• 설비공학논문집
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.614-623
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• 2008

This paper presents the results of a laboratory study on the thermal conductivity of and(silica, quartzite, limestone, sandstone, granite and two masonry sands)-water mixtures used for ground heat exchanger backfilling materials. Nearly 260 tests were performed in a thermal conductivity measuring system to characterize the relationships between the thermal conductivity of mixtures and the water content. The experimental results show hat the thermal conductivity of mixtures increases with increasing dry density and with increasing water content. The most widely used empirical prediction models for thermal conductivity of soils were found inappropriate to estimate the thermal conductivity of unsaturated sand-water mixtures. An improved model using an exponential relationship to compute the thermal conductivity of dry sands and empirical relationship to assess the normalized thermal conductivity of unsaturated sand-water mixtures is presented.

• 대한설비공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한설비공학회 2008년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.761-768
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• 2008

This paper presents the results of a laboratory study on the thermal conductivity of sand(silica, quartzite, limestone, sandstone, granite and masonry sand)-water mixtures used in ground heat exchanger backfilling materials. Nearly 260 tests were performed in a thermal conductivity measuring system to characterize the relationships between the thermal conductivity of mixtures and the water content. The experimental results show that the thermal conductivity of mixtures increases with increasing dry density and with increasing water content. The most widely used empirical prediction models for thermal conductivity of soils were found inappropriate to estimate the thermal conductivity of unsaturated sand-water mixtures. An improved model using a exponential relationship to compute the thermal conductivity of dry sands and empirical relationship to assess the normalized thermal conductivity of unsaturated sand-water mixtures is presented.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.33-36
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• 2006

The effective thermal conductivities of $Mm\;(La_{0.6-0.8})\;Ni_{4.0}Co_{0.6}Mn_{0.2}Al_{0.2}$ (TL-492) with hydrogen and helium have been examined. Experiment results show that pressure has great influence on effective thermal conductivity in Low pressure range (below 0.5 MPa). And that influence decreases rapidly with increase of gas pressure. The reason is at low pressure, the mean free path of gas becomes greater than effective thickness of gas film which is important to the heat transfer mechanism in this research. And, carbon fibers have been used to try to enhance the poor thermal conductivity of TL-492. Three types of carbon fibers and three mass fractions have been examined and compared. Naturally, the highest effective thermal conductivity has been reached with carbon fiber which has highest thermal conductivity, and highest mass fraction. This method has acquired 4.33 times higher thermal conductivity than pure metal hydrides with quite low quantity of additives, only 0.99wt% of carbon fiber. This is a good result comparing to other method which can reach higher effect ive thermal conductivity but needs much higher mass fraction of additives too.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제39권9호
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• pp.5-11
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• 2023

지반구조물의 해석에 있어서 해석의 고려 대상과 분야가 점점 다변화되고 있으며, 특히 지반동결과 관련된 분야에서 지반재료의 열적거동 특성에 대한 예측의 필요성이 중요해지고 있다. 신뢰성 있는 지반의 동결거동 평가를 위해서는 다양한 조건에서의 시료의 유효 열전도도 변화에 대한 고려가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 시료의 간극률, 초기 포화도, Read time 설정을 달리하여 탐침 실험을 수행하였고, 이를 통해 동결 사질토의 유효 열전도도에 영향을 미치는 인자들을 평가하였다. 서로 다른 간극률 조건에서 실험을 수행한 결과, 시료의 간극률이 작을수록 동결토의 유효 열전도도는 증가하는 경향이 나타났다. 반면, 시료의 포화도가 증가할수록 동결토의 유효 열전도도는 증가하였다. 유효 열전도도 측정에 대한 계측기 Read time 설정의 민감도가 존재하였는데, Read time을 1분으로 설정하여 측정하였을 때 측정값의 범위가 국내의 선행연구결과와 유사하게 나타났다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.459-465
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• 2017

The goal of this study is to evaluate the effective thermal conductivity and diffusivity of containment walls as heat sinks or passive cooling systems during nuclear power plant (NPP) accidents. Containment walls consist of steel reinforced concrete, steel liners, and tendons, and provide the main thermal resistance of the heat sinks, which varies with the volume fraction and geometric alignment of the rebar and tendons, as well as the temperature and chemical composition. The target geometry for the containment walls of this work is the standard Korean NPP OPR1000. Sample tests and numerical simulations are conducted to verify the correlations for models with different densities of concrete, volume fractions, and alignments of steel. Estimation of the effective thermal conductivity and diffusivity of the containment wall models is proposed. The Maxwell model and modified Rayleigh volume fraction model employed in the present work predict the experiment and finite volume method (FVM) results well. The effective thermal conductivity and diffusivity of the containment walls are summarized as functions of density, temperature, and the volume fraction of steel for the analysis of the NPP accidents.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.185-192
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• 1999

