• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.193-206
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• 2007

The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has developed an advanced fast reactor concept, KALIMER-600, which satisfies the Generation IV reactor design goals of sustainability, economics, safety, and proliferation resistance. The concept enables an efficient utilization of uranium resources and a reduction of the radioactive waste. The core design has been developed with a strong emphasis on proliferation resistance by adopting a single enrichment fuel without blanket assemblies. In addition, a passive residual heat removal system, shortened intermediate heat-transport system piping and seismic isolation have been realized in the reactor system design as enhancements to its safety and economics. The inherent safety characteristics of the KALIMER-600 design have been confirmed by a safety analysis of its bounding events. Research on important thermal-hydraulic phenomena and sensing technologies were performed to support the design study. The integrity of the reactor head against creep fatigue was confirmed using a CFD method, and a model for density-wave instability in a helical-coiled steam generator was developed. Gas entrainment on an agitating pool surface was investigated and an experimental correlation on a critical entrainment condition was obtained. An experimental study on sodium-water reactions was also performed to validate the developed SELPSTA code, which predicts the data accurately. An acoustic leak detection method utilizing a neural network and signal processing units were developed and applied successfully for the detection of a signal up to a noise level of -20 dB. Waveguide sensor visualization technology is being developed to inspect the reactor internals and fuel subassemblies. These research and developmental efforts contribute significantly to enhance the safety, economics, and efficiency of the KALIMER-600 design concept.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.47-54
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• 1996

UASB reactor was operated for treating wastewater containing high sulfate to assess their performance, competition between sulfate-reducing bacteria(SRB) and methane-producing bacteria(MPB), and the change in the characteristics of microbial granules according to change of hydraulic retention time(HRT) in the reactor. The reactor was fed with a synthetic moderate strength wastes(glucose, 2000 mgCOD/l) containing high sulfate($2400mgSO_4{^{2-}}/l$). The organic loading rate(OLR) ranged from 1.5 to 3.0 gCOD/l.d as HRT maintained 15 to 30 hrs in the stage I. The COD removal efficiency was between 80 to 92%. During this period, methane yield rapidly decreased from 0.3 to 0.1 1 $CH_4$/gCODremoved. While sulfide concentration in the effluent increased from 80 to 200 mgS/l. This indicates that SRB becomes dominant over MPB at a relatively long HRT in the excess sulfate. When OLR of reactor maintained from 5 to 8 gCOD/l.d in the stage II, methane yield increased from 0.1 to 0.17 1 $CH_4$/gCODremoved regardless of decrease of COD removal efficiency. This indicates that SRB is more sensitive to the change of a short HRT than MPB. In the competition between SRB and MPB, about 30% of the removed COD was utilized by SRB at HRT of 30 hrs during the start-up period, while about 73% was used by SRB at HRT of 15hrs at the final step of second experimental stage. Whereas after shock exposure of OLR about 62% was utilized by SRB at HRT of 5hrs. It indicates that SRB is strongly suppressed by the wash-out of significant dispersed SRB since a large electron flow is distributed to the MPB. In addition, the granulation in the presence of high sulfate is unfavoured at a long HRT because of substrate transport limitations into MPB like Methanothrix spp. which is an important factor in the composition of the granules. Accordingly, granule sizes in the UASB reactor decreased with time due to weak network frame of granules by the decreased activity of MPB.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.165-172
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• 2021

쇄파는 연안류, 표사이동, 충격파압, 에너지소산 등과 같은 연안에서 발생하는 다양한 물리현상과 직접적인 관계가 있으므로 항만 구조물의 설계시 반드시 고려되어야 하는 중요한 설계인자 중 하나이다. 쇄파에 대한 연구들은 쇄파가 가진 고유의 복잡성으로 인해 주로 수리모형실험을 통해 쇄파파고와 쇄파수심 등과 같은 쇄파지표를 예측하기 위한 많은 경험식이 제안되어 왔다. 하지만, 기존의 쇄파지표에 대한 경험식은 일정한 방정식의 가정하에 자료의 통계적 분석을 통해 가정한 방정식의 계수들을 결정하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 회귀 혹은 분류문제와 관련된 다양한 연구분야에 있어서 높은 예측성능을 보여주는 대표적인 선형기반의 머신러닝 기법을 적용하여 천수변형에 의해 발생하는 쇄파의 한계파고를 산정하기 위한 새로운 Munk형식의 경험식을 제안하였다. 새롭게 제안된 쇄파지표식은 단순한 형태의 다항식에도 불구하고 기존의 경험공식과 유사한 예측성능을 보였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권10호
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• pp.3236-3246
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• 2021

Lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident directed that multiple failures should be considered more seriously rather than single failure in the licensing bases and safety cases because attempts to take accident management measures could be unsuccessful under the high radiation environment aggravated by multiple failures, such as complete loss of electric power, uncontrollable loss of coolant inventory, failure of essential safety function recovery. In the case of the complete loss of electric power called station blackout (SBO), if there is no mitigation action for recovering safety functions, the reactor core would be overheated, and severe fuel damage could be anticipated due to the failure of the active heat sink. In such a transient condition at CANDU-6 plants, the seal failure of the primary heat transport (PHT) pumps can facilitate a consequent increase in the fuel sheath temperature and eventually lead to degradation of the fuel integrity. Therefore, it is necessary to specify the regulatory guidelines for multiple failures on a licensing basis so that licensees should prepare the accident management measures to prevent or mitigate accident conditions. In order to explore the efficiency of implementing accident management strategies for CANDU-6 plants, this study proposed a realistic accident analysis approach on the SBO transient with multiple-failure sequences such as seal failure of PHT pumps without operator's recovery actions. In this regard, a comparative study for two PHT pump seal failure modes with and without coolant seal leakage was conducted using a best-estimate code to precisely investigate the behaviors of thermal-hydraulic parameters during transient conditions. Moreover, a sensitivity analysis for different PHT pump seal leakage rates was also carried out to examine the effect of leakage rate on the system responses. This study is expected to provide the technical bases to the accident management strategy for unmitigated transient conditions with multiple failures.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.141-149
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• 2021

The cultivation area for domestic cabbage increased by 26.3% from 10,968 ha in 2019 to 13,854 ha in 2020, and among leafy vegetables, the cabbage cultivation area was 62%, and production was 78.9%. Demand for field crop production of cabbage, which has a relatively high-income level compared to rice farming, is increasing, and mechanization of the field operation is urgently needed due to the insufficient development of related farming machinery. In this study, a prototype fabrication and performance test of a tractor-attached cabbage collector was carried out. The transport section was divided into two parts, one for the feeding and transportation and the other for the screening and packaging to selectively collect cabbages in bulk bags or boxes. The length of the primary collecting conveyor was designed to meet the field conditions of the Korean cabbage cultivation standards so that six cultivation rows could be worked simultaneously. Power was controlled by a hydraulic transmission line of the tractor and was easily mounted onto the 3-point hitch links behind the tractor. When the performance was evaluated, the transfer rate, loss rate, damage rate, and work performance were 100, 0, 1.2%, and 1.9 h·10 a^-1. Final improvement and commercialization of the prototype would considerably contribute to the mechanization of harvesting cabbage, the main ingredient of Kimchi.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 1998년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.3-3
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• 1998

In this pressentation it is argued that the heterogeneity of a hydrologic attribute which may seem to be nonstationary at one scale, may become stationary at a larger scale. The fundamental reason for transformation from nonstationarity to stationarity whith the increase in scale is the phenomenon of coarse-graining of the hydrologic processes with increasing scale. Due to the phenomenon of aliasing, a particular scale hydrologic process heterogeneity which is observed as a nonstationary process at that scale, may be observed as a stationary process at a higher(larger) scale whose size is bigger than the stationary extent of the lower scale heterogeneity. As one goes through a hierarchical sequence of larger and larger scales for observations, one would eliminate nonstationarities which emerge at some lower scales at the expense of losing information on the high frequency fluctuations of the lower scale heterogeneities which will no longer be observed at the larger sampling scales. We call this phenimenon as the "coarse-graining in hydrologic observations". In this presentation, it is also argued that by the coarse-graining of hydrologic processes due to the averaging and aliasing operations at increasing scales, the conservation laws corresponging to these scales may still be quite parsimonious, and need not be more complicated as the scales get larger. It is shown that shen a higher(larger) scale process is formed by averaging a lower(smaller) scale process in time or space, the high frequency components of the lower scale process will be eliminated by the averaging operation. Thereby, the resuliiting average hydrologic dynamics, free from the effects of the high frequency components of the lower scale process, can still be quite simple in form. This is demonstrated by means of some recent upscaling work on the solute teansport conservation equation for hetergeneous aquifers. By means of this solute transport example, it is also shown that for the ensemble average form of a hydrologic conservation equation to be equivalent to its volume-average form at any scale, the parameter functions of that conservation equation at the immediately lower scale must be ergodic.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제42권7호
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• pp.579-589
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• 2009

