• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제40권7호
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• pp.679-683
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• 2016

대형 석탄 화력발전소의 보일러는 안정적인 전력량 수급을 위하여, 계속적인 운전 혹은 기동 정지가 반복하면서 운전 되는 등 매우 열악한 상태에서 운전되고 있기 때문에 신뢰성을 유지하기 위한 주기적 점검과 정비는 필수적이다. 정비를 위한 기존의 비계시스템은 모든 하중이 하부로 집중되어 일부 부재에 문제 발생시 연쇄적으로 비계 시스템이 붕괴되는 문제점이 있다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 새로운 노내비계를 개발하여 상부에서 하중을 분산시키고, 일부 부재에 문제가 발생하더라도 연쇄 붕괴의 위험을 최소화하였다. 또한, 보일러 튜브의 구조로 인하여 직접적인 설치가 어려운 경우 노내비계의 설치를 위한 인양시스템을 개발하여 노내비계의 구조적인 안정성을 향상시키고 비계 작업자의 안전성을 확보하여 발전설비의 건전성을 확보할 수 있었다.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.12-18
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• 2011

The renewed global interest in nuclear power has arisen from the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to provide sufficient electricity for a growing global population. Many countries with nuclear power plants (NPPs) are still implementing license extensions of 10~20 years, and even consideration is being given to the concept of life-beyond-60, a further period of license extension from 60 to 80 years. To solve the materials aging problem is integral to its success. A foundation for effective aging management of nuclear power plants is that aging is properly taken into account at each stage of a plant's lifetime, i.e. in design, manufacture, construction and operation including long term operation and decommissioning. To evaluate the plant aging phenomena, a lot of background information such as materials and environment of the parts of the reactor and plant systems is needed by the experts. Information on degradation mechanisms is also used. In this paper, a regulation on the integrated materials aging management for nuclear facilities is proposed. The proposed regulation identifies key elements of effective aging management for nuclear power plants and provides the requirements on aging management for nuclear facilities throughout all stages of the lifetime of the plant.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.78-84
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• 2006

전력산업이 수직독점적인 구조에서 규제완화의 경쟁체제로 전환됨에 따라 무효전력서비스의 요금산정이 전력시장 운영자에게는 새로운 이슈가 되고 있다. 본 논문은 몇몇의 선진국과 국내에서 채용되는 무효전력서비스에 대한 요금산정방법을 검토하고, 무효전력시장을 이용하는 새로운 요금산정방법을 제안한다. 무효전력시장은 무효전력 발전원이 제시하는 입찰값을 바탕으로 하루전 전력시장 후에 무효전력 최적조류계산을 거쳐 단일가격으로 결정된다. 제안하는 방법은 무효전력 설치용량에 대한 투자비뿐만 아니라 무효전력 생산량을 늘리기 위해 발전기가 줄이게 되는 유효전력에 대한 기회비용을 함께 고려하고 있다. 26모선 모델계통에서의 사례연구를 통하여 제안하는 방법의 효용성을 입증하고 있다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.662-671
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• 2012

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) will be widely used in future transportation systems to reduce oil fuel consumption. Therefore, the electrical energy demand will be increased due to the charging of a large number of vehicles. Without intelligent control strategies, the charging process can easily overload the electricity grid at peak hours. In this paper, we consider a smart charging and discharging process for multiple PHEVs in a building's garage to optimize the energy consumption profile of the building. We formulate a centralized optimization problem in which the building controller or planner aims to minimize the square Euclidean distance between the instantaneous energy demand and the average demand of the building by controlling the charging and discharging schedules of PHEVs (or 'users'). The PHEVs' batteries will be charged during low-demand periods and discharged during high-demand periods in order to reduce the peak load of the building. In a decentralized system, we design an energy cost-sharing model and apply a non-cooperative approach to formulate an energy charging and discharging scheduling game, in which the players are the users, their strategies are the battery charging and discharging schedules, and the utility function of each user is defined as the negative total energy payment to the building. Based on the game theory setup, we also propose a distributed algorithm in which each PHEV independently selects its best strategy to maximize the utility function. The PHEVs update the building planner with their energy charging and discharging schedules. We also show that the PHEV owners will have an incentive to participate in the energy charging and discharging game. Simulation results verify that the proposed distributed algorithm will minimize the peak load and the total energy cost simultaneously.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.75-92
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• 2016

