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Characteristics of Water Spray for Extinguishment of Gasoline Pool Fire (가솔린 화재의 소화를 위한 수분무의 특성)

  • Jang, Yong-Jae;Kim, Myeong-Bae
    • 연구논문집
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    • s.25
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    • pp.129-135
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    • 1995
  • This study discribes characteristics of water spray for extinguishment of gasoline pool fire. Experiments are carried out for the gasoline pool fire in a small tank with a diameter of 150mm and a height of 8mm. Droplet size, spray pressure, amount of water which reaches the flame base and velocity of water spray are measured to find extinguishment conditions and air entrainment due to the water spray is visualized. Critical conditions of water spray for extinguishment of gasoline pool fire is quantitatively shown.

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Performance of Refrigerated Display Cabinets in accordance with the Supply Air Jet Condition (급기제트 조건에 따른 냉동용 전시케이스의 성능)

  • Sung, Sun-Kyung
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.80-86
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    • 2011
  • Vertical open display cabinets are widely used in shopping mall, supermarkets, retail stores. Maintaining the temperature of foods in the display cabinet is vitally important to retailers to ensure optimal food quality and safety. The purpose of this study is to reduce the infiltration of air and heat loss from ambient space to display cabinet. The three-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) simulation is used for the analysis of air flow patterns and temperature distribution in refrigerated display cabinets. Under several operating conditions which vary both the inner and outer jet velocities in the range from 0.3 to 1.1 m/s, simulations were carried out. This paper presents a performance of display cabinets with single jet and double jet. The energy consumption due to thermal entrainment ratio is plotted with varying Re. It was found that the double jet system is better than single jet system in terms of temperature distribution and energy saving.

EFFECTS OF GRID SPACER WITH MIXING VANE ON ENTRAINMENTS AND DEPOSITIONS IN TWO-PHASE ANNULAR FLOWS

  • KAWAHARA, AKIMARO;SADATOMI, MICHIO;IMAMURA, SHOGO;SHIMOHARAI, YUTA;HIRAKATA, YUDAI;ENDO, MASATO
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.47 no.4
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    • pp.389-397
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    • 2015
  • The effects of mixing vanes (MVs) attached to a grid spacer on the characteristics of air-water annular flows were experimentally investigated. To know the effects, a grid spacer with or without MV was inserted in a vertical circular pipe of 16-mm internal diameter. For three cases (i.e., no spacer, spacer without MV, and spacer with MV), the liquid film thickness, liquid entrainment fraction, and deposition rate were measured by the constant current method, single liquid film extraction method, and double liquid film extraction method, respectively. The MVs significantly promote the re-deposition of liquid droplets in the gas core flow into the liquid film on the channel walls. The deposition mass transfer coefficient is three times higher for the spacer with MV than for the spacer without MV, even for cases 0.3-m downstream from the spacer. The liquid film thickness becomes thicker upstream and downstream for the spacer with MV, compared with the thickness for the spacer without MV and for the case with no spacer.

The Design and Test of Ejectors for a 75-kW Fuel Cell System (75kW급 연료전지 시스템의 이젝터 설계 및 시험)

  • Kim, Beom-Joo;Kim, Do-Hyeong;Lim, Hee-Chun
    • Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.678-685
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    • 2011
  • An Ejector enhances system efficiency, are easily operated, have a mechanically simple structure, and do not require a power supply. Because of these advantages, the ejector has been applied to a variety of industrial fields such as refrigerators, power plants and oil plants. In this work, an ejector was used to safely recycle anode tail gas in a 75-kW Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell (MCFC) system at KEPCO Research Institute. In this system, the ejector is placed at mixing point between the anode tail gas and the cathode tail gas or the fresh air. Commercial ejectors are not designed for the actual operating conditions for our fuel cell system. A new ejector was therefore designed for use beyond conventional operating limits. In the first place, a few sample ejectors were manufacured and the entrainment ratio was measured at a dummy stack. Through this experiment, the optimum ejector was chosen. The 75-kW MCFC system equipped with this optimum ejector was operated successfully.

An Experimental Study on Turbulent Diffusion Flame in Double Coaxial Air Jets(II) (동축이중 공기분류중의 난류확산화염에 관한 실험적 연구 II)

  • 조용대;최병윤
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.1234-1243
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    • 1990
  • Double coaxial are jets(annular and coaxial air jets) between which propane gas is fed was selected to study the structure of diffusion flames in turbulent shear flow. Schlieren and direct photographs are taken to visualize the flame structure. Mean and fluctuating temperatures and ion currents were measured to investigate the macroscopic and the instantaneous flame structure. The objective of this study is to understand the interaction between combustion and mixing process especially in the transition region of turbulent shear flow. The investigation reported in this paper focuses on the macroscopic and the instantaneous structures of three flames obtained. The increased mixing effect resulting from increase of Reynolds number of central air jet makes the flame bluish and short. When the velocity of surrounding air stream is higher than that of central air jet, the instantaneous flame structure is composed of coherent structure. It is considered that the flame structure of transitional region of mixing layer depends on the structure of mixing layer of non-reacting conditions.

