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Fundamental Study for Ocean Wave Energy Converter Using a Rack-Pinion Gear Based One-way Mechanism (일방향 기구 기반 랙-피니언 기어를 이용한 병진형 파력발전장치에 대한 기초연구)

  • Lee, Junkyoung;Cho, Sungil;Lee, Sehan;Lee, Sangchun;No, Hyunchul
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.167.1-167.1
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    • 2011
  • Sustainable energy generation is becoming extremely imperative due to the expected limitations in current energy resources and to reduce pollution. Especially, because of its considerable energy potential, ocean wave energy has been investigated with regard to power generation. To develop large high power wave generator system, it is important to make a small scale proto type and to test that. Thus the objective of this research is to examine the characteristics of a mechanically excited generator system having small power capacity experimentally. The water reservoir (4 m length, 1.5 m width and 1.8 m depth) having a wave maker to make arbitrary height and period of the water wave was made. The proto type consists of three main parts; a buoy, rack-pinion base one-way mechanism, and a wave generator(Fig.1). The water wave is going up and down and the hexahedron buoy is following the wave. The rack gear attached to the buoy is also going up and down to roll the pinion connected to an electric generator then it produces electricity. The experiments were performed with several conditions of water waves, and the power outputs over 30 W could be measured for some conditions. In future works, to achieve higher performance for the proto type, the effects of primary parameters (buoy shape and mass, etc.) on the system efficiency will be identified.

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Experimental validation of the seismic analysis methodology for free-standing spent fuel racks

  • Merino, Alberto Gonzalez;Pena, Luis Costas de la;Gonzalez, Arturo
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.3
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    • pp.884-893
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    • 2019
  • Spent fuel racks are steel structures used in the storage of the spent fuel removed from the nuclear power reactor. Rack units are submerged in the depths of the spent fuel pool to keep the fuel cool. Their free-standing design isolates their bases from the pool floor reducing structural stresses in case of seismic event. However, these singular features complicate their seismic analysis which involves a transient dynamic response with geometrical nonlinearities and fluid-structure interactions. An accurate estimation of the response is essential to achieve a safe pool layout and a reliable structural design. An analysis methodology based on the hydrodynamic mass concept and implicit integration algorithms was developed ad-hoc, but some dispersion of results still remains. In order to validate the analysis methodology, vibration tests are carried out on a reduced scale mock-up of a 2-rack system. The two rack mockups are submerged in free-standing conditions inside a rigid pool tank loaded with fake fuel assemblies and subjected to accelerations on a unidirectional shaking table. This article compares the experimental data with the numerical outputs of a finite element model built in ANSYS Mechanical. The in-phase motion of both units is highlighted and the water coupling effect is detailed. Results show a good agreement validating the methodology.

A Study on Class-based Turnover Assignment in Automated Storage/Retrieval Systems with Continuous Rectangular Rack Face in Time

  • Hwang, Hark;Koh, Sie-Gheun;Jang, Gil-Sang
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.31-42
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    • 1988
  • This paper studies class-based turnover assignment rule in terms of the expected travel time in automated storage/retrieval systems (AS/RS). With the rack face not necessarily in square in time, travel time models of two and three-class systems are developed, from which class partition values are determined for single command cycle. Also, the effects of the system parameters such as the rack shape factor and the skewness of the ABC curve are evaluated on the travel time through example problems.

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Travel-Time Models for Class-Based AS/RS Systems

  • Lee, Young-Hae;Cho, Yong-Seong
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.119-130
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    • 1989
  • This paper presents average travel time models automated warehousing system where the stacker crane transports only one pallet at a time with the tchebychev travel, I/O point is located at the cornor of the rack, and items are stored by the class-based storage assignment rule. In this study, the racks are treated as the continuous rectangle in time and a statistical approach was used to develop the models. In order to test the proposed models, average travel times determined by the models are compared with the true values for various rack shapes.

