• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.343-352
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• 2006

Convenient analytical tools for evaluation of the aperiodic and the fluctuating instabilities of the passive residual heat removal system (PRHRS) of an integral reactor are developed and results are discussed from the viewpoint of the system design. First, a static model for the aperiodic instability using the system hydraulic loss relation and the downcomer feedwater heating equations is developed. The calculated hydraulic relation between the pressure drop and the feedwater flow rate shows that several static states can exist with various numbers of water-mode feedwater module pipes. It is shown that the most probable state can exist by basic physical reasoning, that there is no flow rate through the steam-mode feedwater module pipes. Second, a dynamic model for the fluctuating instability due to steam generation retardation in the steam generator and the dynamic interaction of two compressible volumes, that is, the steam volume of the main steam pipe lines and the gas volume of the compensating tank is formulated and the D-decomposition method is applied after linearization of the governing equations. The results show that the PRHRS becomes stabilized with a smaller volume compensating tank, a larger volume steam space and higher hydraulic resistance of the path $a_{ct}$. Increasing the operating steam pressure has a stabilizing effect. The analytical model and the results obtained from this study will be utilized for PRHRS performance improvement.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.167-179
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• 2015

This paper presents a techno-economic analysis of a partial repowering scheme for an existing 210 MW coal fired power plant by integrating a gas turbine and by employing waste heat recovery. In this repowering scheme, one of the four operating coal mills is taken out and a new natural gas fired gas turbine (GT) block is considered to be integrated, whose exhaust is fed to the furnace of the existing boiler. Feedwater heating is proposed through the utilization of waste heat of the boiler exhaust gas. From the thermodynamic analysis it is seen that the proposed repowering scheme helps to increase the plant capacity by about 28% and the overall efficiency by 27%. It also results in 21% reduction in the plant heat rate and 29% reduction in the specific $CO_2$ emissions. The economic analysis reveals that the partial repowering scheme is cost effective resulting in a reduction of the unit cost of electricity (UCOE) by 8.4%. The economic analysis further shows that the UCOE of the repowered plant is lower than that of a new green-field power plant of similar capacity.

• 플랜트 저널
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.31-35
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 발전 플랜트의 보일러 급수 펌프를 대상으로 신뢰도 기반 정비를 적용하기 위한 고장 데이터 관리에 관한 방법에 대하여 논의하였다. OREDA와 같은 고장 데이터베이스에서 중요한 구성 요소인 고장모드, 고장원인, 고장영향, 고장의 심각도를 분석하는 것이 신뢰도 기반 정비에서 중요한 부분이다. 정비주기와 같이 예방 정비 계획을 세울 때 중요한 부분은 고장 데이터의 통계적 처리로부터 결정될 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 에너지공학
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.90-94
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• 2014

본 논문은 원자력발전소의 내환경기기검증(EQ)을 위한 HVAC 과도분석 방법에 대한 내용을 기술하고 있다. 분석 대상 격실은 비안전관련 HVAC 계통에 의해 공급되는 격실 중에 원자로 안전정지를 담당하는 중요기기가 위치한 구역/격실을 선정하였다. 그리고 해당 HVAC 계통이 공급되는 건물별로 HVAC 과도시 온도조건을 분석하였다. 본 분석을 위해서 GOTHIC 전산코드를 사용하였다. 온도분석 결과는 원자로 보조건물 환기계통(DVN)의 W315/W415 격실에서 $82.2^{\circ}C$로 가장 높은 온도값을 나타내며, 제어봉구동장치 전원공급건물 및 보조급수펌프실(DVG) 계통의 W229 (Auxiliary feedwater pump room) 격실에서 $52.7^{\circ}C$, 기기냉각건물 환기계통(DVI)의 전 격실에서 $42.9^{\circ}C$, 전기건물 주환기 계통(DVL)의 L207 (Hot workshop) 격실에서 $57.3^{\circ}C$를 각각 나타났다. 이러한 온도값은 일반적인 원전의 기기검증 제한값인 $171^{\circ}C$이하이므로 내환경검증 요건을 만족하는 온도이다.

• KIEE International Transaction on Systems and Control
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• 제2D권2호
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• pp.78-91
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• 2002

In the thermal power plant, there are six manipulated variables: main steam flow, feedwater flow, fuel flow, air flow, spray flow, and gas recirculation flow. There are five controlled variables: generator output, main steam pressure, main steam temperature, exhaust gas density, and reheater steam temperature. Therefore, the thermal power plant control system is a multinput and output system. In the control system, the main steam temperature is typically regulated by the fuel flow rate and the spray flow rate, and the reheater steam temperature is regulated by the gas recirculation flow rate. However, strict control of the steam temperature must be maintained to avoid thermal stress. Maintaining the steam temperature can be difficult due to heating value variation to the fuel source, time delay changes in the main steam temperature versus changes in fuel flow rate, difficulty of control of the main steam temperature control and the reheater steam temperature control system owing to the dynamic response characteristics of changes in steam temperature and the reheater steam temperature, and the fluctuation of inner fluid water and steam flow rates during the load-following operation. Up to the present time, the Proportional-Integral-Derivative Controller has been used to operate this system. However, it is very difficult to achieve an optimal PID gain with no experience, since the gain of the PID controller has to be manually tuned by trial and error. This paper focuses on the characteristic comparison of the PID controller and the modified 2-DOF PID Controller (Two-Degrees-Freedom Proportional-Integral-Derivative) on the DCS (Distributed Control System). The method is to design an optimal controller that can be operated on the thermal generating plant in Seoul, Korea. The modified 2-DOF PID controller is designed to enable parameters to fit into the thermal plant during disturbances. To attain an optimal control method, transfer function and operating data from start-up, running, and stop procedures of the thermal plant have been acquired. Through this research, the stable range of a 2-DOF parameter for only this system could be found for the start-up procedure and this parameter could be used for the tuning problem. Also, this paper addressed whether an intelligent tuning method based on immune network algorithms can be used effectively in tuning these controllers.