• 한국안전학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.150-156
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• 2009

The oil pressure switch(OPS) for automobile is very important part to prevent an overheated engine and other problems by checking the operation of an engine oil system and displaying oil signs on a dashboard. OPS is the part that receives various stress caused by temperature, vibration, and corrosion in an engine room. Regarding existing steel OPS cases, there occur field errors due to the rust, and much concern comes from the low anticorrosion caused by CR6+ Free according to the restrictions of heavy metals. Therefore, the study analyzed average life, the failure rate, and reliability through the tests of performance according to temperature changes, mechanical strength, and run-test in order to confirm if the use of the oil pressure switch with Al of anti-corrosion can improves the reliability, instead of the existing steel products.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.90-98
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• 2016

Currently government certified test method for an automobile remanufactured products is insufficient. Thus many automotive parts in the remanufacturing market are lacking proper evaluation criteria and production of defective products are causing customer dissatisfaction. In this paper a power steering oil pump, which requires stringent manufacturing standards, is studied by the failure mode and effect analysis approach. The research suggested that the test criteria such as discharge flow characteristic test, tightness test, pulley run-out test, pressure switch operation test, low temperature test and rotation pressure durability test should be performed to evaluate the reliability of remanufactured power steering oil pumps. As a result of tests, the performance of remanufactured power steering oil pump satisfied the evaluation criteria of pressure switch operation test and low temperature test. However, the remanufactured power steering oil pump failed to satisfy the evaluation criteria on discharge performance test, tightness test and pulley run-out test. These performance evaluation tests proved the necessity of standard process for the remanufactured power steering oil pump.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.204-208
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• 2003

This study presents a clutch-by-wire system for automotive which can be utilized on a vehicle with a manual transmission real time while the vehicle is in motion. The system consists of air valve, spring, oil pressure control valve, oil pressure cylinder, switch, etc. In this study, commercial vehicle was studied on improvement of no clutch pedal system. Therefore the results obtained effective driveability, gear shiftability, convenience for driver.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.125-140
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• 2015

In this paper, we present the results of the wear analysis of journal bearings on a stripped-down single-cylinder engine during start-up and coast-down by motoring. We calculate journal bearing wear by using a modified specific wear rate considering the fractional film defect coefficient and load-sharing ratio for the asperity portion of a mixed elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) regime coupled with previously presented graphical data of experimental lifetime linear wear in radial journal bearings. Based on the calculated wear depth, we obtain a new oil film thickness for every crank angle. By examination of the oil film thickness, we determine whether the oil film thickness at the wear scar region is in a mixed lubrication regime by comparing dimensionless oil film thickness, h/σ, to 3.0 at every crank angle. We present the lift-off speed and the crank angles involved with the wear calculation for bearings #1 and #2. The dimensionless oil film thickness, h/σ, illustrates whether the lubrication region between the two surfaces is still within the bounds of the mixed lubrication regime after scarring of the surface by wear. In addition, we present in tables the asperity contact pressure, the real minimum film thickness at the wear scar region, the modified specific wear rate, and the wear angle, α, for bearings #1 & #2. To show the real shape of the oil film at wear scar region, we depict the actual oil film thickness in graphs. We also tabulated the ranges of bearing angles related with wear scar. We present the wear volume for bearings #1 and #2 after one turn-on and turn-off of the engine ignition switch for five kinds of equivalent surface roughness. We show that the accumulated wear volume after a single turn-on and turn-off of an ignition switch normally increases with increasing surface roughness, with a few exceptions.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2022

적합한 인공채유법의 선정은 유정의 효율적인 운영과 경제성의 측면에서 중요하다. 일반적으로 인공채유법의 선정은 유정 설계에 포함되는 과정이며, 저류층의 상황이나 유정의 생산 조건에 따라 두 가지 이상의 인공채유법을 적용한 혼합시스템을 활용하여 오일생산량을 증가시킬 수 있다. 대표적인 인공채유법 중 하나인 전기공저펌프(Electric submersible pump, ESP)는 전기 에너지를 이용한 다단계 원심분리형 펌프를 이용하여 유정 하부에서 압력을 공급하는 방식으로 오일생산량을 증대시킨다. 그러나 이 방식은 펌프의 수명과 연관된 결함에 의해 적용 기간에 한계를 가지는 단점이 있다. 이에 전기공저펌프/가스리프트 혼합시스템(ESP/Gas lift hybrid system)을 적용하여 전기공저펌프의 결함 발생 시에는 바로 가스리프트로 전환하여 오일생산이 중단되는 시간을 감소시킬 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 퍼미안 분지에 있는 육상 수평정을 대상으로 전기공저펌프/가스리프트 혼합시스템을 적용했을 때의 생산 중단시간의 감소에 따른 오일생산량 차이 및 경제성 분석을 수행하였다. 전기공저펌프/가스리프트 혼합시스템은 전기공저펌프의 단독 적용에 비교하여 더욱 효율적인 오일 생산성을 나타냄을 확인하였다. 또한 이 연구에서는 혼합시스템을 적용했을 때 얼마나 경제적 이득이 있는지를 정량적으로 예측함을 나타냈다.