The design of a semi-active (SA) control system addressed to mitigate wind induced structural demand to high wind turbine towers is discussed herein. Actually, the remarkable growth in height of wind turbines in the last decades, for a higher production of electricity, makes this issue pressing than ever. The main objective is limiting bending moment demand by relaxing the base restraint, without increasing the top displacement, so reducing the incidence of harmful "p-delta" effects. A variable restraint at the base, able to modify in real time its mechanical properties according to the instantaneous response of the tower, is proposed. It is made of a smooth hinge with additional elastic stiffness and variable damping respectively given by springs and SA magnetorheological (MR) dampers installed in parallel. The idea has been physically realized at the Denmark Technical University where a 1/20 scale model of a real, one hundred meters tall wind turbine has been assumed as case study for shaking table tests. A special control algorithm has been purposely designed to drive MR dampers. Starting from the results of preliminary laboratory tests, a finite element model of such structure has been calibrated so as to develop several numerical simulations addressed to calibrate the controller, i.e., to achieve as much as possible different, even conflicting, structural goals. The results are definitely encouraging, since the best configuration of the controller leaded to about 80% of reduction of base stress, as well as to about 30% of reduction of top displacement in respect to the fixed base case.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2018

This paper is analyzed for the thermal characteristics(1 year) of the 6 components(DC breaker, DC filter(including capacitor and discharge resistance), IGBT(Insulated gate bipolar mode transistor), AC filter, AC breaker, etc.) of a photovoltaic power generation-based PCS(Power conditioning system) below 20 kW. Among the modules, the discharge resistance included in the DC filter indicated the highest heat at $125^{\circ}C$, and such heat resulting from the discharge resistance had an influence on the IGBT installed on the rear side the board. Therefore, risk priority through risk priority number(RPN) of FMEA(Failure modes and effects analysis) sheet is conducted for classification into top 10 %. According to thermal characteristics and FMEA, it is necessary to pay attention to not only the in-house defects found in the IGBT, but also the conductive heat caused by the discharge resistance. Since it is possible that animal, dust and others can be accumulated within the PCS, it is possible that the heat resulting from the discharge resistance may cause fire. Accordingly, there are two options that can be used: installing a heat sink while designing the discharge resistance, and designing the discharge resistance in a structure capable of avoiding heat conduction through setting a separation distance between discharge resistance and IGBT. This data can be used as the data for conducting a comparative analysis of abnormal signals in the process of developing a safety device for solar electricity-based photovoltaic power generation systems, as the data for examining the fire accidents caused by each module, and as the field data for setting component management priorities.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권9B호
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• pp.1390-1398
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• 2010

본 논문은 높은 확장성 및 효율성을 바탕으로 최근 다양한 응용 분야에서 통신 기간망 기술로 주목받고 있는 "무선 메쉬 네트워크"를 스마트 그리드 환경에 적용하는 방안에 대해 다룬다. 스마트 그리드(Smart Grid)란 기존 전력망에 IT 통신기술을 도입하여 실시간으로 전력 정보를 모니터링하고 전력의 흐름을 제어함으로써 에너지 효율을 극대화할 수 있는 "차세대 지능형 전력망"이다. 무선 메쉬 통신망을 스마트 그리드에 적용하기 위해서는 높은 수준의 신뢰성 및 QoS(Quality of Service) 지원이 가능한 동시에 대용량의 전력 관련 데이터를 효율적으로 처리할 수 있어야 한다. 또한 상호 호환성 및 확장성을 고려하여 국제 표준 기반의 설계가 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 요구사항을 만족하기 위하여 IEEE 802.11s 표준 기반의 스마트 그리드 메쉬 네트워크를 제안하고, ns-3 시뮬레이터를 이용한 성능 검증을 통해 그 타당성을 입증하였다. 또한, 무선 메쉬 네트워킹 기술을 스마트 그리드에 적용했을 때 요구되는 주요 연구 주제에 관해 조사하고 개선 방안들을 제시하였다.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제26권12호
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• pp.559-564
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• 2014

