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Impact of mixer design to reactants mixing characteristics and gas-phase reactions in the mixing region of a hydrocarbon reformer (개질기 혼합영역 형상에 따른 반응물의 혼합도 및 가스상 반응특성에 대한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Kim, Sunyoung;Bae, Joongmyeon
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.99.1-99.1
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    • 2011
  • Reactant mixing has a critical role in ensuring reformate quality and an important design objective is to achieve sufficiently complete mixture of reactants. For that purpose it is required to understand the coupled transport-kinetics phenomena in the mixing region. Three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model was developed and validated in previous works. The mixing characteristics in various alternatives of a prototype mixing chamber were compared, and then a reduced reaction kinetics was applied to two extreme designs for investigating the impact of gas-phase reactions. Both designs did not reach threshold ethylene mole fraction of 0.001, but surprisingly more ethylene was generated in the design having better mixing characteristics. The presentation will deliver the development process of coupled transport and kinetics model briefly and the detailed information about the mixing characteristics and gas-phase reactions in two mixer designs.

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The development of computational fluid dynamics tools for thermal expansion type interrupter with the arc rotary (아크회전과 열팽창 방식을 적용한 소호부에 대한 아크유동 해석)

  • Choulkov, Victor;Lee, B.W.;Seo, J.M.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2000.07b
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    • pp.813-815
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    • 2000
  • This paper is concerned with the development of PC based computer simulation and design tools for auto-expansion SF6 circuit breaker with the arc rotary. The simulation model takes into account radiation transport, turbulence enhanced momentum. energy transport. The conversation gas dynamic equation together with Maxwells equations are solved. For the arc simulation the straightforward procedure has been used. The temperature, gas density and velocity space distributions within the circuit breaker are simulated in details. The presented results show that the computer simulation of gas flow in SF6 interrupter is a subject of much interest for design and optimization of contacts. The presented results show that the shape and sizes of contacts are chosen by this tool from judiciously compromise between electrical breakdown strength and interruption ability that are functions of gas flow parameters.

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MULTISCALE MODELLING FOR THE FISSION GAS BEHAVIOUR IN THE TRANSURANUS CODE

  • Van Uffelen, P.;Pastore, G.;Di Marcello, V.;Luzzi, L.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.43 no.6
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    • pp.477-488
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    • 2011
  • A formulation is proposed for modelling the process of intra-granular diffusion of fission gas during irradiation of $UO_2$ under both normal operating conditions and power transients. The concept represents a simple extension of the formulation of Speight, including an estimation of the contribution of bubble motion to fission gas diffusion. The resulting equation is formally identical to the diffusion equation adopted in most models that are based on the formulation of Speight, therefore retaining the advantages in terms of simplicity of the mathematical-numerical treatment and allowing application in integral fuel performance codes. The development of the new model proposed here relies on results obtained by means of molecular dynamics simulations as well as finite element computations. The formulation is proposed for incorporation in the TRANSURANUS fuel performance code.

Determining Factors to Enhanced Oil Mist Filter Efficiency Using CFD Modeling (CFD모델링을 통한 오일 미스트필터효율 향상 결정요소에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Hee-Jae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.20 no.10
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    • pp.119-127
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    • 2021
  • Small drops in gas cause some problems for downstream equipments such as turbine, compressor and etc. In some cases, we are obliged to remove hazardous liquid mist from gas. In order to remove water or other liquids from the gas, there are some equipments like mesh mist eliminator and vane-plate mist eliminator. oil mist filter is a kind of liquid eliminator equipments used to remove the liquid with 1-10um droplet diameter from the gas. In this paper is determine the factors affecting the oil mist filter efficiency using CFD. length and angle of the filter were considered and the results and compare the results of the efficiency tests, showed error of less than 3%. optimum filter can remove more than 87.3% between 1 and 10um of oil mist.

