• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.104-108
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• 2014

The recent Fukushima nuclear power plant accidents shows that the core make up at high RCS pressure condition is very important to prevent core melting. The core make up flow at high pressure condition should be driven by gravity force or passive forces because the AC-powered safety features are not available during a Station Black Out (SBO) accident. The reactor Coolant System (RCS) mass inventory is continuously decreased by releasing steam through the pressurizer safety valves after reactor trip during a SBO accident. The core will be melted down within 2~3 hours without core make up action by active or passive mode. In the new design concept of a Hybrid Safety Injection Tank (Hybrid SIT) both for low and high RCS pressure conditions, the low pressure nitrogen gas serves as a charging pressure for a LBLOCA injection mode, while the PZR high pressure steam provides an equalizing pressure for a high pressure injection mode such as a SBO accident. After the pressure equalizing process by battery driven initiation valve at a high pressure SBO condition, the Hybrid SIT injection water will be passively injected into the reactor downcomer by gravity head. The SBO simulation by MARS code show that the core makeup injection flow through the Hybrid SIT continued up to the SIT empty condition, and the core heatup is delayed as much.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.737-743
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• 1999

A conventional thermophilic anaerobic digester was converted into a thermophilic high-rate hybrid anaerobic reactor (THAR) for treating distillery wastewater. The THAR has been operating successfully since May 1995 at a loading rate of 5.45 to $11.52{\;}kg/\textrm{m}^3/d$ (maximum of 15.02). The THAR has demonstrated a soluble Chemical Oxygen Demand (sCOD) removal efficiency of 85 to 91% and a total COD (tCOD) removal efficiency of as much as 72 to 84%. Product gas had a methane content of 59 to 68%. The tCOD removal rates were 4.31 to 5.43, 6.26 to 6.89, and 9.03 to $9.78kg{\;}tCOD/\textrm{m}^3/d$ for tapioca, com, and naked-barley wastewater, respectively. The sCOD removal rates ranged from 3.75 to 4.79,3.28 to 4.89, and 5.57 to 6.21kg $sCOD/\textrm{m}^3/d$ for tapioca, com, and naked-barley wastewater, respectively. There were unknown substances in a naked-barley distillery wastewater that were identified as being toxic for microorganisms. However, the THAR treated naked-barley wastewater continuously for 26 days, operating at an average tCOD loading of $11.08{\;}kg/\textrm{m}^3/d$without any signs of deterioration in either COD removal efficiency or gas production rate. During this period, the average removal efficiencies of tCOD and sCOD were 84% and 91%, respectively, and the gas production rate averaged 6.61 to $7.57{\;}\textrm{m}^3/\textrm{m}^3$ reactor/d which produced 0.57 to $0.69{\;}\textrm{m}^3{\;}biogas/kg{\;}tCOD_{rem}$. From tapioca and com wastewater, the reactor showed an average gas production rate of 3.18 to 3.46 and 4.91 to $5.22{\;}\textrm{m}^3/\textrm{m}^3$ reactor/d which produced 0.53 to 0.69 and 0.62 to $0.71{\;}\textrm{m}^3/kg{\;}tCOD_{rem}$, respectively.

• 에너지공학
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.64-70
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• 2017

한국원자력연구원에서 제안한 혼합형 안전주입탱크 (Hybrid SIT)는 APR+ 원자로에 적용하기 위해 개발된 피동안전주입시스템이다. 본 연구는 대표적인 고압사고인 발전소정전사고 시 Hybrid SIT의 냉각성능을 평가하기 위해 열수력 안전해석 코드인 MARS-KS 코드를 이용한 예비해석에 대한 것이다. PAFS 구동이 정지되면, 열제거량이 감소하게 되어 가압기와 증기발생기의 압력이 상승하기 시작하며, 가압기의 압력이 안전감압계통(Pilot Operated Safety and Relief Valve) 개방 설정치인 17.03 MPa에 도달하면, 그와 동시에 Hybrid SIT의 증기격리밸브가 열림으로서 가압기 상단의 증기가 Hybrid SIT로 주입되게 된다. 주입된 증기에 의해 압력평형이 빠른시간 안에 이루어졌으며, 주입배관을 통해 냉각수가 주입 되었다. 발전소정전사고시 PAFS와 같은 열제거수단이 상실됨에도 혼합형 Hybrid SIT가 주입되는 시간동안은 노심의 수위가 유지됨을 확인할 수 있었고, 수위가 유지됨에 따라 노심 출구 온도(CET)의 상승을 방지함을 확인하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.151-160
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• 2012