Effective thermal conductivities and pressure-drop-related properties of aluminum foam metals have been measured. The effects of porosity and cell size in the aluminum foam metal are investigated in detail. The porosity of the foam metal, considered in the present study, varies from 0.89 to 0.96 and the cell size from 0.65㎜ to 2.5㎜. The effective thermal conductivity is evaluated by comparing the temperature gradient of the foam metal with that of the thermal conductivity-known material. The pressure drop in the foam metal is measured by a highly precise electric manometer while air is flowing through the aluminum foam metal in the channel. The results obtained indicate that the effective thermal conductivities are found to be increased with a decrease in the porosity while the effective thermal conductivities ire little affected by the cell size at a fixed porosity. However, the pressure drop is strongly affected by the cell size as well as the porosity. It is seen that the pressure drop is increased as the cell size becomes smaller, as expected. The minimum pressure drop is obtained in the porosity 0.94 at a fixed cell size. A new correlation of the pressure drop is proposed based on the permeability and Ergun's coefficient for the aluminum foam metal.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.567-576
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• 2023

In this study, a 3D microstructure-based model is established to simulate the effective thermal conductivity of cement paste, covering varying influencing factors associated with microstructure and thermal transfer mechanisms. The virtual cement paste divided into colloidal C-S-H and heterogeneous paste are reconstructed based on its structural attributes. Using the two-level hierarchical cement pastes as inputs, a lattice Boltzmann model for heat conduction is presented to predict the thermal conductivity. The results suggest that due to the Knudsen effect induced by the nanoscale pore, the thermal conductivity of air in C-S-H gel pore is significantly decreased, maximumly accounting for 3.3% thermal conductivity of air at the macroscale. In the cement paste, the thermal conductivities of dried and saturated cement pastes are stable at the curing age larger than 100 h. The high water-to-cement ratio can decrease the thermal conductivity of cement paste.

• 지구물리와물리탐사
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.220-230
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• 2018

상온 환경에서 PEDB (Portable Electronic Divided Bar) 시스템을 이용하여 암석의 열전도도를 측정할 경우 실내온도 변화에 영향을 받는다. 따라서 온도와 습도를 일정하게 조절할 수 있는 항온항습기 내에서 열전도도를 측정하면 상온 환경에서 측정할 때의 단점을 보완할 수 있다. 이 연구에서는 항온항습 상태에서 열전도도를 측정할 수 있는 시스템을 구축하여, 울릉도의 GH3, GH4 시추공에서 채취된 45개 시편에 대해 항온항습기 내에서 건조 및 수포화 열전도도를 측정하고 그 특성을 살펴보았다. 또한, 16개 시편에 대해 밀도 및 유효공극률을 측정하여 열전도도와의 상관관계를 분석하였다. 열전도도와 유효공극률 및 밀도의 상관성 분석결과, 수포화 시료보다는 건조시료에서 보다 높은 상관성을 보였으며, 특히 "수포화/건조 열전도도비"는 유효공극률과 매우 높은 상관성($R^2=0.90$)을 보였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 1997년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.447-450
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• 1997

Temperature distribution measurements in the mockup apparatus of reactor vessel were performed to determine the effective thermal conductivity of Al powder porous media where stainless steel tubes were installed with different geometry. The temperature distributions at four separated sections with different arrangements of porous media have different slopes according to the geometrical configuration. From the measured temperature distribution, effective thermal conductivity have been derived using the least square fitting method.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.331-338
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• 2021

Extensive studies have been conducted on thermal conductivity of bentonite buffer materials, as it affects the safety performance of barriers engineered to contain high-level radioactive waste. Bentonite is composed of several minerals, and studies have shown that the difference in the thermal conductivity of bentonites is due to the variation in their mineral composition. However, the specific reasons contributing to the difference, especially with regard to the thermal conductivity of bentonites with similar mineral composition, have not been elucidated. Therefore, in this study, bentonites with significantly different thermal conductivities, but of similar mineral compositions, are investigated. Most bentonites contain more than 60% of montmorillonite. Therefore, it is believed that the exchangeable cations of montmorillonite could affect the thermal conductivity of bentonites. The effect of bentonite type was comparatively analyzed and was verified through the effective medium model for thermal conductivity. Our results show that Ca-type bentonites have a higher thermal conductivity than Na-type bentonites.