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Implementation Status of Performance Demonstration Program for Steam Generator Tubing Analysts in Korea

  • Cho, Chan-Hee;Lee, Hee-Jong;Yoo, Hyun-Ju;Nam, Min-Woo;Hong, Sung-Yull
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.63-68
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    • 2013
  • Some essential components in nuclear power plants are periodically inspected using non-destructive examinations, for example ultrasonic, eddy current and radiographic examinations, in order to determine their integrity. These components include nuclear power plant items such as vessels, containments, piping systems, pumps, valves, tubes and core support structure. Steam generator tubes have an important safety role because they constitute one of the primary barriers between the radioactive and non-radioactive sides of the nuclear power plant. There is potential that if a tube bursts while a plant is operating, radioactivity from the primary coolant system could escape directly to the atmosphere. Therefore, in-service inspections are critical in maintaining steam generator tube integrity. In general, the eddy current testing is widely used for the inspection of steam generator tubes due to its high inspection speed and flaw detectability on non-magnetic tubes. However, it is not easy to analyze correctly eddy current signals because they are influenced by many factors. Therefore, the performance of eddy current data analysts for steam generator tubing should be demonstrated comprehensively. In Korea, the performance of steam generator tubing analysts has been demonstrated using the Qualified Data Analyst program. This paper describes the performance demonstration program for steam generator tubing analysts and its implementation results in Korea. The pass rate of domestic analysts for this program was 71.4%.

Safety Assessment of Nuclear Waste Incineration Process by Estimating Radiation Dose of Workers and Residential Individuals (원자력폐기물 소각공정에서의 작업자 및 인근주민의 피폭선량에 따른 안전성 평가)

  • 서용칠
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.165-174
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    • 1993
  • For the safety assessment of the demonstration-scale incineration plant for treating the combustible radioactive wastes, radiation doses of a worker and a residential individual were estimated. The demonstration plant showed a good performance of trial-burn tests using non-radioactive tracers with resulting In high mass reduction of around 40 times and very low emmission of dusts through a stack, which promised a high decontamination factor in an order of 10$^{7}$ . Based on the result s obtained from the trial-burns in the process, the estimation of radiation dose for workers and general publics near the plant was made using dose pathway calculation theories. The parametric values for calculation were selected from design and operational results of the process and from more conservative conditions In reference data. The estimated annual doses for workers and residential indivisuals were 3.07 $\times$ 10$^{-4}$ and 4.35 X 10$^{-8}$ $\mu$Sv/y, respectively, which were high enough to operate the process when comparing with the allowable dose limit in the regulation. The dose calculation models were quite applicable with showing an excellent safety for the process.

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FASTMET$\circledR$ Process for Steel Mill Waste Recycling

  • Tanaka, Hidetoshi;Harada, Takao;Sugitatsu, Hiroshi
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.387-392
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    • 2001
  • Kobe Steel, LTD. and Midrex Technologies Inc. jointly developed the FASTMET$\circledR$ process as a steel mill waste recycle technology in which the DRI product meets BF feed material or BOF/EAF feed material requirements. FASTMET(R) process turns value-less wastes into valuable DRI and sellable zinc oxide, and gives the solution for the steel mill wastes recycling from both economical and environmental viewpoints. During the development of the process, Laboratory, Pilot Plant and Demonstration Plant tests were carried out from 1990 to 1998. The first FASTMET(R) commercial plant began operation in April, 2000 and the second commercial plant started in April, 2001 Both commercial plants have proceeded successfully preying that FASTMET$\circledR$ is a suitable process for recycling steel mill waste and for producing DRI as an iron source.

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The Four Power Plants Field Demonstration Research on Combustion Characteristic of the Bio Oil for Fuel Switching (국내 4개 중유발전소 실증실험을 통한 발전연료 대체용 바이오중유의 연소특성 연구)

  • Baek, Sehyun;Kim, Hyunhee;Park, Hoyoung;Kim, Young Joo;Kim, Tae Hyung;Ko, Sung Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.15-23
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    • 2015
  • This paper presents the results of field demonstration for fuel switching to bio-fuel oil in 4 commercial heavy oil fired power plants. The 100% fuel switching field demonstration was successfully carried out in two tangential-firing boilers at a capacity of 75 and 100 MWe respectively without major equipment retrofit, and also 25% bio-fuel oil blending for two opposite firing boilers at a capacity of 350 and 400 MWe respectively. Despite the low density and heating value, the bio fuel was successfully replaced heavy fuel oil at the full load by only adjusting operational parameters. Incase of bio fuel oil combustion, heat absorption of radiative heat transfer section was reduced while convection section has opposite trend. In pollutants emission, a major reductionin SOx as well as 10-20% reduction in NOx were achieved by the fuels witching. On the other hand, boiler efficiency was slightly underestimated.

