• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2011

Pressurized Water Reactor Owners Group(PWROG) proposed and applied a risk-informed inservice inspection(RI-ISI) program to alternate existing ASME Section XI periodic inspections. The RI-ISI programs enhance overall safety by focusing inspections of piping at high safety significant(HSS) and locations where failure mechanisms are likely to be present, and by improving the effectiveness on inspection of components because the examination methods are based on the postulated failure mode and the configuration of the piping structural element. The RI-ISI programs can reduce NDE, man-rem exposure, costs of engineering analysis, outage duration and chance of complicating plant operations etc. RI-ISI methods of piping inservice inspection were applied on 3 units(KSNP : Korea Standard Nuclear Power Plant) and are scheduled to apply on the other units. In this paper, we compared and showed the results of the 2 units and we concluded that the RI-ISI application could enhance and maintain plant safety and give unquantifiable benefits.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.183-190
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• 2008

Pyroprocessing is the optimal means of treating spent metal fuels from metal fast fuel reactors and is proposed as a potential option for GNEP in order to meet the requirements of the next generation fuel cycle. Currently, efforts for research and development are being made not only in the U.S., but also in Asian countries. Electrorefining, cathode processing by distillation, injection casting for fuel fabrication, and waste treatment must be verified by the use of genuine materials, and the engineering scale model of each device must be developed for commercial deployment. Pyroprocessing can be effectively extended to treat oxide fuels by applying an electrochemical reduction, for which various kinds of oxides are examined. A typical morphology change was observed following the electrochemical reduction, while the product composition was estimated through the process flow diagram. The products include much stronger radiation emitter than pure typical LWR Pu or weapon-grade Pu. Nevertheless, institutional measures are unavoidable to ensure proliferation-proof plant operations. The safeguard concept of a pyroprocessing plant was compared with that of a PUREX plant. The pyroprocessing is better adapted for a collocation system positioned with some reactors and a single processing facility rather than for a centralized reprocessing unit with a large scale throughput.

• 한국건설관리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건설관리학회 2007년도 정기학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.647-651
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• 2007

1990년대 초반 제조업의 린 이론에서 응용된 린 건설은 생산성 향상을 위한 이론적 토대 및 실무 적용성이 우수한 모델로서, 낭비요인을 최소화함으로써 수요자가 얻는 가치의 극대회를 목표로 하고 있다. 또한, 린 건설의 요소기술중 라스트플래너시스템(LPS) 방식은 참여자의 협력관계 증진과 일정계획의 실행여부 측정 및 원인분석을 통하여 변이를 저감하며, 궁극적으로 작업의 신뢰도 향상을 지향하고 있다. 본 연구는 플랜트 건설공사 프로세스중 자재조달 및 시운전 단계를 LPS를 활용한 발주자 주도형 린 건설 모델이 생산성 및 가치 향상에 긍정적임을 도출하고, 실무적용을 위한 Framework을 제시하고자 한다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.484-494
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• 2017

In industrial plants such as nuclear power plants, system operations are performed by embedded controllers orchestrated by Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) software. A targeted attack (also termed a control aware attack) on the controller/SCADA software can lead a control system to operate in an unsafe mode or sometimes to complete shutdown of the plant. Such malware attacks can result in tremendous cost to the organization for recovery, cleanup, and maintenance activity. SCADA systems in operational mode generate huge log files. These files are useful in analysis of the plant behavior and diagnostics during an ongoing attack. However, they are bulky and difficult for manual inspection. Data mining techniques such as least squares approximation and computational methods can be used in the analysis of logs and to take proactive actions when required. This paper explores methodologies and algorithms so as to develop an effective monitoring scheme against control aware cyber attacks. It also explains soft computation techniques such as the computational geometric method and least squares approximation that can be effective in monitor design. This paper provides insights into diagnostic monitoring of its effectiveness by attack simulations on a four-tank model and using computation techniques to diagnose it. Cyber security of instrumentation and control systems used in nuclear power plants is of paramount importance and hence could be a possible target of such applications.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2021

Chemical decontamination of primary systems in a nuclear power plant (NPP) prior to commencing the main decommissioning activities is required to reduce radiation exposure during its process. The entire process is repeated until the desired decontamination factor is obtained. To achieve improved decontamination factors over a shorter time with fewer cycles, the appropriate flow characteristics are required. In addition, to prepare an operating procedure that is adaptable to various conditions and situations, the transient analysis results would be required for operator action and system impact assessment. In this study, the flow characteristics in the steady-state and transient conditions for the chemical decontamination operations of the Kori-1 NPP were analyzed and compared via the MARS-KS code simulation. Loss of residual heat removal (RHR) and steam generator tube rupture (SGTR) simulations were conducted for the postulated abnormal events. Loss of RHR results showed the reactor coolant system (RCS) temperature increase, which can damage the reactor coolant pump (RCP)s by its cavitation. The SGTR results indicated a void formation in the RCS interior by the decrease in pressurizer (PZR) pressure, which can cause surface exposure and tripping of the RCPs unless proper actions are taken before the required pressure limit is achieved.