황강은 1989년 합천 본댐 및 조정지댐의 건설후 하도폭, 하상재료, 식생 및 하천구간내 사주의 형성 등 많은 하천 지형학적 변화가 있었다. 이러한 변화는 댐 건설후 흐름 및 유사이송의 변화에 기인한다. 합천댐은 약 591천 $m^3$/년의 유사를 차단한 것으로 파악되었다. 조정지댐 준공후 연최대피크 방류량은 654.7 $m^3$/s에서 126.3 $m^3$/s로 감소되었다 (댐건설전의 19.3%). 합천조정지댐 하류로부터 낙동강 합류점까지 45 km 구간의 1982, 1993 및 2004년의 항공사진을 분석한 결과 비식생하도폭(non-vegetated active channel width)은 평균 152m 감소되었다 (1982년의 약 47%). 비식생하도의 면적 역시 평균 6.6$km^2$ (1982년의 44%)가 감소하였다. 평균 중앙입경(D50)의 크기는 1983년 및 2003년에 1.07mm에서 5.72 mm로 평균 하상구배는 0.000943에서 0.000847로 각각 변하였다. 하상 세굴깊이는 조정지댐으로 부터 하류 20 km 구간에서 평균 약 2.6 m였다. 1차원 유사모형인 GSTAR-1D를 이용하여 장기하상변동을 예측하였는데 최심하상고는 2013-2015년 사이에 안정된 상태에 도달하는 것으로 나타났다. 합천 조정지댐에 의해 홍수기에 발생되는 흐름파가 하류 하천 지형변화에 미치는 영향을 파악하기 위해 해석적인 방법을 개발하고 유사모의모형으로 예측한 값과 비교 검토한 결과, 일주기파(daily pulse)와 홍수피크(flood peak)는 각각의 평균값이 흐를 때와 비교하여 하천지형변화에 훨씬 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났는데 이는 각각의 평균일 경우 보다 21%와 15%의 유사이송량의 증가를 보여주었다.

• 지질공학
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.79-85
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• 2016

방사성폐기물 처분시설 공학적방벽을 구성하는 콘크리트는 주변 환경의 영향으로 내구 수명에 영향을 받게 된다. 현재까지 개발된 수치해석 모델 및 실험을 통하여 방사성폐기물 처분시설 공학적방벽 소재로 가장 널리 사용되는 콘크리트에 대해 주변환경을 고려하여 그 영향을 살펴보았다. 본 연구에 해당하는 철근 콘크리트 구조물은 지리적으로 해안과 인접한 지하수 포화대에 위치하고 있다. 일반적인 철근콘크리트 구조물의 가장 민감한 열화인자인 염해에 의한 철근부식에 대한 영향을 염화물 확산모델을 이용하여 평가한 결과 철근 부식 개시기간이 1,284년이며, 최종적으로 구조물이 내구수명을 상실하는데 도달하는 시간은 1,924년인 것으로 예측되었다. 또한, Mock-up 실험을 통해 공극분포, 공극률, 부식정도 등 물리화학적 특성을 평가한 결과 콘크리트 내 철근 부식정도는 미비한 것으로 나타나 500년 이상의 상당히 오랜 기간 건전성을 유지할 수 있는 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.47-51
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• 2001

비위생매립지 정비방안은 현장에 매립된 폐기물을 파내어 재활용 여부에 따라 처리방법을 달리하는 능동적 방법과 토질 역학적 안정을 피하여 사면부 불안정으로 야기되는 붕괴 및 폐기물, 침출수, 가스의 외부유출을 방지하는 수동적 방법이 있다. 이 논문에서는 매립지 사면부 붕괴에 따른 침출수 유출을 방지하기 위한 수동적 방법으로서의 지오크리트와 규산소다액의 적용가능성을 조사하였다. 배합비 I (지오크리트:규산소다액=1:3.9)과 배합비 H (1:2.5)의 7일 압축 강도는 5.95kg/$cm^3$, 17.05kg/$cm^3$으로 각각 나타나 매립지 공사 최소 허용강도인 5kg/$cm^3$을 상회하였다. 내산성시험 결과, 배합비 I, II의 압축강도는 급격히 감소하였다. 지오크리트와 규산소다액의 환경 독성을 판단하기 위한 어독성시험 결과, 주변환경에 대한 영향은 없는 것으로 나타났다. 한편 투수시험 결과, 배합비 I, II 모두 매립지 허용기준 $(1.0\times10_{-7}cm/sec)$을 만족하였다.

• 한국토양환경학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.3-12
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• 2000

다영역 모델은 Preferential 흐름에 대한 해석을 위하여 토양을 여러개의 공극군으로 나누고 각 토양의 수리학적 특성을 이용하여 토양내의 흐름을 표현한 방정식이다. 이 모델을 유한차분법을 이용하여 수치적으로 풀이할 때 해의 정확도와 일관성을 분석하기위해 수정등가편미분방정식(MEPDE)을 구하고, 안정성을 분석하기위해 Von Neumann법을 이용한다. 수정등가편미분방정식을 이용하여 얻은 유한차분계에 대한 평가는 모델방정식에 대하여 일관성이 있는 것으로 나타났고 모델방정식에 대한 유한차분법은 2차의 정확도를 얻었다. 모델방정식의 안정성 해석은 Von Neumann방법을 이용하여 진폭도와 위상지연을 구하고 이를 분석하였다. 유한차분계의 진폭비는 Peclet수의 변화에 관계없이 비분산적이었으며 Peclet수가 1.0일때 가장 큰 값을 나타냈고, 위상지연은 참값에 대한 빈도요소보다 더 느리게 파동함을 나타냈다. 모델방정식의 안정성 해석 결과, 모델의 영역분해는 보다 정확한 결과를 얻기 위해서 Peclet수는 1.0보다 작고 Courant수는 3.0보다 작은 범위 안에서 분해하는 것이 좋은 것으로 분석된다.