• Title/Summary/Keyword: Sludge Deposit

Search Result 14, Processing Time 0.017 seconds

A REVIEW ON THE ODSCC OF STEAM GENERATOR TUBES IN KOREAN NPPS

  • Chung, Hansub;Kim, Hong-Deok;Oh, Seungjin;Boo, Myung Hwan;Na, Kyung-Hwan;Yun, Eunsup;Kang, Yong-Seok;Kim, Wang-Bae;Lee, Jae Gon;Kim, Dong-Jin;Kim, Hong Pyo
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
    • /
    • v.45 no.4
    • /
    • pp.513-522
    • /
    • 2013
  • The ODSCC detected in the TSP position of Ulchin 3&4 SGs are typical ODSCC of Alloy 600MA tubes. The causative chemical environment is formed by concentration of impurities inside the occluded region formed by the tube surface, egg crate strips, and sludge deposit there. Most cracks are detected at or near the line contacts between the tube surface and the egg crate strips. The region of dense crack population, as defined as between $4^{th}$ and $9^{th}$ TSPs, and near the center of hot leg hemisphere plane, coincided well with the region of preferential sludge deposition as defined by thermal hydraulics calculation using SGAP computer code. The cracks developed homogeneously in a wide range of SGs, so that the number of cracks detected each outage increased very rapidly since the first detection in the $8^{th}$ refueling outage. The root cause assessment focused on investigation of the difference in microstructure and manufacturing residual stress in order to reveal the cause of different susceptibilities to ODSCC among identical six units. The manufacturing residual stress as measured by XRD on OD surface and by split tube method indicated that the high residual stress of Alloy 600MA tube played a critical role in developing ODSCC. The level of residual stress showed substantial variations among the six units depending on details of straightening and OD grinding processes. Youngwang 3&4 tubes are less susceptible to ODSCC than U3 and U4 tubes because semi-continuous coarse chromium carbides are formed along the grain boundary of Y3&4 tubes, while there are finer less continuous chromium carbides in U3 and U4. The different carbide morphology is caused by the difference in cooling rate after mill anneal. There is a possibility that high chromium content in the Y3&4 tubes, still within the allowable range of Alloy 600, has made some contribution to the improved resistance to ODSCC. It is anticipated that ODSCC in Y5&6 SGs will be retarded more considerably than U3 SGs since the manufacturing residual stress in Y5&6 tubes is substantially lower than in U3 tubes, while the microstructure is similar with each other.

Study for Examples of Fire Including Friction with Automotive Clutch, Manual Transmission and Tire System (자동차 클러치, 수동변속기, 타이어 시스템의 마찰에 관련된 화재사례 연구)

  • Lee, Il Kwon;Moon, Hak Hoon;Kim, Jin Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
    • /
    • v.19 no.3
    • /
    • pp.49-53
    • /
    • 2015
  • The purpose of this paper is to study and analyze the failure examples for fire by friction on clutch, manual transmission and tire system in a car. In the first example, the driver took the pedal with foot to act the clutch. But the clutch disk did not return from flywheel by leakage of clutch hydraulic line. The heat was produced between clutch disk and flywheel by surface contacting. As a result, it was produced the fire by oil sludge sticked with transmission. In the second example, the transmission system was operated to transfer power of engine by contacting with gear and gear. But, as if the oil of transmission was caused the oil insufficiency because of leaking by crack of transmission case, it found the fact that was produced the fire by deposit material on transmission case. In the third example, when the car's driver continuously pushed an accelerator pedal for escaping from dry pit, the tire took the heat by the friction force between tire and surface of road. As a result, it became the direct cause for the fire. Therefore the driver must manage not to produce the fire with friction parts by heating during running.

A report of 39 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to the classes Betaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria isolated in 2018

  • Kim, Yong-Seok;Yi, Hana;Kim, Myung Kyum;Seong, Chi-Nam;Kim, Wonyong;Jeon, Che Ok;Kim, Seung-Bum;Im, Wan-Taek;Joh, Kiseong;Cha, Chang-Jun
    • Journal of Species Research
    • /
    • v.9 no.4
    • /
    • pp.346-361
    • /
    • 2020
  • In the project of a comprehensive investigation of indigenous prokaryotic species in Korea, a total of 39 bacterial strains phylogenetically belonging to the classes Betaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria were isolated from various environmental sources such as soil, cultivated soil, sludge, seawater, marine sediment, algae, human, tree, moss, tidal flat, beach sand and lagoon. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that 39 strains showed the high sequence similarities (≥98.7%) to the closest type strains and formed robust phylogenetic clades with closely related species in the classes Betaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria. In the present study, we report 14 species of 9 genera of four families of two orders in the class Betaproteobacteria and 25 species of 21 genera of 15 families of eight orders in the class Gammaproteobacteria, which have not been reported in Korea. Morphological, biochemical, and physiological characteristics, isolation sources, and NIBR deposit numbers are described in the species descriptions.

Developing Evaluation Index and Item for Water Environment Improvement of Gyeongin ARA Waterway (경인 아라뱃길의 물환경 개선을 위한 오염원인 평가항목 및 지표 개발)

  • Lee, Kyung-Su;Kim, Tae-Hyeong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
    • /
    • v.18 no.8
    • /
    • pp.469-482
    • /
    • 2018
  • This research has developed the criteria and index for systematically and objectively assessing the quality of river water by fixing the various factors that affect Gyeongin ARA waterway's water quality through analysis with the Delphi Technique and analytic hierarchy program (AHP) Method. Based on the results, the highest criteria are, in order of importance, physical and environmental factors 28%, administrative factors 26%, natural fixed factors 26% and finally, cultural and social factors 20%. The three dimensions of the criteria show that for the internal physical and environmental factors, the most important are the loss of self-purification capacity, and the external factors are Gulpocheon and the sludge deposit due to Gyulhweon-weir the bridge. The facility factor in management was affected by the coagulation and waste water disposal facilities. The problem for the policy and institutional factors was seen in the regulatory area. The aquatic ecology/ point pollution source for the natural fixed factors show that it is due to the polluted water of Gulpo-cheon and the living environment/ non-point pollution source is shown through the inflow water from other rivers. Cultural and social factors show that the economical causes were due to the cargo and passenger flight operations and the external factors of having a lack of sewage treatment equipment have an importance effect. In order to estimate the order of priority through logical evidence and objectivity, future research must be continued on the evaluation indexes to measure the specific methodology and technique needed to improve the Gyeongin ARA Waterway.