• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.613-624
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• 2013

Multi-dimensional two-phase phenomena occur in many industrial applications, particularly in a nuclear reactor during steady operation or a transient period. Appropriate modeling of complicated behavior induced by a multi-dimensional flow is important for the reactor safety analysis results. SPACE, a safety analysis code for thermal hydraulic systems which is currently being developed, was designed to have the capacity of multi-dimensional two-phase thermo-dynamic phenomena induced in the various phases of a nuclear system. To validate the performance of SPACE, a two-dimensional two-phase flow test was performed with slab geometry of the test section having a scale of $1.43m{\times}1.43m{\times}0.11m$. The test section has three inlet and three outlet nozzles on the bottom and top gap walls, respectively, and two outlet nozzles installed directly on the surface of the slab. Various kinds of two-dimensional air/water flows were simulated by selecting combinations of the inlet and outlet nozzles. In this study, two-dimensional two-phase void fraction profiles were quantified by measuring the local gap impedance at 225 points. The flow conditions cover various flow regimes by controlling the flow rate at the inlet boundary. For each selected inlet and outlet nozzle combination, the water flow rate ranged from 2 to 20 kg/s, and the air flow rate ranged from 2.0 to 20 g/s, which corresponds to 0.4 to 4 m/s and 0.2 to 2.3 m/s of the superficial liquid and gas velocities based on the inlet port area, respectively.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제53권5호
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• pp.638-645
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• 2015

Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) have been investigated for their potential utility as large energy storage systems due to their advantageous performances in terms of long cycle life, high energy efficiency, low cost, and flexible design. Carbon materials are typically used as electrodes in redox reactions and as a liquid electrolyte support. The activities, surface areas, and surface morphologies of porous carbon materials must be optimized to increase the redox flow battery performance. Here, to reduce the resistance in VRFBs, surface-modified carbon felt electrodes were fabricated, and their structural, morphological, and chemical properties were characterized. The surface-modified carbon felt electrode improved the cycling energy efficiencies in the VRFBs, from 65% to 73%, due to the improved wettability with electrolyte. From the results of impedances analysis with proposed fitting model, the electrolyte-coupled polarization in VRFB dramatically decreased upon modification of carbon felt electrode surface. It is also demonstrated that the compressibility of carbon felt electrodes was important to the VRFB polarization, which are concerned with mass transfer polarization. The impedance analysis will be helpful for obtaining better and longer-lived VRFB performances.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.157.1-157
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• 2001

A new methodology is presented to diagnose faults in equipment plasma. This is accomplished by using neural networks as a pattern recognizer of radio frequency(rf) impedance match data. Using a realtime match monitor system, the match data were collected. The monitor system consisted mainly of a multifunction board and a signal flow diagram coded by Visual Designer. Plasma anomaly was effectively represented by electrical match positions. Twenty sets of fault-symptom patterns were experimentally simulated with experimental variations in process factors, which include rf source power, pressure, Ar and O$_2$ flow rates. As the inputs to neural networks, two means and standard deviations of positions were used ...

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제34권11호
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• pp.1027-1033
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• 2010

2상유동(기체-액체) 현상은 전자기발전, 원자력발전, 철강산업 등 유체 시스템에 자주 나타나는 현상으로, 2상유동을 파악하는 것은 유체 시스템의 안정성 및 성능을 위해 중요하다. 2상유동 특성 중 기공률은 압력강하와 열전달 성능을 결정하는 주요 인자로서 이를 측정하는 기술이 특히 중요하다. 유동의 임피던스를 측정하여 기공률을 산정하는 임피던스법은 전기적 특성을 이용하기 때문에 반응속도가 빨라 실시간 측정이 가능하며, 유동관 벽에 전극을 설치할 경우 유동 교란없이 측정할 수 있는 장점이 있다. Coney는 원형관에 적용할 수 있는 ring 임피던스미터를 이론적 연구하였다. 본 연구에서는 Coney가 이론적으로 제안하고 실험적으로 검증하지 못한 3-ring 임피던스미터의 유체 전기전도도에 대한 독립성을 실험적으로 검증하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.585-591
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• 2016

