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Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics on Sintered Microporous Surfaces in a Mini-channel (마이크로 소결 구조 채널에서의 흐름 비등 열전달 특성 연구)

  • KIM, YEONGHWAN;SHIN, DONG HWAN;KIM, JIN SUB;MOON, YOOYONG;HEO, JAEHUN;LEE, JUNGHO
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.105-110
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    • 2018
  • The flow boiling heat transfer of water was experimentally investigated on plain and sintered microporous surfaces in a mini-channel. The effects of microporous coating on flow boiling heat transfer of subcooled water were investigated in a 300 mm long mini-channel with a cross section of $20{\times}10mm^2$. The test section has sufficiently long entrance length of 300 mm which provides a fully-developed flow before the channel inlet. The bottom side of the channel was heated by a copper block assembled with a high-density cartridge heater and other sides of the channel were insulated. The microporous surface was fabricated by sintering copper particles with the average particle size of $50{\mu}m$ on the top side of the copper block. Heat transfer measurement was conducted at the mass flux of $208kg/m^2s$ and the heat flux up to $500kW/m^2$. Microporous coated surface showed an earlier boiling incipience compared with plain surface regardless of the mass flux. Microporous coating were significantly attributed to local wall temperature and local heat transfer coefficient for flow boiling.

LOCAL BURNUP CHARACTERISTICS OF PWR SPENT NUCLEAR FUELS DISCHARGED FROM YEONGGWANG-2 NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

  • Ha, Yeong-Keong;Kim, Jung-Suck;Jeon, Young-Shin;Han, Sun-Ho;Seo, Hang-Seok;Song, Kyu-Seok
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.79-88
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    • 2010
  • Spent $UO_2$ nuclear fuel discharged from a nuclear power plant (NPP) contains fission products, U, Pu, and other actinides. Due to neutron capture by $^{238}U$ in the rim region and a temperature gradient between the center and the rim of a fuel pellet, a considerable increase in the concentration of fission products, Pu, and other actinides are expected in the pellet periphery of high burnup fuel. The characterization of the radial profiles of the various isotopic concentrations is our main concern. For an analysis, spent nuclear fuels originating from the Yeonggwang-2 pressurized water reactor (PWR) were chosen as the test specimens. In this work, the distributions of some actinide isotopes were measured from center to rim of the spent fuel specimens by a radiation shielded laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (LA-ICP-MS) system. Sampling was performed along the diameter of the specimen by reducing the sampling intervals from 500 ${\mu}m$ in the center to 100 ${\mu}m$ in the pellet periphery region. It was observed that the isotopic concentration ratios for minor actinides in the center of the specimen remain almost constant and increase near the pellet periphery due to the rim effect apart from the $^{236}U$ to $^{235}U$ ratio, which remains approximately constant. In addition, the distributions of local burnup were derived from the measured isotope ratios by applying the relationship between burnup and isotopic ratio for plutonium and minor actinides calculated by the ORIGEN2 code.

A Multi-Level Digital Twin for Optimising Demand Response at the Local Level without Compromising the Well-being of Consumers

  • Byrne, Niall;Chassiakos, Athanassios;Karatzas, Stylianos;Sweeney, David;Lazari, Vassiliki;Karameros, Anastasios;Tardioli, Giovanni;Cabrera, Adalberto Guerra
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.408-417
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    • 2022
  • Although traditionally perceived as being a visualization and asset management resource, the relatively rapid rate of improvement of computing power, coupled with the proliferation of cloud and edge computing and the IoT has seen the expanded functionality of modern Digital Twins (DTs). These technologies, when applied to buildings, are now providing users with the ability to analyse and predict their energy consumption, implement building controls and identify faults quickly and efficiently, while preserving acceptable comfort and well-being levels. Furthermore, when these building DTs are linked together to form a community DT, entirely new and novel energy management techniques, such as demand side management, demand response, flexibility and local energy markets can be unlocked and analysed in detail, creating circularity in the economy and making ordinary building occupants active participants in the energy market. Through the EU Horizon 2020 funded TwinERGY project, three different levels of DT (consumer - building - community) are being created to support the creation of local energy markets while optimising building performance for real-time occupant preferences and requirements for their building and community. The aim of this research work is to demonstrate the development of this new, interrelated, multi-level DT that can be used as a decision-making tool, helping to determine optimal scenarios simultaneously at consumer, building and community level, while enhancing and successfully supporting the community's management plan implementation.

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Venturi Effects Induced by the Local Ventilation Fan in Large-Opening Room-and-Pillar Mining Sites (대단면 갱내 국부 선풍기의 벤츄리(Venturi) 효과 연구)

  • Lee, Chang Woo;Nguyen, Van Duc
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.464-472
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    • 2014
  • In large-opening room-and-pillar mining sites, particularly without the devices for the ventilation control, the airflow pattern created by the local fan operation is too complicated to quantify and also shows low ventilation efficiency. This study aims at performing a series of CFD analysis for the so-called venturi effects of the local fans; the effects of increasing airflow rate along the axis downstream of fan resulting from increased kinetic energy and subsequently decreased static pressure in the downstream. Effects of the fan type and installation height are compared. 1 vane-axial fan and 2 propeller fans are analyzed for their venturi effects, while the vane-axial fan was installed at the height of 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0m for comparison. The results can be applied to improve the economy and efficiency of local fans for securing better air quality and work environment management.

