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Simulation and model validation of Biomass Fast Pyrolysis in a fluidized bed reactor using CFD (전산유체역학(CFD)을 이용한 유동층반응기 내부의 목질계 바이오매스 급속 열분해 모델 비교 및 검증)

  • Ju, Young Min;Euh, Seung Hee;Oh, Kwang cheol;Lee, Kang Yol;Lee, Beom Goo;Kim, Dae Hyun
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.200-210
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    • 2015
  • The modeling for fast pyrolysis of biomass in fluidized bed reactor has been developed for accurate prediction of bio-oil and gas products and for yield improvement. The purpose of this study is to analyze and to compare the CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation results with the experimental data from the CFD simulation results with the experimental data from the reference(Mellin et al., 2014) for gas products generated during fast pyrolysis of biomass in fluidized bed reactor. CFD(ANSYS FLUENT v.15.0) was used for the simulation. Complex pyrolysis reaction scheme of biomass subcomponents was applied for the simulation of pyrolysis reaction. This pyrolysis reaction scheme was included reaction of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin in detail, gas products obtained from pyrolysis were mainly $CO_2$, CO, $CH_4$, $H_2$, $C_2H_4$. The deviation between the simulation results from this study and experimental data from the reference was calculated about 3.7%p, 4.6%p, 3.9%p for $CH_4$, $H_2$, $C_2H_4$ respectively, whereas 9.6%p and 6.7%p for $CO_2$ and CO which are relatively high. Through this study, it is possible to predict gas products accurately by using CFD simulation approach. Moreover, this modeling approach should be developed to predict fluidized bed reactor performance and other gas product yields.

Comparative evaluation of dose according to changes in rectal gas volume during radiation therapy for cervical cancer : Phantom Study (자궁경부암 방사선치료 시 직장가스 용적 변화에 따른 선량 비교 평가 - Phantom Study)

  • Choi, So Young;Kim, Tae Won;Kim, Min Su;Song, Heung Kwon;Yoon, In Ha;Back, Geum Mun
    • The Journal of Korean Society for Radiation Therapy
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    • v.33
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    • pp.89-97
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to compare and evaluate the dose change according to the gas volume variations in the rectum, which was not included in the treatment plan during radiation therapy for cervical cancer. Materials and methods: Static Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (S-IMRT) using a 9-field and Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) using 2 full-arcs were established with treatment planning system on Computed Tomography images of a human phantom. Random gas parameters were included in the Planning Target Volume(PTV) with a maximum change of 2.0 cm in increments of 0.5 cm. Then, the Conformity Index (CI), Homogeneity Index (HI) and PTV Dmax for the target volume were calculated, and the minimum dose (Dmin), mean dose (Dmean) and Maximum Dose (Dmax) were calculated and compared for OAR(organs at risk). For statistical analysis, T-test was performed to obtain a p-value, where the significance level was set to 0.05. Result: The HI coefficients of determination(R2) of S-IMRT and VMAT were 0.9423 and 0.8223, respectively, indicating a relatively clear correlation, and PTV Dmax was found to increase up to 2.8% as the volume of a given gas parameter increased. In case of OAR evaluation, the dose in the bladder did not change with gas volume while a significant dose difference of more than Dmean 700 cGy was confirmed in rectum using both treatment plans at gas volumes of 1.0 cm or more. In all values except for Dmean of bladder, p-value was less than 0.05, confirming a statistically significant difference. Conclusion: In the case of gas generation not considered in the reference treatment plan, as the amount of gas increased, the dose difference at PTV and the dose delivered to the rectum increased. Therefore, during radiation therapy, it is necessary to make efforts to minimize the dose transmission error caused by a large amount of gas volumes in the rectum. Further studies will be necessary to evaluate dose transmission by not only varying the gas volume but also where the gas was located in the treatment field.

