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Surface Engineering Technologies to Mitigate Chloride-Induced Stress-Corrosion Cracking in Stainless Steel Dry Cask Storage Containments for Used Nuclear Fuel

  • Jinwook Choi;Kumar Sridharan;Hwasung Yeom
    • Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.325-338
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    • 2024
  • Interim dry cask storage systems comprising AISI 304 or 316 stainless steel canisters have become critical for the storage of spent nuclear fuel from light water reactors in the Republic of Korea. However, the combination of microstructural sensitization, residual tensile stress, and corrosive environments can induce chloride-induced stress corrosion cracking (CISCC) for stainless steel canisters. Suppressing one or more of these three variables can effectively mitigate CISCC initiation or propagation. Surface-modification technologies, such as surface peening and burnishing, focus on relieving residual tensile stress by introducing compressive stress to near-surface regions of materials. Overlay coating methods such as cold spray can serve as a barrier between the environment and the canister, while also inducing compressive stress similar to surface peening. This approach can both mitigate CISCC initiation and facilitate CISCC repair. Surface-painting methods can also be used to isolate materials from external corrosive environments. However, environmental variables, such as relative humidity, composition of surface deposits, and pH can affect the CISCC behavior. Therefore, in addition to research on surface modification and coating technologies, site-specific environmental investigations of various nuclear power plants are required.

Dual-Channel MAC Protocol Using Directional Antennas in Location Aware Ad hoc Networks (위치정보 기반의 Ad hoc 네트워크에서 방향성 안테나를 이용한 Dual-Channel MAC 프로토콜)

  • Han, Do-Hyung;Kang, Chang-Nam;Jwa, Jeong-Woo
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.7-10
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    • 2005
  • Ad hoc MAC protocols using directional antennas can be used to improve the network capacity. Directional antennas have a Deafness problem and decrease throughput of the network caused by increasing backoff duration. Dual channel protocols have been proposed to mitigate the Deafness and hidden node problems. In this paper, we propose a dual channel MAC protocol using a directional antenna to mitigate the Deafness problem and increase the network capacity. The performance of the proposed Ad hoc MAC protocol is confirmed by computer simulations using Qualnet ver. 3.8 simulator.

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A Secure Switch Migration for SDN with Role-based IBC

  • Lam, JunHuy;Lee, Sang-Gon;Andrianto, Vincentius Christian
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2017
  • Despite the Openflow's switch migration occurs after the channel was established in secure manner (optional), the current cryptography protocol cannot prevent the insider attack as the attacker possesses a valid public/private key pair. There are methods such as the certificate revocation list (CRL) or the online certificate status protocol (OCSP) that tries to revoke the compromised certificate. However, these methods require a management system or server that introduce additional overhead for the communication. Furthermore, these methods are not able to mitigate power abuse of an insider. In this paper, we propose a role-based identity-based cryptography (RB-IBC) that integrate the identity of the node along with its role so the nodes within the network can easily mitigate any role abuse of the nodes. Besides that, by combining with IBC, it will eliminate the need of exchanging certificates and hence improve the performance in a secure channel.

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS FOR UNSTEADY THERMAL STRATIFIED FLOW WITH HEAT TRACING IN A HORIZONTAL CIRCULAR CYLINDER

  • Jeong, Ill-Seok;Song, Woo-Young;Park, Man-Heung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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    • 1997.05a
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    • pp.304-309
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    • 1997
  • A method to mitigate the thermal stratification flow of a horizontal pipe line is proposed by heating external bottom of the pipe with electrical heat tracing. Unsteady two dimensional model has been used to numerically investigate an effect of the external Denting to the thermally stratified flow. The dimensionless governing equations are solved by using the control volume formulation and SIMPLE algorithm. Temperature distribution, streamline profile and Nusselt numbers of fluids and pipe walls with time are analyzed in case of externally heating condition. no numerical result of this study shows that the maximum dimensionless temperature difference between the hot and the cold sections of pipe inner wall is 0.424 at dimensionless time 1,500 ann the thermal stratification phenomena is disappeared at about dimensionless time 9,000. This result means that external heat tracing can mitigate the thermal stratification phenomena by lessening $\Delta$ $T_{ma}$ about 0.1 and shortening the dimensionless time about 132 in comparison with no external heat tracing.rnal heat tracing.