Experimental Study on Thermal Performance of Palte-type Fresh Water Generator for applying Solar Energy Desalination System (태양에너지 해수담수화시스템에의 적용을 위한 판형 해수담수기의 열성능에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Kim, Jeong-Bae;Kwak, Hee-Youl
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.35-41
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    • 2007
  • To demonstrate the desalination system, the demo-plant was scheduled to be installed. The system was planned to use solar thermal collector as heat source and PV as electricity source. For the design of the desalination demonstration system, firstly the solar thermal system would be well designed from the result between the supplied heat into the fresh water generator and the fresh water yield. The generator for demonstration system was chosen as the fresh water generator of the single stage and effect with plate-type heat exchanger using low pressure evaporation method. The test facility for the tests to reveal the relationship between the fresh water yield and the supplied heat flow rate was designed and manufactured. The maximum fresh water yield of two fresh water generators applied in this study was designed as 1.5 Ton/day. The parameters relating with the performance of fresh water generator are known as sea water inlet temperature, hot water inlet temperature, and hot water flow rate. Through the experiments, this study firstly showed detail operation characteristics of the generator and designed the solar thermal system for the demonstration system.

Numerical Simulation of a 100 $MW_e$-scale Wall-fired Boiler for Demonstration of Oxy-coal Combustion (전산유동해석을 이용한 100 $MW_e$급 석탄 순산소 연소 실증 보일러의 설계 및 운전조건 평가)

  • Chae, Tae-Young;Park, Sang-Hyun;Hong, Jae-Hyeon;Yang, Won;Lee, Sang-Hoon;Ryu, Chang-Kook
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2011
  • As one of the main technologies for carbon capture and storage in power generation, oxy-coal combustion is being developed for field demonstration in Korea. This study presents the results of numerical simulation for combustion in a single-wall-fired 100 $MW_e$-scale boiler proposed for the initial design of the demonstration plant. Using a commercial CFD code, the detailed combustion, flow and heat transfer characteristics were assessed both for air-mode and oxy-mode combustion. The results show that stable combustion can be achieved in the dual mode operation with the current boiler configuration. However, the differences in the flow pattern and heat transfer between the two combustion modes need to be considered in the design and operation which is mainly due to the larger density and specific heat of $CO_2$ compared to $N_2$. Further development of the boiler design is required using improved numerical modeling for radiative heat transfer and combustion.

HTGR PROJECTS IN CHINA

  • Wu, Zongxin;Yu, Suyuan
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.103-110
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    • 2007
  • The High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) possesses inherent safety features and is recognized as a representative advanced nuclear system for the future. Based on the success of the HTR-10, the long-time operation test and safety demonstration tests were carried out. The long-time operation test verifies that the operation procedure and control method are appropriate for the HTR-10 and the safety demonstration test shows that the HTR-10 possesses inherent safety features with a great margin. Meanwhile, two new projects have been recently launched to further develop HTGR technology. One is a prototype modular plant, denoted as HTR-PM, to demonstrate the commercial capability of the HTGR power plant. The HTR-PM is designed as $2{\times}250$ MWt, pebble bed core with a steam turbine generator that serves as an energy conversion system. The other is a gas turbine generator system coupled with the HTR-10, denoted as HTR-10GT, built to demonstrate the feasibility of the HTGR gas turbine technology. The gas turbine generator system is designed in a single shaft configuration supported by active magnetic bearings (AMB). The HTR-10GT project is now in the stage of engineering design and component fabrication. R&D on the helium turbocompressor, a key component, and the key technology of AMB are in progress.

Waste Tire Pyrolysis Commercialization Plant for 120t/d Treatment (120톤/일 처리 폐타이어 열분해 상업화 설비 개발)

  • Kim, Seong-Yeon;Kim, Ki-Kyeong
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.138-141
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    • 2008
  • The 120t/d pyrolysis commercial plant for waste tire recycling have been constructed in Malaysia and is going to be operated. The plant have the tube reactor with chain conveyer attached disk developed in demonstration research stage. The reactor temperature for commercial plant is about 500deg.C and reactor inside pressure is -100$\sim$-120mmHg. Non-condensable gas is used as fuel for pyrolysis heat source, and the exhausted heat is recovered for cogeneration to produce steam and electric power of 600kw.

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