• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.51-56
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• 2011

Steam generator is one of the main equipments that affect safety and long term operation in nuclear power plants. Fluid flows inside and outside of the steam generator tubes and induces vibration. To prevent the vibration the tubes are supported by AVB (anti vibration bar). When the steam generator tube contact to AVB, it is damaged by the accumulation of wear and corrosion. Therefore studies are required to determine the effects of the gap between the steam generator tube and AVB. In order to obtain the stress and the displacement distributions of the steam generator tube, three dimensional finite element analyses were performed by using the commercial program ANSYS. Using the calculated the stress and the displacement distributions, the static residual strength of the steam generator tube can be evaluated. The results show that the stress and displacement of the steam generator tube increase significantly compared with the results from a zero-gap model.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.27-30
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• 2018

The dependency of the electrical characteristics of silicon solar-cells on the depth of damaged layer induced by wire-sawing process was investigated. To compare cell efficiency with residual sawing damage, silicon solar-cells were fabricated by using as-sawn wafers having different depth of saw damage without any damaged etching process. The damaged layer induced by wire-sawing process in silicon bulk intensely influenced the value of fill factor on solar cells, degrading fill factor to 57.20%. In addition, the photovoltaic characteristics of solar cells applying texturing process shows that although the initial depth of saw-damage induced by wire-sawing process was different, the value of short-circuit current, fill-factor, and power-conversion-efficiency have an almost same, showing ~17.4% of cell efficiency. It indicated that the degradation of solar-cell efficiency induced by wire-sawing process could be prevented by eliminating all damaged layer through sufficient pyramid-surface texturing process.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.253-259
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• 2015

The fast neutron reactor BOR-60 is one of the key experimental facilities worldwide to perform large-scale tests of fuel, absorbing, and structural materials for advanced reactors. The BOR-60 reactor was put into operation in December 1969, and by the end of 2014 it had been operating on power for ~265,000 hours. BOR-60 still demonstrates potential capabilities to extend the lifetime of sodium-cooled fast reactors. The BOR-60 lifetime should have expired at the end of 2014. Over the past few years, a great scope of work has been performed to justify the possibility of extending its lifetime. The work included inspection of the equipment conditions, calculations and experimental research on operating parameters and the conditions of nonremovable components, investigation of the structural material samples after their long-term operation under irradiation, etc. Based on the results of the work performed, the residual lifetime was evaluated and the reactor operator made a decision to extend the lifetime period of the BOR-60 reactor. After considering both a set of documents about the reactor conditions and the positive decision of independent experts, the Regulatory Authority of the Russian Federation extended the BOR-60 operating license up to 2020.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.28-34
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• 2012

Installing surge protection devices for a low-voltage system is important to ensure the survival of electric or electronic devices and systems. If surge protection devices (SPD) are installed without consideration of the concept of lightning protection zones, the equipment to be protected might be damaged despite the correct energy coordination of SPDs. This damage is induced by the reflection phenomena on the cable connecting an external SPD and the load protected. These reflection phenomena depend on the characteristics of the output of the external SPD, the input of the loads, and the cables between the load and the external SPD. Therefore, the SPD has an effective protection distance under the condition of the specific load and the specific voltage protection level of SPD. In this paper, PSCAD/EMTDC software is used to simulate the residual voltage characteristics of SPD Entering the low-voltage device. And by applying a certain voltage level, the effective protection distances of SPD were analyzed according to the each load and length of connecting cable, and the effectiveness of SPD were verified.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.131-137
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• 2009

본 논문은 일사량과 온도의 조건에 따른 태양전지 셀의 등가회로 모델을 모델링하였고, 이를 바탕으로 제작사의 태양광 모듈을 시뮬레이션하여 비교 검토하였다. 검토결과 태양광 모듈의 사양서와 시뮬레이션 값의 오차율이 낮아 신뢰성을 확보할 수 있었으며, 또한 최적인 태양광 모듈 어레이를 시뮬레이션하여 최적인 태양전지 모듈 어레이의 규모를 선택하여 독립형 태양광 시스템을 구현하였다. 또, 특정지역에 설치시 최적인 출력전력도 시물레이션을 통하여 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.892-901
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• 2018