The development of photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) technology has been introduced in recent years specifically to increase PV efficiency. One of the characteristics of PV systems is that the electricity generation increases as the solar radiation increases whereas the efficiency decreases because of high surface temperatures. Using a photovoltaic-thermal system, the surface temperature can be decreased by capturing the excess heat and the efficiency can be increased due to these characteristics. In this paper, three cases are introduced : 1) PV_r as the reference case, 2) PVT_a, which uses air as a heat source, and 3) PVT_w, which uses water as a heat source. Experiments were performed, analyzed, and compared to examine the effect of the PVT type on the efficiency of the system. The results showed that ETC($%/^{\circ}C$) efficiency of the PVT cases was increased versus the reference case due to decreasing surface temperature. Total efficiencies, which are electrical efficiency and thermal efficiency, for each PVT are tested and found to be 12.22% for PV_r, 29.50% for PVT_a, and 68.74% for PVT_w.

• 산업진흥연구
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2017

한국전력의 전력을 생산, 수송, 공급하는 3가지 업무분야 중 수송부분을 관리하는 서울전력관리처에 SCADA (Supervisery Control And Data Acquisition) System이 1980년 처음 도입된 후 중앙급전소, 지역급전소, 변전소 업무를 EMS, SCADA, RTU 컴퓨터 설비 3계층의 1:N 식 방사상 형태로 구성하여 HARRIS 6000, BSC, HDLC, L&N, 도시바 등 5개 Protocol로 1200 bps와 9600 bps로 Data Link를 이용하여 왔다. 본 연구는 OSI표준네트워크패킷흐름을 도시하여 DataLink와 Network Layer를 분석하고, 네트워크 3계층을 사용하는 X.25 고속 통신망으로 구성된 한국전력 SCADA 네트워크 모델을 제시하였으며, 통신망을 시험 평가하였다. 현재의 스카다 통신구조를 개선한 미래 스카다 통신구조를 제시하고, SCADA DB 구조를 정의하고, 스카다 기능 구조에 원격 SCADA 게이트웨이 개념을 도입 표준 통신프로토콜을 적용 하였다. 따라서 데이터 전송시간 제약완화, 타지역 타 설비에서의 감시 및 제어의 다중화 및 통신 개방성을 확보하도록 하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.148-164
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• 2017

The focus on the issues surrounding spent nuclear fuel and lifetime extension of old nuclear power plants continues to grow nowadays. A transparent decision-making process to identify the best suitable nuclear fuel cycle (NFC) is considered to be the key task in the current situation. Through this study, an attempt is made to develop an equilibrium model for the NFC to calculate the material flows based on 1 TWh of electricity production, and to perform integrated multicriteria decision-making method analyses via the analytic hierarchy process technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution, preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluation, and multiattribute utility theory methods. This comparative study is aimed at screening and ranking the three selected NFC options against five aspects: sustainability, environmental friendliness, economics, proliferation resistance, and technical feasibility. The selected fuel cycle options include pressurized water reactor (PWR) once-through cycle, PWR mixed oxide cycle, or pyroprocessing sodium-cooled fast reactor cycle. A sensitivity analysis was performed to prove the robustness of the results and explore the influence of criteria on the obtained ranking. As a result of the comparative analysis, the pyroprocessing sodium-cooled fast reactor cycle is determined to be the most competitive option among the NFC scenarios.