• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.185-194
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• 2006

Transient operations for an integral type reactor, SMART-P, have been experimentally investigated using a thermal-hydraulic integral test facility, VISTA (Experimental Verification by Integral Simulation of Transients and Accidents), in order to verify the system design and performance of the SMART-P, a pilot plant of SMART. The VISTA facility was subjected to various accident conditions such as feedwater increase and decrease, loss of coolant flow, and control rod withdrawal accidents in order to elucidate the thermal-hydraulic responses following such accidents and finally to verify the system design of the SMARTP. Full functional control logics have been implemented in the VISTA facility in order to control the required control action for an accident simulation. As one of the sensitivity tests to verify the PRHRS performance, the effects of the initial water level in the compensation tank are experimentally investigated. When the initial water level is 16%, the water is quickly drained and nitrogen gas is then introduced into the PRHR system, resulting in deterioration of the PRHRS performance. It is thus found that nitrogen ingression should be prevented to ensure stable PRHRS operation.

• KIEE International Transaction on Systems and Control
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• 제2D권2호
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• pp.78-91
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• 2002

In the thermal power plant, there are six manipulated variables: main steam flow, feedwater flow, fuel flow, air flow, spray flow, and gas recirculation flow. There are five controlled variables: generator output, main steam pressure, main steam temperature, exhaust gas density, and reheater steam temperature. Therefore, the thermal power plant control system is a multinput and output system. In the control system, the main steam temperature is typically regulated by the fuel flow rate and the spray flow rate, and the reheater steam temperature is regulated by the gas recirculation flow rate. However, strict control of the steam temperature must be maintained to avoid thermal stress. Maintaining the steam temperature can be difficult due to heating value variation to the fuel source, time delay changes in the main steam temperature versus changes in fuel flow rate, difficulty of control of the main steam temperature control and the reheater steam temperature control system owing to the dynamic response characteristics of changes in steam temperature and the reheater steam temperature, and the fluctuation of inner fluid water and steam flow rates during the load-following operation. Up to the present time, the Proportional-Integral-Derivative Controller has been used to operate this system. However, it is very difficult to achieve an optimal PID gain with no experience, since the gain of the PID controller has to be manually tuned by trial and error. This paper focuses on the characteristic comparison of the PID controller and the modified 2-DOF PID Controller (Two-Degrees-Freedom Proportional-Integral-Derivative) on the DCS (Distributed Control System). The method is to design an optimal controller that can be operated on the thermal generating plant in Seoul, Korea. The modified 2-DOF PID controller is designed to enable parameters to fit into the thermal plant during disturbances. To attain an optimal control method, transfer function and operating data from start-up, running, and stop procedures of the thermal plant have been acquired. Through this research, the stable range of a 2-DOF parameter for only this system could be found for the start-up procedure and this parameter could be used for the tuning problem. Also, this paper addressed whether an intelligent tuning method based on immune network algorithms can be used effectively in tuning these controllers.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.3112-3118
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• 2010

최근 경수로형 원전 2차 계통의 건전성 유지를 위해 수처리제를 암모니아에서 에탄올아민으로 전환하였으나, 적용 후 복수 및 저압급수가열기 영역에서의 pH가 감소하므로 본 연구에서는 최적의 pH 제어제로 사용 할 수 있는 아민을 조사하였다. 대체아민 조사 결과 최적 조건을 만족시키는 단일 아민은 존재하지 않았다. 암모니아는 상대휘발도가 높아 증기에 많이 분포되어 증기 응축수인 복수에서 pH가 높으며, 상대휘발도가 낮은 에탄올아민은 습증기 영역의 pH를 높여 유체가속부식을 억제하므로 증기발생기 철 슬러지 유입을 감소하는데 효과적인 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 복수 및 저압급수계통에서 pH가 높은 암모니아와 습증기영역의 유체가속부식 측면에서 특성이 우수한 에탄올아민(ETA)을 혼합 주입하는 복합아민을 선택하면 2차 계통 재질의 손실을 최소화하여 증기발생기 건전성을 확보할 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.109-114
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• 2014

After the Fukushima accident in 2011, it was revealed that nuclear power plant has the vulnerability to SBO accident and its extension situation without sufficient cooling of reactor core resulting core meltdown and radioactive material release even after reactor shutdown. Many safety systems had been developed like PAFS, hybrid SIT, and relocation of RPV and IRWST as a part of steps for the Fukushima accident, however, their applications have limitation in the situation that supply of feedwater into reactor is impossible due to high pressure inside reactor pressure vessel. The concept of hybrid heat pipe with control rod is introduced for breaking through the limitation. Hybrid heat pipe with control rod is the passive decay heat removal system in core, which has the abilities of reactor shutdown as control rod as well as decay heat removal as heat pipe. For evaluating the cooling performance hybrid heat pipe, a commercial CFD code, ANSYS-CFX was used. First, for validating CFD results, numerical results and experimental results with same geometry and fluid conditions were compared to a tube type heat pipe resulting in a resonable agreement between them. After that, wall temperature and thermal resistances of 2 design concepts of hybrid heat pipe were analyzed about various heat inputs. For unit length, hybrid heat pipe with a tube type of $B_4C$ pellet has a decreasing tendency of thermal resistance, on the other hand, hybrid heat pipe with an annular type $B_4C$ pellet has an increasing tendency as heat input increases.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.125-135
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• 1993

