• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.175-182
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• 2008

The results of process development for the blending of waste salt from the electrorefining of spent fuel with zeolite-A are presented. This blending is a key step in the ceramic waste process being used for treatment of EBR-II spent fuel and is accomplished using a high-temperature v-blender. A labscale system was used with non-radioactive surrogate salts to determine optimal particle size distributions and time at temperature. An engineering-scale system was then installed in the Hot Fuel Examination Facility hot cell and used to demonstrate blending of actual electrorefiner salt with zeolite. In those tests, it was shown that the results are still favorable with actinide-loaded salt and that batch size of this v-blender could be increased to a level consistent with efficient production operations for EBR-II spent fuel treatment. One technical challenge that remains for this technology is to mitigate the problem of material retention in the v-blender due to formation of caked patches of salt/zeolite on the inner v-blender walls.

• 한국방사성폐기물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방사성폐기물학회 2017년도 추계학술논문요약집
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• pp.74-74
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• 2017

Electrorefining is a key step in pyroprocessing. The electrorefining process is generally composed of two recovery steps - the deposit of uranium onto a solid cathode and the recovery of the remaining uranium and TRU elements simultaneously by a liquid cadmium cathode. Uranium deposit recovered from the solid cathode is a dendritic powder. It is necessary to separate the adhered salt from the deposits prior to the consolidation of uranium deposit. The adhered salt is composed of lithium, potassium, uranium, and rare earth chlorides. Distillation process was employed for the cathode processing. One of the operation methods is distillation of the salt at low temperature ($900^{\circ}C$), and then melting of the deposit at high temperature to avoid a backward reaction. For the development of the salt distiller, the distillation behavior of the low vapor pressure chlorides should be studied. Rare earth chlorides in the adhered salt of uranium deposits have relatively low vapor pressures compared to the process salt (LiCl-KCl). In this study, the evaporation rates of the lanthanum and neodymium chlorides were measured for the salt separation from electrorefiner uranium deposits in the temperature range of $825{\sim}910^{\circ}C$. The evaporation rate of both chlorides increased with an increasing templerature. The evaporation rate of lanthanum chloride varied from 0.12 to $1.68g/cm^2/h$. Neodymium chloride was more volatile than lanthanum chloride. The evaporation rate of neodymium chloride varied from 0.20 to $4.55g/cm^2/h$. The evaporation rate of both chlorides are more than $1g/cm^2/h$ at $900^{\circ}C$. Even though the evaporation rates of both chlorides were less than that of the process salt, the contents of the lanthanide chlorides were small in the adhered salt. Therefore it can be concluded that $900^{\circ}C$ is suitable for the operation temperature of the salt distiller.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.190-193
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• 2008

The heat transfer characteristics of molten salt storage system for the solar thermal power generation were investigated. Temperature profiles and the heat transfer coefficients during the storage and discharge stage were obtained with the steam as the heat transfer fluid. Two kinds of inorganic salt were employed as the storage materials and coil type of heat exchanger were installed in both tanks to provide the heat transfer surfaces during the storage and discharge stage. The effects of steam flow rates, flow direction of steam in the storage tank and the initial temperature of storage and discharge tank on the heat transfer were tested.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.136-140
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• 2008

A new concept of salt core, a melting temperature of which is lower than the solidus temperature of cast alloy, was introduced to produced an integrated casting part having a complicated inner shape or requiring under-cut in high pressure die casting or squeeze casting process. The main goal of this study is to develop a new integrated net-shape forming technology using fusible core of lower melting temperature than that of a casting alloy. This integrated net-shape forming technology would be very successful and cost-effective for producing the integrated products having a complicated inner shape or requiring under-cut. The technology for measuring and evaluating a various property of fusible core such as a thermal conductivity and thermal expansion coefficient, melting temperature was established. Also, the work space can be cleaned without a pollution inducing products.

• 한국식품조리과학회지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.578-584
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• 1997

저염 동치미 쥬스의 제조를 위하여 동치미의 발효 온도와 담금액의 소금농도가 동치미 쥬스의 물리화학적 특성 및 관능적 특성에 미치는 영향을 비교하여 최적 발효온도와 소금농도를 선정하고자 하였다. 동치미 담금은 무를 담금액(0.3~3.0% NaCl)과의 비율이 1:1(w/v)되게 용기에 담그고 파, 마늘, 생강을 첨가한 다음 10, 20, 3$0^{\circ}C$에서 발효하였다. 동치미의 발효속도는 온도가 높을수록 빠르게 진행되었고 소금농도의 영향은 발효온도에 따라 달랐다. 10. 2$0^{\circ}C$에서는 3.0%의 소금농도로 담근 동치미가 가장 빨리 pH 3.8에 도달하였으며 0.5%가 그 다음이었다. 그러나 3$0^{\circ}C$에서는 소금농도가 높을수록 발효속도가 느렸다. pH 3.9의 동치미 쥬스를 채점법으로 관능검사 한 결과 새콤한 내와 맛은 0.5%의 소금농도로 2$0^{\circ}C$에서 발효시킨 동치미 쥬스가 가장 높게 평가받았고 기호도 검사에서도 2$0^{\circ}C$에서 0.5% NaCl 담금액에 발효시킨 pH 3.8~4.0의 동치미 쥬스가 가장 좋은 결과를 보여주었다. 한편 2$0^{\circ}C$에서의 0.5% NaCl 보다 낮은 담금액에서는 발효가 빠르게 진행되었고 높은 탁도를 보여주었지만 0.5%의 소금농도로 담근 동치미 쥬스의 향미가 가장 적합한 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.443-450
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• 1984