Importance of Extracellular Enzyme Activities in Northern Peatland Biogeochemistry-Possible Coupling with Trace Gas Emission and DOC Dynamics (북구 이탄습지의 생지화학적 반응에 있어서 체외효소의 중요성-미량기체 발생량 및 용존유기탄소 동태와의 연관성에 대하여)

  • Freeman, Chris;Park, Seok-Soon;Kang, Ho-Jeong
    • Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.39 no.4 s.118
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    • pp.435-444
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    • 2006
  • A suite of extracellular enzyme activities involved in organic carbon decomposition were determined in three northern peatlands (a bog, a fen, and a swamp) over a 12 month period along with trace gas ($CO_2$ and $N_2O$) flux and DOC dynamics in the wetlands. The activities varied $0.008-0.066\;{\mu}mole\;g^{-1}\;min^{-1}$, $0.003-0.021\;{\mu}mole\;g^{-1}\;min^{-1}$, $0.003-0.016\;{\mu}mole\;g^{-1}\;min^{-1}$, $0.004-0.047\;{\mu}mole\;g^{-1}\;min^{-1}$, for ${\beta}-glucosidase$, cellobiohydrolase, ${\beta}-xylosidase$, and N-acetylglucosaminidase, respectively. In general, the activities were highest in the forested swamp followed by the fen and the bog. When the data from three wetlands are combined, the enzyme activities exhibited significant positive correlations with trace gas emission and available carbon. Further, the average activity of 4 enzymes explained about 20-40% of the variations of trace gas emssion and available carbon. The results indicate that enzymes related to the mineralization of organic carbon may play an important role in trace gas flux and DOC dynamics in northern peatlands.

Optimal LNG Procurement Policy in a Spot Market Using Dynamic Programming (동적 계획법을 이용한 LNG 현물시장에서의 포트폴리오 구성방법)

  • Ryu, Jong-Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.259-266
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    • 2015
  • Among many energy resources, natural gas has recently received a remarkable amount of attention, particularly from the electrical generation industry. This is in part due to increasing shale gas production, providing an environment-friendly fossil fuel, and high risk of nuclear power. Because South Korea, the world's second largest LNG importing nation after Japan, has no international natural gas pipelines and relies on imports in the form of LNG, the natural gas has been traditionally procured by long term LNG contracts at relatively high price. Thus, there is a need of developing an Asian LNG trading hub, where LNG can be traded at more competitive spot prices. In a natural gas spot market, the amount of natural gas to be bought should be carefully determined considering a limited storage capacity and future pricing dynamics. In this work, the problem to find the optimal amount of natural gas in a spot market is formulated as a Markov decision process (MDP) in risk neutral environment and the optimal base stock policy which depends on a stage and price is established. Taking into account price and demand uncertainties, the basestock target levels are simply approximated from dynamic programming. The simulation results show that the basestock policy can be one of effective ways for procurement of LNG in a spot market.

Hazardous Gas Detecting and Capturing Robot (유해가스 탐지·포집 로봇)

  • Shin, Juseong;Pyo, Juhyun;Lee, Meungsuk;Park, Sanghyun;Park, Seoyeon;Suh, Jinho;Jin, Maolin
    • Journal of Drive and Control
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.27-35
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    • 2022
  • This study presents one man-portable, hazardous gas detecting and capturing robot. The robot can be fit in the trunk of a sedan car. Its weight is less than 20 kg. A dedicated gas intake mechanism is proposed for the robot. The robot can detect and capture gases at a height of 2 m above the ground, although the height of the robot is about 0.2 m. The performance of the gas intake mechanism is verified through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and experiments. Its gas detecting signals were acquired by serial communication and processed in Robot Operating System (ROS) based control software. The proposed robot can successfully move on rough terrains such as stairs, sand roads, and rock roads.