Because of excellent electrical properties, epoxy resin is widely used in packaging and casting power equipment. Moisture and temperature in the environment are inclined to seriously affect the insulation tolerance of epoxy resin. This work focuses on the aging characteristics of epoxy resin in hygrothermal environment. Scanning electron microscopy images show that there are micro-crack, micro-slit and holes inside aged samples. The moisture absorption process undergoes three equilibrium stages and it does not follow the Fick's second law. Observing the change of hydrogen bonds in the infrared spectra of the dried samples, it is found that chemically moisture absorption immerges when the physical moisture absorption entered the third equilibrium stage. By Debye equation to fit the imaginary part of the dielectric constant, it is concluded that the uniformity of water molecule has a great influence on the electrical conductivity loss. Furthermore, the polarization loss can be more easily affected by water molecules than small free molecules. After the aged samples being dried, their real and imaginary part of the dielectric constant descend, but their original electrical properties cannot completely restored. After chemical moisture absorption appears inside the material, the residual space charges increase significantly and the charge dissipation rate slow down obviously.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.2053-2058
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• 2004

The pressurized light water cooled, medium power (330 MWt) SMART (System-integrated Modular Advanced ReacTor) has been under development at KAERI for a dual purpose : seawater desalination and electricity generation. The SMART design verification phase was followed to conduct various separate effects tests and comprehensive integral effect tests. The high temperature / high pressure thermal-hydraulic test facility, VISTA(Experimental Verification by Integral Simulation of Transient and Accidents) has been constructed to simulate the SMART-P (the one fifth scaled pilot plant) by KAERI. Experimental tests have been performed to investigate the thermal-hydraulic dynamic characteristics of the primary and the secondary systems. Heat transfer characteristics and natural circulation performance of the PRHRS (Passive Residual Heat Removal System) of SMART-P were also investigated using the VISTA facility. The coolant flows steadily in the natural circulation loop which is composed of the steam generator (SG) primary side, the secondary system, and the PRHRS. The heat transfers through the PRHRS heat exchanger and ECT are sufficient enough to enable the natural circulation of the coolant.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제42권10호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 추출격자 분포 브래그 반사기 (SGDBR: Sampled Grating Distributed Bragg Reflector) 가 집적된 추출격자 분포 궤환 (SGDFB : Sampled Grating Distributed Feedback) 레이저 다이오드의 파장가변 특성을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 분석하였다. SGDFB 영역에 있는 위상제어 영역의 길이는 출력 광 파워와 파장가변 범위에 많은 영향을 미치고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 소자의 길이와 단면에서의 반사계수 및 단면의 위치에 의해 전체적인 파장가변 범위가 많은 영향을 받음을 확인하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권11호
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• pp.26-32
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• 2014

단일반송파기반 주파수다중화(SC-FDM) 방식은 각 사용자 입장에서는 단일반송파 전송 방식으로 피크대 평균 전력비(PAPR)가 낮다는 장점이 있어 전송전력에 제한이 있는 3GPP LTE의 상향링크 전송방식으로 채택되었다. 일반적으로 SC-FDM 신호의 수신은 주파수 영역 등화기를 사용하는데 이는 채널에 깊은 널(null)이 존재하는 경우 잉여의 심볼 간 간섭과 잡음의 증폭이 커지는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 개선하기 위하여 주파수 영역 터보 등화기를 사용하는 SC-FDM 수신기를 제안하고 이의 링크레벨 성능을 평가한다. 또한, 성능-복잡도 교환(Tradeoff)을 고려한 적절한 반복 횟수를 제시한다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2004년도 제22회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.306-313
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• 2004

The microwave discharge ion engine generates plasmas of both the main ion source and the neutralizer using 4㎓ microwave without discharge electrodes and hollow cathodes, so that long life and durability against oxygen and air are expected. The MUSES-C “HAYABUSA” asteroid explorer installing four microwave discharge ion engines “$\mu$10s” was launched into deep space by M-V rocket No.5 on May 9, 2003. After vacuum exposure and several runs of baking for reduction of residual gas the ion engine system established the continuous acceleration of the spacecraft toward the asteroid “ITOKAWA”. The Doppler shift measurement of the communication microwave revealed the performance of ion engines, which is 8mN thrust force for a single unit with 3,200sec specific impulse at 23mN/㎾ thrust power ratio. At the end of 2003 the accumulated operational time exceeded 8,000 hour and unit. HAYABUSA will execute the Earth swing-by on June 2004 and arrive at the asteroid in 2005 and return to Earth in 2007.