• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.47-53
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• 1988

본 연구의 목적은 충전/안전주입 펌프 최소순환관으로부터 안전주입신호(s-신호)를제거 함에 따른 원자력 5,6,7,8호기의 고압안전주입계통(HHSIS)의 신뢰도를 분석, 평가하는 것이다. 계산은 s-신호를 제거한 경우와 제거하지 않은 경우에 대하여 각각 수행되었다. 각 경우에 대하여 s-신호 발생시 고압안전주입계통의 이용불능도와 충전/안전주입 펌프의 파손확률이 계산되었다. 계산결과에 따르면, s-신호를 제거함에 따라 고압안전주입계통의 이용불능도는 미세하게 증가하였으며 반면에 충전/안전주입 펌프의 파손확률은 크게 감소하였다. 따라서 여러가지 측면에서 충전/안전주입 펌프의 최소순환관으로부터 s-신호를 제거하고 운전하는 것이 합당하다는 것이 밝혀졌으며, 고압안전주입계통의 이용불능도를 줄이기 위하여 운전절차를 개선하고 운전원의 훈련 및 교육을 강화할 것을 추천한다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.1546-1552
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• 2016

일반적으로 치과용 주조기는 불때를 이용하여 합금을 용해하기 때문에 합금의 적절한 용융온도 및 주조시간을 조절하기 어렵고 이로 인해 가스공이나 핀홀과 같은 주조결함을 발생시키며 과열로 인한 보철물의 결함을 보이고 있다. 또한 합금이 용융된 후 주조 시 대부분 투시창이나 비접촉식 온도센서를 부착하여 적절한 주조온도가 되면 작업자가 원심력을 발생하는 버튼을 눌러 도가니에 용융된 합금을 주조링에 주입한다. 이러한 결과로 대부분 주조온도가 너무 높거나 낮아서 주조결함을 많이 발생하고 있으며 균일한 주조체를 얻지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 외부의 비접촉식 온도 센서를 이용한 온도계측이 아닌 실제 합금의 사용 온도를 계측할 수 있는 단일 온도센서를 이용한 치과용 고주파 주조기를 개발하였다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.287-295
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• 2012

Purpose: Some of the most representative approaches are to apply next generation technologies to save energy consumption, fully automated control system to appropriately maintain environmental conditions, and autonomous assistance system to reduce labor load and ensure operator's safety. Nevertheless, improvement of upcoming method for soil cultured greenhouse has not been sufficiently achieved. Geometrical complexity of ground in protected crop cultivation might be one of the most dominant factors in design of autonomous vehicle. While there is a practical solution fairly enough to promise an accurate travelling, such as autonomous sprayer guided by rail or induction coil, for various reasons including the limitation of producer's budget, the previously developed sprayer has not been widely distributed to market. Methods: In this study, we developed an autonomous sprayer considering travelling performance on geometrical complexity of ground in soil cultured greenhouse. To maintain a stable travelling and to acquire a real time feedback, common wire with 80 mm thick and body frame and sprayer boom. To evaluate performance of the prototype, tracking performance, climbing performance and spraying boom's uniform leveling performance were individually evaluated by corresponding experimental tests. Results: The autonomous guidance system was proved to be sufficiently suitable for accurate linear traveling with RMS as lower than approximately 10 cm from designated path. Also the prototype could climb $10^{\circ}$ of ground's slope angle with 40 kg of water weight. Uniform leveling of spraying boom was successfully performed within $0.5^{\circ}$ of sprayer boom's slope. Conclusions: Considering more complex pathways and coarse ground conditions, evaluations and improvements of the prototype should be performed for promising reliability to commercialization.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제41권7호
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• pp.945-952
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• 2009

The Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) accident provides unique full scale data, thus providing opportunities to check the capability of codes to model overall plant behavior and to perform a spectrum of sensitivity and uncertainty calculations. As part of the TMI-2 analysis benchmark exercise sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD NEA), several member countries are continuing to improve their system analysis codes using the TMI-2 data. The Republic of Korea joined this benchmark exercise in November 2005. Seoul National University has analyzed the TMI-2 accident as well as the currently proposed alternative scenario along with a sensitivity study using the Modular Accident Analysis Program Version 4.03 (MAAP4.03) code in collaboration with the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company. Two input files are required to simulate the TMI-2 accident with MAAP4: the parameter file and an input deck. The user inputs various parameters, such as volumes or masses, for each component. The parameter file contains the information on TMI-2 relevant to the plant geometry, system performance, controls, and initial conditions used to perform these benchmark calculations. The input deck defines the operator actions and boundary conditions during the course of the accident. The TMI-2 accident analysis provided good estimates of the accident output data compared with the OECD TMI-2 standard reference. The alternative scenario has proposed the initial event as a loss of main feed water and a small break on the hot leg. Analysis is in progress along with a sensitivity study concerning the break size and elevation.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.356-364
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• 2017

전기철도 차량은 검수를 위한 단계가 복잡하며, 안전사고에 대한 위험도 내포하고 있다. 이동식 전차선 시스템은 복잡한 과정의 검수고 입환 시스템에 대해 단순화가 가능하도록 하며, 사용자 편의성을 제공하고 안전성을 확보한다는 측면에서 매우 유용한 시스템이다. 본 논문에서는 기존 이동식전차선 대비 사용상 장점이 있고 국내 직류 시스템에 첫 적용되는 강체전차선을 적용하여 기계적인 내구성, 편의성, 작업자 안전성을 확보한 철도차량용 이동식 전차선 시스템에 대해 성능평가 및 연구개발 결과를 정리를 포함하여 현장설치를 위한 기본적인 특성을 종합적으로 분석하였다. 결론적으로 반복적인 사용 환경에 대한 내구성, 기계적인 하중에 대한 내구성, 안전성 등 요구 사양에서 우수한 결과를 나타내었다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.97-102
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• 2019

