• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.2147-2155
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• 2022

Nuclear safety-related underground liquid storage tanks, such as those used to store fuel for emergency diesel generators, are critical components for safety of hundreds of existing nuclear power plants (NPP) worldwide. Since most of those NPP will continue to operate for decades, a beyond design base (BDB) seismic screening of safety-related underground tanks in those NPP is beneficial and essential to public safety. The analytical methodology for buried tank subjected to seismic effect, including a BDB seismic evaluation, needs to consider both soil-structure and fluid-structure interaction effects. Comprehensive analysis of such a soil-structure-fluid system is costly and time consuming, often subjected to availability of state-of-art finite element tools. Simple, but practically and reasonably accurate techniques for seismic evaluation of underground liquid storage tanks have not been established. In this study, a mechanics based solution is proposed for the evaluation of a cylindrical underground liquid storage tank using hand calculation methods. For validation, a practical example of two underground diesel fuel tanks in an existing nuclear power plant is presented and application of the proposed method is confirmed by using published results of the computer-aided System for Analysis of Soil Structural Interaction (SASSI). The proposed approach provides an easy to use tool for BDB seismic assessment prior to making decision of applying more costly technique by owner of the nuclear facility.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.97-111
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• 1974

천연 점토 광물질의 ion교환능은 비교적 낮지만, 여러가지 황성화법에 의하여 교환능의 개설이 기대된다. 본 연구에 있어서는 점토 광물질 중에서도 교환 흡착능이 비교적 큰 vermiculite를 사용하여 저준위 방사성 액체 폐기물을 처리하는데 있어서 효과적인 이용 방법을 검토하기 위하여 vermiculite의 이온교환 기능에 관한 기초 연구를 실험하였다. Cs 이온의 교환능 및 분배계수는 Cs-l37의 방사능도를 Scintillation counter로 측정하였고, 천연 및 활성화된 vermiculite에 대한 특성은 X-ray회절과 전자회절에 의한 분석 및 열시차 분석과 아울러 전자 현미경에 의한 검사에 의거 해석하였다. Na-vermiculite에 의한 Cs이온의 교환 및 흡착에 있어서는 결정격자의 C-axis spacing의 수축을 초래하게 되고, Cs이온의 교환능은 주로 C-axis spacing의 크기에 좌우된다고 본다. Na-vermiculite에 의한 Cs이온의 교환 및 흡착 연구를 수행함으로서 저준위 방사성 핵종의 처리 분만 아니라, 고 방사성 폐액 저장 tank의 외각 충진 물질로서 Cs-137과 같이 반감기가 긴 핵종의 leakage로 인한 지하수 오염을 방지할 수 있는 재질로서도 적합하다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.217-222
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• 2011

This study was carried out in order to reduce the amount of underground water which is used in the double layered single span plastic greenhouse for retaining heat. For this research, two plastic green houses of the double layered single span plastic greenhouse were installed. There was equipped of internal small tunnel for keeping warm air in the interior of the house. Then the internal small tunnel for keeping warm air was fitted with PVC duct of 50 cm in diameter filled with subsurface water. The surplus solar energy in the greenhouse was stored in the water in the PVC duct. Four FCUs (Fan Coil Unit), which has the capacity of 8,000 kcal per hour, were installed in the middle of the house, and a circulation motor in heat storage water tank was operated from 10:30 a.m. to 16:00 p.m. in order to circulate water between the water tank and the FCUs. Consequently about 5 degrees celsius could be maintained in the interior of the internal small tunnel for keeping warm air with the external temperature of lower than minus 5 degrees celsius. It appeared that the alteration of an internal temperature of the house was flexible depending on the sunlight during daytime. To prevent the water freezing, mixing antifreezing liquid in the water or operating FCU continuously was needed. Also, in order to use the surplus solar thermal energy on plastic green house of water curtain system efficiently, storing the surplus heat during daytime simultaneously finding a method of using water curtain systematic underground water happened to be important. As a result of this research, when the house's interior temperature is below zero the operation of FCU appeared to be impossible. Considering the amount of water used in the house with water-curtain-heating system is 150~200 ton per day, using the system mentioned in this research showed that reducing the underground water more than 80% in order to maintain the internal temperature as the level of 5 degree celsius at the extreme temperature of minus 5 degrees celsius.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.200.2-200.2
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• 2010