Combustion Performance Test of Syngas Gas in a Model Gas Turbine Combustor - Part 2 : NOx/CO emission Characteristics, Temperature Characteristics and Flame Structures (모델 가스터빈 연소기에서 합성가스 연소성능시험 - Part 2 : NOx/CO 배출특성, 온도특성, 화염구조)

  • Lee, Min Chul;Yoon, Jisu;Joo, Seong Pil;Yoon, Youngbin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.41 no.8
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    • pp.639-648
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    • 2013
  • This paper describes on the NOx/CO emission characteristics, temperature characteristics and flame structures when firing coal derived synthetic gas especially for gases of Buggenum and Taean IGCC. These combustion characteristics were observed by conducting ambient-pressure elevated-temperature combustion tests in GE7EA model combustor when varying heat input and nitrogen dilution ratio. Nitrogen addition caused decrement in adiabatic flame temperature, thus resulting in the NOx reduction. At low heat input condition, nitrogen dilution raised the CO emission dramatically due to incomplete combustion. These NOx reduction and CO arising phenomena were observed at certain flame temperature of $1500^{\circ}C$ and $1250^{\circ}C$, respectively. As increasing nitrogen dilution, adiabatic flame temperature and combustor liner temperature were decreased and singular points were detected due to change in flame structure such as flame lifting. From the results, the effect of nitrogen dilution on the NOx/CO and flame structure was examined, and the test data will be utilized as a reference to achieve optimal operating condition of the Taean IGCC demonstration plant.

Effect of Melting Pool on the Residual Stress of Welded Structures in Finite Element Analysis

  • Lee, Jang-Hyun;Hwang, Se-Yun;Yang, Yong-Sik
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.14-23
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    • 2007
  • Welding processes cause undesirable problems, such as residual stresses and deformations due to the thermal loads imposed by local heating, melting, and cooling processes. This paper presents a computational modeling technique to simulate the Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) process, emphasizing the effect of the melting bead on the residual stress distribution. Both a three-bar analogy and a three-dimensional thermo-mechanical finite element analysis are carried out in order to explain the effect. Element (de)activation, enthalpy, and adjustment of the reference temperature of thermal strain are considered with respect to the effect of the weld filler metal added to the base metal during a thermo-elastic-plastic analysis. Stress distributions obtained by the present study are compared with measured values and available data from other studies. The effect of the melting bead on the residual stress distribution is discussed and demonstrated.

Unbound Protein-Protein Docking Using Conformational Space Annealing

  • Lee, Kyoung-Rim;Joo, Kee-Hyoung;Lee, Joo-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics Conference
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    • 2005.09a
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    • pp.294-299
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    • 2005
  • We have studied unbound docking for 12 protein-protein complexes using conformational space annealing (CSA) combined along with statistical pair potentials. The CSA, a powerful global optimization tool, is used to search the conformational space represented by a translational vector and three Euler amgles between two proteins. The energy function consists of three statistical pair-wise energy terms; one from the distance-scaled finite ideal-gas reference state (DFIRE) approach by Zhou and the other two derived from residue-residue contacts. The residue-residue contact terms describe both attractive and repulsive interactions between two residues in contact. The performance of the CSA docking is compared with that of ZDOCK, a well-established protein-protein docking method. The results show that the application of CSA to the protein-protein docking is quite successful, indicating that the CSA combined with a good scoring function is a promising method for the study of protein-protein interaction.

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Parameter Study of Exhaust Pressure in Catalytic Converter (촉매를 고려한 배압 계산에서의 인자 결정 연구)

  • 이원근;임효재
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.77-82
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    • 2003
  • A parametric study was conducted on pressure drop in a catalytic converter for automobile. In this work, we proposed a new pressure drop relation which contains the various parameters needed to calculate and got a few results. In a monolith of catalyst, the flow originally turbulent flow changes to laminar flow and thus the pressure drop through the monolith is linearly proportional to the velocity. The exhaust pressure is doubly affected by the increase of mean velocity and length when we decrease the diameter of monolith while the volume keeps constant. Theoretical parameters such as $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are suggested to use as a reference value when there is no a experimental data. Especially in the part load test, these values should be modified to consider the property change of exhaust gas.

