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Feedwater Flow Rate Evaluation of Nuclear Power Plants Using Wavelet Analysis and Artificial Neural Networks (웨이블릿 해석과 인공 신경회로망을 이용한 원자력발전소의 급수유량 평가)

  • Yu, Sung-Sik;Seo, Jong-Tae;Park, Jong-Ho
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.12a
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    • pp.346-353
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    • 2002
  • The steam generator feedwater flow rate in a nuclear power plant was estimated by means of artificial neural networks with the wavelet analysis for enhanced information extraction. The fouling of venturi meters, used for steam generator feedwater flow rate in pressurized water reactors, may result in unnecessary plant power derating. The backpropagation network was used to generate models of signals for a pressurized water reactor. Multiple-input single-output heteroassociative networks were used for evaluating the feedwater flow rate as a function of a set of related variables. The wavelet was used as a low pass filter eliminating the noise from the raw signals. The results have shown that possible fouling of venturi can be detected by neural networks, and the feedwater flow rate can be predicted as an alternative to existing methods. The research has also indicated that the decomposition of signals by wavelet transform is a powerful approach to signal analysis for denoising.

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Reynolds Number Effect on Regenerative Pump Performance in Low Reynolds Number Range

  • Horiguchi, Hironori;Yumiba, Daisuke;Tsujimoto, Yoshinobu;Sakagami, Masaaki;Tanaka, Shigeo
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.101-108
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    • 2008
  • The effect of Reynolds number on the performance of a regenerative pump was examined in a low Reynolds number range in experiment. The head of the regenerative pump increased at low flow rates and decreased at high flow rates as the Reynolds number decreased. The computation of the internal flow was made to clarify the cause of the Reynolds number effect. At low flow rates, the head is decreased with increasing the Reynolds number due to the decrease of the shear force exerted by the impeller caused by the increase of leakage and hence local flow rate. At higher flow rates, the head is increased with increasing the Reynolds number with decreased loss at the inlet and outlet as well as the decreased shear stress on the casing wall.

Evaluation of the Contribution Ratio that the Pollution Loads of the Drainage Areas Affect Soyang-lake (배수구역의 유달오염부하량이 소양호 유역에 미치는 기여율 평가)

  • Park, Soo-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.15 no.8
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    • pp.5363-5368
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    • 2014
  • This study examined contribution rate on the Soyangho Lake watershed based on the flow regime, and seasonal change was evaluated by calculating the delivery pollution load of the drainage area of Soyangho Lake watershed. According to the contribution rate of the drainage area by the flow regime change, Inbukcheon Creek watershed's SS and T-P entry have recorded abnormal Six month flow and a contribution rate of 46% and 51% during the Low-water flow period. At the same time, the T-P recorded a 49.5% contribution rate and a contribution rate of 48.5% during the Low-water flow period. In sequence, Inbukcheon creek's SS entry recorded a comparatively higher contribution rate than the other drainage area, which are 39.6% and 44.3% during the entire season and 53.8% for T-P, as a result of observing the contribution rate based on the seasonal changes. The T-N at the Naerincheon Creek watershed for the entire season recorded a contribution rate between 39.6% and 44.3%. Overall, Inbukcheon Creek watershed's SS and T-P entry and Naerincheon creek's T-N had a high contribution rate on contaminant spill.

Hydrodynamic Design of Thrust Ring Pump for Large Hydro Turbine Generator Units

  • Lai, Xide;Zhang, Xiang;Chen, Xiaoming;Yang, Shifu
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.46-54
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    • 2015
  • Thrust-ring-pump is a kind of extreme-low specific speed centrifugal pump with special structure as numerous restrictions from thrust bearing and operation conditions of hydro-generator units. Because the oil circulatory and cooling system with thrust-ring-pump has a lot of advantages in maintenance and compactness in structure, it has widely been used in large and medium-sized hydro-generator units. Since the diameter and the speed of the thrust ring is limited by the generator set, the matching relationship between the flow passage inside the thrust ring (equivalent to impeller) and oil bath (equivalent to volute) has great influence on hydrodynamic performance of thrust-ring-pump. On another hand, the head and flow rate are varying with the operation conditions of hydro-generator units and the oil circulatory and cooling system. As so far, the empirical calculation method is employed during the actual engineering design, in order to guarantee the operating performance of the oil circulatory and cooling system with thrust-ring-pump at different conditions, a collaborative hydrodynamic design and optimization is purposed in this paper. Firstly, the head and flow rate at different conditions are decided by 1D flow numerical simulation of the oil circulatory and cooling system. Secondly, the flow passages of thrust-ring-pump are empirically designed under the restrictions of diameter and the speed of the thrust ring according to the head and flow rate from the simulation. Thirdly, the flow passage geometry matching optimization between thrust ring and oil bath is implemented by means of 3D flow simulation and performance prediction. Then, the pumps and the oil circulatory and cooling system are collaborative hydrodynamic optimized with predicted head-flow rate curve and the efficiency-flow rate curve of thrust-ring-pump. The presented methodology has been adopted by DFEM in design process of thrust-ring-pump and it shown can effectively improve the performance of whole system.

