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Performance Improvement and Validation of Advanced Safety Injection Tanks (신형안전주입탱크의 성능개선 및 검증)

  • Youn, Young Jung;Chu, In-Cheol;Kwon, Tae-Soon;Song, Chul-Hwa
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2011
  • Advanced SITs of the evolutionary PWRs have the advantage that they can passively control the ECC water discharge flow rate. Thus, the LPSI pumps can be eliminated from the safety injection system owing to the benefit of the advanced SITs. In the present study, a passive sealing plate was designed in order to overcome the shortcoming of the advanced SITs, i.e., the early nitrogen discharge through the stand pipe. The operating principle of the sealing plate depends only on the natural phenomena of buoyancy and gravity. The performance of the sealing plate was evaluated using the VAPER test facility, equipped with a full-scale SIT. It was verified that the passive sealing plate effectively prevented the air discharge during the entire duration of the ECC water discharge. Also, the major performance parameters of the advanced SIT were not changed with the installation of the sealing plate.

Large Capacity Passive Flow Control Vortex Valve (대용량 피동형 유량제어 와류 밸브)

  • Choi, N. H.;Chu, I.-C.;Chung, C. H.;Cho, B. H.;Song, C.-H.
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.12a
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    • pp.635-640
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    • 2004
  • The present paper provides the design specifications and working principle of flow controlling vortex valve which will be adopted in a Korean next generation reactor (APR1400). The vortex valve is installed inside the pressurized safety injection tank of APR1400, and it passively controls the water discharge flowrate from the tank. In the present study, the performance of the vortex valve have been evaluated throughout the repeated experiments in the full-scale test facility called VAPER(VAlve Performance Evaluation Rig). Based on the experimental results, it is confirmed that the currently developed vortex valve satisfies the major performance requirements of APR1400 plant design in view of the peak discharge flowrate, pressure loss coefficient, and total discharge duration time. To achieve the highest quality of the experimental results, a quality assurance program for vortex valve tests has been strictly applied.

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Photodegradation Characteristics of Oxygen Vacancy-fluorinated WO3 Photocatalysts Controlled by Plasma and Direct Vapor Fluorination (플라즈마 및 직접 기상 불소화에 의해 제어된 산소결핍 불소화 WO3 광촉매의 광분해 특성)

  • Lee, Hyeryeon;Lee, Raneun;Kim, Daesup;Lee, Young-Seak
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.159-165
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    • 2022
  • To enhance the photocatalytic activities of WO3 photocatalysts, fluorine doping was performed to induce the oxygen vacancies. Both plasma and direct vaper fluorination were carried out for fluorine doping, and photocatalytic activities were examined by using methylene blue dye. Oxygen vacancies of the plasma and direct vaper fluorinated WO3 photocatalysts were measured to be 14.65 and 18.59%, which increased to about 23 and 56% at pristine WO3 photocatalysts. The degradation efficiency of methylene blue was also determined about 1.7 and 3.4 times higher than pristine WO3 photocatalysts, respectively, depending on oxygen vacancies increased. In addition, it was confirmed that the bandgap process energy decreased from 2.95 eV to 2.64 and 2.45 eV after fluorine doping. From this result, it is considered that the direct vaper fluorination has an advantage for increasing the photocatalytic activities of WO3 compared to that of the plasma fluorination.

A Study on the Performance Improvement of the Air Washer System for Semiconductor Manufacturing Clean Rooms (반도체 클린룸용 에어와셔 시스템의 성능개선을 위한 연구)

  • Park, Sang-Tae;Yoo, Kyung-Hoon;Son, Seung-Woo
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05b
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    • pp.3413-3417
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    • 2007
  • In recent semiconductor manufacturing clean rooms, air washers are used to remove airborne gaseous contaminants such as $NH_3$, SOx and organic gases from the outdoor air introduced into clean room. In the present study, an experiment was carried out to examine the improvement of removal efficiency for the gaseous contaminants. In order to improve the gas removal efficiency, a hot water contact heat exchanger was installed upstream of the air washer to heat and humidify the incoming outdoor air before entering the air washer.

