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Monte Carlo shielding evaluation of a CSNS Multi-Physics instrument

  • Liang, Tairan;Shen, Fei;Yin, Wen;Xu, Juping;Yu, Quanzhi;Liang, Tianjiao
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.8
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    • pp.1998-2004
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    • 2019
  • The Multi-Physics (MP) instrument is one of 20 neutron spectrometers planned in the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS). This paper presents a shielding calculation for the MP instrument using Monte Carlo codes MCNPX and FLUKA. First, the neutrons that escape from the CSNS decoupled water moderator and are delivered to the beam line of the MP instrument are calculated to use as the source term of the shielding calculation. Then, to validate the calculation method based on multiple variance reduction techniques, a cross check between MCNPX and FLUKA codes is performed by comparing the calculation results of the dose rate distribution on a simplified beam line model. Finally, a complete geometry model of the MP instrument is set up, and the primary parameters for the shielding design are obtained according to the calculated dose rate map considering different worst-case scenarios.

Examining Driver Compliance Behaviour at Signalised Intersection for Developing Conceptual Model of Driving Simulation

  • Osman, Aznoora;Wahab, Nadia Abdul;Fauzi, Haryati Ahmad;Ibrahim, Norfiza;Ilyas, Siti Sarah Md;Seman, Azmi Abu
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.11
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    • pp.163-171
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    • 2022
  • A conceptual model represents an understanding of a system that is going to be developed, which in this research, a driving simulation software to study driver behavior at signalised intersections. Therefore, video observation was conducted to examine driver compliance behaviour within the dilemma zone at signalised intersection, pertaining to driver's distance from the stop line during yellow light interval. The video was analysed using Thematic Analysis and the data extracted from it was analysed using Chi-Square Independent Test. The Thematic Analysis revealed two major themes which were traffic situation and driver compliance behaviour. Traffic situation is defined as traffic surrounding the driver, such as no car in front and behind, car in front, and car behind. Meanwhile, the Chi-Square Test result indicates that within the dilemma zone, there was a significant relationship between driver compliance behaviour and driver's distance from the stop line during yellow light interval. The closer the drivers were to the stop line, the more likely they were going to comply. In contrast, drivers showed higher noncompliant behavior when further away from stop line. This finding could help us in the development of conceptual model of driving simulation with purpose of studying driver behavior.

High Efficient Phase Shifters Using Defected Ground Structures (결함 접지 구조를 이용한 고성능 위상 천이기)

  • Han Sang-Min;Kim Chul-Soo;Ahn Dal
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.17 no.1 s.104
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2006
  • New phase shifters with higher phase shift values are presented using defected ground structures(DGSs). The varactor diodes are mounted on DGSs of termination loads to control the large phase variation of the DGS at resonance. Two types of phase shifters are implemented with a branch-line and a coupled line hybrid. The experimental results of the proposed phase shifters show $135\%$ and $221\%$ increases in maximum phase shills, respectively, compared with those of conventional ones.

A Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for U-line Line Balancing (U라인 라인밸런싱을 위한 분지한계법)

  • 김여근;김재윤;김동묵;송원섭
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.83-101
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    • 1998
  • Assembly U-lines are increasingly accepted in industry, especially just-in-time production systems, for the efficient utilization of workforce. In this paper, we present an integer programming formulation and a branch-and-bound method for balancing the U-line with the objective of minimizing the number of workstations with a fixed cycle time. In the mathematical model, we provide the method that can reduce the number of variables and constraints. The proposed branch-and-bound method searches the optimal solution based on a depth-first-search. To efficiently search for the optimal solutions to the problems, an assignment rule is used in the method. Bounding strategies and dominance rules are also utilized. Some problems require a large amount of computation time to find the optimal solutions. For this reason. some heuristic fathoming rules are also proposed. Extensive experiments with test-bed problems in the literature are carried out to show the performance of the proposed method. The computational results show that our method is promising in solution quality.

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A Development of Ultra-compact Passive Components Employing Periodic Ground Structure for Silicon RFIC (주기적 접지구조를 이용한 실리콘 RFIC용 초소형 수동소자의 개발)

  • Yun, Young;Kim, Se-Ho
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.562-568
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, using the periodic ground structure (PGS), highly miniaturized branch-line coupler and impedance transformer were realized on Si radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC). The branch-line couple exhibited good RF performance from 41.75 to 50 GHz, and its size was $0.46{\times}0.55mm^2$, which is 37 % of conventional one. The impedance transformer exhibited good RF performance from 1 to 40GHz, and its size was $0.01mm^2$, which is 6.99 % of conventional one.

