• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2016

Toshiba has developed a laser peening system for PWRs(pressurized water reactors) as well after the one for BWRs(boiling water reactors), and applied it for BMI(bottom-mounted instrumentation) nozzles, core deluge line nozzles and primary water inlet nozzles of Ikata Unit 1 and 2 of Shikoku Electric Power Company since 2004, which are Japanese operating PWR power plants. Laser pulses were delivered through twin optical fibers and irradiated on two portions in parallel to reduce operation time. For BMI nozzles, we developed a tiny irradiation head for small tubes and we peened the inner surface around J-groove welds after laser ultrasonic testing (LUT) as the remote inspection, and we peened the outer surface and the weld for Ikata Unit 2 supplementary. For core deluge line nozzles and primary water inlet nozzles, we peened the inner surface of the dissimilar metal welding, which is of nickel base alloy, joining a safe end and a low alloy metal nozzle. In this paper, the development and the actual application of the laser peening system for PWR power plants will be described.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.217-224
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• 2004

This research was conducted to test the feasibility of utilizing high-pressure water jets of over 1.0㎫ as a means of breaking and peeling garlic bulbs. High-pressure plunger pumps and flat-spray nozzles of varying orifice diameters and spray angles were utilized to supply water jets into a prototype peeling chamber made of transparent acrylic plates. Water jets were discharged from a total of six nozzles installed in such a way that three parallel nozzles face the other three. The cross-sectional area of the peeling chamber and the installation angle of the nozzles had critical effects on peeling performance. Small cross-sectional area was required so that total impact force of water jets on garlic could be increased. The optimum installation angles were around 4, 8, and 16$^{\circ}$ for the nozzles having 15, 40, and 65$^{\circ}$ spray angles, respectively. Best performance with 61.4% of completely-peeled garlics was obtained at a pressure of 1.94㎫ and a flow rate of 9.07 $\ell$/min for each nozzle. The peeling efficiency of the system was generally unsatisfactory due to the limited flow rate of the plunger pumps utilized. For better performance, it is recommended to increase flow rate while reducing operating pressure by utilizing other type of pumps.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.251-265
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• 2006

To prevent the ozonosphere from being destroyed by Halon, it is an urgent task to find out Halon replacement. As one of the replacements water mist have showed broad applications by its advantages: little pollution to environment (not destroying the ozone layer or bring green house effect), extinguishing fire quickly, consuming a small quantity of water and having little damage to the protected objects. The methods of generating water mist strongly influence fire suppression effectiveness, which determine the cone angle, drop size distribution, flux uniformity, and momentum of the generating spray. The traditional water mist nozzle included pressure jet nozzles, impingement nozzles and twin-fluid nozzles. All of them have more or less disadvantages for fire suppression. Therefore, many research institutes and corporations are taking up with innovations in mist generation. This article provided some recent studies in State Key Laboratory of Fire Science (SKLFS) of University of Science and Technology of China. SKLFS have investigated new methods of generating water mist (i.e. effervescent atomization and ultrasonic atomization). and self developed a series of nozzles and developed advanced DPIVS (Digital Particle Image Velocimetry and Sizing) technique. Characteristics of water mist (the distribution of droplet sizes, flux density, spray dynamics and cone angle) produced by these nozzles were measured under different conditions (work pressure, nozzle geometry, etc.) using LDV/APV and DPTVS systems. A series of experiments were performed to study the fire suppression effectiveness in different fire scenario (different kindsof the fuel, fire size and ventilation conditions). The fire extinguishing mechanisms of water mist was also discussed.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.124-130
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• 2010

Numerical simulation has been performed to investigate the mist flow characteristics through the fire suppression nozzles for the design purposes. The commercial softwares, FLUENT and the fire dynamic simulator, FDS with the proper modelings were chosen as the numerical tools. In order to find optimal conditions in sense of the main performances of nozzles, the spray characteristics were analyzed both inside and outside of the nozzles. Geometric factors of the injecting orifices, i.e., diameter and chamfered angle were chosen as the simulation parameters for design application. From the present numerical results, 1.0c nozzles, whose orifice-diameter was 1 mm, having the chamfered angles were shown as the best performance of the fire suppression.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제59권2호
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• pp.80-88
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• 2022

A systematic experimental study is carried out for the fire fighting monitor nozzle of 65A diameter to design and manufacture a new nozzle with better water spray performance than available domestic nozzles. The nozzle inlet pressure, flow rate and reach for the discharged water from the nozzle are measured by utilizing the experimental facility consisting of two pumps and piping system with a flow meter and pressure gauges. It was found that the baffle position and baffle head chamfering were the most sensitive design factors to be remarkably changed in the flow rate of the discharged water. Also, It was confirmed that the baffle position and the water exit area had the significant effect on the change in reach distance. The results obtained from this study are expected to be used effectively to design new nozzles with excellent spray performances and also to validate numerical analysis results for evaluating the water spray performance of fire fighting monitor nozzles.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2012

