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Recirculating Aquaculture System Design and Water Treatment Analysis based on CFD Simulation

  • Juhyoung Sung;Sungyoon Cho;Wongi Jeon;Yangseob Kim;Kiwon Kwon;Deuk-young Jeong
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.17 no.11
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    • pp.3083-3098
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    • 2023
  • As demands for efficient and echo-friendly production of marine products increase, smart aquaculture based on information and communication technology (ICT) has become a promising trend. The smart aquaculture is expected to control fundamental farm environment variables including water temperature and dissolved oxygen (DO) levels with less human intervention. A recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) is required for the smart aquaculture which utilizes a purification tank to reuse water drained from the water tank while blocking the external environment. Elaborate water treatment should be considered to properly operate RAS. However, analyzing the water treatment performance is a challenging issue because fish farm circumstance continuously changes and recursively affects water fluidity. To handle this issue, we introduce computational fluid dynamics (CFD) aided water treatment analysis including water fluidity and the solid particles removal efficiency. We adopt RAS parameters widely used in the real aquaculture field to better reflect the real situation. The simulation results provide several indicators for users to check performance metrics when planning to select appropriate RAS without actually using it which costs a lot to operate.

A Study on the Damping Characteristics of a Hybrid Smart Structure Using Electrorheological Fluids and PZT (전기유동유체와 압전세라믹을 이용한 복합지능구조물의 감쇠특성 연구)

  • 윤신일;박근효;한상보;최윤대
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.382-387
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    • 2003
  • Many type of smart materials and control laws are available to actively adjust the structure from various external disturbances. Usually, a certain type of control law to activate a specific smart material is tell established, but the effectiveness of the control scheme is limited by the choice of the smart materials and the responses of the structure. ER fluid is adequate to provide small but arbitrary control forces at any point along the structure. It was found that active vibration control of the structure embedded with ER fluids fluidly to suppress the vibration excited with broad band frequency due to the limited change of the structure characteristics. To compensate this limited effect of the control scheme with ER fluid alone, PPF control using PZT as an actuator is added to construct a hybrid controller.

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Vibration Control of Beam Containing ER Fluid Using PPF Control Scheme (PPF 제어기법을 적용한 전기점성유체가 함유된 보의 진동제어)

  • Yun Shin-Il;Chin Do-Hun;Yoon Moon-Chul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.32-37
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    • 2005
  • Several types of smart materials and control scheme are available to adjust the structure actively in various external disturbances. A control scheme was introduced for a specific material. But the effectiveness of the control scheme has some limitation according to the choice of the smart materials and the response of the structure. The ER(Electrorheological) fluid is adequate for a large control force, and the PZT(lead zirconate titanate) patches are suitable for small but arbitrary control force at any point of the structure. It can be used for active control of structure by changing the dynamic characteristics of the structure. But it has some difficulty in suppressing the excited vibration in broad band. To compensate this resonance of the controlled structure, a hybrid controller was constructed using PPF(Positive position feedback) control with PZT and ER fluid control.

Cross Flow Characteristics of the Core Simulator in SMART Reactor Flow Distribution Test Facility (SMART 유동분포시험장치 노심모의기에서의 횡방향 유동 특성)

  • Yoon, Jung;Kim, Young-In;Chung, Young-Jong;Lee, Won-Jae
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.5-11
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    • 2012
  • To identify the flow characteristics of the SMART reactor, a flow distribution model test and a numerical simulation are performed in KAERI. Among several part of the SMART reactor, the fuel assemblies are simulated using simulators because of the complexity. The geometries of the core in the SMART reactor and simulator are different, but some similarities are maintained such as the ratio of pressure drop in the vertical and cross directions. There are cross flow holes in each core simulator to reproduce the cross flow of SMART fuel assemblies. To know the flow characteristics of the cross flow, numerical analysis is performed. As the cross flow area is decreased, the pressure drop between inlet and outlet is decreased. Also, when the flow imbalance between two core simulators is constant, the cross flow area does not significantly affect the cross flow.

Modeling and identification of a class of MR fluid foam dampers

  • Zapateiro, Mauricio;Luo, Ningsu;Taylor, Ellen;Dyke, Shirley J.
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.101-113
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents the results of a series of experiments conducted to model a magnetorheological damper operated in shear mode. The prototype MR damper consists of two parallel steel plates; a paddle covered with an MR fluid coated foam is placed between the plates. The force is generated when the paddle is in motion and the MR fluid is reached by the magnetic field of the coil in one end of the device. Two approaches were considered in this experiment: a parametric approach based on the Bingham, Bouc-Wen and Hyperbolic Tangent models and a non parametric approach based on a Neural Network model. The accuracy to reproduce the MR damper behavior is compared as well as some aspects related to performance are discussed.

Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis of SEMAS for Boeing 787 (Boeing 787용 SEMAS의 유체-구조 연계해석에 관한 연구)

  • Noh, Kyung-Ho;Kim, Jin-Ho;Byun, Yung-Hwan;Lee, Sung-Taick;Lee, Jae-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.23-29
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    • 2006
  • SEMAS(Smart Electro-Mechanical Actuation System), which enhances the flight performance and interior comforts of the airplane is selected as the prime actuation device for the Boeing 787 Environmental Control System. In the present study, fluid-structure interaction analysis process that simultaneously considers interaction by structural deformation and the fluid dynamics has been established. The integrated analysis shows there is slight structure-deformation which causes no severe interference among the structural components.

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Computational Studies on the Performance of Flow Distributor in Tank (탱크 내부 유동 분사장치 성능에 대한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Shin, Soo Jai;Kim, Young In;Ryu, Seungyeob;Bae, Youngmin
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.115-122
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    • 2014
  • The optimal design of the flow distributor is very important to ensure the structural integrity of the reactor system and their safe operation during some transient or accident conditions. In the present study, we numerically investigated the performance of a flow distributor in tank with different shape factors such as the total number of the holes, the pitch-to-hole diameter ratios (p/d), the diameter of the hole and the area ratios. These data will contribute to a design of the flow distributor.