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Tidal regime change due to the Siwha tidal power plant operation in the Yellow and East China Seas

  • Kang, Sok-Kuh;Yum, Ki-Dai;Lee, Kwang-Soo;Jang, Chan-Joo;Park, Jin-Soon
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.513-516
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    • 2006
  • The feasibility study for tidal power plant (TPP) has been carried out for the Siwha area inside the Kyunggi bay of the Kyunggi Bay of the Yellow and East china Seas, by KORDI (Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute) and continuing research works for tidal energy development are under progress in the several sites inside the Kyunggi Bay. In this paper we describes some results of the modeling efforts in relation the tidal regime change by Siwha TPP operation, as well as other coastal oceanographic research works involved in TPP development in the coastal region.

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SOME POWER UPRATE ISSUES IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

  • Tipping, Philip
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.251-254
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    • 2008
  • Issues and themes concerned with nuclear power plant uprating are examined. Attention is brought to the fact that many candidate nuclear power plants for uprating have anyway been operated below their rated power for a significant part of their operating life. The key issues remain safety and reliability in operation at all times, irrespective of the nuclear power plant's chronological or design age or power rating. The effects of power uprates are discussed in terms of material aspects and expected demands on the systems, structures and components. The impact on operation and maintenance methods is indicated in terms of changes to the ageing surveillance programmes. Attention is brought to the necessity checking or revising operator actions after power up-rating has been implemented.

Performance Evaluation of Ocean Small Hydropower Plant by Analyzing Water Level and Flow Rate of Circulating Water (방류수의 수위 및 유량 분석을 통한 해양 소수력 성능평가)

  • Kang, Keum-Seok;Kim, Ji-Young;Ryu, Moo-Sung
    • New & Renewable Energy
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.32-39
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    • 2009
  • The Samcheonpo ocean small hydropower plant (SHP) has a special feature of using marginal hydraulic head of circulating water system of fossil fuel power plant as a power source and having the characteristics of general hydropower generation and tidal power generation as well. Also, it contributes to reducing green house gases and developing clean energy source by recycling circulating water energy otherwise dissipated into the ocean. The efficiency of small hydropower plant is directly affected by effective head and flow rate of discharged water. Therefore, the efficiency characteristics of ocean hydropower plant are analyzed with the variation of water level and flow rate of discharged water, which is based on the accumulated operation data of the Samcheonpo hydropower plant. After the start of small hydropower plant operation, definite rise of water level was observed. As a result of flow pattern change from free flow to submerged flow, the instability of water surface in overall open channel is increased but it doesn't reach the extent of overflowing channel or having an effect on circulation system. Performance evaluation result shows that the generating power and efficiency of small hydropower exceeds design requirements in all conditions. Analysis results of CWP's water flow rate verify that the amount of flowing water is measured less and the highest efficiency of small hydropower plant is achieved when the effective head has its maximum value. In conclusion, efficiency curve derived from water flow rate considering tidal level shows the best fitting result with design criteria curve and it is verified that overall efficiency of hydropower system is satisfactory.

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Establishment of Critical Work Models through the Evaluation of Technology Competitiveness (산업설비 기술수준 평가를 통한 주요업무 도출 및 모델 구축방안 연구)

  • Park Su-Hyun;Ha Seung-Ho;Kim Kyong-Min;Park Chan-Hyuk;Kim Kyong Ju
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.526-530
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    • 2004
  • The portion of plant industry has increased within construction market. In spite of plant industry is dynamic field which leads state-of-the-art and creates a value, phased information management and knowledge intensive business accomplishment are insufficient. Henceforth plant is expected to demand increment of industrial project from hereafter international plant industry market. The continuous plan technique and know-how accumulation are urgent from domestic. 1'his research analyzes the areas in which domestic plant industry is insufficient and then elicits project management key success factors from current operation process. In addition, this research compares domestic plant level with overseas plant level. This study establishes work models for critical work phases based on the analysis of domestic plant technical level.

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Superconducting Magnet Power Supply System for the KSTAR 2nd Plasma Experiment and Operation

  • Choi, Jae-Hoon;Lee, Dong-Keun;Kim, Chang-Hwan;Jin, Jong-Kook;Han, Sang-Hee;Kong, Jong-Dae;Hong, Seong-Lok;Kim, Yang-Su;Kwon, Myeun;Ahn, Hyun-Sik;Jang, Gye-Yong;Yun, Min-Seong;Seong, Dae-Kyung;Shin, Hyun-Seok
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.326-330
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    • 2013
  • The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) device is an advanced superconducting tokamak to establish scientific and technological bases for attractive fusion reactor. This device requires 3.5 Tesla of toroidal field (TF) for plasma confinement, and requires a strong poloidal flux swing to generate an inductive voltage to produce and sustain the tokamak plasma. KSTAR was originally designed to have 16 serially connected TF magnets for which the nominal current rating is 35.2 kA. KSTAR also has 7 pairs of poloidal field (PF) coils that are driven to 1 MA/sec for generation of the tokamak plasma according to the operation scenarios. The KSTAR Magnet Power Supply (MPS) was dedicated to the superconducting (SC) coil commissioning and $2^{nd}$ plasma experiment as a part of the system commissioning. This paper will describe key features of KSTAR MPS for the $2^{nd}$ plasma experiment, and will also report the engineering and commissioning results of the magnet power supplies.

