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Application of Surrogate Modeling to Design of A Compressor Blade to Optimize Stacking and Thickness

  • Samad, Abdus;Kim, Kwang-Yong
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2009
  • Surrogate modeling is applied to a compressor blade shape optimization to modify its stacking line and thickness to enhance adiabatic efficiency and total pressure ratio. Six design variables are defined by parametric curves and three objectives; efficiency, total pressure and a combined objective of efficiency and total pressure are considered to enhance the performance of compressor blade. Latin hypercube sampling of design of experiments is used to generate 55 designs within design space constituted by the lower and upper limits of variables. Optimum designs are found by formulating a PRESS (predicted error sum of squares) based averaging (PBA) surrogate model with the help of a gradient based optimization algorithm. The optimum designs using the current variables show that, to optimize the performance of turbomachinery blade, the adiabatic efficiency objective is improved substantially while total pressure ratio objective is increased a very small amount. The multi-objective optimization shows that the efficiency can be increased with the less compensation of total pressure reduction or both objectives can be increased simultaneously.

ATWS Performance of KALIMER Uranium Metal Core

  • Dohee Hahn;Kim, Young C.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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    • 1996.05b
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    • pp.592-597
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    • 1996
  • The KALIMER core, of which nuclear design is largely governed by inherent safety and reactivity control issues, is fueled with metallic fuel, and the initial core will be loaded with 20% enriched Uranium metal fuel. KALIMER safety design objectives include the accommodation of unprotected, ATWS events without operator action, and without the support of active shutdown, shutdown heat removal, or any automatic system without damage to the plant and without jeopardizing public safety. The transient analysis of the core designs has been focused on severe events to assess the margins in the design, and ATWS events are the most severe events that must be accommodated by the KALIMER design. The ATWS performance has been evaluated for the preliminary initial core design of KALIMER with a particular emphasis on the inherent negative reactivity feedback effects, including the Doppler, sodium density, fuel axial expansion, core radial expansion, and control rod driveline expansion. Results show that the Uranium metal core design meets the temperature limits with margin.

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Design Update of Transition Scheduler for Smart UAV (스마트 무인기의 천이 스케줄러 설계개선)

  • Kang, Y.S.;Yoo, C.S.;Kim, Y.S.;An, S.J.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.14-26
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    • 2005
  • A tilt-rotor aircraft has various flight modes : helicopter, airplane, and conversion. Each of flight mode has unique and nonlinear flight characteristics. Therefore the gain schedules for whole flight envelope are required for effective flight performance. This paper proposes collective, flap, and nacelle angle scheduler for whole flight envelope of the Smart UAV(Unmanned Air Vehicle) based on CAMRAD(Comprehensive Analytical Model of Rotorcraft Aerodynamics and Dynamics) II analysis results. The scheduler designs are improved so that the pitch attitude angle of helicopter mode was minimized. The range of scheduler are reduced inside of engine performance limits. The conversion corridor and rotor governor are suggested also.

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Removal of Phenol by Granular Activated Carbon from Aqueous Solution in Fixed-Bed Adsorption Column : Parameter Sensitivity Analysis (충진층 흡착관 내에서 입상활성탄에 의한 페놀 제거 : 매개변수 감응도 해석)

  • 윤영삼;황종연;권성헌;김인실;박판욱
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.773-782
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    • 1998
  • The adsorption experiment of phenol(Ph) from aqueous solution on granular activated carbon was studied in order to design the fixed-bed adsorption column. The experimental data were analyzed by unsteady-state, one-dimensional heterogeneous model. Finite element method(FEM) was applied to analyze the sensitivity of parameter and to predict the fixed-bed adsorption column performance on operation variable changes. The prediction model showed similar effect to mass transfer and intraparticle diffusion coefficient changes suggesting that both parameter present mass transfer rate limits for GAC-phenol system. The Freundlich constants had a greater effect than kinetic parameters for the performance of fixed-bed adsorption column. FEM solution facilitated prediction of concentration history in solution and within adsorbent particle.

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High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Assay of Acebutolol and its Acetyl Metabolite in Plasma (혈장중 Acebutolol 및 그 Acetyl 대사체의 HPLC 분석)

  • Baek, Chai-Sun;Lin, Emil T.
    • Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.133-137
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    • 1993
  • A high-performance liquid chromatographic assay using ion-pair reverse-phase system was developed for the separation of acebutolol and acebutolol acetyl metabolite in plasma. A ion-pair reversephase system consisting of an ODS-bonded silica column and a mixture of 20% $CH_3CN$, 0.1% $H_3PO_4$, 0.035 M heptanesulfonic acid and 0.005 M tetrabutylammonium hydrogen sulfate as the mobile phase were used. Triamterene was employed as an internal standard. Based on 0.2 ml of plasma, the detection limits were 10.4 ng/ml for acebutolol and 10.3 ng/ml of acebutolol acetyl metabolite at the signal-to-noise ratio of 3:1.