The advantages for using Monte Carlo methods to analyze full-core reactor configurations include essentially exact representation of geometry and physical phenomena that are important for reactor analysis. But this substantial advantage comes at a substantial cost because of the computational burden, both in terms of memory demand and computational time. This paper focuses on the challenges facing full-core Monte Carlo for keff calculations and the prospects for Monte Carlo becoming a routine tool for reactor analysis.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2002년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.3 No.2
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• pp.917-921
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• 2002

In this paper, we made different types of non-thermal plasma reactors such as Metal-particle reactor with $Al_2O_3$ to measure NOx removal characteristic and the dielectric effect for NOx removal. NOx removal rate is not so good when we use just dielectric of $Al_2O_3$ at the Metal-particle reactor, also we just put sludge pellets(100%) without Metal-particle reactor with $Al_2O_3$ and dielectric such as $TiO_2$, $BaTiO_3$ to measure the effect of sludge for NOx removal so that NOx removal rate is almost the same. However NOx removal rate is more than 90% in case of the reactor of composition shape used both dielectric of $Al_2O_3$ and sludge pellets at the same time. In case of the shape of plasma reactor with dielectric, the Metal-particle reactor with $Al_2O_3$, and the metal-particle reactor with both $Al_2O_3$ and dielectric such as $TiO_2$, $BaTiO_3$ at the same time, they are almost the same effect for NOx removal, so we made MNPR(Metal-particle Non-thermal Plasma Reactor with $Al_2O_3$) to reduce these kinds of demerits. Finally, we think MNPR should be much better than other reactors for NOx removal.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.1935-1944
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• 2000

본 연구에서는 하부가 활성탄 유동상이고 상부가 플라스틱 충전상인 혐기성 혼성 반응조에서 활성탄충의 유동을 위한 내부순환수의 인출지점이 폐수처리 효율에 미치는 영향을 파악하기 위하여 순환수 인출지점이 유동상 위(R1 반응조) 또는 충전상 위(R2 반응조)에 위치하는 2개의 반응조에 인공폐수를 주입하여 실험을 수행하였다. 연구 결과, $6.2kg\; COD/m^3-day$의 유기물부하(OLR)까지는 R2 반응조의 COD 제거효율이 85.0-95.2%로, R1 반응조보다 좋았으나 그 차이는 크지 않았으며, 그 이상의 OLR에서는 두 반웅조의 COD 제거효율이 크게 악화되었는데 R2 반응조보다 R1 반응조에서 그 경향이 더 심하였다. R2 반응조가 R1 반응조 보다 대략 2배의 넓은 OLR 영역에서 안정적으로 운전되었는데 R2 반응조의 최대 메탄생성량은 $13.3kg\;COD/m^3-day$의 OLR에서$5.5kg\;COD/m^3-day$이었다. 또한 R1 반응조에서는 $6.2kg \;COD/m^3-day$ 이상의 OLR에서, 그리고 R2 반응조에서는 $7.1kg\; COD/m^3-day$ 이상의 OLR에서 처리수의 유기산 농도가 크게 증가하는 경향을 나타내었으며, 그 경향은 R1 반응조에서 더 현저하였다. 결론적으로 활성탄충의 유동을 위한 내부순환수의 인출지점에 따라 반응조가 처리가능한 유기물 부하 범위가 달라졌는데, 유기물 부하가 높을수록 내부순환수의 인출지점을 반응조 부피 전체를 이용할 수 있도록 충전상의 상부에 위치시키는 것이 더 바람직한 것으로 판단되었다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.287-293
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• 2010

