• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.1761-1762
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• 2006

지금까지 원전 계측제어계통은 안전을 위한 보수적인 설계기준을 적용하여 아날로그 기기를 사용하여 설계되었다. 그러나 최근에는 아날로그 기기의 생산 중단으로 기기 및 장비의 예비품 조달에 어려움을 겪게 되었고, 점차 복잡하면서도 편리한 기능에 대한 사용자 요구로 인해 디지털 기기의 사용이 확대되고 있는 추세이다. 프로그램 가능한 논리제어기 (Programmable Logic Controller:PLC)는 기존의 산업체에서 널리 사용되고 있지만, 높은 수준의 안전성 기준 때문에 일부 극소수의 PLC만이 원자력에 적용되고 있는 실정이다. 최근 국내에서도 원전 안전등급의 보호, 제어 및 감시계통에 디지털 기기의 적용을 위해 많은 노력을 하고 있다. 원전 계측제어계통의 디지털화는 부품 단종 및 설비 노후화 문제 등을 해결할 수 있는 장점이 있는 반면에 디지털화로 인한 새로운 안전 현안이 제기될 수 있다. PLC를 기반으로 하는 원전 계측제어계통은 안전등급의 보호, 제어 및 감시 기능을 수행하게 되므로, 고신뢰도 소프트웨어 적용등의 안전계통 개발에서 요구하는 요건을 만족해야 한다. 따라서 상용 또는 신규 개발되는 PLC를 사용하여 발전소보호계통을 구현할 경우에 적용 가능한 기술기준 및 계통요건이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 발전소보호계통에 적용하기 위한 PLC 평가 항목을 개발하고, 각 부분별 평가 항목에 대해 소개한다.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.74-85
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• 2007

During the lifecycle of a nuclear power plant many organizations are involved in KOREA. Korea Plant Engineering Co. (KOPEC) participates in the design stage, Korea Hydraulic and Nuclear Power (KHNP) operates and manages all nuclear power plants in KOREA, Dusan Heavy Industries manufactures the main equipment, and a construction company constructs the plant. Even though each organization has a digital data management system inside and obtains a certain level of automation, data sharing among organizations is poor. KHNP gets drawing and technical specifications from KOPEC in the form of paper. It results in manual re-work of definition and there are potential errors in the process. A data warehouse based on a neutral model has been constructed in order to make an information bridge between design and O&M phases. GPM(generic product model), a data model from Hitachi, Japan is addressed and extended in this study. GPM has a similar architecture with ISO 15926 "life cycle data for process plant". The extension is oriented to nuclear power plants. This paper introduces some of implementation results: 1) 2D piping and instrument diagram (P&ID) and 3D CAD model exchanges and their visualization; 2) Interface between GPM-based data warehouse and KHNP ERP system.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.239-254
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• 2017

The world began to search for new energy sources with increasing energy demand. Renewable energy sources are as hydropower important for alternative energy. Countries with high hydroelectric potentials continue to work to utilize hydroelectric power plants in the most efficient way. Pumped storage hydropower plants are an important investment to meet the growing energy needs at peak times and to store energy. Although it produces energy in many countries, pumped storage hydropower plants have not begun to be built in Turkey which has high hydroelectric potential. A new era will be opened for energy production in Turkey where a large number of pumped storage hydropower plants projects are in study phase with the construction of pumped storage hydropower plants and first nuclear power plant.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.115-119
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• 2016

For many past years, research in the operation of stand-alone Microgrid, which provides electric power generated from renewable energy sources and energy storage system instead of diesel generators, has been a major issue in order to prepare the exhaustion of fossil fuel and to protect environment, in island grids. Samso Island, known as the world's first stand-alone Microgrid in Denmark, is connected to the mainland grid through AC system, which has different technical conditions with Korea's isolated power system. Korea's first stand-alone Microgrid has been built in Ga-sa island, Chun-la-nam-do, based on Energy Management System (EMS) operation, and other islands are under construction to follow the next step. These stand-alone Microgrid's has large capacity of Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and the proportion of the renewable energy sources are large, which makes it necessary to use a Microgrid-Energy Management System (MG-EMS) to operate the grid effectively and economically. However, since the main subject of MG-EMS is different from EMS, specific characteristics and functions must be different as well. In this paper, the necessary characteristics and functions are explained for a general MG-EMS compared to a large power system EMS.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.75-88
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• 2019

With Kori nuclear power plant unit 1 as a beginning in April 1978, 24 nuclear power plants have been operated in Korea and two more plants are under construction. As the nuclear power plants being operated, radioactive wastes from the plants have been accumulated so that various methods for disposing them have been proposed. In Korea, researches have been conducted, being focused on DGD (Deep Geological Disposal), however, DBD (Deep Borehole Disposal) method needs considering as an alternative. In this technical note, element technologies for DBD were analyzed by compiling previous researches and their applicability on domestic cases were investigated. Conceptual studies regarding relevant designs were conducted and finally, technical challenges for actual disposal were described.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.10
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• pp.1454-1459
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• 2017

