• 설비공학논문집
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• 제28권9호
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• pp.361-366
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• 2016

As an alternative of well-mixed storage tank with lower coil only, we have proposed a tank with lower and upper coils and verified a superior thermal stratification in a tank, which results in increased collector efficiency and solar fraction. But the phenomenon of temperature reversal was often experimentally observed in the tank, so a revised control was successfully applied which is to heat only lower coil using three way valve if temperature reversal occurs and to operate the collector with low flow rate when the condition of solar radiation is not good. In the present study, using TRNSYS we compared the existing lower heating and the proposed lower and upper heating with a control preventing temperature reversal. The results showed that the proposed method has an increase of collector efficiency by 5.1% and solar fraction by 3.2%.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제43권10호
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• pp.911-920
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• 2010

저수지와 같은 갇혀진 수체는 상류에서 유입되는 오염물질 뿐만 아니라 성층현상에 의해서도 오염될 수 있다. 갇혀진 수체에서의 연직순환은 이러한 오염을 줄이는데 중요한 역할을 하는데, 연직순환을 일으키는 인자로는 빛의 입사, 바람, 물의 온도 및 열의 확산 등이 있으며, 그중에서도 가장 중요한 것은 바람의 영향이다. 그러므로 성층화된 흐름에서 바람에 의해 발생하는 연직순환에 대한 수치모형을 개발하고 적용하는 것이 필요하다. 본 연구는 수온성층흐름을 해석할 수 있는 3차원 수치모형을 제시하였다. 유속성분은x-축과 y-축 방향에서의 운동량방정식으로부터 3단계에 걸쳐 계산되고, 자유수면 변위와 온도변화 등의 스칼라양은 각각 자유수면방정식과 이송-확산 방정식으로부터 계산된다. 본 연구에서 제시한 모형의 정확도를 검증하기 위하여 정사각형수조에서 진동하는 자유수면의 해석해와 비교하였고, 성층화된 흐름에서 발생하는 연직순환에 대하여 수치모의를 실시하였다. 그 결과, 본 연구에서 개발된 수치모형이 흐름 내부의 현상을 잘 묘사함을 알 수 있었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권10호
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• pp.2204-2220
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• 2020

An open-pool type research reactor is designed and operated considering the accessibility around the pool top area to enhance the reactor utilization. The reactor structure assembly is placed at the bottom of the pool and filled with water as a primary coolant for the core cooling and radiation shielding. Most radioactive materials are generated from the fuel assemblies in the reactor core and circulated with the primary coolant. If the primary coolant goes up to the pool surface, the radiation level increases around the working area near the top of the pool. Hence, the hot water layer is designed and formed at the upper part of the pool to suppress the rising of the primary coolant to the pool surface. The temperature gradient is established from the hot water layer to the primary coolant. As this temperature gradient suppresses the circulation of the primary coolant at the upper region of the pool, the radioactive primary coolant rising up directly to the pool surface is minimized. Water mixing between these layers is reduced because the hot water layer is formed above the primary coolant with a higher temperature. The radiation level above the pool surface area is maintained as low as reasonably achievable since the radioactive materials in the primary coolant are trapped under the hot water layer. The key to maintaining the stable hot water layer and keeping the radiation level low on the pool surface is to have a stable flow of the primary coolant. In the research reactor with a downward core flow, the primary coolant is dumped into the reactor pool and goes to the reactor core through the flow guide structure. Flow fields of the primary coolant at the lower region of the reactor pool are largely affected by the dumped primary coolant. Simple, circular, and duct type discharge headers are designed to control the flow fields and make the primary coolant flow stable in the reactor pool. In this research, flow fields of the primary coolant and hot water layer are numerically simulated in the reactor pool. The heat transfer rate, temperature, and velocity fields are taken into consideration to determine the formation of the stable hot water layer and primary coolant flow. The bulk Richardson number is used to evaluate the stability of the flow field. A duct type discharge header is finally chosen to dump the primary coolant into the reactor pool. The bulk Richardson number should be higher than 2.7 and the temperature of the hot water layer should be 1 ℃ higher than the temperature of the primary coolant to maintain the stability of the stratified thermal layer.

• 태양에너지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.44-52
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• 1991

본 연구의 목적은 주거용 태양열 온수이용에 있어서 성층저장의 잠점을 평가하고 최적의 설계변수를 제시하되 실험이 아닌 시뮬레이션을 통한다는 것이다. 그 결과는 다음과 같으며 실험의 결과들과 잘 일치함을 보였다. 1. 탱크의 성층분활이 증가함에 따라서 태양부하율이 증가함을 보여 주었고 본 연구에서는 평균 10% 정도 증가함을 나타내었다. 2. 저장탱크의 높이 대 지름의 비가 3정도일 때가 태양부하율이 최대가 되었으며 그 이상이 되면 감소하는 경향을 나타내었다. 3. 집열기로 부터 저장탱크로 유입되는 온수의 유동율이 증가할 수록 완전혼합저장에서는 태양부하율이 증가하지만 성충저장에서는 유입율이 감소하는 것이 태양부하율을 증가시키는 결과가 되었다. 4. 이와 같은 결과로 성층축열시스템 전체적으로는 약 17%의 성능 향상을 기대할 수 있다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.2311-2320
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• 2022

