• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.54-57
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• 2009

The propellant level measurement system of the next Koreanized launch vehicle shall adapt a capacitive type sensor, which can generate capacitive values continuously considering cryogenic environment and the characteristics of flowrate control. At present there are a twin-arc and a triple-arc methods as a capacitive type signal sensing method. In this study a highly accurate triple-arc method, which can apply to almost all fluids, is chosen. In this paper the review results on the principle of triple-arc sensing, the analysis results on the influence on capacitive values due to shape change of sensing part, and the simulation results to monitor the influence on signal sensing according to the location of sensing part in the upper part of propellant tank are included. Information obtained from this study can be used in the designing and manufacturing of on-board propellant level measurement system in tanks.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.56-64
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• 2012

The ITER fuel cycle is designed for DT operation in equimolar ratio. It involves not only a group of fuelling system and torus cryo-pumping system of the exhaust gases through the divertor from the torus in tokamak plant, but also from the exhaust gas processing of the fusion effluent gas mixture connected to the hydrogen isotope separation in cryogenic distillation to the final safe storage & delivery of the hydrogen isotopes in tritium plant. Tritium plant system supplies deuterium and tritium from external sources and treats all tritiated fluids in ITER operation. Every operation and affairs is focused on the tritium inventory accountancy and the confinement. This paper describes the major fuel cycle processes and interfaces in the tritium plant in aspects of upcoming technologies for future hydrogen and/or hydrogen isotope utilization.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2018

Temperatures of cryogenic nitrogen jet inside an injector and at three different downstream positions (0.9, 10.6, and 28.1d) were measured with thermocouples in sub- and supercritical states. The jet temperature decreased while cooling the supply line and injector. The jet experienced from flash boiling, boiling and then no boiling according to decreasing temperature. As an analogy to flash-boiling at the subcritical state, pseudo-flash boiling has been assumed considering the existence of pseudo-boiling at the supercritical state. By showing an area where the temperature did not increase downstream, the plausibility of pseudo-flash boiling is proposed.