• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.1516-1525
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• 2022

Interfacing the output of severe accident analysis with the input of radiological consequence analysis is an important and mandatory procedure at the beginning of Level 3 PSA. Such interfacing between the severe accident analysis code MELCOR and MACCS, one of the most commonly used consequence analysis codes, is relatively tractable since they share the same chemical groups, and the related interfacing software, MelMACCS, has already been developed. However, the linking between MAAP, another frequently used code for severe accident analyses, and MACCS has difficulties because MAAP employs a different chemical grouping method than MACCS historically did. More specifically, MAAP groups by chemical compound, while MACCS groups by chemical element. An appropriate interfacing method between MAAP and MACCS has therefore long been requested by users. This study suggests a way of extracting relevant information from MAAP results and providing proper source term information to MACCS by an appropriate treatment. Various parameters are covered in terms of magnitude and manner of release in this study, and special treatment is made for a bypass scenario. It is expected that the suggested approach will provide an important contribution as a guide to interface MAAP and MACCS when performing radiological consequence analyses.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권2호
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• pp.386-392
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• 2021

MACCS (MELCOR Accident Consequence Code System), WinMACCS, and MelMACCS now facilitate a multi-unit consequence analysis. MACCS evaluates the consequences of an atmospheric release of radioactive gases and aerosols into the atmosphere and is most commonly used to perform probabilistic safety assessments (PSAs) and related consequence analyses for nuclear power plants (NPPs). WinMACCS is a user-friendly preprocessor for MACCS. MelMACCS extracts source-term information from a MELCOR plot file. The current development can combine an arbitrary number of source terms, representing simultaneous releases from a multi-unit facility, into a single consequence analysis. The development supports different release signatures, fission product inventories, and accident initiation times for each unit. The treatment is completely general except that the model is currently limited to collocated units. A major practical consideration for performing a multi-unit PSA is that a comprehensive treatment for more than two units may involve an intractable number of combinations of source terms. This paper proposes and evaluates an approach for reducing the number of calculations to be tractable, even for sites with eight or ten units. The approximation error introduced by the approach is acceptable and is considerably less than other errors and uncertainties inherent in a Level 3 PSA.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.96-103
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• 2024

The demand for mass calculation of offsite consequence analysis to conduct exhaustive single-unit or multi-unit Level 3 PSA is increasing. In order to perform efficient offsite consequence analyses, the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute is conducting model optimization studies to minimize the analysis time while maintaining the accuracy of the results. A previous study developed a model optimization method using efficient plume segmentation and verified its effectiveness. In this study, we investigated the possibility of optimizing the model through particle size distribution setting by checking the reduction in analysis time and deviation of the results. Our findings indicate that particle size distribution setting affects the results, but its effect on analysis time is insignificant. Therefore, it is advantageous to set the particle size distribution as fine as possible. Furthermore, we evaluated the effect of multithreading and confirmed its efficiency. Future optimization studies should be conducted on various input factors of offsite consequence analysis, such as spatial grid settings.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1996년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automatic Control Conference, 11th (KACC); Pohang, Korea; 24-26 Oct. 1996
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• pp.36-39
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• 1996

This paper proposes identification and control algorithm of nonlinear systems and the proposed fuzzy-neural network has following characteristics. The network is roughly divided into premise and consequence. The consequence function is nonlinear function which consists of three parameters and the membership function in the premise contains of two parameters. The parameters in premise and consequence are learned by the extended back-propagation algorithm which has a modified form of the generalized delta rule. Simulation results on the identification show that this method is more effective than that of Narendra [3]. The indirect fuzzy-neural control is made of the fuzzy-neural identification and controller. Result on the indirect fuzzy-neural control shows that the proposed fuzzy-neural network can be efficiently applied to nonlinear systems.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.66-72
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• 2002

During the last ten years, effort has been made for reducing maintenance cost for aged equipments and ensuring safety, efficiency and profitability of petrochemical and refinery plants. Hence, it was required to develop advanced methods which meet this need. RBI(Risk Based Inspection) methodology is one of the most promising technology satisfying the requirements in the field of integrity management. In this study, a qualitative assessment algorithm for RBI based on the API 581 code was reconstructed for developing an RBI software. The user-friendly realRBI software is developed with a module for evaluating qualitative risk category using the potential consequence factor and the likelihood factor.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.219-223
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• 2012

For an off-site consequence analysis at nuclear power plant, MELCOR Accident Consequence Code System(MACCS) II code is widely used as a software tool. In this study, the algorithm of web-based off-site consequence analysis program(OSCAP) using the MACCS II code was developed for an Integrated Leak Rate Test (ILRT) interval extension and Level 3 probabilistic safety assessment(PSA), and verification and validation(V&V) of the program was performed. The main input data for the MACCS II code are meteorological, population distribution and source term information. However, it requires lots of time and efforts to generate the main input data for an off-site consequence analysis using the MACCS II code. For example, the meteorological data are collected from each nuclear power site in real time, but the formats of the raw data collected are different from each site. To reduce the efforts and time for risk assessments, the web-based OSCAP has an automatic processing module which converts the format of the raw data collected from each site to the input data format of the MACCS II code. The program also provides an automatic function of converting the latest population data from Statistics Korea, the National Statistical Office, to the population distribution input data format of the MACCS II code. For the source term data, the program includes the release fraction of each source term category resulting from modular accident analysis program(MAAP) code analysis and the core inventory data from ORIGEN. These analysis results of each plant in Korea are stored in a database module of the web-based OSCAP, so the user can select the defaulted source term data of each plant without handling source term input data.