The main outcomes of the experiments H2P6 performed in the thermal-hydraulics large-scale PANDA facility at PSI in the frame of the OECD/NEA HYMERES-2 project are presented in this article. The experiments of the H2P6 series consists of two PANDA tests characterized by the activation of three (H2P6_1) or one (H2P6_2) cooler(s) in an initially stratified and pressurized containment atmosphere. The initial stratification is defined by a helium-rich region located in the upper part of the vessel and a steam/air atmosphere in the lower part. The activation of the cooler(s) results i) in the condensation of the steam in the vicinity of the cooler(s), ii) the corresponding activation of large scale natural circulation currents in the vessel atmosphere, with the result of iii) the re-distribution and mixing of the Helium stratification initially located in the upper half of the vessel and iv) the continuous pressure decay. The initial helium layer represents hydrogen generated in a postulated severe accident. The main question to be answered by the experiments is whether or not the interaction of the different, localized cooler units would be important for the application of numerical methods. The paper describes the initial and boundary conditions and the experimental results of the H2P6 series with the suggestion of simple scaling laws for both experiments in terms of i) the temperature difference(s) across the cooler(s), ii) the transient steam and helium content and iii) the pressure decay in the vessel. The outcomes of this scaling indicate that the interaction between separate, closely localized units does not play a prominent role for the present experiments. It is therefore reasonable to model several units as one large component with equivalent heat transfer area and total water flow rate.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.247-257
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• 2010

Watershed runoff and turbid water dynamics were simulated in the Youngju Dam, being constructed. The runoff flow and suspended solids were simulated and then thermal stratification and turbid water current in the reservoir were predicted by HSPF and CE-QUAL-W2 model, respectively. Considering selective withdrawal, we hypothesized 3 withdrawal types from the dam, i.e. surface layer, middle layer and the lowest layer. The maximum concentration of SS was 400mg/L in reservoir and it was decreased by the withdrawal. The inflowed turbid water fell to 30 NTU after 12 days regardless of the withdrawal types, but the surface layer withdrawal was a better type at turbid water discharge than the others. In current environmental impact assessment(EIA), we concluded that runoff and reservoir water quality predicted by HSPF and CE-QUAL-W2 was desirable, and appropriate parameters were selected by continous monitoring after EIA.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2003년도 제21회 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.78-82
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• 2003

우주발사체의 2단용 엔진으로 10톤급 케로신 재생 냉각 방식의 액체로켓엔진에 대한 보조 냉각 기구로서, 막냉각을 고려한 냉각특성에 대한 해석적 연구를 수행하였다. 연소기내에서 연소가스의 유동이 축방향으로 층류화되어 있다는 개념하에, 엔진 단면을 서로 독립적인 중심부와 외곽부로 나누며, 외곽부에는 여분의 연료를 분무시킴으로써 연소가스 온도를 낮추어 냉각채널로 전달되는 열유속량과 벽면 온도를 감소시킬 수 있었으며, 엔진의 열적 안정성을 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.180-188
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• 2005

It is well known that a lean burn engine caused by stratified mixture formation has many kinds of advantages to combustion characteristics, such as higher thermal efficiency and lower CO, NOx levels than conventional homogeneous mixture combustion. Although this combustion can achieve low fuel consumption technology, it produces much unburned hydrocarbon and soot because of heterogeneous equivalence ratio in the combustion chamber. Therefore, the stratified mixture formation technology is very important to obtain the stable lean combustion. In this paper, fundamental studies for stratified combustion were carried out using a constant volume combustion chamber. The local effect of mixture formation according to control air-fuel distribution in the chamber was examined experimentally. In addition, the effect of turbulence on stratified charge combustion process was observed by schlieren photography. From this study, we found that the flame propagation speed increase with swirl flow and the swirl promotes the formation of fuel and air mixture.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제31권10호
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• pp.66-72
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• 2003

우주발사체의 2단용 엔진으로 10톤급 케로신 액체로켓엔진에 대한 냉각 기구로서, 재생냉각과 막냉각을 고려한 냉각특성에 대한 해석전 연구를 수행하였다. 연소기 내에서 연소 가스의 유동이 축방향으로 층류화되어 있다는 개념하에, 엔진 단면을 서로 독립적인 중심부와 외곽부로 나누며, 외곽부에는 여분의 연료를 분무시킴으로써 연소가스 온도를 낮추어 냉각채널로 전달되는 열유속량과 벽면 온도를 감소시킬 수 있었으며, 엔진의 열적 안정성을 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.142-152
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• 2004

The liquid entrainment and vapor pull-through offtake model of RELAP5/MOD3 had been developed for SBLOCA (Small Break Loss of Coolant Accident). The RELAP5/MOD3 model for horizontal volumes accounts for the phase separation phenomena and computes the flux of mass and energy through a branch when stratified conditions occur in the horizontal pipe. In the case of CANDU reactor, this model should be used in the coolant flow of 95 feeders connected to the reactor header component under the horizontal stratification in header. The current RELAP5 model can treat the only 3 directions junctions; vertical upward, downward, and side oriented junctions, and thus improvements for the liquid entrainment and vapor pull-through model were needed for considering the exact angles. The RELAP5 off-take model was modified and generalized by considering the geometric effect of branching angles. Based on the previous experimental results, the critical height correlation was reconstructed by use of the branch line connection angle and validation analyses were also performed using SET. The new model can be applied to vertical upward, downward and angled branch, and the accuracy of the new correlations is more improved than that of RELAP5.