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A Study on Financial Loss Assessment of Voltage Sags (순간전압강하 경제적 손실 평가 연구)

  • Park, Jomg-Il;Song, Young-Won;Park, Chang-Hyun;Jang, Gil-Soo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2011.07a
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    • pp.324-325
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    • 2011
  • This paper addresses the assessment of voltage sag costs based on the stochastic prediction of voltage sags. When voltage sags below a certain voltage threshold occur at sensitive industrial process, the industrial customer will experience financial damage. In order to mitigate voltage sag costs and devise efficient solutions to mitigate damage, a study on the financial loss assessment of voltage sags is basically needed. In order to assess the voltage sag costs, the expected sag frequency at a sensitive load point should be calculated by using the concept of the area of vulnerability and historical fault statistics. Then, financial loss due to voltage sags can be obtained by multiplying the expected sag frequency by the cost per sag event.

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The Harmonic Current Mitigation of DFIG under Unbalanced Grid Voltage and Non-linear Load Conditions

  • Thinh, Quach Ngoc;Kim, Eel-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2011.07a
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    • pp.83-84
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    • 2011
  • This paper presents an analysis and a novel strategy for a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) based wind energy conversion system under unbalanced grid voltage and non-linear load conditions. A proportional-resonant (PR) current controller is applied in both grid side converter (GSC) and rotor side converter (RSC). The RSC is controlled to mitigate the stator active power and the rotor current oscillations at double supply frequency under unbalanced grid voltage while the GSC is controlled to mitigate ripples in the dc-link voltage and compensate harmonic components of the network current. Simulation results using Psim simulation program are presented for a 2 MW DFIG to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.

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Performance of Noise Mitigation scheme based on EMD for Heterogeneous Networks (이기종 통신 시스템을 위한 EMD 기반 노이즈 완화 기법의 성능)

  • Sim, Isaac;Hwang, Yu Min;Yang, Byong Moon;Kim, Jin Young
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.26-31
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we proposed a scheme to mitigate noises based on the EMD scheme for heterogeneous communication systems. Noise-corrupted data can be decomposed into a finite number of IMF components. Using the EMD method, we can mitigate noise with eliminate noise-corrupted IMF components. We proposed iteration stop rule for reduce EMD computation time. Simulation results show that proposed EMD scheme based on proposed algorithm for iteration stop rule efficiently mitigates 3 types of noise and reduces its computational time.

Bearing-only Localization of GNSS Interference using Iterated Consider Extended Kalman Filter

  • Park, Youngbum;Song, Kiwon
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.221-227
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, the Iterated Consider Extended Kalman Filter (ICEKF) is proposed for bearing-only localization of GNSS interference to improve the estimation performance and filter consistency. The ICEKF is an extended version of Consider KF (CKF) for Iterated EKF (IEKF) to consider an effect of bearing measurement bias error to filter covariance. The ICEKF can mitigate the EKF divergence problem which can occur when linearizing the nonlinear bearing measurement by a large initial state error. Also, it can mitigate filter inconsistency problem of EKF and IEKF which can occur when a weakly observable bearing measurement bias error state is not included in filter state vector. The simulation result shows that the localization error of the ICEKF is smaller than the EKF and IEKF, and the Root Mean Square (RMS) estimation error of ICEKF matches the covariance of filter.

A Kalman Filter based Predictive Direct Power Control Scheme to Mitigate Source Voltage Distortions in PWM Rectifiers

  • Moon, Un-chul;Kim, Soo-eon;Chan, Roh;Kwak, Sangshin
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.190-199
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, a predictive direct power control (DPC) method based on a Kalman filter is presented for three-phase pulse-width modulation (PWM) rectifiers to improve the performance of rectifiers with source voltages that are distorted with harmonic components. This method can eliminate the most significant harmonic components of the source voltage using a Kalman filter algorithm. In the process of predicting the future real and reactive power to select an optimal voltage vector in the predictive DPC, the proposed method utilizes source voltages filtered by a Kalman filter, which can mitigate the adverse effects of distorted source voltages on control performance. As a result, the quality of the source currents synthesized using the PWM rectifier is improved, and the total harmonic distortion (THD) values are reduced, even under distorted source voltages.

Securitization and Monitoring Incentives (자산유동화와 모니터링 유인간의 관계)

  • Han, Jae-Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.17-29
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    • 2012
  • We examine a mortgage bank's incentive distortion problem when the bank sells its existing loan through MBS(Mortgage-Backed Security), considering the mortgage market structure and varying investors' risk attitude. Main findings in our comparative statics are the followings. The bank's monitoring incentive on the loan sold is distorted downwards when the deposit interest rate is lower than the coupon rate of MBS. Credit enhancement associated with the loan sale may mitigate the incentive distortion problem. However, the downward distortion of monitoring incentive does not disappear unless the credit enhancement, a loan guarantee, is provided up to 100%. Finally as the investors' risk preference changes from risk-neutral to risk-averse type, the incentive distortion problem becomes more severe. At the end, we recommend the introduction of covered bond in order to mitigate the incentive distortion problem, which is inevitable to current pass-through MBS.