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Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of A Wire-Spacer Fuel Assembly

  • Ahmad, Imteyaz;Kim, Kwang-Yong
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.12a
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    • pp.473-478
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    • 2004
  • This work presents the Thermal Hydraulic analysis has been performed for a 19-pin wire-spacer fuel assembly using three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. SST model is used as a turbulence closure. The whole fuel assembly has been analyzed for one period of the wire-spacer using periodic boundary condition at inlet and outlet of the calculation domain. The overall results far a preliminary calculation show a good agreement with the experimental observations. It has been found that the major unidirectional flows are the axial velocity in sub-channels and the peripheral sweeping flows and the velocities are found to be following a cyclic path of period equal to the wire-wrap pitch. The temperature is found to be maximum in the central region and also, there exist a radial temperature gradient between the fuel rods. The major advantage of performing this kind of analysis is the prediction of thermal-hydraulic behavior of a fuel assembly with much ease.

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Parallel Clustering Algorithm for Balancing Problem of a Two-sided Assembly Line (양측 조립라인 균형문제의 병렬군집 알고리즘)

  • Lee, Sang-Un
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.95-101
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    • 2022
  • The two-sided assembly line balancing problem is a kind of NP-hard problem. This problem primarily can be solved metaheuristic method. This paper suggests parallel clustering algorithm that each left and right-sided workstation assigned by operations with Ti = c* ± α < c, c* = ${\lceil}$W/m*${\rceil}$ such that M* = ${\lceil}$W/c${\rceil}$ for precedence diagram of two-sided assembly line with total complete time W and cycle time c. This clustering performs forward direction from left to right or reverse direction from right to left. For the 4 experimental data with 17 cycle times, the proposed algorithm can be obtain the minimum number of workstations m* and can be reduce the cycle time to Tmax < c then metaheuristic methods. Also, proposed clustering algorithm maximizes the line efficiency and minimizes the variance between workers operation times.

Automated Assembly Modeling using Kinematics Constraints (기구학적 구속조건을 이용한 자동 조립 모델링)

  • Kim Jae Seong;Kim Gwang Su
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2002.05a
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    • pp.272-279
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    • 2002
  • A common task in assembly modeling is the determination of the position and orientation of a set of components by solving the spatial relationships between them. Assembly models could be constructed at various levels of abstraction. They could be classified into component or geometry-level assembly models. The geometry-level assembly design approach using mating constraints such as against and fits is widely used in the commercial modelers, but it may be very tedious in some cases fur designer. In this paper, we propose a new method to construct an assembly model at the component-level by extracting joint mating features from the kinematics constraints specified between components. The assembly model constructed using the proposed method includes hierarchical and relational assembly models, component/sub-assembly positions and degrees of freedom information. The proposed method is more intuitive and natural way of assembly design and it guarantees the topological robustness of assembly modification such as component replacement and modification.

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Calculation of thermal neutron scattering data of MgF2 and its effect on beam shaping assembly for BNCT

  • Jiaqi Hu;Zhaopeng Qiao;Lunhe Fan;Yongqiang Tang;Liangzhi Cao;Tiejun Zu;Qingming He;Zhifeng Li;Sheng Wang
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.4
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    • pp.1280-1286
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    • 2023
  • MgF2 as a moderator material has been extensively used in the beam shaping assembly (BSA) that plays an important role in the boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). Regarded as important for applications, the thermal neutron scattering data of MgF2 were calculated, based on the phonon expansion model. The structural properties of MgF2 were researched by the VASP code based on the ab-initio methods. The PHONOPY code was employed to calculate the phonon density of states. Furthermore, the NJOY code was used to calculate the thermal neutron scattering data of MgF2. The calculated inelastic cross sections plus absorption cross sections are in agreement with the available experimental data. The neutron transport in the BSA has been simulated by using a hybrid Monte-Carlo-Deterministic code NECP-MCX. The results indicated that compared with the calculation of the free gas model, the thermal neutron flux and epithermal neutron flux at the BSA exit port calculated by using the thermal neutron scattering data of MgF2 were reduced by 27.7% and 8.2%, respectively.

Possibility of curium as a fuel for VVER-1200 reactor

  • Shelley, Afroza;Ovi, Mahmud Hasan
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.54 no.1
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    • pp.11-18
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    • 2022
  • In this research, curium oxide (CmO2) is studied as fuel for VVER-1200 reactor to get an attention to its energy value and possibilities. For this purpose, CmO2 is used in fuel rods or integrated burnable absorber (IBA) rods with and without UO2 and then compared with the conventional fuel assembly of VVER-1200 reactor. It is burned to 60 GWd/t by using SRAC-2006 code and JENDL-4.0 data library. From these studies, it is found that CmO2 is competent like UO2 as a fuel due to higher fission cross-section of 243Cm and 245Cm isotopes and neutron capture cross-section of 244Cm and 246Cm isotopes. As a result, when some or all of the UO2 of fuel rods or IBA rods are replaced by CmO2, we get a similar k-inf like the reference even with lower enrichment UO2 fuels. These studies show that the use of CmO2 as IBA rods is more effective than the fuel rods considering the initially loaded amount, power peaking factor (PPF), fuel temperature and void coefficient, and the quality of spent fuel. From a detailed study, 3% CmO2 with inert material ZrO2 in IBA rods are recommended for the VVER-1200 reactor assembly from the once through concept.