A Study about Ozonized Water Making that Use $O_3$ (오존화 기체를 이용한 오존수 제조에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Hyun-Mi;Lee, Chang-Ho;Lee, Sang-Geun;Song, Hyun-Jig;Yoon, Byeng-Han;Lim, Chang-Ho;Lee, Kwang-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.339-342
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    • 2004
  • It is research about special quality of ozone gas concentration and dissolved ozone concentration that show according to change of flow rate when liquefied ozone gas in water. If increase flow rate of ozone gas, ozone concentration increases being proportional and amount to fixed flow rate, dissolved ozone concentration was measured low. When ozone concentration How rate 1000 [ppm], dissolved ozone concentration smelted to flow rate 1.5[Q] for 28 [min] is $0.1740{\sim}0.8020[mg/l]$. Could know that half-life is most short by 3 minutes 8 seconds in flow rate 1.5 [Q]. And ozone smelted 20 minutes later after half-life measurement became disjointing all.

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Rotating Choke and Choked Surge in an Axial Pump Impeller

  • Watanabe, Toshifumi;Sato, Hideyoshi;Henmi, Yasuhiko;Horiguchi, Hironori;Kawata, Yutaka;Tsujimoto, Yoshinobu
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.232-238
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    • 2009
  • Unlike usual turbopump inducers, the axial flow pump tested operates very stably at design flow rate without rotating cavitation nor cavitation surge. Flow visualization suggests that this is because the tip cavity smoothly extends into the flow passage without the interaction with the leading edge of the next blade. However, at low flow rate and low cavitation number, choked surge and rotating choke were observed. Their correlation with the performance curve under cavitation is discussed and their instantaneous flow fields are shown.

Convection in the growth of zinc telluride single crystal by physical vapor transport

  • Kim, Geug-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.187-198
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    • 2003
  • Zinc selenide (ZnSe) single crystals hold promise for many electro-optics, acousto-optic and green laser generation applications. This material is prepared in closed ampoules by the physical vapor transport (PVT) growth method based on the dissociative sublimation. We investigate the effects of diffusive-convection on the crystal growth rate of ZnSe with a low vapor pressure system in a horizontal configuration. Our results show that for the ratios of partial pressures, s=0.2 and 2.9, the growth rate increases with the Peclet number and the temperature differences between the source and crystal. As the ratio of partial pressures approaches the stoichiometric value of 2, the rate increases. The mass fluk based on one dimensional (1D model) flow for low vapor pressure system fall within the range of the predictions (2D model) obtained by solving the coupled set of conservation equations, which indicates the flow fields would be advective-diffusive. Therefore, the rate and the flow fields are independent of gravity acceleration levels.

CHARACTERISTIC OF BUTTERFLY VALVE FLOW WITH DIFFERENT DESIGN FACTORS (설계인자 변경에 따른 버터플라이 밸브 유동 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, J.W.;Choi, H.K.;Yoo, G.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.170-176
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    • 2009
  • Flow control butterfly valve(FCBV) is known to have difficulty in controlling flow rate along valve opening due to its high flow rate. In low opening condition, the butterfly valve also has some shortcomings such as noise, vibration and erosion which are mostly caused by cavitation effects. Therefore, the FCBV requires proper remedies to reduce cavitation effects and to improve flow control performance. Numerical analysis is applied to FCBV flow to find effects of design factors such as seat diameter and valve opening rate. Cases with 3 different sizes of seat diameter and various valve opening rate are selected for the numerical analysis. From the analysis results, it is found that the FCBV with small seat diameter shows better pressure loss performance and reduced cavitation effects.

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CHARACTERISTIC OF BUTTERFLY VALVE FLOW WITH DIFFERENT DESIGN FACTORS (설계인자 변경에 따른 버터플라이 밸브 유동 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, J.W.;Choi, H.K.;Yoo, G.J.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.64-70
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    • 2010
  • Flow control butterfly valve(FCBV) is known to have difficulty in controlling flow rate along valve opening due to its high flow rate. In low opening condition, the butterfly valve also has some shortcomings such as noise, vibration and erosion which are mostly caused by cavitation effects. Therefore, the FCBV requires proper remedies to reduce cavitation effects and to improve flow control performance. Numerical analysis is applied to FCBV flow to find effects of design factors such as seat diameter and valve opening rate. Cases with 3 different sizes of seat diameter and various valve opening rate are selected for the numerical analysis. From the analysis results, it is found that the FCBV with small seat diameter shows better pressure loss performance and reduced cavitation effects.

A Study for Numerical Analysis of Flow Variation on Low Pressure Fuel Pump Fluid using Excavator Engine (굴삭기 엔진용 저압연료펌프 유체의 유동변화에 대한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Lee, IL Kwon;Kim, Seung Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.47-53
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    • 2015
  • This paper is to study applying for numerical analysis method for flow field, velocity and pressure of fuel on the low pressure pump using excavator. The pressure distribution of fuel pump certified the linear variation according to rotation angle of rotor. Especially, it knew the fact that the pressure in rotation angle $40^{\circ}$ appeared high outlet and low inlet of fuel pump. Also, this range angle can seek the fact that the leakage flow and velocity are the most increasing. And the more rotor rotation of fuel pump, the more mean outlet flow rate increased in linear. Whenever the gap size decrease with rotor and housing, the discharge flow rate could seek the approaching 0.0712kg/s that consider with theory discharge flow rate calculated from displacement between rotor gear and idle gear.