• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.583-588
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• 2016

The high-temperature steam pipes of thermal power plants are subjected to severe conditions such as creep and fatigue due to the power plant frequently being started up and shut down. To prevent critical pipes from serious damage and possible failure, inspection methods such as computational analysis and online piping displacement monitoring have been developed. However, these methods are limited in that they cannot determine the life consumption rate of a critical pipe precisely. Therefore, we set out to develop a life assessment system, based on a three-dimensional piping displacement monitoring system, which is capable of evaluating the life consumption rate of a critical pipe. This system was installed at the "M" thermal power plant in Malaysia, and was shown to operate well in practice. The results of this study are expected to contribute to the increase safety of piping systems by minimizing stress and extending the actual life of critical piping.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.93-96
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• 2022

The boiler tubes of thermal power plants are exposed to harsh environment of high temperature and high pressure, and the deterioration state of materials rapidly increases. In particular, parent material and welds of the materials used are subjected to a temperature change and various constraints, resulting in deformation and its growth, resulting in frequent leakage accidents caused by tube failure. The power plant checks the integrity of boiler tubes through non-destructive testing as it may act as huge costs loss and limitation of power supply during power station shutdown period due to boiler tube leakage. However, the current non-destructive testing is extremely limited in the field to detect micro cracks. In this study, the ability of metal magnetic memory technique to detect flaws of size that are difficult to inspect by the visual or general non-destructive methods was verified in the early stage of their occurrence.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2000년도 춘계학술대회논문집A
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• pp.13-18
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• 2000

Nowadays, 60 percent of thermal power plants already have been operated over their own design life. These operations of old power plant over their design life have caused a fracture accident of degradation a loss of economic and human. Therefore, the new life assessment and prediction technology is necessary to improve the safety and reliability of high pressure and high temperature power plant facilities. In this paper, innovative electrochemical test method have been used and results have been compared to the conventional test. Finally, the electrochemical test is applied to the in-field HP turbine and a database is currently in progress for the development of the life assessment standard and procedure.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2017

The heat transfer function or thermal performance is the most important function of the steam generator component in nuclear power plants. The declining of thermal performance, fouling does not affect the electric power of the nuclear power plant within a certain fouling level, but it affects the output when goes beyond the governor valve wide open of the turbine. The VWO steam pressure can be predicted through the thermal performance evaluation of steam generators in the nuclear power plant. In consideration of the fouling characteristics of the steam generator, methods of the thermal performance evaluation and fouling cases are reviewed, and also the critical VWO value is estimated through the actual thermal performance evaluation. It is necessary to apply the VWO theory based on the thermal performance of the steam generators.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제51권9호
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• pp.413-422
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• 2002

In a power plant, disturbance detection and diagnosis are massive and complex problems. Once a disturbance occurs, it can be either persistent, self cleared, cleared by the automatic controllers or propagated into another disturbance until it subsides in a new equilibrium or a stable state. In addition to the Physical complexity of the power plant structure itself, these dynamic behaviors of the disturbances further complicate the fault monitoring and diagnosis tasks. A data structure called a disturbance interrelation analysis graph(DIAG) is proposed in this paper, trying to capture, organize and better utilize the vast and interrelated knowledge required for power plant disturbance detection and diagnosis. The DIAG is a multi-layer directed AND/OR graph composed of 4 layers. Each layer includes vertices that represent components, disturbances, conditions and sensors respectively With the implementation of the DIAG, disturbances and their relationships can be conveniently represented and traced with modularized operations. All the cascaded disturbances following an initial triggering disturbance can be diagnosed in the context of that initial disturbance instead of diagnosing each of them as an individual disturbance. DIAG is applied to a typical cooling water system of a thermal power plant and its effectiveness is also demonstrated.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1997년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부
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• pp.588-590
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• 1997

In this paper, a highly reliable communication network for DCS in nuclear power plant is designed. The structure and characteristics of DCS in nuclear power plant is briefly explained. The features needed for a communication network for DCS in nuclear power plant is described. According to the abovo features, the layer structure of the communication network is determined and each layer is designed in detail.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 1999년도 추계학술발표회요약집
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• pp.164-164
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• 1999

• 한국시스템다이내믹스연구
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.33-53
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• 2003

How to maintain the optimal electric power generation mix is one of the important problems in electric power industry. The objective of this study is to develop a computer model which can be used to forecast the investment in power generation unit by the plant owners after restructuring of electric power industry. Restructuring of electric power industry will make difference in decision making process of investment in power generation unit. After Privatiazation of Power Industry, Gencos will think that profit is the most important factor among all others attracting the investment in the industry. Coal power generation is better than LNG CCGT in terms of profit. However, many studies show that LNG CCGT will be main electric power generation source because the rest of factors other than profit in LNG CCGT are superior than Coal power generation. Because the nst of factors other than profit in LNG CCGT are superior than Coal power generation. The impacts of the various government policies can be analyzed using the computer model, thus the government can formulate effective policies for achieving the desired electric power generation mix.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.145-152
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• 1998

The first Environmental Impact Assessment(EIA) in Korea was carried out for Electric Power resource development. This study includes of the method and procedure of pre-Environmental investigation and EIA for Electric Power resource development. Through the analysis of these we make some conclusions for the improvemental and effective method of impact prediction, the environmentally sound and sustainable development of the earth(ESSD) and the collection of public opinions.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.391-404
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• 2009

삼천포 화력발전소에서 냉각수로 이용되고 방류되는 해수를 이용한 소수력 발전소를 건설하였다. 본 연구에서는 해양소수력 발전소 건설시 가장 중요한 문제인 기존 화력발전소의 순환수 계통에 미치는 영향을 평가하기 위한 방안으로 배수로 수위의 해양소수력 건설 이전, 건설 중, 건설 이후 해양소수력 운전 상태에서의 변화를 예측한 값과 실제 계측값을 분석하였다. 설계시 일반적으로 이용되는 개수로 수리식에서부터 Flow 3D를 이용하여 3차원적인 수리해석 기법을 이용하는 것까지 다양한 예측을 시도하였고 관측을 통하여 검증하고자 하였다. 예측치와 실제 관측치의 비교 결과, 수위의 전체적인 평균값은 예측치와 관측치가 유사하였지만 수위의 변화 폭은 건설 중과 해양소수력 운전 상태에서 매우 크게 나타났다. 또한, 소수력 건설 이전에는 표준위어식과 Honma식의 예측값이 관측값과 가장 유사하였으나, 소수력 건설 이후에는 HEC-2, HEC-RAS, Flow-3D의 예측값이 실측값과 가까운 결과를 보였다.