Tageting Protein-Protein Interactions-A Fragment Assembly Approach

  • Paulvannan, Kumar
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.90-90
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    • 2003
  • I describe here a novel and promising approach to drug discovery that involves the identification and assembly of drug-like fragments to afford lead compounds. This approach is attractive for a number of reasons. First, the productive assembly of two weakly bound fragments, even fragments with independent dissociation constants in the low mM range, can potentially afford ligands with sub-micromolar affinities for their targets. (omitted)

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Position estimation of welding panels for sub-assembly welding line in shipbuilding using camera vision system (조선 소조립 용접자동화의 부재위치 인식을 위한 camera vision system)

  • 전바롬;윤재웅;고국원;조형석
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.361-364
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    • 1997
  • There has been requested to automate the welding process in shipyard due to its dependence on skilled operators and the inferior working environments. According to these demands, multiple robot welding system for sub-assembly welding line has been developed, realized and installed at Keoje Shipyard. In order to realize automatic welding system, robots have to be equipped with the sensing system to recognize the position of the welding panels. In this research, a camera vision system is developed to detect the position of base panels for subassembly line in shipbuilding. Two camera vision systems are used in two different stages (Mounting and Welding) to automate the recognition and positioning of welding lines. For automatic recognition of panel position, various image processing algorithms are proposed in this paper.

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Robotic welding system for sub-assembly line in ship manufacturing (로봇을 이용한 조선 소조립 용접 자동화 시스템)

  • 김진오;신정식;김성권
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1996.10b
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    • pp.516-519
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    • 1996
  • Sub-assembly in ship manufacturing is a sequence of filet joint welding of stiffeners on metal panels and the process is different depending on companies. In this paper, we introduce a new intelligent robotic system of the sub-assembly process in Samsung Heavy Industry, where one shift of 22m * 9m workspace includes one to ten panels and each panel includes up to 10 stiffeners. The inherent problems such as several hundreds of different panels, unstructured task environment and the large scale do not allow a fixed automation, but needs highly intelligent versatile automation. The robotic system is composed of four 14DOF macro-mini robots and a task recognition system. Application of this system has verified the task specification such as low temperature environment(-10.deg. C) and productivity is satisfied successfully.

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Scheduling of Shipyard Sub-assembly Process using Genetic Algorithms (유전자 알고리즘을 활용한 조선 소조립 공정 일정계획)

  • Bae, Hee-Chul;Park, Kyung-Cheol;Cha, Byung-Chul;Moon, Il-Kyeong
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.33-40
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we consider a scheduling problem of shipyard sub-assembly process. We introduce a skid conveyor system in a shipbuilding company. We develop a mathematical model and a genetic algorithm for shipyard sub-assembly process. The objective of the scheduling is to minimize the makespan which is the final completion time of all jobs. Numerical experiments show that the genetic algorithm performs efficiently.

Structural characterization of ladder-type cadmium(II) citrate complex, (C3H12N2)[{Cd(H2O)(C6H5O7)}2]·6H2O

  • Kim, Chong-Hyeak;Lee, Sueg-Geun
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.355-360
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    • 2007
  • The title complex, $(C_3H_{12}N_2)[\{Cd(H_2O)(C_6H_5O_7)\}_2]{\cdot}6H_2O$, I, has been prepared and its structure characterized by FT-IR, EDS, elemental analysis, ICP-AES, and X-ray single crystallography. It is triclinic system, $P{\bar{1}}$ space group with a = 10.236(2), b = 11.318(2), c = $13.198(2){\AA}$, ${\alpha}=77.95(1)^{\circ}$, ${\beta}=68.10(1)^{\circ}$, ${\gamma}=78.12(1)^{\circ}$, V = $1373.5(3){\AA}^3$, Z = 2. Complex I has constituted by protonated 1,3-diaminopropane cations, citrate coordinated cadmium(II) anions, and free water molecules. The central cadmium atoms have a capped trigonal prism geometry by seven coordination with six oxygen atoms of three different citrate ligands and one water molecule. Citrate ligands are bridged to three different cadmium atoms. Each cadmium atom is linked by carboxylate and hydroxyl groups of citrate ligand to construct an one-dimensional ladder-type assembly structure. The polymeric crystal structure is stabilized by three-dimensional networks of the intermolecular O-H${\cdots}$O and N-H${\cdots}$O hydrogen-bonding interaction.