• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1597-1602
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• 2003

Numerical analysis is carried out to assess the temperature distribution on the mixing tee line of Residual Heat Removal System (RHRS). In RHRS, hot and cold fluids of main and bypass piping are mixed and unmixed by the flow rate or piping layout. Thermal stratification phenomenon is a cause of major degradation on RHRS piping. According to the analysis for each operation modes, maximum temperature difference between top and bottom of piping were evaluated about 60K when the flow rate of main and bypass lines is same. Temperature difference will be decreased at the elbow on RHRS piping if the length of vertical piping is increased.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제32권8호
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• pp.668-677
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• 2008

In nuclear power plants, ferritic low alloy steel nozzle was connected with austenitic stainless steel piping system through alloy 82/182 butt weld. Accurate estimation of residual stress for weldment is important in the sense that alloy 82/182 is susceptible to stress corrosion cracking. There are many results which predict residual stress distribution for alloy 82/182 weld between nozzle and pipe. However, nozzle and piping system usually connected through safe end which has short length. In this paper, residual stress distribution for pressurizer nozzle of Kori nuclear power plant was predicted using FE analysis, which consideded safe end. As a result, existing residual stress profile was redistributed and residual stress of inner surface was decreased specially. It means that safe end should be considered to reduce conservatism when estimating the piping system.

• 한국주거학회논문집
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2002

The purpose of this research is to analyze the characteristics of flow rate distribution in hot-water piping networks in the apartment building. A 14-story apartment house was selected as a sample building and analyzed numerically by Hardy-Cross method. Two different piping networks, one has three vertical zones and the other of a single zone with automatic balancing valves, were compared. Some of research results are as follows; As the temperature of supply hot-water increases, the flow rate of it does by buoyancy effect, but this effect is not found in the piping network with automatic balancing valves. Non-uniformity in hot-water flow distributions to all stories in the piping system of single vertical zone can be completely reformed by the installation of either manually operated or automatic balancing valves in every story.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제55권3호
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• pp.131-137
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• 2006

The secondary system of nuclear power plants consists of sophisticated piping systems operating in very aggressive erosion and corrosion environments, which make a piping system vulnerable to the wear and degradation due to the several chemical components and high flow rate (~10 m/sec) of the coolant. To monitor the wear and degradation on a pipe, the vibration signals are measured from the pipe with an accelerometer For analyzing the vibration signal the time-frequency analysis (TFA) is used, which is known to be effective for the analysis of time-varying or transient signals. To reduce the inteferences (cross-terms) due to the bilinear structure of the time-frequency distribution, an adaptive cone-kernel distribution (ACKD) is proposed. The cone length of ACKD to determine the characteristics of distribution is optimally selected through an adaptive algorithm using the normalized Shannon's entropy And the ACKD's are compared with the results of other analyses based on the Fourier Transform (FT) and other TFA's. The ACKD shows a better signature for the wear/degradation within a pipe and provides the additional information in relation to the time that any analysis based on the conventional FT can not provide.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.237-248
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• 2013

Thermal stratification has continuously caused several piping failures in nuclear power plants since the early 1980s. However, this critical thermal effect was not considered when the old nuclear power plants were designed. Therefore, it is urgent to evaluate this unexpected thermal effect on the structural integrity of piping systems. In this paper, the thermal effects of stratified flow in two different safety injection piping systems were investigated by using a coupled CFD-FE method. Since stratified flow is generally generated by turbulent penetration and/or valve leakage, thermal stress analyses as well as CFD analyses were carried out considering these two primary causes. Numerical results show that the most critical factor governing thermal stratification is valve leakage and that temperature distribution significantly changes according to the leakage path. In particular, in-leakage has a high possibility of causing considerable structural problems in RCS piping.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.275-284
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• 1998

Standard on the carbon dioxide extinguishing system was prepared by the committed of the national fire protection assocition(NFPA)in USA on 1980. And this code is also applied to the design of a marine fire extinguishing system The most important problem in design is the uniform discharge of $CO_2$ through each nozzle from the high pressure $CO_2$ storage facility. The purpose of this paper is to develop the computer software to design the marine fire protection piping system. By solving the continuity equation energy equation and Bernoulli's equation simulataneously the flowrate in branch pipelines and discharge nozzles can be calculated.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회A
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• pp.120-125
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• 2007