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Effect of degree of superheat of LiBr aqueous solution on the vapor absorption process for an air-cooled absorption cooling system (공냉형 흡수식 냉방 시스템에서 LiBr 수용액의 과열도가 증기 흡수에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, S.C.;Oh, M.D.;Lee, J.H.
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.122-133
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    • 1997
  • Numerical analysis using finite volume method has been carried out to examine the effect of degree of superheat of LiBr aqueous solution on heat and mass transfer occurred in absorption process. According to the result of this study, it was found that refrigerant vaper was generated at the entrance region of absorber when LiBr aqueous soltion was superheated. As the degree of superheat increases, heat transfer rate increases and vapor absorption rate decreases. The increase in averaged Nusselt and Sherwood numbers could be found as film Reynolds number increases. The larger the degree of superheat, the greater the averaged Nusselt and Sherwood numbers.

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Electrical Measurement of SOx Dew Point (SOx노점의 전기적 측정)

  • Chun, Y.N.;Yong, K.J.;Chae, J.O.
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.600-610
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    • 1995
  • When combustion gas is cooled down below the dew point of sulfuric acid vapor in the heat recovery systems, condensation occurs. Since the condensed sulfuric acid solution causes low-temperature corrosion in materials, it is important to measure the SOx dew point by electric measurement. In this study, two kinds of probes having electric gaps of 1mm or 2mm were used. and experiments were carried out by the parameters of sulfuric acid vapor and water vapor concentration. The changes of electric current caused by sulfuric acid condensed on the surface of probe according to the cooling rate and the probe head surface temperature were sudied. The opimum cooling rate was decreased with the increasing of water vaper concentration regardless of sulfuric acid concentration. The sensitivity of electric current is improved for the narrower gap(1mm) of ring electrodes, but it rarely affects the SOx dew point measuring of different probes according to the change of cooling rate.

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Synergistic Effect on the Photocatalytic Degradation of 2-Chlorophenol Using $TiO_2$Thin Films Doped with Some Transition Metals in Water

  • Jeong, O Jin
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.22 no.11
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    • pp.1183-1191
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    • 2001
  • The metallorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) method has been used to prepare TiO2 thin films for the degradation of hazardous organic compounds, such as 2-chlorophenol (2-CP). The effect of supporting materials and metal doping on the photocatalytic activity of TiO2 thin films also has been studied. TiO2 thin films were coated onto various supporting materials, including stainless steel cloth(SS), quartz glass tube (QGT), and silica gel (SG). Transition metals, such as Pd(II), Pt(IV), Nd(III) and Fe(III), were doped onto TiO2 thin film. The results indicate that Nd(Ⅲ) doping improves the photodegradation of 2-CP. Among all supporting materials studied, SS(37 ${\mu}m)$ appears to be the best support. An optimal amount of doping material at 1.0 percent (w/w) of TiO2-substrate thin film gives the best photodegration of 2-CP.

Synthesis and Photocatalytic Activity of WO3-xFx Photocatalysts Using a Vapor Phase Fluorination (기상 불소화법을 이용한 WO3-xFx 광촉매의 합성 및 광분해 특성)

  • Lee, Hyeryeon;Lim, Chaehun;Lee, Raneun;Lee, Young-Seak
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.632-639
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    • 2021
  • In this research, fluorine doping was performed to enhance the photocatalytic activities of WO3 which were measured using methylene blue dye. WO3-xFx photocatalyts were prepared by a vaper phase fluorination during a sintering for preparing WO3 photocatalysts from a WCl6 precursor. The bandgap energy of WO3 photocatalysts decreased from 2.95 eV to 2.54 eV, and the oxygen vacancies site increased by about 55% after fluorine doping. In addition, the initial degradation efficiency of methylene blue showed that the fluorine doped sample showed a 6-fold increase in photocatalytic activities from 10% to 60% compared to that of the untreated sample. It is believed that fluorine is doped to reduce the band gap of photocatalysts, enabling the catalytic activity with low energy, and that oxygen vacancies-generated surface defects increase the visible light absorption region of WO3 photocatalysts, thereby increasing photocatalytic activity. In this study, it was confirmed that fluorine-doped WO3-xFx photocatalysts with an excellent photocatalytic activity can be manufactured easily using a one-step vaper phase fluorination that does not require a post-treatment process.