• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권7호
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• pp.2371-2376
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• 2021

As the γ-ray energy increases, a reconstructed image becomes noisy and blurred due to the penetration of the γ-ray through the coded mask. Therefore, the thickness of the coded mask was increased for high energy regions, resulting in severely decreased the performance of the detection efficiency due to self-collimation by the mask. In order to overcome the limitation, a modified uniformly redundant array γ-ray imaging system using dual anti-mask method was developed, and its performance was compared and evaluated in high-energy radiation region. In the dual anti-mask method, the two shadow images, including the subtraction of background events, can simultaneously contribute to the reconstructed image. Moreover, the reconstructed images using each shadow image were integrated using a hybrid update maximum likelihood expectation maximization (h-MLEM). Using the quantitative evaluation method, the performance of the dual anti-mask method was compared with the previously developed collimation methods. As the shadow image which was subtracted the background events leads to a higher-quality reconstructed image, the reconstructed image of the dual anti-mask method showed high performance among the three collimation methods. Finally, the quantitative evaluation method proves that the performance of the dual anti-mask method was better than that of the previously reconstruction methods.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.809-817
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• 2023

뇌출혈 진단 방법 중 CT는 비침습적으로 피사체의 3차원 영상을 제공할 수 있다. 그래서 응급실에서 급성인 환자 상대로 많이 사용되고 중요한 역할을 담당하고 있다. 뇌혈관 CT는 다른 혈관 CT에 비해 비교적 촬영 빈도가 높으며 뇌혈관 CT 검사 시 적절한 SNR, 합리적인 유효선량으로 검사를 해야한다. 뇌혈관 CT 검사 시 이중에너지와 단일에너지를 이용하였을 때 실질적으로 어느 것이 유효선량이 적으며, SNR이 차이가 없는지 환자영상과 Phantom영상을 같이 비교하였다. SNR과 CNR의 P값이 0.05이상일 때 통계적으로 차이가 없다고 보았고, 유효선량은 0.05미만일 경우 통계적으로 차이가 있다고 보았다. 실험에서는 병원영상의 환자선량을 비교하였을 때 이중에너지의 유효선량이 53.53% 적게, Phantom의 OLSD 이중에너지 유효선량이 57.94% 적게, Phantom의 Dose Report의 이중에너지 유효선량이 56.04% 적었다. 그래서 뇌혈관조영 CT는 이중에너지를 권장한다.

• 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2013

This study is to compare energy consumption of air-source, ground-source and dual-source heat pump systems during intermediate season using dynamic simulation. Ground-source heat pump has higher COP than that of air-source but requires additional power consumption of auxiliary equipment such as circulation pump. During intermediate season when the outdoor air temperature is favorable, total COP of air-source heat pump may be greater than that of ground-source when circulation pump power consumption is included. Dual-source heat pump which selects the more favorable heat source is compared with air-source only and ground-source only heat pumps for total power consumption. Results show that power consumption of dual-source heat pump is lower than that of ground-source only by 0.73%.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.178-187
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• 2021

Dual-cooled annular fuel allows a significant increase in power density while maintaining or improving safety margins. However, the dual-cooled design brings much higher Zircaloy charge in reactor core, which could cause a great threaten of hydrogen explosion during severe accidents. Hence, an innovative fuel combined dual-cooled annular geometry and SiC cladding was proposed for the first time in this study. Capabilities of fuel design and behavior simulation were developed for this new fuel by the upgrade of FROBA-ANNULAR code. Considering characteristics of both SiC cladding and dual-cooled annular geometry, the basic fuel design was proposed and preliminary proved to be feasible. After that, a design optimization study was conducted, and the optimal values of as-fabricated plenum pressure and gas gap sizes were obtained. Finally, the performance simulation of the new fuel was carried out with the full consideration of realistic operation conditions. Results indicate that in addition to possessing advantages of both dual-cooled annular fuel and accident tolerant cladding at the same time, this innovative fuel could overcome the brittle failure issue of SiC induced by pellet-cladding interaction.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.96-102
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• 2012

