• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.92-98
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• 2010

In a modern high speed drawing process of optical fibers, it is necessary to use helium as a cooling gas in a glass fiber cooling unit in order to sufficiently cool down the fast moving glass fiber freshly drawn from the heated silica preform in the furnace. Since the air is entrained unavoidably when the glass fiber passes through the cooling unit, the helium is needed to be injected constantly into the cooling unit. The present numerical study investigates and analyzes the air entrainment using an axisymmetric geometry of glass fiber cooling unit. The effects of helium injection rate and direction on the air entrainment rate are discussed in terms of helium purity of cooling gas inside the cooling unit. For a given rate of helium injection, it is found that there exists a certain drawing speed that results in sudden increase in the air entrainment rate, which leads to the decreasing helium purity and therefore the cooling performance of the glass fiber cooling unit. Also, the helium injection in aiding direction is found to be more advantageous than the injection in opposing direction.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.110-115
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• 2011

A modern optical fiber manufacturing process requires the sufficient cooling of glass fibers freshly drawn from the heated and softened silica preform in the furnace, since the inadequately cooled glass fibers are known to cause improper polymer resin coating on the fiber surface and to adversely affect the product quality of optical fibers. In order to greatly enhance the fiber cooling effectiveness at increasingly high fiber drawing speed, it is necessary to use a dedicated glass fiber cooling unit with helium gas injection between glass fiber drawing and coating processes. The present numerical study features a series of three-dimensional flow and heat transfer computations on the cooling gas and the fast moving glass fiber to analyze the cooling performance of glass fiber cooling unit, in which the helium is supplied through the discretely located rectangular injection holes. The air entrainment into the cooling unit at the fiber inlet is also included in the computational model and it is found to be critical in determining the helium purity in the cooling gas and the cooling effectiveness on glass fiber. The effects of fiber drawing speed and helium injection rate on the helium purity decrease by air entrainment and the glass fiber cooling are also investigated and discussed.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.134-142
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• 2006

헬륨분사를 통한 극저온 추진제의 과냉각 방식은 발사체의 이륙 전에 액체산소의 bulk boiling을 억제하고 과냉각 상태를 유지하기 위한 효과적인 방법들 중의 하나이다. 본 자료에서는 이러한 헬륨 분사 냉각 시스템에 대한 이론적 고찰을 통해 열전달과 질량전달 조건을 이해하고, 해석 모델을 제시하였다. 해석 모델의 주요 특징은 유한 열전달과 무한질량전달 개념을 이용하여 분사 시스템을 표현한 것이다. 또한, 실험과 해석결과의 비교를 통하여 해석 모델을 검증하였으며, 헬륨 분사량의 변화, 탱크 압력의 변화 등 조건 변화에 따른 결과를 살펴보았다.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.124-130
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• 2014

In a mass manufacturing system of optical fibers, the sufficient cooling of glass fibers freshly drawn from a draw furnace is essential, asinadequately cooled glass fibers can lead to poor resin coating on the fiber surface and possibly fiber breakage during the process. In order to improve fiber cooling at a high drawing speed, it is common to use a helium injection into a glass fiber cooling unit in spite of the high cost of the helium supply. The present numerical analysis carried out three-dimensional thermo-fluid computations of the cooling gas flow and heat transfer on moving glass fiber to determine the cooling performance of glass fiber cooling depending on the method of helium injection. The results showed that afront injection of helium is most effective compared to a uniform or rear injection for reducing air entrainment into the unit and thus cooling the glass fibers at a high fiber drawing speed. However, above a certain amount of injected helium, there was no more increase of the cooling effect regardless of the helium injection method.