In spite of continuous increase of electric power demand and new generation plants, it is very difficult to install new transmission line. Therefore, it comes to be difficult to operate the power system stable, so it is required to find another way to get new transmission capacity. Because HVDC transmission system installation is the one of the best option for us, we have undertake the HVDC project in mainland. Buckdangjin-Goduck HVDC project(500kV, 3GW) is currently under construction and Eastern Power HVDC project(500kV, 8GW) is under the study for technical specification. Both of them have the Run-up SPS function for taking action of 765kV Transmission line fault. The Run-up SPS function increases the active power output of the HVDC rapidly when the transmission line between the power plant and network is tripped, thereby preventing the generator from overspeed and improving the power system stability. In this paper, we propose MEAC(Modified Equal Area Criteria) method based on traditional EAC method to quantitatively evaluate the effect of the HVDC run-up SPS function on the power system stability improvement.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.45-56
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• 2017

Coal power plants produce electricity for the nation's power grid, but they also produce more hazardous air emissions than any other industrial pollution sources. The quantity is staggering, over 386,000 tons of 84 separate hazardous air pollutants spew from over 400 plants in 46 states. In South Korea also, annual coal ash generation from coal-fired power plants were about 6 million tons in 2015. Pollutants containing particulate matter 10, 2.5 (PM10, PM2.5), heavy metals and dioxins from coal-fired power plant. The emissions threaten the health of people who live near these power plants, as well as those who live hundreds of miles away. These pollutants that have long-term impacts on the environment because they accumulate in soil, water and animals. The present study is to investigate the physical and chemical characteristics of coal-fired power plant fly ash and bottom ash contains particulate matter, whose particulate sizes are lower than $PM_{10}$ and $PM_{2.5}$ and heavy metals. There are wide commercial technologies were available for monitoring the PM 2.5 and ultra-fine particles, among those carbonation technology is a good tool for stabilizing the alkaline waste materials. We collected the coal ash samples from different coal power plants and the chemical composition of coal fly ash was characterized by XRF. In the present laboratory research approach reveals that potential application of carbonation technology for particulate matter $PM_{10}$, $PM_{2.5}$ and stabilization of heavy metals. The significance of this emerging carbonation technology was improving the chemical and physical properties of fly ash and bottom ash samples can facilitate wide re use in construction applications.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.107-112
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• 1998

In this paper, we introduce the design method using CAE(Computer Aided Engineering) which is profitable in the compatibility and standardization of the developed product, and the reduction of construction time and price to develop and design a machine equipment. Particularly, we select the standard model to design or develop from the large machinery to the super precision one, extract the peculiar characters of the model by the close analysis on the physical and technical part, the experiment for the characteristics of objective dimensions by analogical mathematical analysis for previous results, and can induce the design model demanded by user investigating optimal data in the design previous. We present the analogical algorithms and process method of design factors and restriction factors in the systematization design with computer. Then we analyze step functions for each systematization equipment and induce the process of technical data with actuator model.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.632-637
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• 2006

Our country's bidding system had made the lowest price successful bid system in foundation before introducing eligibility review system at July, 1995, and a averaged- price successful bid system or the restrictive-lowest price successful bid system had been enforced by repletion. However, they were introduced as dumping that do not reach in direct cost level of construction cost is generalized and worry about illegal construction practices rises by the lowest price successful bid system. According as they had not been promoted construction company's technical development effort or cost reduction effort, vicious circle that advocate competition principle again and recur as the lowest price successful bid system is repeated last 50 years. Therefore, I present improvement direction that can satisfy all Global Standard and real condition of our country through foreign countries example analysis to cope with the rapidly changing building circumstances socially and economically to correspond actively to the construction industry's reorganization to reconsider domestic construction engineering's competitive power.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.51 no.5
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• pp.1297-1306
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• 2019

Probabilistic safety assessments (PSA) have been used for several decades to visualize the risk level of commercial nuclear power plants (NPPs). Since the role of a human reliability analysis (HRA) is to provide human error probabilities for safety critical tasks to support PSA, PSA quality is strongly affected by HRA quality. Therefore, it is important to understand the underlying limitations or problems of HRA techniques. For this reason, this study conducted a survey among 14 subject matter experts who represent the HRA community of domestic Korean NPPs. As a result, five significant HRA issues were identified: (1) providing a technical basis for the K-HRA (Korean HRA) method, and developing dedicated HRA methods applicable to (2) diverse external events to support Level 1 PSA, (3) digital environments, (4) mobile equipment, and (5) severe accident management guideline tasks to support Level 2 PSA. In addition, an HRA method to support multi-unit PSA was emphasized because it plays an important role in the evaluation of site risk, which is one of the hottest current issues. It is believed that creating such a catalog of prioritized issues will be a good indication of research direction to improve HRA and therefore PSA quality.