특수선(FPSO, Drillship)의 거주구역이나, 대형 여객선(크루즈선) 공간의 70% 이상을 차지하는 수용시설(accommodation), 공공장소, 서비스 구역 등은 24시간 사람이 상주하는 구역임으로 화재로부터 안전하게 보호되어야 한다. 이를 위해 국제해사기구(IMO)에서는 SOLAS II-2 Reg. 10.6과 FSS code Ch. 7에 적합한 미분무 소화설비를 설치할 것을 강제화하고 있다. 이러한 미분무 소화설비는 미분무 노즐, 압력용기, 섹션밸브, 펌프유닛 등으로 구성되는데 특히 핵심부품인 미분무 노즐은 최근에 개정된 IMO Res. MSC 265(84)에 따라 노즐성능시험 및 화재진압성능시험을 통해 선급인증을 득해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 기준을 만족하는 폐쇄형 미분무 노즐을 개발하고 선실 및 복도, 공공장소, 창고에 대한 화재시험을 통해 각 장소에 적용 가능한 총 5종의 미분무노즐의 성능평가를 실시하였다.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.8-13
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• 2012

중요 목조문화재를 산불이나 인접 건축물의 화재로부터 보호하기 위한 방안으로 수막노즐을 제시하였다. 바닥으로부터 일정압력 이상으로 상승하는 물줄기로 수막을 형성하여 복사열을 차단함으로써 $200{\sim}250^{\circ}C$에서 발생하는 목재의 열분해를 막기 위한 것으로 기존에 설치되어 있는 강원도 낙산사와 전라남도 무위사의 수막노즐의 설치상태를 확인해 보았고 이를 보완 개량하기 위한 방안으로 평상시 덮개에 덮인 노즐을 설치하여 경관을 손상시키지 않게 하였고 사용 시 수직상승하여 물을 분사할 수 있는 상하승강식 노즐봉과 이를 효과적으로 설치하는 방법에 대하여 연구되었다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.26-33
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• 2013

원자로 BMI 노즐은 원자력발전 설비의 운영을 위한 핵심요소 중 하나이며 하부헤드에 설치되어 있다. 상부헤드에 비해 비교적 저온영역에 있지만 최근 외국사례에 비추어 볼 때 PWSCC의 발생 가능성이 크기 때문에 가동중 비파괴검사가 반드시 필요하다. 그러나 BMI 노즐은 원자로 하부에 있기 때문에 고방사선 구역이며 원자로 내부는 붕산수로 채워져 있기 때문에 접근이 매우 어렵다. 본 연구에서 BMI 노즐 검사를 위하여 TOFD를 이용한 탐촉자를 개발하였고, 자동화검사를 위해 내방수 기능을 가진 스캐너를 개발하였다. 또한, BMI 노즐과 동일한 재질 및 형상으로 인공결함시험편을 제작하여 자동화 비파괴검사 시스템의 성능검증을 수행하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제37권8호
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• pp.946-952
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• 2013

선박의 Ro-Ro 구역이나 특별범주구역의 화재방호를 위해 설치하는 고정식 수계소화설비의 개발 및 실용화를 위해, 특히 방수량이 적으며 관련기준에서 요구하는 성능요건을 만족하는 미분무 노즐을 개발하고자 실물화재실험을 수행하였다. 본 설비의 화재시나리오는 크게 두 가지로 트럭화물화재와 승용차화재로 구분되며, 각각 고정 설치된 미분무 노즐과 화원과의 세 가지 위치에 대한 시나리오로 이루어져 있다. 모든 화재실험은 30분간 진행되었으며 천장부의 가스온도와 우드펠릿의 손상율, 타깃합판의 착화여부로 판단되었다. 본 논문은 두 가지 화재실험 중 조건이 더욱 까다로운 트럭화재용 미분무 노즐의 결과를 위주로 방수압력과 방수량, 미분무수의 유동특성에 따른 화재실험결과와 화재진압특성을 고찰하였으며, 수십 회의 반복실험 결과 분당 약 40 L의 유량을 가지는 저압 미분무 노즐로 Ro-Ro구역의 화재진압이 가능한 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.162.1-162.1
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• 2010

Cavitation phenomenon has long been a difficult problem that regarded as negative event to fluid machines or industrial facilities. In the latest, however, some engineers became to understand the power of cavitation and use it to cleaning wall after developing cavitation nozzle. In this paper, we introduce new concept for power-generation system using cavitation jet flow maid by nozzle and impulse turbine in vacuum condition. The vacuum needed to make cavitation is generated naturally by Torricelli's vacuum, 10.23m effective head drop without additional power. We analyzed water's boiling and the steam's mean free path according to vacuum purity levels for nozzles and turbine blades. The nozzles make water accelerate in the neck and boil in expansion section of the nozzles. The shape of the impulse turbine is designed for absorption of the molecule's kinetic energy of the steam.