• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.1674-1685
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• 2022

The ball valve is an important device in the pipeline transportation system of nuclear power plants. Its operational stability and safety directly affect the normal working of nuclear power plants. In this study, the transient numerical simulation of the opening and closing process of a ball valve was conducted on the basis of the flow interruption capability experiment of the ball valve by using the moving mesh method and inlet and outlet variable boundary conditions. The flow rate and pressure difference with time of the opening and closing process of the ball valve were studied. The internal flow characteristics of the ball valve under different relative openings were analyzed in conjunction with the typical back-step flow structure. Results show that the transient numerical results agree well with the experimental results. The internal flow characteristics of the ball valve are similar at the same opening during opening and closing process. At small opening, the spool and outlet channels easily form a back-step flow structure. The disappearance and generation of backflow vortices during opening and closing occur at 85% opening and 75% opening, respectively. With the decrease in opening degree, the difference in vortex core area in the flow channel of the ball valve spool in the opening and closing process gradually appears. The research results provide some reference value for the design and optimization of ball valves.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.220-228
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• 2019

동해 남서해역에서의 살오징어 유생 출현 특성을 파악하기 위해 2015년 8, 9, 11월 여수 근해부터 평해 연안까지 총 35개 정점에서 IKMT 네트(망목 : $500{\mu}m$)를 사용하였으며, 초기 생활단계의 주요 해양환경 인자인 수온은 CTD(SBE9plus)로 관측하였다. 유생의 월별 외투장 자료의 통계처리를 위하여 SPSS software(ver. 12.0)를 이용하였다. 채집된 살오징어 유생의 개체수는 총 228개체로 외투장 범위는 1.4 - 21.9 mm였다. 유생밀도 범위는 8월에 $0.2-5.2inds./1,000m^3$, 9월에 $0.1-3.2inds./1,000m^3$, 11월에 $0.3-7.9inds./1,000m^3$로 나타났다. 전반적으로 유생은 연안측 정점보다 조사해역의 동남부인 부산 근해에서 더 높은 밀도를 보였다. 8, 9, 11월의 유생출현률은 각각 64.3 %, 62.9 %, 68.6 %였다. 평균외투장 범위는 5.24 - 5.68 mm였으며, 월별 평균외투장은 유의한 차이를 나타내지 않았다(p > 0.05). 또한 외투장 분포에서 4 - 5 mm 구간의 유생이 최다 출현빈도를 보였다. 유생이 채집된 정점에서 유생의 생존이 가능한 수온대가 8월에는 대부분의 정점에서 표층부터 약 20 m 부근까지 유생이 서식하기에 부적합한 수온대가 존재하였던 반면, 9월과 11월에는 표층부터 유생이 서식하기 적합한 수온대가 형성되었다. 또한 얕은 수심의 연안쪽 정점에서는 표층에서 저층까지 적수온대가 형성되었으며, 100 m 이상의 깊은 수심의 외양쪽 정점에서는 표층부터 수온약층의 상층부까지 유생의 생존가능한 수온대가 형성되었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.479-485
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• 2022

At the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, physical human phantoms were developed to evaluate various radiation protection quantities, based on the mesh-type reference computational phantoms of the International Commission on Radiological Protection. The physical human phantoms were fabricated such that a radiophotoluminescent glass dosimeter (RPLGD) with a Tin filter, namely GD-352M, could be inserted into them. A Tin filter is used to eliminate the overestimated signals in low-energy photons below 100 keV. The measurement uncertainty of the RPLGD reader system based on GD-352M should be analyzed for obtaining reliable protection quantities before using it for practical applications. Generally, the measurement uncertainty of RPLGD systems without Tin filters is analyzed for quality assurance of radiotherapy units using a high-energy photon beam. However, in this study, the measurement uncertainty of GD-352M was analyzed for evaluating the protection quantities. The measurement uncertainty factors in the RPLGD include the reference irradiation, regression curve, reproducibility, uniformity, energy dependence, and angular dependence, as described by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). These factors were calculated using the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement method, applying ISO/ASTM standards 51261(2013), 51707(2015), and SS-ISO 22127(2019). The measurement uncertainties of the RPLGD reader system with a coverage factor of k = 2 were calculated to be 9.26% from 0.005 to 1 Gy and 8.16% from 1 to 10 Gy. A blind test was conducted to validate the RPLGD reader system, which demonstrated that the readout doses included blind doses of 0.1, 1, 2, and 5 Gy. Overall, the E_n values were considered satisfactory.