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Development of a Biogas Engine for Cogeneration System (바이오스가스를 이용한 열병합 발전용 엔진 개발)

  • Kim, Yeong-Min;Lee, Jang-Hui;Ju, Seong-Ho
    • 연구논문집
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    • s.30
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    • pp.33-42
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    • 2000
  • We must stabilize quickly increasing waste matters in urban life and livestock industry. Biogas including landfill gas and digester gas is byproduct of anaerobic decomposition of organic waste matter and contains 40%-70% methane, which can be used for energy purposes. Utilization of biogas reduce the emission of methane into the atmosphere to minimize greenhouse effect and the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when biogas is converted to energy has been taken out of the atmosphere by growing plant. Recently, bioenergy is world-widely noticeable as all contributing to the greenhouse effect. This paper presents development process of a biogas engine for cogeneration system and results of application to digester gas and landfill gas in site. The biogas engine is a dual fuel engine operated on biogas with a diesel pilot. At present, the engine can substitute biogas for diesel fuel up to 85%. but it can be said that there is a possibility of improvement in performance.

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ESTIMATING THE OPERATOR'S PERFORMANCE TIME OF EMERGENCY PROCEDURAL TASKS BASED ON A TASK COMPLEXITY MEASURE

  • Jung, Won-Dea;Park, Jin-Kyun
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.415-420
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    • 2012
  • It is important to understand the amount of time required to execute an emergency procedural task in a high-stress situation for managing human performance under emergencies in a nuclear power plant. However, the time to execute an emergency procedural task is highly dependent upon expert judgment due to the lack of actual data. This paper proposes an analytical method to estimate the operator's performance time (OPT) of a procedural task, which is based on a measure of the task complexity (TACOM). The proposed method for estimating an OPT is an equation that uses the TACOM as a variable, and the OPT of a procedural task can be calculated if its relevant TACOM score is available. The validity of the proposed equation is demonstrated by comparing the estimated OPTs with the observed OPTs for emergency procedural tasks in a steam generator tube rupture scenario.

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE AEROSOL TRANSPORT MODULE GAMMA-FP FOR EVALUATING RADIOACTIVE FISSION PRODUCT SOURCE TERMS IN A VHTR

  • Yoon, Churl;Lim, Hong Sik
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.46 no.6
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    • pp.825-836
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    • 2014
  • Predicting radioactive fission product (FP) behaviors in the reactor coolant system and the containment of a nuclear power plant (NPP) is one of the major concerns in the field of reactor safety, since the amount of radioactive FP released into the environment during the postulated accident sequences is one of the major regulatory issues. Radioactive FPs circulating in the primary coolant loop and released into the containment are basically in the form of gas or aerosol. In this study, a multi-component and multi-sectional analysis module for aerosol fission products has been developed based on the MAEROS model [1,2], and the aerosol transport model has been developed and verified against an analytic solution. The deposition of aerosol FPs to the surrounding structural surfaces is modeled with recent research achievements. The developed aerosol analysis model has been successfully validated against the STORM SR-11 experimental data [3], which is International Standard Problem No. 40. Future studies include the development of the resuspension, growth, and chemical reaction models of aerosol fission products.

Numerical Analysis of Evolution of Thermal Stratification in a Curved Piping System

  • Park, Seok-Ki;Nam, Ho-Yun;Jo, Jong-Chull
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.169-179
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    • 2000
  • A detailed numerical analysis of the evolution of thermal stratification in a curved piping system in a nuclear power plant is performed. A finite volume based thermal-hydraulic computer code has been developed employing a body-fitted, non-orthogonal curvilinear coordinate for this purpose. The cell-centered, non-staggered grid arrangement is adopted and the resulting checkerboard pressure oscillation is prevented by the application of momentum interpolation method. The SIMPLE algorithm is employed for the pressure and velocity coupling, and the convection terms are approximated by a higher-order bounded scheme. The thermal-hydraulic computer code developed in the present study has been applied to the analysis of thermal stratification in a curved duct and some of the predicted results are compared with the available experimental data. It is shown that the predicted results agree fairly well with the experimental measurements and the transient formation of thermal stratification in a curved duct is also well predicted.

