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Evaluation of Radioactive Source Terms in the System-Integrated Modular Advanced Reactor

  • Kim, Seong-Uck;Kang, Chang-Sun
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 1999
  • A 330 MWt-sized multi-purpose integral-type reactor, SMART is under development in Korea for the use of nuclear energy other than electricity generation. In this study, various radioactive source terms are estimated for SMART. SMART is different from conventional reactor concepts in operation and design. Therefore Specific Calculation method namely recurrence model is used. This model is based on the change rate in the RC radioactivity materials and operational characteristics of SMART Calculation results show tremendously increase of the levels of RC activity because no cleanup of RC and long term operation.

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Customer Willingness to Use Smart Grid Services in Home (스마트 그리드 서비스에 대한 고객 수용도 분석)

  • Kim, Young-Myoung;Lee, Young-Woo
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.35 no.9B
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    • pp.1399-1406
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    • 2010
  • Customers can monitor electricity use in real time in smart grid(ICT is grafted onto current grid), so various beneficial services can be provided to customer. We did a qualitative survey, HV(Home Visit) and FGD(Focus Group Discussion), in order to derive customer's cognition of using electricity in home and values that customers consider significantly and a quantitative survey in order to know willingness to use. Customers consider electricity indispensible for using home appliances, want to use safely far from electromagnetic waves, short circuit and electronic shock. Also, customers want to save energy conveniently with no stress. Customers want 'a function', 'information', 'motivation' for energy saving, and 'electromagnetic waves cutting', 'to prevent electronic shock', 'to prevent short circuit' for safe electricity use. In this study, we derived 4 services - energy monitoring, standby power cutting, remote control, energy consulting - based on customer values and unmet needs, which is connected to home network that customers can monitor total and each appliance's electricity usage in real time and control home appliances. The willingness to use of services is over 60% and especially energy monitoring and standby power cutting service have high willingness to use rate, about 80%.

Impact of Energy Density and Bead Overlap Ratio of a SUS316L Specimen Fabricated using Selective Laser Melting on Mechanical Characteristics (선택적 레이저 용융 공정으로 제작된 시편의 SUS316L 에너지밀도 및 비드 중첩률에 따른 기계적 특성 변화 분석)

  • Lee, Dong Wook;Kim, Woo Sung;Sung, Ji Hyun;Kim, Cheol;Lee, Ho Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.20 no.8
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    • pp.42-51
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    • 2021
  • Investigations of process parameters are essential when fabricating high-quality parts using additive manufacturing. This study investigates the change in the mechanical characteristics of a SUS316L specimen fabricated using selective laser melting based on the energy density and bead overlap ratio. The SUS316L powder particles were spherical and 35 ㎛ in size. Single-bead and hexahedral shape deposition experiments were performed sequentially. A single bead experiment was performed to obtain the bead overlap ratios for different laser parameters utilizing laser power and scan speed as experimental parameters. A hexahedral shape deposition experiment was also performed to observe the difference in mechanical properties, such as the internal porosity, surface roughness, and hardness, based on the energy density and bead overlap ratio of the three-dimensional printed part. Laser power, scan speed, overlap ratio, and layer thickness were chosen as parameters for the hexahedral shape deposition experiment. Accordingly, the energy density applied for three-dimensional printing, and the experimental parameters were calculated, and the energy density and bead overlap ratio for fabricating parts with good properties have been suggested.

An Operations Model for Home Energy Management System Considering an Energy Storage System and Consumer Utility in a Smart Grid

  • Juhyeon Kang;Yongma Moon
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.99-125
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    • 2017
  • In this study, we propose an operations model to automate a home energy management system (HEMS) that utilizes an energy storage system (ESS) in consideration of consumer utility. Most previous studies focused on the system for the profits obtained from trading charged energy using large-scale ESS. By contrast, the present study focuses on constructing a home-level energy management system that considers consumer's utility over energy consumption. Depending on personal preference, some residential consumers may prefer consuming additional energy to earn increased profits through price arbitrage and vice versa. However, the current system could not yet reflect on this aspect. Thus, we develop an operations model for HEMS that could automatically control energy consumption while considering the level of consumer's preference and the economic benefits of using an ESS. The results of simulations using a dataset of the Korean market show that an operations policy of charging and discharging can be changed depending on consumer's utility. The impact of this policy is not ignorable. Moreover, the technical specifications of ESS, such as self-discharge rate and round-trip efficiency, can affect the operations policy and automation of HEMS.

Design and Construction of Urban-type Energy Self-Supporting Smart-Farm Service Model (도심형 에너지 자립 스마트팜 서비스 모델 설계 및 구축)

  • Kim, Gwan-Hyung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.23 no.10
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    • pp.1305-1310
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    • 2019
  • Modern agriculture is changing from resource-oriented agriculture to technology-oriented agriculture. Agriculture, which combines science and technology, is recognized as a new growth engine, and governments, local governments, research institutes, and industry are working together to develop and disseminate various devices necessary for smart farms to build intelligent smart farms. Recently, research is being conducted to build a more intelligent agricultural environment by building a cloud platform. In this paper, we propose a plan to build an urban energy - independent smart farm that can utilize leisure time and agricultural activities by utilizing the rooftop of a city. Also, by using IT technology, various data of smart farm can be managed on remote server, and HMI module for controlling internal environment of smart farm can be developed to manage smart farm automatically or semi-automatically. The service model suggests a model that can manage the internal environment of the smart farm based on mobile.

Grid-tied Power Converter for Battery Energy Storage Composed of 2-stage DC-DC Converter

  • Kim, Do-Hyun;Lee, Yoon-Seok;Han, Byung-Moon;Kim, Ju-Yong;Chae, Woo-Kyu
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.1400-1408
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    • 2013
  • This paper proposes a new grid-tied power converter for battery energy storage, which is composed of a 2-stage DC-DC converter and a PWM inverter. The 2-stage DC-DC converter is composed of an LLC resonant converter connected in cascade with a 2-quadrant hybrid-switching chopper. The LLC resonant converter operates in constant duty ratio, while the 2-quadrant hybrid-switching chopper operates in variable duty ratio for voltage regulation. The operation of proposed system was verified through computer simulations. Based on computer simulations, a hardware prototype was built and tested to confirm the technical feasibility of proposed system. The proposed system could have relatively higher efficiency and smaller size than the existing system.

A Development of Intelligent Metering and Control System for Energy Management of Electric Cabinet Panel (분전반 전력관리용 지능형 계측 제어 시스템 개발)

  • Park, Byung-Chul;Park, Jae-Sung;Song, Sung-Kun;Shin, Joong-Rin
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.27 no.8
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    • pp.90-97
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    • 2013
  • In recent years, the many electric saving methods are studied because of difficulty of meeting the demand. The electric energy management such as monitoring of branch power consumption, demand control, metering, power quality monitoring, electric safety monitoring can make energy saving. The purpose of this paper is to develop a system which can provide the integrated management of various functions required for energy management by consumers. In this system all functions which were embodied into each devices are integrated into intelligent meter. The developed systems are tested and implemented by installing at consumer electric distribution panel.