• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.167-174
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• 2019

Compared to a single nuclear power plant (NPP) risk, the commonalities existing in the multiple NPPs attribute the characteristics of the multi-unit risk. If there is no commonality among the multiple NPPs, there will be no dependency among the risks of multiple NPPs. Therefore, understanding the commonality causing multi-unit events is essential to assessing the multi-unit risk, and identifying the characteristics of the multi-unit risk is necessary not only to select the scope and method for the multi-unit risk assessment, but also to analyze the data of the multi-unit events. In order to develop Korea-specific multi-unit risk assessment technology, we analyze the multi-unit commonalities included in the operational experiences of domestic NPPs. We identified 58 cases of multi-unit events through detailed review of domestic nuclear power plant event reports over the past 10 years, and the multi-unit events were classified into six commonalities to identify Korea-specific characteristics of multi-unit events. The identified characteristics can be used to understand and manage domestic multi-unit risks. It can also be used as a basis for modeling multi-unit events for multi-unit risk assessment.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.55 no.12
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• pp.4408-4425
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• 2023

Alarm flood due to abnormality propagation is the most difficult alarm overloading problem in nuclear power plants (NPPs). Root-cause analysis is suggested to help operators in understand emergency events and plant status. Multilevel Flow Modeling (MFM) has been extensively applied in alarm management by virtue of the capability of explaining causal dependencies among alarms. However, there has never been a technique that can identify the actual root cause for complex alarm situations. This paper presents an automated root-cause analysis system based on MFM. The causal reasoning algorithm is first applied to identify several possible root causes that can lead to massive alarms. A novel root-cause ranking algorithm can subsequently be used to isolate the most likely faults from the other root-cause candidates. The proposed method is validated on a pressurized water reactor (PWR) simulator at HAMMLAB. The results show that the actual root cause is accurately identified for every tested operating scenario. The automation of root-cause identification and ranking affords the opportunity of real-time alarm analysis. It is believed that the study can further improve the situation awareness of operators in the alarm flooding situation.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.19-20
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• 2014

Boiler design should be desinged to maximize thermal efficiency of the system under imposed load requirement and a boiler should be validated for transient operation. If a proper prediction is possible on the transient behavior and transient characteristics of a boiler, one may asses the performance of boiler component, control logics and operation procedures. In this work, dynamic modeling method of boiler is presented and dynamic simulation of load runback scenario was carried out on suprecritical oil-firing boiler.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1997.07a
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• pp.101-110
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• 1997

The circuit effects due to the transformer primary side series equivalent inductance in the Zero Voltage Switching Pulse Width Modulated Half Bridge DC/DC Converter and its impact on the effective duty are analyzed. The steady state equations and the small signal model of the converter are derived incorporating the effects of the complementary control and the utilization of transformer primary side series equivalent inductance. The open plant dynamics are analyzed on the basis of the model derived. The model predictions are confirmed by experimental measurements.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.547-549
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• 2007

원자력 발전소의 원자로 냉각 시스템을 대상으로 국제 표준 데이터 모델링 방법과 기존의 현업에서 사용되는 Project Numbering System 기반의 데이터 모델링 방법을 사용하여 시스템 모델링을 수행하였고 비교 분석하였다. 국제 표준 중심의 시스템 모델을 채택하여 활용한다면 향후 전력 분야 정보 시스템 및 데이터간의 상호 운영성과 데이터 공유 및 교환 문제를 해결할 수 있고 이에 따른 막대한 경비 절감을 기대할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.128-133
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• 2007

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.9-17
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• 2016

Disinfectant/oxidation process is a crucial process in water treatment for supplying safe drinking water. Chlorination is still widely used for water treatment area due to its effectiveness on microbial inactivation and economic feasibility. Recently, disinfection concern in marine environment is increasing, for example, movement of hazardous marine organism due to ballast water, marine environmental degradation due to power plant cooling water discharge, and increase of the amount of disinfectant in the offshore plant. It is needed to conduct the assessment of disinfectant behavior and the development of disinfectant prediction model in seawater. The appropriate prediction model for disinfectant behavior is not yet provided. The objective of the study is to develop chlorine decay model in seawater. Various model types were applied to develop the seawater chlorine decay model, such as first order decay model, EPA model, and two-phase model. The model simulation indicated that chlorine decay in seawater is influenced by both organic and inorganic matter in seawater. While inorganic matter has a negative correlation with the chlorine decay, organic matter has a positive correlation with the chlorine decay.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.70-79
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• 2015

In this paper, enhanced stand-alone operation and development of Matlab/Simulink model of emergency diesel based hybrid energy system is presented. Simulations based on the remote community or islands were performed for PV-diesel-battery hybrid system. Modeling of PV-diesel-battery integrated system is done to perform under the solar radiation and load conditions on Matlab/Simulink platform. The models of diesel generator unit, battery energy storage system, PV and frequency-power control are developed and simulation studies have been carried out under various conditions using Matlab/Simulink and SimPowerSystem. It is demonstrated that the proposed system can provide reliable and good quality power to the customers in diesel synchronous generator-based hybrid energy systems.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.133-136
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• 2003

이 논문은 고리 $\#$1 원자력 발전소를 기준 발전소로 하여 개발되고 있는운전원 교육용 가상 시뮬레이터 의 일부로서, 제어봉 제어계통 모델링에 대한 내용을 제시하는 것이 주된 목적이다. 제어봉 제어 계통의 목적은 원자로 출력을 변화시키기 위하여 제어봉 집합체(RCCA)를 동작시켜 단기적인 반응도(Short Term Reactivity)를 조절하기 위한 것이다. 실제 발전소와 똑같은 제어봉 제어가 가능하면, 실제로 운전원이 가상 시뮬레이터를 통해서 모든 상황과 사고들을 대처하는 능력을 가질 수 있도록 설계되었다 본 논문에서는 고리 $\#$1 원자력 발전소 운전원 교육용 가상 시뮬레이터를 구현하기 위해 현재까지 설계된 제어봉 제어계통의 기능, 구성, 제어봉 제어에 대한 전반적인 내용을 제시하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.516-518
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• 2000

This paper presents a methodology for effective control of fuel cell devices connected to the electric utility distribution network. A controller is designed for a fuel cell power plant to assist the conventional generators to damp out oscillations, which is possible by utilizing the fast response characteristic of fuel cells. Computer model of the controller is proposed and its effectiveness is proved by a sample test. Fuel cell devices can be used to improve power system stability when these are connected to a distribution system.