Background: Dose rate meters are the most widely used, and perhaps one of the most important tools for the measurement of ionising radiation. They are often the first, or only, device available to a user for an instant check of radiation dose at a certain location. Throughout the world, radiation safety practices rely strongly on the output of these dose rate meters. But how well do we know the quality of their output? Materials and Methods: This review is based on the measurements 1,158 commercially available dose rate meters of 116 different makes and models. Expected versus the displayed dose patterns and consistency was checked at various dose rates between $5{\mu}Gy{\cdot}h^{-1}$ and $2mGy{\cdot}h^{-1}$. Samples of these meters were then selected for further investigation and were exposed to radiation sources covering photon energies from 50 keV to 1.5 MeV. The effect of detector orientation on its reading was also investigated. Rather than focusing on the angular response distribution that is often reported by the manufacturer of the device, this study focussed on the design ergonomics i.e. the angles that the operator will realistically use to measure a dose rate. Results and Discussion: This review shows the scope and boundaries of the ionising radiation dose rate estimations that are made using commonly available meters. Observations showed both inter and intra make and model variations, occasional cases of instrument failure, instrument walk away, and erroneous response. Conclusion: The results indicate the significance of selecting and maintaining suitable monitors for specific applications in radiation safety.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.277-283
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• 2021

Power plant simulators have been used for operator training, control verification and engineering verification. In general, simulators can be used in the place where they are installed by only single user group at a time. Considering high cost of simulator development, a lot of available scenarios, the diversity of user level and accessibility based on users' work location, development of simulator system that can be used by multiple user groups regardless of location is required in order to enhance utilization of simulators. In this paper, the simulator system that can be used by multiple user group simultaneously without location limitation is proposed. The simulator system is composed of simulator servers, database servers, HMI servers, a web server, web clients. Simulator server consists of control model, process model that are developed for Circulating Fluidized Bed power plant located overseas. A web server manages user accounts, operation procedures, multiple server access between web client group and simulator server group. In other words, a web server makes a user group select a simulator server at a time. The developed simulator system is integrated after implementing process model, control model, HMI, and web server. Web client systems are installed on local site where power plant is located, while simulator servers, HMI servers, database servers, and a web server are located in KEPCO RI. The developed simulator system is verified by steady-state test, malfunction test and so on via remote access.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.213-221
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• 2022

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a binary carbon-silicon compound. In its two-dimensional form, monolayer SiC is composed of a monolayer carbon and silicon atoms constructed as a honeycomb lattice. SiC has recently been receiving increasing attention from researchers owing to its intriguing electronic properties. In this present work, SiC nanoribbons (SiCNRs) are modelled and simulated to obtain accurate electronic properties, which can further guide fabrication processes, through bandgap engineering. The primary objective of this work is to obtain the electronic properties of monolayer SiCNRs by applying numerical computation methods using nearest-neighbour tight-binding models. Hamiltonian operator discretization and approximation of plane wave are assumed for the models and simulation by applying the basis function. The computed electronic properties include the band structures and density of states of monolayer SiCNRs of varying width. Furthermore, the properties are compared with those of graphene nanoribbons. The bandgap of ASiCNR as a function of width are also benchmarked with published DFT-GW and DFT-GGA data. Our nearest neighbour tight-binding (NNTB) model predicted data closer to the calculations based on the standard DFT-GGA and underestimated the bandgap values projected from DFT-GW, which takes in account the exchange-correlation energy of many-body effects.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.3565-3583
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• 2022

The task scheduling problem has received a lot of attention in recent years as a crucial area for research in the cloud environment. However, due to the difference in objectives considered by service providers and users, it has become a major challenge to resolve the conflicting interests of service providers and users while both can still take into account their respective objectives. Therefore, the task scheduling problem as a bi-objective game problem is formulated first, and then a task scheduling model based on the bi-objective game (TSBOG) is constructed. In this model, energy consumption and resource utilization, which are of concern to the service provider, and cost and task completion rate, which are of concern to the user, are calculated simultaneously. Furthermore, a many-objective evolutionary algorithm based on a partitioned collaborative selection strategy (MaOEA-PCS) has been developed to solve the TSBOG. The MaOEA-PCS can find a balance between population convergence and diversity by partitioning the objective space and selecting the best converging individuals from each region into the next generation. To balance the players' multiple objectives, a crossover and mutation operator based on dynamic games is proposed and applied to MaPEA-PCS as a player's strategy update mechanism. Finally, through a series of experiments, not only the effectiveness of the model compared to a normal many-objective model is demonstrated, but also the performance of MaOEA-PCS and the validity of DGame.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.15-19
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• 2022

The radial distribution systems (RDS) commonly used around the world has the following disadvantages. First, when the DL is operated on a radial system, the line utilization rate is usually kept low. Second, if a fault occurs in the radial DL, a power outage of 3 to 5 minutes is occurring depending on the operator's proficiency and fault situation until the fault section is separated and the normal section is replaced. To solve this problem, Various methods have been proposed at domestic and foreign to solve this problem, and in Korea, research is underway on the advanced system of operating multiple linked DL always. A system that is electrically linked always, and that is built to enable high-speed communication during the protection coordination is named networked distribution system (NDS). Because the load shares the DL, the line utilization rate can be improved, and even if the line faults, the normal section does not need to be cut off, so the normal section does not experience a power outage. However, since it is impossible to predict in which direction the fault current will flow when a failure occurs in the NDS, a communication-based protection coordination is used, but there is no backup protection coordination method in case of communication failure. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a protective cooperation method to apply as a backup method when communication fails in NDS. The new method is to change TCC by location of CB using voltage drop in case of fault.