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Analysis on Activation Energy Measurement and Application of Nuclear Equipment Non-metallic Materials (원전기기 비금속재료의 활성화에너지 측정 및 적용성 분석)

  • Bhang, Keug-Jin;Hong, Jun-Hee
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.38-43
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    • 2016
  • Safety-related equipments of Nuclear Power Plants(NPP) have to perform environmental qualification test in accordance with IEEE-323 standards. However, non-metallic materials replace new one regularly instead of the test because they are considered as consumable parts. In this study, the seven kinds of non-metallic materials are selected and their activation energy was experimentally evaluated with uncertainty analysis by using thermogravimetric analyzer(TGA). In order to obtain activation energy of non-metallic materials, mass difference, temperature raising rate and conversion rate on the specimen are analyzed. It is postulated that the three experiment conditions are important to get a reliable activation energy. This postulate was experimentally confirmed using Arrhenius equation and Flynn-Wall-Ozawa analysis.

A Time-Domain Method to Generate Artificial Time History from a Given Reference Response Spectrum

  • Shin, Gangsig;Song, Ohseop
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.48 no.3
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    • pp.831-839
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    • 2016
  • Seismic qualification by test is widely used as a way to show the integrity and functionality of equipment that is related to the overall safety of nuclear power plants. Another means of seismic qualification is by direct integration analysis. Both approaches require a series of time histories as an input. However, in most cases, the possibility of using real earthquake data is limited. Thus, artificial time histories are widely used instead. In many cases, however, response spectra are given. Thus, most of the artificial time histories are generated from the given response spectra. Obtaining the response spectrum from a given time history is straightforward. However, the procedure for generating artificial time histories from a given response spectrum is difficult and complex to understand. Thus, this paper presents a simple time-domain method for generating a time history from a given response spectrum; the method was shown to satisfy conditions derived from nuclear regulatory guidance.

Climate Data Qualification for Water Quality Impact Assessment (수질영향평가의 신뢰수준 향상을 위한 기상자료의 검정)

  • Lee, Khil-Ha;Cho, Hongyeon
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.601-613
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    • 2011
  • This study is focused on a climate data integrity to improve water quality assessment due to the social development projects. The study is in an attempt to calculate both extreme ranges of weather data measurements and partly provide means to assess qualification of data which fall within the extremes at the 23 meteorological weather stations. Generally speaking, maximum temperature, minimum temperature, relative humidity, dew point temperature are in the range of reasonable accuracy. However, there found some outliers of the brightness sunshine hours in Cheonan station. Also some years in Gwangju, Seoul, Wonju, Busan, and Jeju never reach to their upper limit and perhaps the calibration of the equipment is doubtful. The users need to take cautions in using the brightness sunshine hour data in preparation of water resources planning and management by estimating evapotranspiration and river discharge, and/or growth rate of the algae (phytoplankton).

Study on Seismic Analysis and Test for Seismic Qualification of 245kV GIS (245kV 가스절연개폐장치의 내진성능 실증을 위한 시험 및 해석)

  • Kim, Yu-Gyeong;Kwon, Tae-Hoon;Jeong, Yeong-Jin;Kim, Hong-Tae;Kim, Young-Joong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.715-722
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    • 2013
  • Gas insulated switchgear is large-sized electric equipment for providing a reliable supply of electric power. Recently, seismic tests of electric equipment using a shaking table have been mandated because seismic performance has become an increasingly important issue. However, basic analysis methods continue to be used because some electric equipment is too large for shaking table facilities. Thus, a reliable analysis method should be developed for large-scale electric equipment. This study aims to evaluate the seismic qualification of a 245kV GIS in accordance with IEEE-693 and to validate the analysis method by comparing it with test results. Both the test and the analysis showed that the 245kV GIS has proper seismic safety. Furthermore, the differences between the analysis and the test results are less than 10% for an accurately given mass, stiffness, and input acceleration. It is expected that this study can be used for the seismic qualification of large-scale electrical structures.

A Study on Comparing and Analyzing Domestic and Foreign Green Building Certification Criteria for School Facility -Focused on the G-SEED and LEED, BREEAM- (국내외 학교시설 녹색 건축 인증제도의 비교분석에 관한 기초연구 -G-SEED와 LEED, BREEAM을 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Jong-Kuk
    • The Journal of Sustainable Design and Educational Environment Research
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.15-22
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    • 2014
  • Proceeded with a research with basic data about the qualification standard improvement scheme about the environment school architecture in which a comparison analyze the specialized field of BREEAM system of LEED of the hit environment building qualification standard G-SEED of the domestic and U.S Green Building Counci evaluated with the certification system of the world top class and Building Research Establish, essential item, and mark distribution and weight in this study at this and which I hit with a domestic afterward. The school facility with a hub among the equipment receiving the hit environmental qualification standard, and the range of this research does LEED of the domestic green building certification system February is revised in 2013 G-SEED and which US and BREEAM in UK with a range. The way of the research checked the environment school building certification system and situation hit home and abroad, and a comparison analyze the division of the specialized field of each country qualification standard, essential item, and mark distribution and weight.