• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권7호
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• pp.2491-2509
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• 2022

As an important device in the nuclear island, the nuclear coolant pump can continuously provide power for medium circulation. The vane is one of the stationary parts in the nuclear coolant pump, which is installed between the impeller and the casing. The shape of the vane plays a significant role in the pump's overall performance and stability which are the important indicators during the safety serve process. Hence, the bionic concept is firstly applied into the design process of the vane to improve the performance of the nuclear coolant pump. Taking the scaled high-performance hydraulic model (on a scale of 1:2.5) of the coolant pump as the reference, a united bionic design approach is proposed for the unique structure of the guide vane of the nuclear coolant pump. Then, a new optimization design platform is established to output the optimal bionic vane. Finally, the comparative results and the corresponding mechanism are analyzed. The conclusions can be gotten as: (1) four parameters are introduced to configure the shape of the bionic blade, the significance of each parameter is herein demonstrated; (2) the optimal bionic vane is successfully obtained by the optimization design platform, the efficiency performance and the head performance of which can be improved by 1.6% and 1.27% respectively; (3) when compared to the original vane, the optimized bionic vane can improve the inner flow characteristics, namely, it can reduce the flow loss and decrease the pressure pulsation amplitude; (4) through the mechanism analysis, it can be found out that the bionic structure can induce the spanwise velocity and the vortices, which can reduce drag and suppress the boundary layer separation.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2020

원심펌프는 통상적으로 임펠러를 고속으로 회전시켜 원심력을 통해 유체 에너지를 전달하는 설비로서 기화용 해수펌프, 공업용수 및 해수를 사용하는 소화펌프 등 많은 LNG 생산기지에서 사용하고 있는 주요 프로세스 설비이다. 현재 LNG 플랜트 현장에서의 펌프는 장기간 수요처가 원하는 공급량에 따라 운전조건이 변동되어 펌프의 성능이 저하되고 있다. 특히 펌프는 플랜트 현장에서 소비 전략량의 많은 부분을 차지하고 있어, 최적의 운전조건을 찾지 못한다면 장기간 플랜트 운영 시 막대한 에너지 손실비용을 발생할 수 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 펌프의 운전조건별 변동에 따른 유동해석 및 결과분석을 통하여 성능저하 요인을 파악하고 최적의 운전조건을 확인하는 기술이 필요하다. 실험기법을 통해 운전 효율성 평가를 하기 위해서는 현장의 운전조건과 실험장비 제작 등 상당한 시간과 비용이 발생되기 때문에 신속하고 정확한 전산유체역학(CFD) 기법을 활용하여 본 연구에서 결과를 도출하였다. 펌프의 성능이 현장의 사정에 맞지 않아 펌프 성능을 줄일 필요가 있는 경우, 회전수에 변화를 주거나 고점도 혹은 고형물이 함유된 특수액을 사용하는 방법 등이 사용된다. 특히 LNG 생산기지의 설비운영에 차질이 발생하지 않도록 하기 위해 단시간 내에 펌프의 기존 임펠러를 가공하여 필요한 성능 조건을 만족시키는 기술이 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 펌프의 기존 회전차를 가공한 3D 모델링 형상을 적용하여 ANSYS CFX 프로그램으로 유동해석을 수행하였다. 유동해석 결과와 MATLAB 프로그램의 Curve Fitting Toolbox를 활용하여 수치 해석적으로 분석하여 회전차 외경수정 이론식을 검증하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제35권8호
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• pp.781-787
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 4단으로 구성된 LNG 플랜트용 프로판 냉매 원심 압축기 각 단의 설계점에 대해 상용 코드를 이용하여 공력설계를 하였다. 1차원 공력 설계 결과와 3차원 유로 형상의 타당성은 유동해석을 통해 확인하였다. 특히 입구전압이 높고 회전수가 큰 4단 압축기 임펠러의 유로와 베인리스 디퓨저 내부 유동에 대한 속도장, 압력장 및 엔트로피 등의 유동특성에 대해 고찰하였고, 아울러 익단 간극이 유동장에 미치는 영향에 대해서도 알아보았다. 본 연구 결과는 프로판 냉매 압축기의 시스템 제작에 활용될 것이며 추후 실제 실험결과와 비교하고자 한다. 향후 설계된 프로판 냉매압축기에 대한 LNG 플랜트에서의 실증시험을 통해 구체적인 설계결과에 대한 평가 및 설계 개선이 이루어지리라 생각한다.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.129-135
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• 2016