Unsteady Flamelet Modeling for Flame Structure and Soot Formation of Lanimar Non-premixed CH4/Air Flame (비정상 화염편 모델을 이용한 대기압 층류 비예혼합 CH4/Air 화염장의 매연입자 생성 특성 및 화염구조 해석)

  • Kim, Taehoon;Jeon, Sangtae;Kim, Yongmo
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2012.11a
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    • pp.137-138
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    • 2012
  • The two-equation soot model based on the transient laminar flamelet model is implemented for soot formation of laminar non-premixed $CH_4/Air$ flame with detailed chemical reaction mechanism and complex thermodynamic properties. The soot model represents nucleation, growth and oxidation with gas-phase chemistry. This represented unsteady flamelet soot model has been tested and compared using well verified reference calculation result obtained solving the Full Transport Equations method.

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Fabrication and Its Biomedical Application of the pH-ISFET Microprobe (pH-ISFET 마이크로프로브의 製作과 그 生醫學的 應用)

  • Lee, Kwang-Man;Sohn, Byung-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.25 no.11
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    • pp.1335-1341
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    • 1988
  • A pH-ISEFET microprobe for in vivo measurements has been fabricated by combining ISFET (SL-IIS) chip and capillary thin film reference electrode. A two-step TCE oxidation for the gate oxide layer and multilayer encapsulation using silicone rubber and epoxy were specially used for the improvement of the stability and temperature dependence of the ISFET's. The measured sensitivit, response time and temperature dependence of the pH-ISFET microprobes are 50 mV/pH, less than one second, and - 0.01 pH/$^{\circ}$ , respectively. By operating continuously more than 40 days, a long term stability of 0.016 pH/day is obtained. The result of pH monitoring of femoral arterial blood in a rabbit is fairly good agreement with the value of blood gas analysis.

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Consumer's Response for Health Friendly Planning Features of Smart Home (건강친화 지능형주택 계획요소에 대한 소비자 반응 연구)

  • Lee, Sunmin;Lee, Yeunsook;Ahn, Changhoun
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.27-36
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    • 2009
  • Due to rapid advances in science and technology and peoples life value, multi-dimensional functionality of the house has been possible and demanded. Among them, intellectual function and health support function appeared prominent and the former can support the later. The purpose of this study was to delineate health support planning features for smart home. Thirty six planning elements were extracted for initial pool for survey to find out what consumers demanded. Two hundred and nine data were collected through the web-survey. Important planning features were identified in relation to three different health dimensions that is physical/physiological, psychological, and social health. Generally consumers' responses were positive for all features. Major health friendly features highly demanded by consumers were found gas detect system, security system, and a call alarm system. The result of this study is expected to be used as a basic reference to develop strategies for smart home and to grasp current housing culture.

DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF UPPER PLENUM OF PBMR USING RESPONSE SURFACE APPROXIMATION (반응면기법을 이용한 PBMR 기체냉각형 고온가스로 상층부의 최적설계)

  • Lee, S.M.;Kim, K.Y.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.187-194
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    • 2010
  • Shape optimization of an upper plenum of PBMR type gas cooled nuclear reactor has been performed by using three-dimensional Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) analysis and surrogate modeling technique. The objective function is defined as a linear combination of uniformity of flow distribution in the core and pressure drop in the upper plenum and the core. The ratio of thickness of slot to diameter of rising channels, ratio of height of upper plenum to diameter of rising channels, and ratio of eight of the slot at inlet to outlet, are used as design variables for optimization. Design points are selected through Latin-hypercube sampling. The optimal point is determined through surrogate-based optimization method which uses 3-D RANS analyses at design points. The results show that the optimum shape represent remarkably improved performance in flow uniformity and friction loss than the reference shape.

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