internal flow characteristics for various needle lift and the spray pattern at the nozzle exit. To our knowledge, three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of the internal flow passage of an entire injector duct including injection and return routes has never been studied. In this study, major design parameters concerning internal routes in the injector are optimized by using a CFD analysis and Response Surface Method (RSM). The computational prediction of the internal flow characteristics of the common-rail diesel injector was carried out by using STAR-CCM+7.06 code. In this work, computations were carried out under the assumption that the internal flow passage is a steady-state condition at the maximum needle lift. The design parameters are optimized by using the L16 orthogonal array and polynomial regression, local-approximation characteristics of RSM. Meanwhile, the optimum values are confirmed to be valid in 95% confidence and 5% significance level through analysis of variance (ANOVA). In addition, optimal design and prototype design were confirmed by calculating the injection quantities, resulting in the improvement of the injection performance by more than 54%.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.382-393
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• 2010

Thermal mixing by steam jets in a pool is dominantly influenced by a turbulent water jet generated by the condensing steam jets, and the proper prediction of this turbulent jet behavior is critical for the pool mixing analysis. A turbulent jet flow induced by a steam jet discharged through a vertical upward single hole into a subcooled water pool was subjected to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. Based on the small-scale test data derived under a horizontal steam discharging condition, this analysis was performed to validate a CFD method of analysis previously developed for condensing jet-induced pool mixing phenomena. In previous validation work, the CFD results and the test data for a limited range of radial and axial directions were compared in terms of profiles of the turbulent jet velocity and temperature. Furthermore, the behavior of the turbulent jet induced by the steam jet through a horizontal single hole in a subcooled water pool failed to show the exact axisymmetric flow pattern with regards to an overall pool mixing, whereas the CFD analysis was done with an axisymmetric grid model. Therefore, another new small-scale test was conducted under a vertical upward steam discharging condition. The purpose of this test was to generate the velocity and temperature profiles of the turbulent jet by expanding the measurement ranges from the jet center to a location at about 5% of $U_m$ and 10 cm to 30 cm from the exit of the discharge nozzle. The results of the new CFD analysis show that the recommended CFD model of the high turbulent intensity of 40% for the turbulent jet and the fine mesh grid model can accurately predict the test results within an error rate of about 10%. In this work, the turbulent jet model, which is used to simply predict the temperature and velocity profiles along the axial and radial directions by means of the empirical correlations and Tollmien's theory was improved on the basis of the new test data. The results validate the CFD model of analysis. Furthermore, the turbulent jet model developed in this study can be used to analyze pool thermal mixing when an ellipsoidal steam jet is discharged under a high steam mass flux in a subcooled water pool.