온도와 식염농도를 달리하여 김치를 발효시키면서 생화학적 및 미생물의 변화를 검토하였다. 김치의 적숙시기는 발효온도와 식염농도에 따라 달랐다. 김치발효는 저온, 고식염농도에서 보다, 고온 저식염 농도에서 더 빨리 진행되었고 김치의 비휘발성 유기산에 대한 휘발성 유기산의 비는 김치 적숙시기에 최대로 되었다가 김치가 시어지면서 감소되었다. 식염농도와 발효온도를 달리 하여 숙성시킨 김치에서 Leu. mesenteroids, Lac. brevis, Lac. plantarum, Ped. cerevisiae, St. faecalis 및 산생성이 낮은 Lactobacilli가 분리되었다. 그러나 김치발효에 관여하는 주 미생물은 Leu. mesenteroides이며, Lac. plantarum은 김치의 숙성보다는 산패와 더 관련이 있는 것으로 추정되었다. 총 생균수는 발효초기에 급증하여 적숙기간에 최대로 되었다가, 그 이후 서서히 감소되었고, 호기성 세균과 사상균수는 발효가 진행되면서 계속 감소하였고, 효모는 $10^{\circ}C$ 전후의 온도와 고 식염농도에서 그 수가 증가하였다가 다시 감소되었다.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.377-386
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• 2009

The principal objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of temperature and salt concentration on the physicochemical properties of salted Chinese cabbage. Salted Chinese cabbage samples were prepared with various concentrations of salt(4, 5, 6 and 7%), and were stored for 10 days at three temperatures(8, 14, and $25^{\circ}C$). The salting ratio of Chinese cabbage evidenced a decreasing trend regardless of the salting temperature and salt concentration, and their decrement appeared relatively high as the salting temperature increased. The period required to achieve a critical salting ratio(85%) decreased with increases in the salt concentration at $25^{\circ}C$, and a similar trend was observed at lower temperatures(8 and $14^{\circ}C$). The salinity of all samples evidenced an increasing trend during the salting period, and at $25^{\circ}C$, in particular, a continuous increment was observed. At salt concentrations of 4%, the critical salinity(2.2%) was not achieved regardless of the temperature and salting period. The pH of salted Chinese cabbage achieved critical pH in 3 days at a salting temperature of $25^{\circ}C$, but the critical pH 5.5 of samples at 8 and $14^{\circ}C$ appeared after a long period of approximately 4 to 10 days. The average hardness values of salted Chinese cabbage at a salting ratio of 85% were approximately 1.49 MPa, 1.87 MPa, and 1.97 MPa, respectively, at three temperatures($25^{\circ}C$, $14^{\circ}C$, and $8^{\circ}C$). The initial reducing sugar content of cabbage juice was 11.8 mg/$m{\ell}$, and this value decreased substantially to 3 to 5 mg/$m{\ell}$ on day 1.

• Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
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• 제68권
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• pp.99-108
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• 2018

An oil-tolerant and salt-resistant aqueous foam system was screened out as a possible lubricant to enable cold heavy oil transportation. The microstructures and viscoelasticity and effects of heavy oil, salt and temperature on the foam stability were investigated and new rheological and drainage models were established. The results indicate the foam with multilayered shells belongs to a special microcellular foam. The viscoelasticity could be neglected due to its low relaxation time. The drainage process can be divided into three stages. The foam with quality of 67.9% maintains great stability at high oil and salt concentrations and appropriate elevated temperature.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권7호
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• pp.1184-1189
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• 2018

Pyroprocessing uses various molten salts during electrochemical unit processes. Reaction products after the electrochemical processes must contain a significant amount of residual salts to be separated. Vacuum distillation is a common method to separate the residual salts; however, its high operation temperature may cause side reactions. In this study, a simple rotation technique using centrifugal force was suggested to separate the residual salts from the reaction products at relatively low temperature compared to the distillation technique. When a reaction product container with porous wall rotates inside a vessel heated above the melting point of the residual salt, the residual salt in the liquid phase is separated through centrifugal force. It was shown that the $LiNO_3-Al_2O_3$ mixture can be separated by this technique to leave solid $Al_2O_3$ inside the container, with a separation efficiency of 99.4%.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.209-229
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• 2022

This work provided a review of three techniques-(1) spectrochemical, (2) electrochemical, and (3) spectroelectrochemical-for molten salt medias. A spectroelectrochemical system was designed by utilizing this information. Here, we designed a spectroelectrochemical cell (SEC) and calibrated temperature controllers, and performed initial tests to explore the system's capability limit. There were several issues and a redesign of the cell was accomplished. The modification of the design allowed us to assemble, align the system with the light sources, and successfully transferred the setup inside a controlled environment. A preliminary run was executed to obtain transmission and absorption background of NaCl-CaCl₂ salt at 600℃. It shows that the quartz cuvette has high transmittance effects across all wavelengths and there were lower transmittance effects at the lower wavelength in the molten salt media. Despite a successful initial run, the quartz vessel was mated to the inner cavity of the SEC body. Moreover, there was shearing in the patch cord which resulted in damage to the fiber optic cable, deterioration of the SEC, corrosion in the connection of the cell body, and fiber optic damage. The next generation of the SEC should attach a high temperature fiber optic patch cords without introducing internal mechanical stress to the patch cord body. In addition, MACOR should be used as the cell body materials to prevent corrosion of the surface and avoid the mating issue and a use of an adapter from a manufacturer that combines the free beam to a fiber optic cable should be incorporated in the future design.