• 대한기계학회논문집 C: 기술과 교육
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.89-97
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• 2014

내륙의 주전력 공급계통과 단절되어 있는 도서지역은 대부분의 전력공급을 디젤발전설비가 담당하고 있다. 디젤발전설비는 특성상 예방정비 및 유지보수를 통해 사용수명을 연장시킬 수 있으나, 계속 사용에 따른 기계설비의 노후화 및 발전 효율 감소로 인해 운영비가 증가한다. 즉, 적기에 노후 발전설비를 교체할 경우 발전소 운영비용을 줄일 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 디젤발전설비의 상태를 대표할 수 있는 지표를 도출하고, 몬테카를로 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 각 지표별 민감도 분석을 수행하고자 한다. 이를 통해 디젤발전설비의 현상태를 정량적으로 나타낼 수 있는 상태점수를 정의하고 이를 바탕으로 설비 교체의 기준을 마련하고자 한다.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.147-154
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 자동차 도장 공장의 가장 큰 낭비 요소인 상도 공정의 세정 비용의 절감 및 환경 보호를 목적으로 상도 공정 이전의 각 컨베이어 연결점에서의 운영 알고리즘 변경시의 셋업 감소 효과를 시뮬레이션 모델링을 통해 분석하였다. 또한 본 연구의 동기가 된 도장 공정에서의 세정 비용 최소화 프로젝트 및 도장 공장 현황에 대해 설명하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 컨베이어 연결점에서의 운영 알고리즘 개선시 현재 1.8대의 그룹화 효율을 2.5대 수준으로 향상시킬 수 있음을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구에서 적용한 접근법을 사용할 경우 그룹화 효율 향상에 별도 설비 투자가 필요 없고, CRS(Color Rescheduling Storage) 설치와 병행 적용하여 그룹화 효율을 더욱 향상시킬 수 있는 이점을 가지고 있다.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.87-96
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• 1998

Using the concept of cellular manufacturing systems(CMS) in job shop manufacturing system is one of the most innovative approaches to improving plant productivity. However. several constraints in machine duplication cost, machining capability, cell space capacity, intercell moves and exceptional elements(EEs) are main problems that prevent achieving the goal of maintaining an ideal CMS environment. Minimizing intercell part traffics and EEs are the main objective of the cell formation problem because it is a critical point that improving production efficiency. Because the intercell moves could be changed according to the sequence of operation, it should be considered in assigning parts and machines to machine ceil. This paper presents a method that eliminates EEs under the constraints of machine duplication cost and ceil space capacity attaining two goals of minimizing machine duplications and minimizing intercell moves simultaneously. Developing an algorithm that calculates the machine duplications by cell-machine incidence matrix and part-machine Incidence matrix, and calculates the exact intercell moves considering the sequence of operation. Based on the number of machine duplications and exact intercell moves, the goal programming model which satisfying minimum machine duplications and minimum intercell moves is developed. A linear programming model is suggested that could calculates more effectively without damaging optimal solution. A numerical example is provided to illustrate these methods.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2009

The risk assessment of thermal hazard to identify chemical or process hazard during early process developments have been considered. The early identification of thermal hazards associated with a process, such as rapid heats of reaction, exothermic decompositions, and the potential for thermal runaways before any large scale operations are undertaken. This paper presents to evaluate the safe operating parameters/envelope for exist plant operations. The assessment of thermal hazard with operating conditions such as amount of process materials, inhibitor, and catalyst on esterification process in manufacture of concrete mixture agents are described. The experiments were performed by a sort of calorimetry with the Multimax reactor system as a screening tool. The aim of the study was to evaluate the thermal risk of process material and mixture in terms of safety security to be practical applications in esterification process. It suggested that we should provide the thermal hazard of reaction materials to present safe operating conditions with cause of accident through this study.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회/대한산업공학회 2003년도 춘계공동학술대회
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• pp.137-144
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• 2003

We consider Two-echelon Single source Capacitated Facility Location Problem (TSCFLP). TSCFLP is a variant or Capacitated Facility Location Problem (CFLP). which has been an important issue in boa academic and industrial aspects. Given a set or possible facility locations in two echelons (warehouse / plant), a set or customers, TSCFLP is a decision problem to find a set or facility locations to open and to determine an allocation schedule that satisfies the demands or the customers and the capacity constraints or the facilities, while minimizing the overall cost. It ran be shown that TSCFLP Is strongly NP-hard For TSCFLf, few algorithms are known. which are heuristics. We propose a disaggregated version or the standard mixed integer programming formulation or TSCFLP We also provide a class or valid Inequalities Branch-and-price algorithm with rutting plane method Is used to find an optimal solution Efficient branching strategy compatible with subproblem optimization problems Is also provided. We report computational results or tests on 15 randomly generated instances.