There have been many types of development and commercialization efforts for superconducting power applications with the continuous development of High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) conductors. In particular, HTS power cables are going to be commercialized in real power grids. A cryogenic refrigeration system should be used to keep it below 77 K, and its required cooling capacity continuously increases as the unit length of the HTS power cable increases. Among the many kinds of cryogenic refrigerator, a reverse Brayton refrigerator that uses turbo expanders is a promising refrigerator due to its efficiency and reliability. Among the various components in refrigerators, the cryogenic turbo-expander is the most important part for increasing efficiency and assuring reliability. The design of a 300 W class turbo-expander is described in this paper prior to the development of a 10 kW class turbo expander, which is the required capability for the commercialization of a HTS power cable. The impeller shape and rotation speed are determined based on the cycle analysis. The Eigen frequency and harmonic analysis are conducted with gas bearings at cryogenic temperatures to determine the operational stability.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.803-808
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• 2006

This paper was a study about noise reduction through flow stabilization in duel using experimental method and numerical analysis at the same time. To determine the fan's type three kinds of fans(axial fan, centrifugal fan, and axial fan with centrifugal type) was examined to investigate the suitability for duct. As a result, under the equal number of rotation 2000 RPM, performance of an axial fan with centrifugal type was the most superior by 55dBA at 4.3CMM among other fans. After this, analyzed the results of the numerical analysis to find out the optimum design of pitch angle such as $0^{\circ},\;10^{\circ},\;15^{\circ}\;and\;20^{\circ}$. The intensity of turbulence was low when pitch angle was $15^{\circ}$ and air volume became peak by 5.08 CMM. It was observed that axis component of velocity increased gradually when pitch angle increased from $0^{\circ}\;to\;20^{\circ}$. Finally, designed the shapes of D/S(Down Stream) in duct that agreed inlet angle($\delta$) of stationary blades with pitch angle($\beta$) of axial fan with centrifugal type and derived flow to duct medial, and changed the shape of motor-mount to reduce occurance of unstable vortex in tip of impeller, and embodied noise reduction and improvement of air flow rate through flow stabilization.

• 대한치과기공학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.9-19
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• 2001

Microstructure and phase transformation of Ti-Ni-Cu alloy powders produced by using attrition milling method were studied. Mixed powders of Ti-(50-X)Ni-XCu ($X=0{\sim}20$ at%) in composition range were mechanically alloyed for maximum 20 hours by using SUS 1/4" ball in argon atmosphere. Ball to powder ratio was 50: 1 and impeller speed was 350rpm. Mechanically alloyed with attrition millimg method. powder was heat treated at the temperature up to $850^{\circ}C$ for 1 hour in the $10^{-6}$ torr vacuum. Ti-Ni-Cu alloy powders have been fabricated by attrition milling method. and then phase transformation behaviours and microstructual properties of the alloy powders were investigated to assist in improving the the high damping capacity of Ti-Ni-Cu shape memory alloy powders. The results obtained are as follows: 1. After heat treating of fully mechanically alloyed powder at $850^{\circ}C$ for 1hour. most of the B2 and B 19' phases was formed and $TiNi_3$ were coexisted. 2. The B 19' martensite were formed in Ti-Ni-Cu alloy powders whose Cu-content is less than 5a/o. where as the B19 martensite in those whose Cu-content is more than 10at%. 3. The powders of as-milled Ti-Ni-Cu alloys whose Cu-contents is less than 5at% are amorphous. whereas those of as-milled Ti-Ni-Cu alloys whose Cu-content is more than 10at% are crystalline. This means that Cu addition tends to suppress amorphization of Ti-Ni alloy powders.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제35권11호
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• pp.1191-1198
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• 2011

심실보조장치는 말기 심부전환자에게 심장이식수술 없이 1 년 생존율을 25%에서 52%까지 증가 시킬 수 있는 유일한 장치이다. 하지만 심실보조장치 이식 후 1 년이 이내에 사망하는 원인 중 기기의 고장으로 인한 사망률이 6%를 차지하기 때문에 심실보조장치의 고장이 환자의 심장 움직임과 혈류 역학적인 상태에 영향을 주지 않는 새로운 방법이 필요하다. 기존의 심실보조장치는 원심형, 축심형으로 혈액을 박출해 주는 방식이어서 동맥압 보다 박출하는 압력이 낮을 때 혈액의 역류가 일어나는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 박출 압력이 약할 때, 2 개의 밸브에 의하여 혈액의 역류를 방지하고 관형태의 구조에 의해 혈액의 정체량을 줄일 수 있는 새로운 박동형 관형 심실보조장치를 개발하였으며, 체외실험과 동물실험으로 박출량과 펌프의 압력을 측정하여 그 특성을 평가하였다.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2010