DOCR can be used to efficiently increase the reliability and to protect the bi-directional D/L(Distribution Lines). As more DG(Distributed Generation)s attempt to connect the bi-directional D/L, there is an increasing need for studies of how to use DOCR installed in the D/L. This paper investigates the operating principles of DOCR and presents the results an effect of sequence and fault impedance in L-L(Line to Line) fault. An advanced DOCR operating algorithm is proposed to reduce the mal-operation of conventional DOCR. The proposed algorithm is applied to the bi-directional power flow system and shows that it decreases the mal-operation of DOCR through the computer simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.53-64
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• 2007

Considering a sinusoidally varying blood pressure In left ventricle in Cho - Kensey's Windkessel model, we expressed the impedance elements in terms of the phase differences among the pressure and flow rates in the artery and the peripherical tubes. The relationships were further simplified for the real human cardiac system. We expect that the results would give some valuable information for examination and treatment in oriental medicine as well as in western medicine.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제47권7호
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• pp.804-813
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• 2015

The electrical-impedance method has been widely used for void-fraction measurement in two-phase flow due to its many favorable features. In the impedance method, the response characteristics of the electrical signal heavily depend upon flow pattern, as well as phasic volume. Thus, information on the flow pattern should be given for reliable void-fraction measurement. This study proposes an improved electrical-conductance sensor composed of a three-electrode set of adjacent and opposite electrodes. In the proposed sensor, conductance readings are directly converted into the flow pattern through a specified criterion and are consecutively used to estimate the corresponding void fraction. Since the flow pattern and the void fraction are evaluated by reading conductance measurements, complexity of data processing can be significantly reduced and real-time information provided. Before actual applications, several numerical calculations are performed to optimize electrode and insulator sizes, and optimal design is verified by static experiments. Finally, the proposed sensor is applied for air-water two-phase flow in a horizontal loop with a 40-mm inner diameter and a 5-m length, and its measurement results are compared with those of a wire-mesh sensor.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.129-135
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• 2010

화석에너지의 고갈과 환경오염 문제를 해결하기 위한 대안인 신재생 에너지를 이용하는 분산발전 시스템은 핵심 구성 요소인 PWM 인버터의 전력제어가 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 단상 계통연계 인버터 시스템의 전력제어를 위해 계통 임피던스를 고려한 SRF(synchronous-reference-frame) 전력제어 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 SRF 전력제어 방법은 복잡한 계통 임피던스의 추정 없이 계통 임피던스의 공칭값(nominal value)에 기반해 단상 인버터에 전압 기준값(reference)을 제공하여 독립운전 모드와 계통연계 모드에서 모두 운전이 가능함을 나타내었다. 또한, 유효전력과 무효전력의 독립적인 제어가 가능한 장점을 가진다. 계통을 포함하는 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안한 SRF 전력제어 방법의 타당성을 검증한다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 제안한 SRF 전력제어 방법을 통해 단상 계통연계 인버터 시스템의 전력 흐름을 적절히 제어할 수 있음을 보여주고 있다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.1424-1429
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• 2004

To seek the fan operating point on a cooling system with fans, it is very important to determine the system impedance and it has been usually examined with the fan tester(wind tunnel) based on ASHRAE standard and AMCA standard. This leads to a large investment in time and cost, because it could not be executed until the system is made actually. Therefore it is necessary to predict the system impedance curve through numerical analysis so that we could reduce the measurement effort. This paper presents how the system impedance curve (pressure drop curve) is computed by CFD in substitute for experiment. In reverse order to the experimental principle of the fan tester, pressure difference was adopted first as inlet and outlet boundary conditions of the system and then flow rate was calculated.

• 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 유체기계공업학회 2006년 제4회 한국유체공학학술대회 논문집
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• pp.475-478
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• 2006

In electrical impedance tomography (EIT) an array of electrodes is attached on the boundary of an object and small alternating currents are injected through these electrodes, and then the resulting voltages are measured. An estimation for the cross-sectional resistivity distribution in the object is obtained by using these current and voltage data in a nondestructive manner. In this paper, the electrical impedance imaging of two-phase flows undergoing rapid transient is considered with a special emphasis on the effect of the current pattern on the image reconstruction. The trigonometric current pattern, which is commonly used in the conventional static electrical impedance imaging, shows poor performance in case of the dynamic imaging considered in this work. Extensive numerical experiments are conducted with various kinds of current patterns and their effects on the image reconstruction performance are examined.