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High-efficiency Agricultural Heater and Smart Control System Utilizing Heat Pipe (히트파이프를 활용한 농업용 고효율난방기 및 스마트 제어시스템)

  • Kim, Eung-Kon;Lim, Chang-Gyoon
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.1151-1158
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    • 2017
  • The Effluent Heat Pipe integral with the heater is a device that recreates unused thermal energy from the plant in winter, and thus reuses unused energy before releasing the exhaust heat. Through the establishment of facility horticulture and glass greenhouses, we identified the problems of our agricultural heaters, and we proposed efficient agricultural efficiency and smart control systems for optimum agricultural efficiency and smart house.

A Matlab/Simulink-Based PV array-Supercapacitor Model Employing SimPowerSystem and Stateflow Tool Box

  • Hong, Won-Pyo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.28 no.12
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    • pp.18-29
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    • 2014
  • This paper proposes the integration of photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage systems for sustained power generation. In this proposed system, whenever the PV system cannot completely meet load demands, the super capacitor provides power to meet the remaining load. A power management strategy is designed for the proposed system to manage power flows between PV array systems and supercapacitors (SC). The main task of this study was to design PV systems with storage strategies including MPPT with direct control and an advanced DC-link controller and to analyze dynamic model proposed for a PV-SC hybrid power generation system. In this paper, the simulation models for the hybrid energy system are developed using Matlab/Simulink, SimPowerSystems and Matlab/Stateflow tool. This is the key innovative contribution of the research paper. The system performances are verified by carrying out simulation studies using practical load demand profile and real weather data.

Study on the Oversea Technology Development of Electric Power Storage System and It's Domestic Application (전력저장시스템 기술개발 국외동향 분석 및 국내 활용방안 연구)

  • Choi, Kyung-Shik;Yang, Seung-Kwon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.57-60
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    • 2008
  • As the technology of a large scale battery have advanced, it's application to the electric power network have been active in foreign country. By providing the electric power energy stored in the electric power storage system when needed, there are many advantages that it is able to reduce the gap between the electric power demand and supply for day and night to increase capacity factor, to upgrade the electric power quality degraded from the unbalance between power demand and supply and to compensate the fluctuation of wind power plant and photovoltaic power generation. In this study, the current application of electric power storage system using battery is introduced in detail, and I have thought out it's application fields based on the foreign examples. These are demand side response, upgrade of the power quality, stabilization of fluctuation of renewable energy and distributed generation for filling elapse.

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A Development of Smart Black Box for Grid-connected Solar Power System (계통 연계형 태양광 발전 시스템의 스마트 블랙박스의 개발)

  • Park, Sung-Won;Kim, Dong-Wan;Lee, Jin-Woo
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.65 no.12
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    • pp.2119-2126
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we developed a smart black box that can monitor and record the information of the sensor from subsystem in the smart grid system. The plant is the complex power system which is integrated by solar power system, grid-connected power systems, and BESS(battery energy storage system). The black box with the web-server application can connect and synchronize to an external monitoring system and a smart phone. We hope that this system is to contribute to improve operational efficiency, reliability, and stability for the smart grid power system.

Analysis of Electricity Use of Commercial Buildings by End-Use (업무용 건물의 End-Use 전력 사용실태 분석)

  • Park, Jong-Jin;Rhee, Chang-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1998.07c
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    • pp.1150-1152
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    • 1998
  • Recently, our electric industry confronts a structural change and high competiveness environment in the course of deregulation. Rapid growth in electricity demand, financial need for new power plant construction, and envionmental problems have led to search for more efficient energy production and energy conservation techmologies. Especially, residential and commercial buildings consumes 40% of electricity demands and building energies are increasing more and more in Korea. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the electricity use of commercial buildings by end-use. Also, we will use it as a basic informations of DSM potential evaluation and evaluation process based on different approach by sector and type of potential.

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Prediction of Possibility of Indoor Pipe Freezing in Heat Only Boiler Room through Thermal Analysis (열분석을 통한 열전용 보일러동 실내배관의 동파 가능성 예측)

  • Lim, Byoung-Ik;Chung, Kwang-Seop;Kim, Young-Il
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2012
  • In a heat only boiler system of a steam power plant, outdoor air required for combustion is made to pass through indoor space for increasing the boiler efficiency. Due to heat generated by various equipments, temperature of the air that enters the boiler will increase resulting in combustion efficiency. If the outdoor air temperature is low, however, this will cause freezing and bursting of pipes which are filled with water. It is especially fatal to small diameter pipes and pipes connected to measuring instruments. The purpose of this study is find operation and outdoor conditions where this phenomena can happen and also establish preventive measures to avoid this problem.