• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.781-786
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• 2017

The presence of crust on the inner walls of metallic ducts impairs transportation because crust completely or partially hinders the passage of fluid to the processing unit and causes damage to equipment connected to the production line. Its localization is crucial. With the development of the electronic imaging system installed at the Argonauta/Nuclear Engineering Institute (IEN)/National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN) reactor, it became possible to visualize crust in the interior of metallic piping of small diameter using real-time neutron radiography images obtained with a low neutron flux. The obtained images showed the resistance offered by crust on the passage of water inside the pipe. No discrepancy of the flow profile at the bottom of the pipe, before the crust region, was registered. However, after the passage of liquid through the pipe, images of the disturbances of the flow were clear and discrepancies in the flow profile were steep. This shows that this technique added the assembled apparatus was efficient for the visualization of the crust and of the two-phase flows.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.964-978
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• 2015

Numerous experiments with a scaled pilot facility were carried out to compare the relative bulk transfer performance of three special devices for applications to drilling systems. The pipe diameter for bulk transportation was 3 in., which corresponds to around half of the actual system dimensions. Two different pressures, 3 and 4 bar, were considered to check the relative performance under different pressure conditions at a bulk storage tank. And to make a practical estimation method of the bulk transfer rate at the early design stages of the bulk handling system, a series of experiments were conducted for real scaled bulk handing systems of two drilling vessels. The pressure drops at each pipe element as well as the bulk transfer rates were measured under different operating conditions. Using the measured results, the friction factor for each pipe element was calculated and a procedure for transfer rate estimation was developed. Compared to the measured transfer rate results for other drilling vessels, the estimated transfer rates were within a maximum 15% error bound.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.295-303
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• 2022

Residential heating systems in South Korea are largely based on the use of ondol pipelines. Heat is transferred to the floor by passing hot water through a metal or plastic pipe buried within the concrete of the floor. Consequently, it is difficult to clean the inside of these pipes after installation. Over time, foreign substances such as scale accumulate in the pipe when the ondol heating method is used for an extended period. Therefore, in the past, pipes were cleaned by removing foreign substances attached to the inside surfaces of the pipes using high-pressure water or by disassembling the pipes and removing foreign substances with chemical agents. Recently, a method for removing foreign substances through the cavitation effect of ultrasound has been proposed. This idea might lead to the development of new technologies for cleaning pipe interiors. Consequently, this study investigated the use of ultrasound to clean pipes embedded in concrete. In this study, devices that generated ultrasonic waves with various frequencies and directions were prepared. After preparing arbitrarily contaminated pipes, the appropriate frequency, output strength, and output direction for each foreign substance were determined through repeated experiments. The results of this experiment could provide important information for future methods of cleaning the interior of ondol piping systems.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.428-436
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• 2024

Liquid hydrogen, which operates in cryogenic environments has a density 800 times greater than gaseous hydrogen, making it advantageous for large-scale storage and transportation. However, continuous evaporation due to external heat intrusion and internal heat generation poses challenges. To mitigate heat conduction, various insulation materials are used. In pipe systems, viscous heating effects from turbulence and viscosity, especially in bends, cause heat generation. This study employs computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to analyze the impact of fluid velocity, pressure drop, inner diameter, and curvature radius of pipe bends on viscous heating. Using liquid nitrogen at 77 K as a working fluid, the CFD results showed that increased velocity and pressure drop along with smaller inner diameter and curvature radius enhanced viscous heating, raising fluid temperature.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.398-410
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• 1998

Two-phase flow phenomena are observed in many industrial facilities and make much importance of optimum design for nuclear power plant and the liquid transportation system. The particular flow pattern depends on the conditions of pressure, flow velocity, and channel geometry. However, the research on drag reduction in two-phase flow is not intensively investigated. Therefore, experimental investigations have been carried out to analyze the drag reduction and void fraction by polymer addition in the two-phase flow system. We find that the polymer solution changes the characteristic of two-phase flow. The peak position of local void friction moves from tile wall of the pipe to the center of the pipe when polymer concentration increase. And then we predict that it is closely related with the frau reduction.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2002년도 학술대회지
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• pp.401-402
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• 2002

The flow characteristics of ice slurry which was made from $6.5{\%}$ ethylene glycol-water solution flowing in the special pipings including the enlargement, the contraction and the orifice were experimentally investigated. The flow patterns and the pressure drops were measured in acrylic pipes when the fraction of ice were varied from $0\;to\;30{\%}$. The pressure drop behavior of the contraction and the orifice appears to be similar to that of the elbow pipe, since these piping may provide similar frictional resistance to the elbow. In the mean while, the pressure drop increased unexpectedly high with the Ice fraction in the enlargement pipe. It seems that the onset of sharp increase in the pressure drop depends on the flowing time as well as the ice fraction and the flow rate.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.385-390
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• 2002

To clarify the hydraulic characteristics of ice slurry which made from 6.5% ethylene glycol-water solution flowing through circular pipes of small diameter, experimental studies were performed. The flow pattern was observed and the pressure drop was measured in acrylic pipes with inner diameter of 24 mm. The results of flow visualization revealed that ice particles flowed along the top of pipes in the ranges of small ice fraction and low flow rate, while Ice particles diffused into the whole region of pipes flowed like a homogeneous flow for high flow rate and high ice fraction. An increase in frictional pressure drop was measured as the ice fraction increased in all pipes and unstable flow was observed for up-ward vertical pipe.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.216-221
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• 2004

Linepipe steels with a low carbon acicular ferrite microstructure have been recently developed to accommodate the current transportation condition of the gas and oil industry, and they are finally applied to West- East pipeline project in China. By adopting acicular microstructure, both better formability and better toughness could be obtained due to low yield ratio and fine grained microstructure. Mechanical properties of pipe are not greatly different from those of base plates or hot coils with a microstructure of acicular ferrite. Merits of introducing higher strength steels are well known, i.e., reducing the gauge of pipe and the material cost, increasing the welding speed and decreasing construction cost because of reducing the construction period. Threfore, gas and oil industry has required higher strength steel than APIX70 grade steel. Under this background, API-X80 steel has been developed and shall be applied to the several projects. In this paper, developing stage of API-X80 steel is also presented and discussed.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2022년도 제66차 하계학술대회논문집 30권2호
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• pp.481-482
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 손동작으로 제어 가능한 운송 로봇을 제안한다. 제안한 시스템에서 로봇은 MediaPipe를 이용하여 실시간으로 사람의 손동작을 인식한다. 또한, 동시적 위치 추적 지도 작성 기법인 SLAM(Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) 기술을 이용하여 로봇이 실내 공간에서 길을 찾고 자율적으로 이동할 수 있게 한다. 개발된 로봇실험을 통하여 로봇이 실시간으로 손동작을 인식하고 동작을 제어하는 것을 확인하였다. 또한, 사전에 작성된 지도를 바탕으로 실내에서 로봇이 자율주행을 하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국고분자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국고분자학회 2006년도 IUPAC International Symposium on Advanced Polymers for Emerging Technologies
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• pp.146-147
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• 2006

Polyamides have been widely used in the various industrial fields on account of their excellent properties. Especially the largest market with more than 40% of the total demand is in automobiles and transportation equipment. In this lecture, we would like to introduce several new functional materials (new polyamide elastomer UBESTA XPA, UBESTA gas pipe system and new polyamide terpolymer TERPALEX) based on polyamides developed by UBE. Here UBESTA is the trademark for UBE's polyamide12.