The minimum airflow of VAV terminal boxes is a key factor for comfort, indoor air quality(IAQ) and energy cost. If the minimum airflow is not reasonable, it would waste energy and make IAQ problems. There are two types of VAV terminal box control logic. One is the single maximum, another is the dual maximum control logic. Dual maximum control logic is more efficiency way to reduce the energy consumption. It has a minimum airflow set point and a heating maximum set point. It allows the minimum airflow set point to be much lower than single maximum control logic. A building simulation was conducted to evaluate the energy consumption and the IAQ according to the control logic of the V AV terminal box. In the simulation, dual maximum control logic can save the energy up to 6.5% compared to the single maximum control logic.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제66권2호
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• pp.459-467
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• 2017

An urban railway power substation consists of three thyristor dual converters. Two converters are connected to up and down trolley line to supply the electric energy or feed the regenerative energy back to the distribution. When the two converters break down, the remaining converter is used in an emergency. One thyristor dual converter system (TDCS) manages the energy of two or three railway stations. If the TDCS fails, the trains stop operating. To solve the problem, this paper proposes the three parallel operation control algorithm of thyristor dual converter system using the emergency converter. The broken TDCS can be replaced by the emergency converter in other TDCS. The effectiveness of this proposed control is verified by simulation.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.93-99
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• 2009

A new plasma display panel sustaining driver using single side sustaining technique with a dual resonant method is proposed in this paper. Since this circuit enables to keep device voltage stress same as the prior circuit, it can be a low cost circuit compared to a conventional driver. To integrate the sustaining function into one side with a single power source in the driver, a charge pump method is adopted to make negative sustaining voltage and to achieve dual resonant energy recovery on the sustaining modes.

• 방사선산업학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.137-141
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• 2015

A single-shot dual-energy x-ray imaging technique has been developed using a sandwich detector by stacking two detectors, in which the front and rear detectors respectively produce relatively lower and higher x-ray energy images. Each detector layer is composed of a phosphor screen coupled with a photodiode array. The front detector layer employs a thinner phosphor screen, whereas the rear detector layer employs a thicker phosphor screen considering the quantum efficiency for x-ray photons with higher energies. We have applied the proposed method into the inspection of printed circuit boards, and obtained dual-energy images with background clutter suppressed. In addition, the single-shot dual-energy method provides sharper-edge images than the conventional radiography because of the unsharp masking effect resulting from the use of different thickness phosphors between the two detector layers. It is promising to use the single-shot dual-energy x-ray imaging for high-resolution nondestructive testing. For the reliable use of the developed method, however, more quantitative analysis is further required in comparisons with the conventional method for various types of printed circuit boards.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.139-145
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• 2015

본 논문은 무선 센서 네트워크의 계층형 라우팅 프로토콜 중 대표적인 알고리즘인 LEACH(Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy)의 원거리 전송 시의 에너지 효율이 급감하는 현상을 개선하기 위하여 DL-LEACH(Dual-hop Layered LEACH) 프로토콜을 제안한다. 이는, 데이터 전송에 듀얼 홉(dual hop : 싱글 홉 + 멀티 홉) 방식을 도입하여 근거리 전송에서는 부분적 싱글 홉 방식을, 원거리 전송에는 클러스터 헤드 간의 멀티 홉 전송 방식을 도입하였다. 제안된 DL-LEACH는 듀얼 홉 전송 방식을 사용하여 원거리 전송의 경우에는 클러스터 헤드의 에너지 소모를 줄이고, 근거리 전송의 경우에는 전송 루틴을 단순화하고 전송 거리를 줄여 센서 노드의 에너지 효율을 증가시켰다. 그러므로 일반적인 LEACH에 비교하여 넓은 센서 필드에 적합하다. 제안된 방법을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 검증하였다.

• 대한방사선방어학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한방사선방어학회 2011년도 춘계 학술발표회 및 심포지엄
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• pp.136-137
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• 2011