• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.603-616
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• 2007

Roy Huddle, having invented the coated particle in Harwell 1957, stated in the early 1970s that we know now everything about particles and coatings and should be going over to deal with other problems. This was on the occasion of the Dragon fuel performance information meeting London 1973: How wrong a genius be! It took until 1978 that really good particles were made in Germany, then during the Japanese HTTR production in the 1990s and finally the Chinese 2000-2001 campaign for HTR-10. Here, we present a review of history and present status. Today, good fuel is measured by different standards from the seventies: where $9*10^{-4}$ initial free heavy metal fraction was typical for early AVR carbide fuel and $3*10^{-4}$ initial free heavy metal fraction was acceptable for oxide fuel in THTR, we insist on values more than an order of magnitude below this value today. Half a percent of particle failure at the end-of-irradiation, another ancient standard, is not even acceptable today, even for the most severe accidents. While legislation and licensing has not changed, one of the reasons we insist on these improvements is the preference for passive systems rather than active controls of earlier times. After renewed HTGR interest, we are reporting about the start of new or reactivated coated particle work in several parts of the world, considering the aspects of designs/ traditional and new materials, manufacturing technologies/ quality control quality assurance, irradiation and accident performance, modeling and performance predictions, and fuel cycle aspects and spent fuel treatment. In very general terms, the coated particle should be strong, reliable, retentive, and affordable. These properties have to be quantified and will be eventually optimized for a specific application system. Results obtained so far indicate that the same particle can be used for steam cycle applications with $700-750^{\circ}C$ helium coolant gas exit, for gas turbine applications at $850-900^{\circ}C$ and for process heat/hydrogen generation applications with $950^{\circ}C$ outlet temperatures. There is a clear set of standards for modem high quality fuel in terms of low levels of heavy metal contamination, manufacture-induced particle defects during fuel body and fuel element making, irradiation/accident induced particle failures and limits on fission product release from intact particles. While gas-cooled reactor design is still open-ended with blocks for the prismatic and spherical fuel elements for the pebble-bed design, there is near worldwide agreement on high quality fuel: a $500{\mu}m$ diameter $UO_2$ kernel of 10% enrichment is surrounded by a $100{\mu}m$ thick sacrificial buffer layer to be followed by a dense inner pyrocarbon layer, a high quality silicon carbide layer of $35{\mu}m$ thickness and theoretical density and another outer pyrocarbon layer. Good performance has been demonstrated both under operational and under accident conditions, i.e. to 10% FIMA and maximum $1600^{\circ}C$ afterwards. And it is the wide-ranging demonstration experience that makes this particle superior. Recommendations are made for further work: 1. Generation of data for presently manufactured materials, e.g. SiC strength and strength distribution, PyC creep and shrinkage and many more material data sets. 2. Renewed start of irradiation and accident testing of modem coated particle fuel. 3. Analysis of existing and newly created data with a view to demonstrate satisfactory performance at burnups beyond 10% FIMA and complete fission product retention even in accidents that go beyond $1600^{\circ}C$ for a short period of time. This work should proceed at both national and international level.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.7-11
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• 2022

한미보석감정원은 최근에 5개의 투명한 합성 모이사나이트를 검사했다. 그 샘플들은 라운드 브릴리언트 컷의 무색, 핑크, 황색, 청색, 적색 컬러와 0.93~0.96 ct 중량을 가지고 있었다. FT-IR과 Raman 분석 결과 합성 모이사나이트임을 확인하였고, 확대검사 결과 무색을 제외한 나머지 샘플에서 코팅의 흔적이 발견되었다. EDXRF 분석 결과 무색 샘플을 제외한 모든 샘플의 코팅부분에서 Ca, Ti, Co의 미량원소가 검출되었다. 무색 샘플의 Raman 분석에서 탄소 원자의 sp³ bonding에 의해 생성되는 1332 cm^-1 또는 graphite와 관련된 sp² bonding에 의해 생성되는 ~1550 cm^-1는 발견되지 않았다. 무색 샘플의 SEM 이미지에서도 코팅의 흔적은 발견되지 않았으나, TEM 이미지에서 3~8 nm의 코팅층의 존재가 발견됐다. EDX line 프로파일과 EDX elements map을 통해 무색 샘플의 코팅층을 구성하는 원소는 C, Si, O로 추정된다.

• 한국염색가공학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.48-56
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• 2016

Improvement of heat sink technology related to the continuous implementation performance and extension of device-life in circumstance of easy heating and more compact space has been becoming more important issue as multi-functional integration and miniaturization trend of electronic gadgets and products has been generalized. In this study, it purposed to minimize of decline of the heat diffusivity by gluing polymer through compounding of inorganic particles which have thermal conductive properties. We used NH-9300 as base resin and used inorganic fillers such as silicon carbide(SiC), aluminum nitride(AlN), and boron nitride(BN) to improve heat diffusivity. After making film which was made from 100 part of acrylic resin mixed hardener(1.0 part more or less) with inorganic particles. The film was matured at $80^{\circ}C$ for 24h. Diffusivity were tested according to sorts of particles and density of particles as well as size and structure of particle to improve the effect of heat sink in view of morphology assessing diffusivity by LFA(Netzsch/LFA 447 Nano Flash) and adhesion strength by UTM(Universal Testing Machine). The correlation between diffusivity of pure inorganic particles and composite as well as the relation between density and morphology of inorganic particles has been studied. The study related morphology showed that globular type had superior diffusivity at low density of 25% but on the contarary globular type was inferior to non-globular type at high density of 80%.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제60권4호
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• pp.535-543
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• 2022

실리콘 카바이드 입자(평균 입도 123 ㎛)의 유동층 태양열 흡열기의 성능 및 효율에 영향을 미치는 입자 거동 해석을 위해 MP-PIC 모델을 이용하여 전산모사를 수행하였고, 기존 실험결과와의 비교를 통해 검증하였다. 특히, 본 연구에서는 실험적으로 접근하기 어려운 유동층 표면 부근에서의 거동을 모사함으로써 흡열 성능과 입자 거동과의 상호 영향을 분석하였다. CPFD 모사결과는 입자층 및 프리보드에서의 평균 고체체류량과 압력요동 등 수력학적 특성 실험결과를 잘 예측하였다. 입자 흡열기에서 1차적으로 태양열 에너지를 흡수하여 층 내부로 전달하는 층 표면 부근에서의 국부 고체체류량은 입자층 내 기포거동에 따라 중심부에서 상대적으로 낮은 값을 나타내는 불균일 분포를 나타내었다. 프리보드 영역에서 국부 고체체류량은 기체속도가 증가할수록 축방향과 각 높이에서의 횡방향에서 불균일성이 증가하였고, 이는 입자 흡열기의 프리보드 영역 내 비산된 입자에 의해 반사된 태양광 에너지 손실과 연관된 압력강하 상대표준편차 증가의 원인임을 나타내었다. 입자 흡열기 내 기체속도 증가에 따른 국부적인 기체 및 입자 속도의 변화에 대한 고찰을 통해, 유동층 내 국부적인 입자거동 특성은 Geldart B 입자 물성과 관련된 입자층 내 기포 거동과 밀접하게 연관됨을 확인하였다. 유동층 입자 흡열기의 성능 척도인 일사량 당 유동기체의 출입구 온도차(∆T/I_DNI)는 입자 층 표면 및 표면 상부 프리보드 영역 내 압력요동 RSD와 상관관계가 매우 높음을 확인하였고, 이 결과는 흡열기 성능 개선에 활용할 수 있을 것으로 판단되었다.