Dynamic Local Update-based Routing Protocol(D-LURP) in Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink (모바일 싱크노드를 갖는 무선 센서 네트워크에서 동적 지역 업데이트 기반의 라우팅 프로토콜(D-LURP))

  • Chung, Jae-Hoon;Park, Sung-Han
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.116-122
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    • 2009
  • Mobile Wireless Sensor Network is an organized collection of sensor nodes and mobile sink nodes, in which the sensor node transmits the signal to the sink node. In real environment, there are many cases in which sinks have mobility caused by the people, the vehicle and etc. Since all nodes in the sensor networks have limited energy, many researches have been done in order to prolong the lifetime of the entire network. In this paper we propose Dynamic Local Update-based Routing Protocol(D-LURP) that prolong the lifetime of the entire network to efficiently maintain frequent location update of mobile sink static sensor nodes in Mobile WSNs. When the sink node moves out of the local broadcasting area the proposed D-LURP configures dynamically the local update area consisted of the new local broadcasting area and the previous dissemination node(DN) and find the path between the DN and the sink node, instead of processing a new discovering path like LURP. In this way the processing of broadcasting sink node's location information in the entire network will be omitted. and thus less energy will be consumpted. We compare the performances of the proposed scheme and existing Protocols.

Fracture Behavior Evaluation of Wall Thinned pipes by Finite Element Analysis (감육배관의 요한요소해석에 의한 파괴거동 평가)

  • AHN SEOK-HWAN;NAM KI-Woo;KIM JIN-WOOK;LEE SOO-SIG;YOON JA-MUN
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.320-325
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    • 2004
  • Fracture behaviors and strength of pipes with local wall thinning are very important Jar the integrity of energy plants. In pipes of energy plants, sometimes, the local wall thinning may result from severe erosion-corrosion damage. Recently, the effects of local wall thinning on strength and fracture behaviors of piping system have been well studied. In this paper, the elasto-plastic analysis is performed by FE code ANSIS. We evaluated the failure mode, fracture strength and fracture behavior from FE analysis.

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Laminar Convective Heat Transfer from a Horizontal Flat Plate of Phase Change Material Slurry Flow

  • Kim Myoung-Jun
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.29 no.7
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    • pp.779-784
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents the theory of similarity transformations applied to the momentum and energy equations for laminar, forced, external boundary layer flow over a horizontal flat plate which leads to a set of non-linear, ordinary differential equations of phase change material slurry(PCM Slurry). The momentum and energy equation set numerically to obtain the non-dimensional velocity and temperature profiles in a laminar boundary layer are solved. The heat transfer characteristics of PCM slurry was numerically investigated with similar method. It is clarified that the similar solution method of Newtonian fluid can be used reasonably this type of PCM slurry which has low concentration. The data of local wall heat flux and convective heat transfer coefficient of PCM slurry are higher than those of water more than 150$\~$200$\%$, approximately.

A Study on the Safe Position from the Local Fire in the Ship's Engine Rooms

  • Kim, Mann-Eun;Lee, Kyoung-Woo;Lee, Young-Ho
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.446-454
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    • 2008
  • Control devices for fire safety systems located in a engine room are to be arranged at a safe position which is easily accessible during a fire. To develop an interpretation for the safe position in engine rooms, calculation and experiments are carried out to determine a correlation between radiant heat and distance from fire in this paper. On the basis of results of this research, the control devices for a main engine are to be installed in the behind side of an obstruction to reduce radiant heat from the fire of the main engine. In case of other control devices, they are also to be provided in the same manner of control devices for the main engine or are to be placed with 5 meters far from fire hazards.

Investigation of local back surface field for crystalline silicon solar cells using laser (레이저를 이용한 결정질 실리콘 태양전지 국부적 후면 전극 연구)

  • Kwon, Jung-Young;Yoo, Jin-Su;Yoo, Kwon-Jong;Han, Kyu-Min;Choi, Sung-Jin;Kim, Nam-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.245-245
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    • 2010
  • This paper and the rear passivation experiment was local back surface field Nd:$YVO_4$ green laser and the experiment was used performed to screen printing. Laser power 100%, with a fixed frequency for 60kHz Current of 29A and 30A were tested in two conditions. The point contact distances of 0.2mm, 0.4mm, 0.6mm, 0.8mm and 29A and 30A current conditions, it was found that is suitable for 0.4mm.

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Analysing the Acceptability of Jeonju-Wanju Hydrogen Demonstration City (전주·완주 수소시범도시 주민수용성 분석)

  • Lee, Jihoon
    • New & Renewable Energy
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.28-35
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    • 2021
  • It is very important to secure hydrogen acceptability to achieve the hydrogen economy. This study empirically analyzed the factors affecting acceptance by using the results of a questionnaire administered to residents of Jeonju-Wanju Hydrogen Demonstration City. The results indicated that the safety of hydrogen infrastructure and local industry and economic growth positively affected acceptance. In particular, local industry and economic growth were more effective in improving resident acceptance. As policy factors, support for government policies and disclosure of information on projects were also positive factors. As perceptual factors, the higher interest in hydrogen and less safety concerns positively affected acceptability. Therefore, as far as hydrogen safety is concerned, it seems necessary to support local industry development to improve acceptability, disclose information related to industrial development, and introduce targeted experience programs.