An Integrated Translation of Nuclear Power Plant Design Data ftom Specification-driven Plant Design Systems to a Neutral Product Model (사양 기반 플랜트 설계 시스템에서 생성된 원자력 플랜트 설계 데이터의 중립 모델로의 통합 변환)

  • Mun, Du-Hwan;Yang, Jeong-Sam;Han, Soon-Hung
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.96-104
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    • 2009
  • It gradually becomes important to study on how to efficiently integrate and manage plant lifecycle data such as 2D schematic and 3D solid data, logical configuration data, and equipment specifications data. From this point of view, converting plant design data from various systems into neutral data independent from any commercial systems is one of important technologies for the operation and management of plants which usually have a very long period of life. In order to achieve this goal, a neutral model for efficient integration and management of plant data was defined. After schema mapping between one of specification-driven plant design systems and the neutral model was performed, a plant data translator is also implemented according to the mapping result. Finally, by experiments with nuclear power plant design, the feasibility of the translator was demonstrated.

Analysis of Sewage Plant Operation by Statistical Approach (통계방법에 의한 하수처리장 운전분석)

  • 이찬형;문경숙
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.34-38
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    • 2002
  • Statistical analysis between sewage plant operating parameters and the effluent quality was performed. We extracted two factors from principal component analysis of operating parameters and effluent quality from each plant. The total variance of 84.7%, 79.2% was explained by the two factors at SB plant and SC plant, respectively. The factors were identified at SB plant in the following order 1) the oxidation of organic material by aeration basin microbe,2) biomass in aeration basin and at SC plant 1) the oxidation of organic material by aeration basin microbe, 2) thickening of acti-vated sludge. These results suggested that the control of microbial composition might be critical on the improvement of the effluent quality and plant operating efficiency because most of the factors were related with microbes.

Development of Performance Analysis Methodology for Nuclear Power Plant Turbine Cycle Using Validation Model of Performance Measurements (원전 터빈사이클 성능 데이터의 검증 모델에 의한 성능분석 기법의 개발)

  • Kim, Seong-Geun;Choe, Gwang-Hui
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.24 no.12
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    • pp.1625-1634
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    • 2000
  • Verification of measurements is required for precise evaluation of turbine cycle performance in nuclear power plant. We assumed that initial acceptance data and design data of the plant could provide correlation information between performance data. The data can be used as sample sets for the correct estimation model of measurement value. The modeling was done practically by using regression model based on plant design data, plant acceptance data and verified plant performance data of domestic nuclear power plant. We can construct more robust performance analysis system for an operation nuclear power plant with this validation scheme.

Community Structure of Macrobenthos around the Thermal Discharge Area of the Uljin Nuclear Power Plant in the East Sea, Korea (동해 울진 원전 온배수배출구 주변 해역에서의 대형저서동물 군집구조)

  • Kwon, Soon Hyun;Yu, Ok Hwan;Lee, Hyung-Gon
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.125-148
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    • 2017
  • This study analyzed the community structure of macrobenthic organisms in the subtidal area suffering under the influence of thermal discharge from the Uljin nuclear power plant during 2012-2013 and reviewed the temporal change in the faunal composition of the macrobenthic community using data from previous studies since the start of the plant operation in 1989. A total of 319 species were collected in 2012-2013, with a mean density of $3,330ind./m^2$ and a mean biomass of $131.96g/m^2$. These results were similar to those obtained in 2006-2007. The dominant species were not different from each other before and after the power plant operations began, but the faunal density near the power plant drainage port was significantly higher compared to those densities obtained from other stations. Spiophanes bombyx and Polydora sp., which is known as a pollution indicator species, was dominant only in the drainage port area. The study area consisted of two subregions with different macrobenthic communities depending on the water depth, which was similar to the results of the 2006-2007 survey. The macrobenthic community structures before and after the operation of the power plant in the coastal area were not changed, but there were seasonal differences in the long-term macrobenthic community structure which were strongly related to the thermal discharge from the power plant.