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Contamination Control of Optical Observation Satellite

  • Lee, Chang-Ho;Lee, Choon-Woo;Cho, Young-Jun;Whang, Do-Soon
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.28.3-28.3
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    • 2008
  • Contamination has the potential for degrading the performance of the optical payload beyond the limits defined by mission requirements, therefore it must be considered a risk to system performance and must be mitigated. To mitigate contamination problem, contamination budget is allocated according to the contamination requirements which is derived from contamination effect analysis. Once the contamination budget is allocated, prediction for on-ground and in-orbit contaminants amounts and cleanliness control is performed. In this article, typical contamination control for observation satellite is described.

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Design and Fabrication of Wide-band Transient Voltage Blocking Device (광대역 과도전압 차단장치의 설계 및 제작)

  • 송재용;이종혁;길경석
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 1999.05a
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    • pp.330-334
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    • 1999
  • This paper presents a new transient voltage blocking device (TBD) for commucation facilities with low power and high frequency bandwidth. Conventional protection devices have some problems such as low frequency bandwidth, low energy capacity and high remnant voltage. In order to improve these limitations, the new TBD, which consists of a gas tube, avalanche diodes and junction type field effect transistors (JFETs), was designed and fabricated JFETs were used as an active non-linear element and a high speed switching diode with low capacitance limits high current. Therefore the avalanche diodes with low energy capacity are protected from the high current, and the TBD has a very small input capacitance. From the performance test using surge generator, which can produce 1.2/50${\mu}\textrm{s}$ 4.2 k$V_{max}$, 8/20${\mu}\textrm{s}$ 2.1 kA$\sub$max/, it is confirmed that the proposed TBD has an excellent protection performance in tight clamping voltage and limiting current characteristics.

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A study on simultaneous determination of residual penicillin G and chloramphenicol in livestock products by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC를 이용한 축산물중 잔류페니실린 및 클로람페니콜의 동시분석법 연구)

  • 황래홍;윤은선;김현정;김연주;정형기;한인규;이병동
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Service
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2000
  • This study was carried out to simultaneous determination of penicillin G and chloramphenicol in livestock products by HPLC. The results obstained were as follows; 1. Penicillin G and chloramphenicol were analyzed by HPLC on symmetry $C_{18}$ column with acetonitrile-0.1 M phosphate buffer containing 0.0157 M thiosulfate (25 : 75) as mobile phase at UV 325nm and 280nm, respectively. 2. Samples were applied to a SeP-Pak $C_{18}$ cartridge, from which eluted penicillin derivatized with 2 M 1,2,4-triazole containing 0.001 M mercuric chloride. 3. The average recovery rates of penicillin G and chloramphenicol were 81.8% and 80.3%, respectively, and the detection limits were 5 ppb (5$\mu\textrm{g}$/kg: 7.9IU/kg) for penicillin G and chloramphenicol in porcine and bovine muscle.

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Performance assessment of buildings isolated with S-FBI system under near-fault earthquakes

  • Ozbulut, Osman E.;Silwal, Baikuntha
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.709-724
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    • 2016
  • This study investigates the optimum design parameters of a superelastic friction base isolator (S-FBI) system through a multi-objective genetic algorithm to improve the performance of isolated buildings against near-fault earthquakes. The S-FBI system consists of a flat steel-PTFE sliding bearing and superelastic NiTi shape memory alloy (SMA) cables. Sliding bearing limits the transfer of shear across the isolation interface and provides damping from sliding friction. SMA cables provide restoring force capability to the isolation system together with additional damping characteristics. A three-story building is modeled with S-FBI isolation system. Multiple-objective numerical optimization that simultaneously minimizes isolation-level displacements and superstructure response is carried out with a genetic algorithm in order to optimize S-FBI system. Nonlinear time history analyses of the building with optimal S-FBI system are performed. A set of 20 near-fault ground motion records are used in numerical simulations. Results show that S-FBI system successfully control response of the buildings against near-fault earthquakes without sacrificing in isolation efficacy and producing large isolation-level deformations.

High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Assay of Non-steroidal Anti-inframmatory Drugs in Plasma (혈장중 비스테로이드성 소염진통제의 HPLC분석)

  • Baek Chai-Sun
    • Korean Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.71-74
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    • 1995
  • A high performance liquid chromatographic method has been developed for the simultaneous analysis of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in plasma. The simultaneous determination of ibuprofen, fenoprofen and ketoprofen is performed by RP-HPLC with UV detection. The chromatographic system consisted of Spherisorb octyl column$(5{\mu}m)$ ; the mobile phase was $acetonitrile\;-\;0.5\%$ phosphoric acid(55 : 45, v/v) and the detection wavelength was 230nm. Tolmetin was employed as an internal standard. The method described is rapid and simple with sensitivity limits of $2.0{\mu}g/ml$ ibuprofen, $0.5{\mu}g/ml$ fenoprofen and $0.3{\mu}g/ml$ ketoprofen and is suitable for routine clinical and pharmacokinetic studies.

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