안전하고 효율적인 원자력 발전소의 운전은 디지탈 기술을 이용한 발전소 자동화로 이루어질 수 있다는 인식과 함께 이같은 발전소 자동화는 차세대 원자력 발전소의 중요한 목표중의 하나가 되고 있다. 전체적인 발전소 수준의 자동화를 위해서는 일차적으로 각 주요 시스템에 대한 디지털화가 요구되며 본 논문에서는 증기발생기의 수위조절 시스템에 대해 연구하였다. 이를 위해 증기발생기의 열수력학적 모델을 이용하여 증기발생기에 작용하는 여러가지 입력과 수위와의 관계를 전달함수로 표시하였으며 이를 이용하여 기존의 발전소에서 사용되고 있는 3 요소 제어시스템을 검토하였다. 본 논문에서의 제어구성은 증기발생기 그 자체를 시스템내에 플랜트로서 포함시킨 것이기 때문에 전체적인 시스템 차수가 증가하며 디지탈 과정중 수치적 불안정이 야기된다. 이러한 문제와 아울러 저출력에서는 궤환신호로 작용하는 급수유량의 신뢰도가 작음을 고려하여 2 요소 제어시스템 및 그에 따른 디지탈 제어기에 대해 연구하였다. 이 시스템의 디지탈 비례적분제어기는 그 이득 및 적분시간상수가 초기출력에 따라 변하며 전체적인 시스템의 응답특성이 안정성 및 기타 제어 특성을 동시에 만족시키도록 하고 있다. 이러한 제어기를 사용한 2 요소 제어시스템은 초기출력에만 의존하므로 정의하기가 간단하며 또 이러한 시스템의 수위응답은 그에 대응하는 아날로그 시스템의 결과와 비슷함을 보이고 있다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.276-284
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• 1993

ABB-CE사의 System-80 설계 특성 중 원자로 출력 급감발 제어계통(RPCS : Reactor Power Cutback System)은 2개의 주급수 펌프 중 1대가 정지하거나 전출력 부하 상실사고인 경우에도 원자로 정지없이 운전하게 함으로써 원전의 경제성 향상에 도움을 주고 있다. 이러한 RPCS의 적용 범위를 확대하여 단일제어봉 낙하를 포함한 제어봉 인입편차(inward deviation)가 발생하는 경우에도 RPCS를 작동시키면 원자로를 정지시키지 않고 운전을 계속할 수 있는지를 분석하였다. 즉 제어봉 인입편차가 발생시 제어봉을 순간적으로 낙하시켜 1차계통의 출력을 낮추면서 원자로를 정지시키지 않고도 과도현상을 수습할 수 있는지 분석하였다. 이렇게 확대된 RPCS는 미국 EPRI의 개량형 경수로 요건사항을 만족하는 것이며 제어봉 인입편차의 과도상태를 수용할 수 있도록 하는 ABB-CE사의 System-80+ 설계 항목에도 포함되어 있다. 본 연구에서는 System-8O+에 대하여 RPCS의 작동에 의한 제어봉의 삽입과 그에 따른 핵증기 공급계통의 변화를 모사할 수 있는 노심해석 모델을 개발하였다. 연구 결과 단일 제어봉 낙하를 포함한 제어봉 인입편차가 발생되어도 원자로 출력 급감발 제어를 확대 적용하는 경우 원자로 정지를 방지할 수 있게 되어 원전의 이용율을 향상시킬 수 있을 것으로 검토되었다.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.125-131
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• 2013

The most common pipe wall thinning degradation mechanisms that can occur in the steam and feedwater systems are FAC (Flow Acceleration Corrosion), cavitation, flashing, and LDIE (Liquid Droplet Impingement Erosion). Among those degradation mechanisms, FAC has been investigated by many laboratories and industries. Cavitation and flashing are also protected on the piping design phase. LDIE has mainly investigated in aviation industry and turbine blade manufactures. On the other hand, LDIE has been little studied in NPP (Nuclear Power Plant) industry. This paper presents the development of prediction system for pipe wall thinning caused by LDIE in terms of erosion rate based on air-water ratio and material. Experiment is conducted in 3 cases of air-water ratio 0.79, 1.00, and 1.72 using the three types of the materials of A106B, SS400, and A6061. The main control parameter is the air-water ratio which is defined as the volumetric ratio of water to air (0.79, 1.00, 1.72). The experiments were performed for 15 days, and the surface morphology and hardness of the materials were examined for every 5 days. Since the spraying velocity (v) of liquid droplets and their contact area ($A_c$) on specimens are changed according to the air-water ratio, we analyzed the behavior of LDIE for the materials. Finally, the prediction equations(i.e. erosion rate) for LDIE of the materials were determined in the range of the air-water ratio from 0 to 2%.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.2699-2708
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• 2020

Helical-coil steam generator (HCSG) technology is a major design candidate for small modular reactors due to its compactness and capability to produce superheated steam with high generation efficiency. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of the passively autonomous power maneuvering by coupling the 3-D transient multi-physics of a soluble-boron-free (SBF) core with a time-dependent HCSG model. The predictor corrector quasi-static method was used to reduce the cost of the transient 3-D neutronic solution. In the numerical system simulations, the feedwater flow rate to the secondary of the HCSGs is adjusted to extract the demanded power from the primary loop. This varies the coolant temperature at the inlet of the SBF core, which governs the passively autonomous power maneuvering due to the strongly negative coolant reactivity feedback. Here, we simulate a 100-50-100 load-follow operation with a 5%/minute power ramping speed to investigate the feasibility of the passively autonomous load-follow in a 450 MW_th SBF PWR. In addition, the passively autonomous frequency control operation is investigated. The various system models are coupled, and they are solved by an in-house Fortran-95 code. The results of this work demonstrate constant steam temperature in the secondary side and limited variation of the primary coolant temperature. Meanwhile, the variations of the core axial shape index and the core power peaking are sufficiently small.