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Detection of Hydride Blisters in Zirconium Pressure Tubes using Ultrasonic Mode Conversion and Velocity Ratio Method (초음파 모드 변환 및 속도비 방법에 의한 지르코늄 압력관의 수소화물 블리스터 탐지)

  • Cheong, Yong-Moo;Lee, Dong-Hoon;Kim, Young-Suk
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.334-341
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    • 2003
  • When the pressure tubes(f are in contact with the calandria tube(CT) in the pressurized heavy water reactor(PHWR), the temperature difference between inner and outer wall of W results in a thermal diffusion of hydrogen (deuterium) and hydride blisters are formed on the outer surface of PT. Because the hydride blisters and zirconium matrix are acoustically continuous, it is not easy to distinguish the blisters from the matrix with conventional ultrasonic method. An ultrasonic velocity ratio method was developed to detect small hydride blisters on the zirconium pressure tube. Hydride blisters were grown in the PT specimen using a steady state thermal diffusion device. The flight times of longitudinal echo and reflected shear echo from the outer surface were measured accurately. The velocity ratio of the longitudinal wave to the shear wave was calculated and displayed using contour plot. Compared to the conventional flight time method of longitudinal wave, the velocity ratio method shows superior sensitivity to detect smaller blisters as well as better images for the blister shapes. Detectable limit of the outer shape of the hydride blisters was conservatively estimated as $500{\mu}m$, with the same specifications of ultrasonic transducer used in the actual PHWR pressure tube inspection.

Study on the control technique for the heat transportation system using metal hydride (수소저장합금을 이용한 열수송시스템 제어기술 연구)

  • Sim, K.S.;Kim, J.W.;Kim, J.D.;Myung, K.S.
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.43-49
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    • 2000
  • The heat transportation from a complex of industry to a rural area needs more efficient method because the distance between them is usually more than 10km. Conventional heat transportation using steam or hot water via pipe line has limits in transportation distance (about 3~5 km) because of the heat loss and frictional loss in the pipe line. Metal hydride can absorb or discharge hydrogen through exothermic or endothermic reaction. After releasing hydrogen from metal hydride by means of the waste heat from industry, we can transport this hydrogen to urban area via pipe line. In urban areas, other metal alloy reacts with this hydrogen to form metal hydride and produces heat for heating. Cool heat is also obtained if it is possible to use metal hydride with low reaction temperature. Therefore, metal hydride can be used as a media for transportation and storage of heat. $MmNi_{4.5}Al_{0.5}Zr_{0.003}$, $LaNi_5$, $Zr_{0.9}Ti_{0.1}Cr_{0.6}Fe_{1.4}$, $MmNi_{4.7}Al_{0.1}Fe_{0.1}V_{0.1}$ alloys were selected for this purpose and the properties of those metal hydrides were discussed. The design and control techniques were proposed and discussed for this heat transportation system using metal hydride.

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Numerical analysis of the coupled heat and mass transfer phenomena in a metal hydride hydrogen storage reactor(I) - Model development of analyzation for hydrogen absorption reaction using the $LaNi_5$ bed (금속수소화물 수소저장 용기 내부의 열 및 물질전달 현상에 대한 수치적 연구(I) - $LaNi_5$ 베드를 이용한 수소 흡장반응 해석 모델 개발)

  • Nam, Jinmoo;Ju, Hyunchul
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.225.1-225.1
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    • 2010
  • Within recent years attention has been focused on the method of hydrogen storage using metal hydride reactor due to its high energy density, durability, safety and low operating pressure. In this paper, a numerical study is carried out to investigate the coupled heat and mass transfer process for absorption in a cylindrical metal hydride hydrogen storage reactor using a newly developed model. The simulation results demonstrate the evolution of temperature, equilibrium pressure, H/M atomic ratio and velocity distribution as time goes by. Initially, hydrogen is absorbed earlier from near the wall which sets the cooling boundary condition owing to that absorption process is exothermic reaction. Temperature increases rapidly in entire region at the beginning stage due to the initial low temperature and enough metal surface for hydrogen absorption. As time goes by, temperature decreases slowly from the wall region due to the better heat removal. Equilibrium pressure distribution appears similarly with temperature distribution for reasons of the function of temperature. This work provides a detailed insight into the mechanism and corresponding physicochemical phenomena in the reactor during the hydrogen absorption process.

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Transition Metal Nanoparticles-Carbon Nitride Nanotube Hybrids: Direct Hydrogen Generation Catalyst of Chemical Hydride Aqueous Solution (전이금속-카본나이트라이드 나노튜브 혼성체: 화학적 수소화물 수용액의 수소발생 촉매)

  • Shin, Weon-ho;Jung, Hyung-mo;Kang, Jeung-ku
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.781-781
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    • 2009
  • We demonstrate that trasition metal catalyst nanoparticle (NP) attached to carbon nitride nanotubes (CNNTs) show selective catalytic activities on hydrogen generation from the water solution including chemical hydride negative ions. The natural bonding orbitals (NBO) obtained from the first-principle calculations shows that the catalysts attached on CNNTs are quite differently polarized when they play for hydrogen generation from chemical hydride ions and hydrogen of water. For Co and Ni nanoparticles attached on CNNTs, their charges are more positively polarized when they interact with $BH_4^-Na^+$ and $H_2O$ while Pt atoms are less positively charged. In this matter, the increased positive charges on catlyst nanoparticles are proven to be more efficient in attracting hydride negative ions, thus improving hydrogen generate rates. Consequently, this result implies that these different charge polarization leads to selective catalytic activities of NPs-CNNTs. In the hydrogen generation experiments, Co-CNNTs shows the highest hydrogen generation rate when the similar amounts of catalyst nanoparticles (Co, Ni, and Pt) are dispersed on the sidewalls of CNNTs.

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The Characteristic Analysis and the Manufacture of Explosive THPP on PMD (PMD용 화약 THPP 제조 및 특성분석)

  • Kim, Sangbaek;Shim, Jungseob;Ahn, Gilhwan;Kim, Junhyung;Ryu, Byungtae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.84-89
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    • 2016
  • THPP(Titanium Hydride Potassium Perchlorate) is an igniter composed of potassium perchlorate as oxidizing agent and titanium hydride as fuel with a Viton binder. THPP is commonly found in the aerospace, defence and automotive industries. This research is investigeted for the manufacturing process and characteristics analysis of the THPP such as the performance and shape/calorimetry/pressure characteristics of the THPP on PMD(Pyrotechnic Mechanical Device). Also, THPP composite ratio is designed by CEA program.