Put Abstract text here The strain distribution measurement for wall thinned pipe bends by ESPI is presented. Defect types observed in the steel piping in the nuclear power plants (NPP) are the crack at the weld part and the wall thinning defect in the pipe bends. Especially, the wall thinning defects in the pipe bends due to the flow-accelerated corrosion (FAC) is a main type of defects observed in the carbon steel piping system. ESPI is one of the optical non-destructive testing methods and can measure the stress and the strain distribution of the object subjected by the tensile loading or the internal pressure. In this paper, the strain distribution of the wall thinned pipe bends due to the internal pressure will be measured by ESPI technique and the results are discussed. From the results, the size of the wall thinning defect can also be measured approximately.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.321-331
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• 2015

냉각 위상잠금 적외선열화상 기법을 이용하여 원전 배관 루프시스템의 가열결함 검출의 선행연구를 통하여 냉각결함 검출조건의 적용에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 배관의 결함가공은 감육 길이, 감육 깊이를 변화시켜 결함조건을 가공하여 루프시스템을 제작하였다. 사용된 장비는 적외선열화상 카메라와 냉각장치를 사용하였으며 냉각장치와 대상 루프시스템과의 거리는 2m로 고정시켜 실험을 수행하였다. 실험 결과의 분석을 위하여 냉각온도 분포, 위상데이터를 확보하고, 이를 분석하여 결함 길이를 측정하였다. 냉각결함 검출조건은 적외선열화상 데이터보다 위상잠금 적외선열화상 데이터가 측정 결과의 신뢰도가 높았다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.225-236
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• 1994

SEBIM 밸브 상부에 위치한 밀봉수의 급격한 방출은 밸브 후단의 방출배관계통에 큰 운동량과 관성력의 작용을 초래한다. 본 연구는 밸브개방시 방출배관계통의 후단에 발생하는 열수력학적 과도현상을 분석하기 위한 해석절차 및 해석결과를 다루고 있으며, 이 분석을 위해 RELAP5 /MOD3 를 사용하였다. RELAP5 /MOD3 분석을 위하여, 방출관 계통과 SEBIM 밸브의 개방특성 및 밀봉수 방출등의 적절한 모델방법이 제시되었다. 또한 접합부(junction)와 체적(volume)의 제어 플래그 (flag)에서 옵션(option)의 적절한 선택을 위하여 민감도분석도 수행되었다. 분석결과, SEBIM 밸브 방출배관계통의 밀봉수 방출에 따른 열수력학적 과도현상을 분석하는데 RELAP5 /MOD3가 적절히 사용될 수 있음을 알 수 있었다. 민감도 분석결과로부터, 밀봉수 방출해석을 위해서는 적절한 기하학적 압력분포를 가지는 완만한(smooth) 면적변화 및 비평형 옵션(option), 적절한 시간간격(time step)의 사용이 필수적인 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한설비공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한설비공학회 2007년도 동계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.606-611
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• 2007

Pulsation is an inherent phenomenon in reciprocating compressors. It interacts with piping to cause vibrations and performance problems. Indiscriminately connecting to a compressor can be dangerous and cost money in the form of broken equipment and piping, poor performance, inaccurate metering, unwanted vibration, and sometimes noise. Piping connected to a compressor can materially affect the performance and response. To minimize these detrimental effects, reciprocating compressor system should be equipped by pulsation suppression system. This study discusses pressure pulsation phenomena occurred in a reciprocating compressor system. An experiment applied air compressor unit, as pulsating pressure generator, has been done. The compressor was connected sequentially to a snubber model and pressure tank. Sensor probes were placed on the inlet and outlet pipes of snubber. Compressor was driven by a motor controlled by a frequency regulator. The experiment was conducted by adjusting the regulator at 40Hz. General information about an internal gas flow can be achieved by numerical analysis approach. Information of the velocity, pressure and turbulence kinetic energy distribution are presented in this paper. Based on this result, the design improvement might be done.