Characteristics of a Small Screw-type Centrifugal Pump Operating in Air-Water Two-Phase Flow (소형 스크류식 원심펌프의 기액 이상류 특성)

  • Kim, You-Taek;Tanaka, Kazuhiro;Lee, Young-Ho
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.2 no.4 s.5
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 1999
  • A screw-type centrifugal pump was manufactured to carry primarily solids and its impeller had a wide flow passage. However, there was an effect on the flow passage shape on delay of the choke due to entrained air not being clarified yet. Moreover, because its impeller has a particular shape, only few studies have tried to clarify the pump performance and details of internal flow pattern of that pump. For this reason, we carried out the pump performance experiment under air-water two-phase flow condition with different impeller tip clearances, pump rotational speeds and void fractions by using a small screw-type centrifugal pump designed to acquire basic data. In a general centrifugal pump, it was reported that there was a loss of pump head from single-phase flow to the choke due to air entrainment near the best efficiency point being large. However, the loss near the best efficient point in a screw-type centrifugal pump became less than that in a general centrifugal pump.

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Hourly Environmental Pollution (Air Pollution and Noise) Mapping Method by the Traffic Volume Change (시간별 교통량 변화에 따른 환경오염지도(대기 및 소음) 구축방안에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Dong-Myung;Kwon, Woo-Taeg;Na, Young
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.485-494
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    • 2007
  • Air pollution and traffic noise from roads distributed near residential area has been a major social problem. In this study, an environmental pollution map for a residential area of Shihung-city was made by an expectation model based on hourly traffic volume change. Using the result from the model, a plan to reduce population in the residential area was established. The result of the modelling is summarized as follows: 1. At peak traffic hours (18 o'clock), 301-500 degree in hazardous and $d_{25}$ degree (25% of the residents are suffering extremely from the noise) in noise pollution were predicted in Jeongwang Main Road in Shihung city. 2. The calculated critical pollutant standard index, PSI showed the air pollution level, especially PM-10 high enough to require re-entrainment. 3. It was expected air pollution would extensively extend over the area distribution of each degree. However, noise pollution problem was limited to the area near roads.

Flame Length Characteristic for Varying Nozzle Diameter to Develop Oxy-Fuel Combustor (순 산소 연소기 개발을 위한 노즐직경변화에 따른 화염길이 특성)

  • Kim Ho-Keun;Kim Yong-Mo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.29 no.7 s.238
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    • pp.861-867
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    • 2005
  • In order to develop oxy-fuel combustor, the Flame length characteristic of $CH_4$ with oxidizer of air and oxygen has been experimentally investigated for tile nozzle diameters of 1.6mm, 2.7mm, 4.4mm and 7.7mm. The structure of $CH_4$ flame with oxidizer of oxygen was sharp in contrast with the $CH_4$ flame with oxidizer of air. The stability of $CH_4$ flame with oxidizer of oxygen was higher than $CH_4$ flame with oxidizer of air. In all $CH_4$ flames with oxidizer of air and oxygen, the flame length were dependent on the flowrate in laminar flame regime, and in turbulent flame dependent on the initial jet diameter. Using correlation equation of Delichatsios, the flame length has been expected exactly for $CH_4$ flame with oxidizer of air, but underestimated for $CH_4$ flame with oxidizer of oxygen. This paper proposed correlation equation of $CH_4$ flame with oxidizer of oxygen.

A STUDY ON HIGH-EFFICIENCY ATOMIZATION OF MOLTEN MATERIALS (PART 1: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SUPPLYING MECHANISM BY AIR JETS) (Atomize 법에 의한 용융소재의 고효율 미세화에 관한 연구 (제1보:공기제트에 의한 액체의 공급기구))

  • Oh, J.G.;Lee, Ch.W.;Seok, J.K.
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 1997
  • An innovating technique of atomizer has been proposed to supply and to atomise molten materials. Both of a simple geometry of nozzle and an improved nozzle have been fabricated in the present study. With these nozzles, characteristics of the suction and disintegration have been empirically investigated. The important conclusions are as follows; In the case of a simple nozzle: 1) Although the sucking up and supplying of molten materials are available, the applications of powder metallurgy are limited. 2) It is concluded that the more air flow rate, $W_A$ or the shorter the height of air nozzle from the surface of supplied water, $L_h$, the more the atomizing mass of liquids, $W_L$. In the case of an improved nozzle: 3) The stable liquids can be supplied due to cut off the passage of surrounding air entrainment by air jets. 4) The atomizing mass of liquids, $W_L$ has affected not so much on the height of nozzle from the surface of supplied water, $L_h$ as that from the orifice, hc.

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A Fundamental Study on Very High Strength and High Flowable Concrete using Industrial By-products (산업부산물을 활용한 고유동화 초고강도 콘크리트의 기초물성 및 동결융해특성)

  • 김병권;이석홍;정하선;이영남;문한영
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.707-714
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    • 2001
  • This paper presents the fundamental study on rational manu(acture of Very High Strength(VHS) concrete using industrial by-products as like silica fume, slag and fly ash. In this study, we had tested various mixing cases to manufacture the VHS concrete(target compressive strength : over 1,000 kgf/$cm^{2}$) which is easily workable (target slump flow : 60$\pm$l0cm), The main variables studied are; 1) test variables to find the optimum replacement ratio of mineral admixture, 2) test variables to find a rational water-binder ratio, a proper binder content, 3) test variables to find the method for reduction of slump loss, 4) test variables to know the influence of air entrainment on frost resistance. From the test results, it is concluded that the rational mix design can be made by using 40% slag, 10% silica fume, and water reducing agent(slump loss reduction type). We found that it is unnecessary to entrain air for freeze-thawing resistance.

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