Numerical Investigation on Experiment for Passive Containment Cooling System (피동 원자로건물 냉각계통 실험에 관한 수치적 연구)

  • Ha, Hui Un;Suh, Jung Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.96-104
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    • 2020
  • The numerical simulations were conducted to investigate the thermal-fluid phenomena occurred inside the experimental apparatus during a PCCS, used to remove heat released in accidents from a containment of light water nuclear power plant, operation. Numerical simulations of the flow and heat transfer caused by wall condensation inside the containment simulation vessel (CSV), which equipped with 18 vertical heat exchanger tubes, were conducted using the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software ANSYS-CFX. Shear stress transport (SST) and the wall condensation model were used for turbulence closure and wall condensation, respectively. The simulation using the actual size of the apparatus. However, rather than simulating the whole experimental apparatus in consideration of the experimental cases, calculation resources, and calculation time, the simulation model was prepared only in CSV. Selective simulation was conducted to verify the effects of non-condensable gas(NC gas) concentration, CSV internal pressure, and wall sub-cooling conditions. First, as a result of the internal flow of CSV, it was observed that downward flow due to condensation occurred surface of the vertical tube and upward flow occurred in the distant place. Natural convection occurred actively around the heat exchanger tube. Due to this rising and falling internal flow, natural circulation occurred actively around the heat exchanger tubes. Next, in order to check the performance of built-in condensation model using according to the non-condensable gas concentration, CSV internal flow and wall sub-cooling, the heat flux values were compared with the experimental results. On average, the results were underestimated with and error of about 25%. In addition, the influence of CSV internal pressure and wall sub-cooling was small, but when the condensate was highly generated due to the low non-condensable gas concentration, the error was large compared to the experimental values. This is considered to be due to the nature of the condensation model of the CFX code. However, in spite of the limitations of CFD, it is valid to use the built-in condensation model of CFD for PCCS performance prediction from a conservative perspective.

Development of a CFD Program for Cold Gas Flow Analysis in a High Voltage Circuit Breaker Using CFD-CAD Integration (CFD-CAD 통합해석을 이용한 초고압 차단기 내부의 냉가스 유동해석 프로그램 개발)

  • Lee, Jong-Cheol;An, Hui-Seop;O, Il-Seong;Choe, Jong-Ung
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.51 no.5
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    • pp.242-248
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    • 2002
  • It is important to develop new effective technologies to increase the interruption capacity and to reduce the size of a UB(Gas Circuit Breakers). Major design parameters such as nozzle geometries and interrupting chamber dimensions affect the cooling of the arc and the breaking performance. But it is not easy to test real GCB model in practice as in theory. Therefore, a simulation tool based on a computational fluid dynamics(CFD) algorithm has been developed to facilitate an optimization of the interrupter. Special attention has been paid to the supersonic flow phenomena between contacts and the observation of hat-gas flow for estimating the breaking performance. However, there are many difficult problems in calculating the flow characteristics in a GCB such as shock wave and complex geometries, which may be either static or in relative motion. Although a number of mesh generation techniques are now available, the generation of meshes around complicated, multi-component geometries like a GCB is still a tedious and difficult task for the computational fluid dynamics. This paper presents the CFD program using CFB-CAD integration technique based on Cartesian cut-cell method, which could reduce researcher's efforts to generate the mesh and achieve the accurate representation of the geometry designed by a CAD tools.

Estimation of Local Stress Change of Wall-Thinned Pipes due to Fluid Flow (유체유동에 의한 감육배관의 국부응력변화 평가)

  • Kim Young-Jin;Song Ki-Hun;Lee Sang-Min;Chang Yoon-Suk;Choi Jae-Boong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.10 no.3 s.32
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    • pp.7-12
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, a new evaluation scheme is suggested to estimate load-carrying capacities of wall thinned pipes. At first, computational fluid dynamics analyses employing steady-state and incompressible flow are carried out to determine pressure distributions in accordance with conveying fluid. Then, the variational pressures are applied as input condition of structural finite element analyses to calculate local stresses at the deepest point. The efficiency of proposed scheme was proven from comparison to conventional analyses results and it is recommended to consider the fluid structure interaction effect for exact integrity evaluation.

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