In this study, the toluene gas in VOCs was removed using bioreactor which applied with hollow fiber membrane and Pseudomonas sp. TDB-4. The EBRT of each reactor are controlled 60 sec(R-1) and 30 sec(R-2) and inlet tolune concentration of both R-1 and R-2 is controlled from 25ppm to 500 ppm. Up to 500 ppm of toluene concentration, the toluene removal efficiency of R-1 and R-2 are 92% and 81%, and theirs removal capacities are about 100 g/$m^3$/hr and 180 g/$m^3$/hr, respectively. In addition, according to this study, toluene removal efficiencies at the hollow fiber are approximately 70%(60 sec) and 45%(30sec).

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2002년도 추계 학술대회논문집
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• pp.64-69
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• 2002

A numerical study has been peformed for evaluation of convection schemes for thermal hydraulic analysis in a liquid metal reactor Four convection schemes, HYBRID, QUICK, SMART and HLPA included in the CFX-4 code are considered. The performances of convection schemes are evaluated by applying them to the five test problems. The accuracy, stability and convergence are tested. It is shown that the HYBRID scheme is too diffusive, and the QUICK scheme exhibits overshoots and undershoots, and the SMART scheme shows convergence oscillations, and the HLPA scheme preserves the boundedness without causing convergence oscillations. The accuracies of SMART, QUICK and HLPA schemes are comparable. Thus, the use of HLPA scheme is highly recommended for thermal hydraulic analysis in a liquid metal reactor.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권8호
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• pp.1339-1348
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• 2018

The aim of this paper is to determine neutronic performances of the light water reactor (LWR) spent fuel mixed with fertile thorium fuel in a FFHR. Time dependent three dimensional calculations for major technical data, such as blanket energy multiplication, tritium breeding ratio, cumulative fissile fuel enrichment and burnup have been performed by using Monte Carlo Neutron-Particle Transport code MCNP5 1.4, coupled with a novel interface code MCNPAS, which is developed by our research group. A self-sustaining tritium breeding ratio (TBR>1.05) has been kept throughout the calculations. The study has shown that the fissile fuel quality will be improved in the course of the transmutation of the LWR spent in the FFHR. The latter has gained the reusable fuel enrichment level conventional LWRs between one and two years. Furthermore, LWR spent fuel - thorium mixture provides higher burn-up values than in light water reactors.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• 제21권E2호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2005

A novel hybrid system composed of a biotrickling filter and an activated sludge reactor was investigated under the conditions of four different SRTs (sludge retention times). The performance of the hybrid reactor was found to be directly comparable among the four different sludge ages. Discernible differences in the removal performance were observed among four different SRTs of 2, 4, 6, and 8 days. High removal efficiency was achieved by continuous circulation of activated sludge over the immobilized mixture culture, which allowed on pH control, addition of nutrients, and removal of paint VOCs (volatile organic compounds). The results also showed that the removal efficiency for a given pollutant depends on the activity of microorganisms based on the SRT. As the SRT increased gradually from 2 to 8 days, the average removal performance decreased. The highest removal rate was achieved at the SRT of 2 days at which the highest OUR (oxygen uptake rate), $6.1mg-O_2/liter-min$ was measured. Biological activity in the recycle microbes decreased to a much lower level, $3.6mg-O_2/liter-min$ at a SRT of 8 days. It is thus believed that young microorganisms were more active and more efficient for the VOCs removal of low concentrations and high flow rates. The apparent correlation of $R^2=0.996$ between the average removal efficiency and the average OUR at each SRTs suggests that VOCs degradation by young cells significantly affected the overall removal efficiency for the tested SRTs.