Modified Design of Branch-Line Coupler for Harmonic Suppression (고조파 제거 기능을 갖는 브랜치라인 커플러의 설계)

  • Kim, Jong-Sung
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.47 no.6
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    • pp.22-25
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents the modified design that can reject the harmonic signals in the branch-line coupler. After adding open stubs at the center of quarter-wavelength lines of the traditional design, all network parameters can be determined by network equivalence, in order to maintain the conventional function at the operating frequency and suppress its harmonic terms to de chosen. Experimental results show the second and third harmonic suppressions to be -37.5 and -42.7dBs, while maintaining conventional performance at the fundamental frequency.

A study of Optimal Reconfiguration in Distribution Power System using Initial Operating Point (초기 운전점 선정을 통한 배전계통 최적 재구성에 관한 연구)

  • Seo, Gyu-Seok;Kim, Jung-Nyun;Baek, Young-Sik
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.56 no.3
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    • pp.451-456
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    • 2007
  • This paper presents a problem that reconfigure distribution power system using branch exchange method. Optimal reconfiguration problem calculates line loss, voltage condition about system states of all situations that become different according to line On/off status, and search for optimum composition of these. However, result is difficult to be calculated fast. Because radiated operation condition of system is satisfied using many connection and sectionalize switches in the distribution power system. Therefore, in this paper, optimization method for reducing system total loss and satisfying operating condition of radial and constraints condition of voltage is proposed using the fastest branch exchange. And optimal solution at branch exchange algorithm can be wrong estimated to local optimal solution according to initial operating state. Considering this particular, an initial operating point algorithm is added and this paper showed that optimal solution arrives at global optimal solution.

New technology trend and characteristic for GIL (GIL(Gas Insulated Line)에 관한 신기술 동향 및 특징)

  • Jung, Si-Hwan;Kim, Chel-Soo;Kang, Cheul-Won;Kim, Wan-Sik
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.99-101
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    • 2006
  • As the same concept with GIB, GIL(Gas Insulated Line) has been established and run for the first time in New Jersey, America, in 1972. At the beginning, the installation condition of GIL was complicated and the construction cost was excessive, so it was not economical, but the construction cost was substantially reduced with the use of insulation material which is the mixture of $SF_6$ and $N_2$ Gas in Germany, in 1990s. And also comparing to cable, GIL has lots of advantages, such as being capable of the high voltage transmission, being applied to reclosing and lowering the strength of electromagnetic force, Due to these advantages, GIL is recently accepted in many countries.

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Analysis of Leakage Current Diagnosis According to Online and Offline Conditions (On-Line 및 Off-Line 상태에 따른 누설 전류 진단 분석)

  • Han, Kyung-Chul;Lee, Gyeong-Seop;Choi, Yong-Sung
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.261-266
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    • 2018
  • When the clamp meter approaches the electric path where current is flowing, leakage current can be measured at a distance from the electric current because the induced current increases as the magnitude of the current increases and approaches nearer to the electric path. Therefore, measurements were carried out from a distance to avoid this effect. In addition, the measured values differ depending on the location of the power line that penetrates the ZCT of the clamp meter, thus measurements were performed at a location where this effect was minimized. The fraction of compliant branch circuits, whose leakage current was lower than 1.00 mA, was found to be 69.0% out of the total of 439 branch circuits, while the percentage of compliant branch circuits having an insulation resistance higher than $0.20M{\Omega}$ was found to be 93.2%. The reason why the percentage of compliant branch circuits with low leakage current was low might be due to the inclusion of capacitive leakage current in the total measured leakage current.

Modified Transmission Line Protection Scheme in the Presence of SCC

  • Naeini, Ehsan Mostaghimi;Vaseghi, Behrouz;Mahdavian, Mehdi
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.533-540
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    • 2017
  • Distance relay identifies the type and location of fault by measuring the transmission line impedance. However any other factors that cause miss calculating the measured impedance, makes the relay detect the fault in incorrect location or do not detect the fault at all. One of the important factors which directly changes the measured impedance by the relay is series capacitive compensation (SCC). Another factor that changes the calculated impedance by distance relay is fault resistance. This paper provides a method based on the combination of distance and differential protection. At first, faulty transmission line is detected according to the current data of buses. After that the fault location is calculated using the proposed algorithm on the transmission line. This algorithm is based on active power calculation of the buses. Fault resistance is calculated from the active powers and its effect will be deducted from calculated impedance by the algorithm. This method measures the voltage across SCC by phasor measurement units (PMUs) and transmits them to the relay location via communication channels. The transmitted signals are utilized to modify the voltage signal which is measured by the relay. Different operating modes of SCC and as well as different faults such as phase-to-phase and phase-to-ground faults are examined by simulations.