This study was carried out in order to reduce the amount of underground water which is used in the water curtain system for retaining heat. To proceed to the research, two plastic green houses of water curtain system were installed. One was equipped of internal small tunnel for keeping warm air in the interior of the house. Then the internal small tunnel for keeping warm air was fitted with PVC duct of 50cm in diameter filled with subsurface water. Storing surplus solar energy in the water filled in PVC duct was the method used to this house. Another was installed with FCU in the middle of the house, and was fitted a circulation motor in water tank for heat storage which was operated from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in order to interchange heat with FCU. The latter was installed with four FCUs which has a capacity of 8000kcal per hour. Consequently about 5 degrees celsius could be maintained in the interior of the internal small tunnel for keeping warm air with the external temperature of more than minus 5 degrees celsius. It appeared that the alteration of an internal temperature of the house was flexible depending on the sunlight during daytime. It happened that to prevent the water from freezing, mixing antifreezing liquid in the flowing water of FCU or changing the operating method of FCU was a suitable measure. Also, in order to use the surplus solar thermal energy on plastic green house of water curtain system efficiently, storing the surplus heat during daytime simultaneously finding a method of using water curtain systematic underground water happened to be important. As a result of this research, when the house's interior temperature is below zero the operation of FCU appeared to be impossible. Therefore when supposed that the amount of water used in the house is 150~200ton for stable operation of FCU, using the system mentioned in the above research happened to be appropriate of reducing the amount of subsurface water from 80% to 100% when maintaining the interior of internal small tunnel's temperature for keeping warm air of 5 degrees celsius at the extreme temperature of minus 5 degrees celsius.

• 지구물리와물리탐사
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.67-72
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• 2005

복공식 시하공동내에 액화천연가스(LNG)를 저장하는 새로운 LNG 저장기술의 타당성을 검증하고 실규모 저장소 건설을 위한 기반기술의 개발을 위하여 액화질소를 저장하는 소규모 시험장을 한국지질자원연구윈 구내에 건설하였다. 액화질소를 지하공동내에 저장함에 따라 공동주변의 암반은 극저온 환경의 직접적인 영향을 받게 되므로, 공동주변에 결빙층(ice ring)의 형성은 물론 지반상태 변화를 수반할 것으로 예상되었다. 이 시험장에서는 지반상태의 변화 규명과 모니터링을 위하여 물리탐사, 수리지질조사, 암반공학 조사 등이 수행되었으며, 특히 시추공 레이다와 3 차원 전기비저항 탐사를 포함하는 물리탐사법을 적용하여 극저온 환경으로 인한 암반내 결빙층의 형성을 탐지하고 지반상태 변화를 모니터링 하였다. 특히, 3차원 전기비저항 탐사자료는 액화질소의 저장 전후에 획득하여 그 결과를 비교하였으며, 3 단계에 걸쳐 획득한 3 차원 전기비저항 영상들로부터 액화질소의 저장에 기인한 뚜렷한 전기비저항 변화 영역을 도출하였다. 저장공동의 동쪽부에서 전기비저항의 감소를 보였으며, 수리지질조사 결과와 저장소 주변의 여러 패턴을 비교, 검토하여 이와 같은 전기비저항의 변화가 지하수 흐름의 변화에 기인하는 것으로 해석하였다. 즉, 극저온의 액화질소에 의한 암반의 동결로 인하여 공동주변의 수리지질조건 및 지하수 흐름에 변화가 발생하는 등, 저장소 가동 이전의 지반상태로부터 뚜렷한 변화를 나타낸 것으로 해석되었다.