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Warehouse Design with Discrete Characteristic of Rack (Rack의 이산적 특성을 고려한 창고설계)

  • 김성태
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.18 no.36
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    • pp.183-191
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    • 1995
  • When designing a warehouse, one has to recognize that the number of racks in a warehouse takes on only integer value in reality. The existing solution procedures based on noninteger values may result in poor outcomes for the design of a warehouse. This paper deals with the determination of the optimal integer for the number of racks that minimize the total material handling cost associated with the warehouse. An optimum search procedure is proposed here and a number of numerical examples are used to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed procedure.

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The Design of Multiplexing Data Acquisition System for Multi Channel Bio-magnetic Signal (다채널 생채 자기 신호의 다중 데이터 획득 시스템 설계)

  • Chang, Won-Suk;Jeon, Chang-Ik;Huh, Young;Jin, Seung-Oh;Kim, Ki-Uk;Lee, Hyun-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2003.11c
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    • pp.515-518
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    • 2003
  • The electrical current generated by heart creates not only electric potential but also a magnetic field. In this paper, we have designed the multiplexing data acquisition system for multichannel bio-magnetic signal measurement. The system consists of VXI rack which is organized MUX and AD board, Industrial rack which is mounted single board computer and DSP board. This system enable to realtime monitoring of multichannel data simultaneously. The number of channel could be increased simply added each module and firmware could be upgraded easily using host port interface of DSP.

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A Study on the Reliability of Storage/Retrieval for Warehouse Layout Based on Shuttle Rack System (셔틀랙 기반 물류센터의 레이아웃별 반출입 신뢰성에 관한 연구)

  • Seung-Pil Lee;Hyeon-Soo Shin;Hwan-Seong Kim
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2021.11a
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    • pp.101-103
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    • 2021
  • With the rapid increase in the quantity of goods transported worldwide, companies are now started to show great interest in unmanned automated warehouses along with related research and development due to the increase of warehouse efficiency and reduction warehouse manpower. In a number of small warehouses, shuttle rack-based layouts that can handle inventory flow flexibly. However, the shuttle rack-based logistics center does not operate in case of emergency situations (faults, power outages, etc.), which seriously affects the efficiency and inventory management of the entire logistics center. Accordingly, in shuttle rack-based logistics center, we have classified various shuttle passages and RTV passages by layout and have analyzed its characteristics and types, along with derived reliability for each layout. The loading rate was also derived differently according to the number of passages, and have compared and analyzed reliability and loading rate for each layout.

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Block Smart Rack Technology Development for Increased Efficiency (효율성 증가를 위한 블록 단위 스마트 랙 기술 개발)

  • Tae, Hyo-Sik;Park, Koo-Rack
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.11-16
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    • 2015
  • Data center, not only the development of globally of cloud-based IT solutions, As the big data, education, use of development electronic equipment of communication means is increased, Demand of domestic and international data center has increased steadily. Due to the increase of data center demand, heat generation of server rack due to the development of IT equipment is also increasing continuously. Calculating heat value of the data center, because more than 99% of the power usage of IT server is converted into heat, the calorific value as the size and capacity of the server is larger will increase. In this paper, to center the cooling system of air-cooled, and research and development of air conditioning systems for energy reduction of data center, through performance analysis and simulation, it has been analyzed that there is energy savings.

Pitting Life for RRP System (RRP 시스템의 피팅수명)

  • Kim, Chang-Hyun;Nam, Hyung-Chul;Kwon, Soon-Man
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.387-393
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    • 2012
  • A roller rack pinion (RRP) system, which consists of a rack-bar and a cam pinion, transforms a rotation motion into a linear one. The rack-bar has a series of roller trains, and meshes with the cam pinion. This paper first proposes the exact tooth profile of the cam pinion and the non-undercut condition to satisfy the required performance by introducing the profile shift coefficient. The paper then investigates the load stress factors under various shape design parameters to predict the gear surface fatigue limit, which was strongly related to the gear noise and vibration at the contact patch. The results show that the pitting life can be extended significantly with an increase in the profile shift coefficient.