• 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 유체기계공업학회 2006년 제4회 한국유체공학학술대회 논문집
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• pp.551-554
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• 2006

Inhibition of propellant temperature rising in liquid propulsion rocket using cryogenic fluid as a propellant is very important. Especially propellant temperature rising during stand-by after filling and pre-pressurization can bring into cavitation in turbo-pump. One of the method preventing propellant temperature rising in cryogenic feeding system is recirculating propellant through the loop composed of propellant tank, feed pipe, and recirculation pipe. The circulation of propellant is promoted through gas-lift effect by gas injection to lower position of recirculation pipe. In this experiment liquid oxygen and gas helium is used as propellant and injection gas. Under atmospheric and pressurized tank ullage condition, helium injection flow-rate is varied to observe the variation of recirculating flow-rate and propellant temperature in the feed pipe. There is appropriate helium injection flow-rate for gas-lift recirculation system.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2011년 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.92-95
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• 2011

In manufacturing optical fibers, the process starts with the glass fiber drawing from the heated and softened silica preform in the furnace, and the freshly drawn glass fiber is still at high temperature when it leaves the glass fiber drawing furnace. It is necessary to cool down the glass fiber to the ambient temperature before it then enters the fiber coating applicator, since the hot glass fiber is known to cause several technical difficulties in achieving high quality fiber coating. As the fiber drawing speed keeps increasing, a current manufacturing of optical fibers requires a dedicated cooling unit with helium gas injection. A series of three-dimensional flow and heat transfer computations are carried out to investigate the effectiveness of fiber cooling in the fiber cooling unit. The glass fiber cooling unit is simplified into the long cylindrical enclosure at which the hot glass fiber passes through at high speed, and the helium is being supplied through several injection slots of rectangular shape along the cooling unit. This study presents and discusses the effects of helium injection rates on the glass fiber cooling rates.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1193-1194
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• 2010

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2003년도 제21회 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.141-144
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 액체로켓의 극저온 추진제 공급부에서 요구되는 추진제의 공급 온도를 맞추기 위한 헬륨 가스 분사 냉각에 대한 수류 실험을 수행하여, 헬륨가스 분사에 의한 온도 저감에 대한 실험적 연구를 통한 온도 저감 특성을 고찰하였다. 수류 실험에 사용된 극저온 액체는 액체 질소를 사용하였으며, 냉각을 위한 가스로는 헬륨가스를 사용하였다. 헬륨 분사에 의한 액체 질소 과냉각 현상을 확인할 수 있었으며, v/v$_{L}$≒0.8$min^{-1}$ 조건에서 대략 4분 이내에 최대로 과냉각 (subcooling) 됨을 알 수 있었다.다.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.205-212
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 액체로켓의 극저온 추진제 공급부에서 요구되는 추진제의 공급 온도를 맞추기 위한 헬륨 가스 분사 냉각에 대한 수류 실험을 수행하여, 헬륨가스 분사에 의한 온도 저감에 대한 실험적 연구를 통한 온도 저감 특성을 고찰하였다. 수류 실험에 사용된 극저온 액체는 액체 질소를 사용하였으며, 냉각을 위한 가스로는 헬륨가스를 사용하였다. 헬륨 분사에 의한 액체 질소 과냉각 현상을 확인할 수 있었으며, v/vL≒0.8min-¹ 조건에서 대략 4분 이내에 최대로 과냉각(subcooling)됨을 알 수 있었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.1002-1012
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• 2024

To remove insoluble fission products, which could possibly cause reactor instability and significantly reduce heat transfer efficiency from primary system of molten salt reactor, a helium bubbling method is employed into a passive molten salt fast reactor. In this regard, two-phase flow behavior of molten salt and helium bubbles was investigated experimentally because the helium bubbles highly affect the circulation performance of working fluid owing to an additional drag force. As the helium flow rate is controlled, the change of key thermal-hydraulic parameters was analyzed through a two-phase experiment. Simultaneously, to assess the applicability of numerical model for the analysis of two-phase flow behavior, the numerical calculation was performed using the OpenFOAM 9.0 code. The accuracy of the numerical analysis code was evaluated by comparing it with the experimental data. Generally, numerical results showed a good agreement with the experiment. However, at the high helium injection rates, the prediction capability for void fraction of helium bubbles was relatively low. This study suggests that the multiphaseEulerFoam solver in OpenFOAM code is effective for predicting the helium bubbling but there exists a room for further improvement by incorporating the appropriate drag flux model and the population balance equation.