• 한국재난정보학회 논문집
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.232-243
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• 2024

연구목적: 최근 기후변화, 자연재해, 그리고 인적 요인에 의한 대형 산불이 동해안 및 태백산맥 지역에서 매년 증가하는 추세를 보인다. 현재 헬리콥터를 활용한 산불 진화가 증가하고 있음에도 불구하고, 대형 산불에 대응하기 위한 초기 진화의 중요성과 양간 산불 진화의 어려움으로 인해 공군 수송기의 도입 필요성이 지속해서 제기되어 왔다. 본 연구는 공군 수송기를 활용한 산불 진화 임무를 효율적으로 수행하기 위한 여러 측면 - 작전 목적의 달성, 운용 환경 극복, 대기 장소 선정 및 효율적 운용 방안 - 에 대한 사후 관리체계 발전 방안을 제시하고자 한다. 연구방법: 산불진화 관련 문헌연구와 고정익항공기를 활용한 산불진화 실험 및 산불진화 헬기의 운용실태 및 운용방법을 기초로 헬기운용 시 장단점 및 대형수송기(C-130)를 활용한 대형산불진화시 효과분석을 통해 운용의 효과성을 분석한다. 연구결과: 대형산불 진화 시 헬기와 고정익항공기(C-130)를 통합 운용시 효과적인 운용, 통제, 지휘체계, 출동요청 및 산불진화 등 효과적인 CM(Consequence Management) 적용방안을 도출하였다. 결론: CM(Consequence Management)의 개념 적용은 우리나라에서 일부 화생방(CBRNE) 방호 분야에 일부 적용되고 있으나 산불진화에 있어서 헬기와 대형항공기(C-130)의 통합운용 시 효율적인 운용, 통제, 지휘체계 정립, 안전관리, 출동요청 및 산불진화 등을 위해 선진국에서 운용되고 있는 CM(Consequence Management)의 개념을 적용하여 진일보 발전된 재해, 재난 사후관리체계를 정립하는 데 기여하도록 하였다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.39-60
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• 2019

한국가스안전공사는 진단 기반기술 국산화와 진단 역량 강화를 위해 자체적인 피해영향평가 시스템을 구축하고 있다. 유사 프로그램인 DNV PHAST나 TNO EFFECTS와 달리, API-581 기준을 근간한 ETA 분석을 통해 최종 피해영역 산출 기법을 구현하였으며, HTML5 기반 차세대 웹 기술을 기반으로 편리한 사용자 인터페이스를 구축하였다. 또한, 혼합물질 분석이 가능하도록 3차 상태방정식(Peng-Robinson, SRK, RK)과 퓨게시티를 활용한 상평형 모듈이 구현되었고, 공기보다 무거운 가스에 대한 확산 분석을 위해 SLAB Dispersion 알고리즘을 적용하였다. CCPS와 TNO Yellow Book에서 소개된 피해영향평가 알고리즘을 채용하여 누출분석 모듈, Fireball, Pool Fire, Jet Fire, Flash Fire, Vapor Cloud Explosion 영향 평가 모듈을 개발하였다. 그 외 EIGA 기준, PAC 기준 농도, Bevi Reference Book 등에서 제시된 기준 값들을 활용하여 안전거리 산출 조건을 마련하였다. 현재 전체 계산 모듈의 알고리즘 구현은 완료되었으며, 기본적인 사용자인터페이스 구축까지 완료되었다. 향후, 사용자 인터페이스 보완과 더불어, 모듈 각각에 대한 개별적인 검증과 동일한 사고 시나리오에 대한 유사 프로그램 구동 결과를 비교하여 전체 시스템의 정확도를 보완할 예정이다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2818-2820
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• 2002

In this paper, we design neurofuzzy networks architecture by means of linear fuzzy inference. The proposed neurofuzzy networks are equivalent to linear fuzzy rules, and the structure of these networks is composed of two main substructures, namely premise part and consequence part. The premise part of neurofuzzy networks use fuzzy space partitioning in terms of all variables for considering correlation between input variables. The consequence part is networks constituted as first-order linear form. The consequence part of neurofuzzy networks in general structure(for instance ANFIS networks) consists of nodes with a function that is a linear combination of input variables. But that of the proposed neurofuzzy networks consists of not nodes but networks that are constructed by connection weight and itself correspond to a linear combination of input variables functionally. The connection weights in consequence part are learned by back-propagation algorithm. For the evaluation of proposed neurofuzzy networks. The experimental results include a well-known NASA dataset concerning software cost estimation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.525-529
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• 2009

Most of FLC received input data from error e and change-of-error e' with no relation with system complexity. Basic scheme follows typical PD and PI or PID Controller and that has been developed through fixed ME In this paper, We studied the relationship between MF and system response and system response through changing Fuzzy variable of consequence MF and propose the simple FLC using this relationship. The response of FLC is changed according to the width of Fuzzy variable of consequence MF. As changing the Fuzzy variable of consequence MF shows various nonlinear characteristic, we studied the relation between response and MF using analytical method. We designed the effective FLC using three-variable MF and nine rules and took simulation for verification. In this study, we propose the method to design system with FLC in stability point which is an impotent characteristic of designing system. The circle criterion which is adapted to analysis the nonlinear system is put to use for proposed method. Since SISO FLC has a time-invariant and odd characteristic we can use the critical point not disk which is generally used to determine the stability in the circle criterion, to determine the stability. Using this, we can get the maximum critical point plot of SISO FLC with changing the consequence fuzzy variables. The predetermined critical point plot of FLC can be used to decide the region of the system to be stable. This method is effectively used to design the SISO FLC.