The performance of the crossover system of a centrifugal compressor stage consisting of static components of $180^{\circ}$ U-bend, return channel vanes and exit ducting with a $90^{\circ}$ bend is investigated. This study is confined to the assessment of performance of the crossover system by varying the shape of the return channel vanes. For this purpose two different types of Return Channel Vanes (RCV1 and RCV2) were experimentally investigated. The performance of the crossover system is discussed in terms of total pressure loss coefficient, static pressure recovery coefficient and vane surface pressure distribution. The experimentation was carried out on a test setup in which static swirl vanes were used to simulate the flow at the exit of an actual centrifugal compressor impeller with a design flow coefficient of 0.053. The swirl vanes are connected to a mechanism with which the flow angle at the inlet of U-bend could be altered. The measurements were taken at five different operating conditions varying from 70% to 120% of design flow rate. On an overall assessment RCV1 is found to give better performance in comparison to RCV2 for different U-bend inlet flow angles. The performance of RCV2 was verified using numerical studies with the help of a CFD Code. Three dimensional sector models were used for simulating the flow through the crossover system. The turbulence was predicted with standard k-$\varepsilon$, 2-equation model. The iso-Mach contour plots on different planes and development of secondary flows were visualized through this study.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.83-92
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• 2019

A pump is considered to be submersible when a motor and a pump are integrated and operate while submerged in water. Submersible pumps mainly function as rejection pumps to prevent foods in densely populated areas, as cold water circulation pumps in large power plants, as pumps to supply irrigation water, as drainage pumps to prevent flooding of agricultural lands, as water supply intake pumps, and as inflow pumps for sewage treatment. The flow in such turbomachines (submersible pumps) inevitably involves various eddy currents. Since it is almost impossible to accurately grasp the complex three-dimensional flow structure and characteristics of a rotating turbomachine through actual testing, three-dimensional numerical analysis using computational fluid dynamics techniques measuring the flow field, velocity, and the pressure can be accurately predicted. In this study, the shape of the impeller was developed to reduce vibration and noise. This was done by increasing the efficiency of the existing submersible pump and reducing turbulence. In order to evaluate the pump's efficiency and turbulence reduction, we tried to analyze the flow using ANSYS Fluent V15.0, a commercial finite element analysis program. The results show that the efficiency of the pump was improved by 4.24% and the Reynolds number was reduced by 15.6%. The performance of a developed pump with reduced turbulence, vibration, and noise was confirmed.

• 청정기술
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.34-45
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• 2007

고지혈증 치료제로 잘 알려져 있는 난용성 약물인 심바스타틴(simvastatin)을 대상으로 디클로로메탄을 용매로 사용하고 초임계 이산화탄소를 역용매로 사용하는 초임계 역용매 재결정법에 의해 약물 미세입자를 제조할 때, 운전 조건을 설정하는데 활용될 수 있는 가이드 라인을 제공하기 위하여 simvastatin/디클로로메탄/초임계 이산화탄소 3성분계 혼합물의 상거동을 연구하였다. 가변부피 투시 셀이 장착된 고압 상평형 장치를 사용하여 여러 가지 조건에서 3성분계 혼합물의 구름점(cloud point)을 측정함으로서 디클로로메탄과 초임계 이산화탄소의 혼합용매에서 simvastatin의 용해도를 온도, 압력, 용매 조성의 함수로 결정하였다. 주어진 온도에서 Simvastatin 약물의 용해도는 디클로로메탄의 조성과 압력이 증가할수록 온도가 감소할수록 증가하였다. 상거동 데이터를 바탕으로 교반기가 설치된 실린더 모양의 고압 용기에서 초임계 역용매 재결정 공정을 이용하여 simvastatin 약물을 미세입자로 제조하는 연구를 수행하였다. 운전 조건인 압력 ($8{\sim}12\;MPa$), 온도(303.15 K, 313.15 K), 이산화탄소 공급 속도, 교반 속도 (최대 3,000 rpm)를 변화시키면서 simvastatin 미세입자를 제조함으로써 재결정되는 약물 입자의 크기와 모양에 미치는 공정 변수들의 영향을 관찰하였다.