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Application of peak load for industrial water treatment plant design (공업용수 정수장 설계시 첨두부하 적용방안)

  • Kim, Jinkeun;Lee, Heenam;Kim, Dooil;Koo, Jayong;Hyun, Inhwan
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.225-231
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    • 2016
  • Peak load rate(i.e., maximum daily flow/average daily flow) has not been considered for industrial water demand planning in Korea to date, while area unit method based on average daily flow has been applied to decide capacity of industrial water treatment plants(WTPs). Designers of industrial WTPs has assumed that peak load would not exist if operation rate of factories in industrial sites were close to 100%. However, peak load rates were calculated as 1.10~2.53 based on daily water flow from 2009 to 2014 for 9 industrial WTPs which have been operated more than 9 years(9-38 years). Furthermore, average operation rates of 9 industrial WTPs was less than 70% which means current area unit method has tendency to overestimate water demand. Therefore, it is not reasonable to consider peak load for the calculation of water demand under current area unit method application to prevent overestimation. However, for the precise future industrial water demand calculation more precise data gathering for average daily flow and consideration of peak load rate are recommended.

Modification of TOPMODEL Considering Spatial Connectivity of Saturated Area (공간적 포화면적의 공간적 연결을 고려한 TOPMODEL의 개선과 적용)

  • Kim, Sang-Hyeon;Kim, Gyeong-Hyeon
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.515-524
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    • 1999
  • A methodology to resolve a TOPMODEL problem has been suggested, which is associated with the spatial distribution of soil moisture behaviour in a runoff mechanism. A procedure to integrate the spatial information of saturation deficit in the TOPMODEL reflects the connectivity of saturated area in a watershed. The developed algorithm includes an improved basis in tracing the runoff path without increasing the number of parameters. The performance of the developed algorithm has been tested to an upland subwatershed, namely Dongok, which is the IHP watershed located at Wichon, Korea. Comparing with the original statistical version of the TOPMODEL, it has been found that the suggested algorithm can relax an overestimation of peak rate in the runoff simulation.

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A Study on Flood Prediction without Rainfall Data (강우 데이터를 쓰지 않는 홍수예측법에 관한 연구)

  • 김치홍
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 1985
  • In the flood prediction research, it is pointed out that the difficulty of flood prediction is the frequently experienced overestimation of flood peak. That is caused by the rainfall prediction difficulty and the nonlinearity of hydrological phenomena. Even though the former reason will remain still unsolved, but the latter one can be possibly resolved the method of the AMRA (Auto Regressive Moving Average) model for each runoff component as developed by Dr. Hino and Dr. Hasebe. The principle of the method consists of separating though the numerical filters the total runoff time series into long-term, intermediate and short-term components, or ground water flow, interflow, and surface flow components. As a total system, a hydrological system is a non-linear one. However, once it is separated into two or three subsystems, each subsystem may be treated as a linear system. Also the rainfall components into each subsystem a estimated inversely from the runoff component which is separated from the observed flood. That is why flood prediction can be done without rainfall data. In the prediction of surface flow, the Kalman filter will be applicable but this paper shows only impulse function method.

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Application of the GSSHA model for the long-term simulation of discharge and water quality at the Peace dam (평화의댐 장기 유출과 수질 모의를 위한 GSSHA 모형의 적용)

  • Jang, Suk Hwan;Oh, Kyoung Doo;Jo, Jun Won
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.53 no.5
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    • pp.357-367
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    • 2020
  • It is usually not easy to simulate the hydrologic cycle or water quality for ungaged watersheds, especially for long-term simulation. In this paper we evaluated the applicability of GSSHA, a process-based distributed hydrologic model, for the long-term discharge and water quality simulation for the ungaged Peace dam watershed. From the comparative analysis of the simulated discharge and water quality series with measured ones, we concluded that with its overall fair performance on simulating hydrograph patterns of the peak discharges and base flows for major storms the GSSHA model showed some possibility to be used as a watershed model even with its overestimation of peak discharges for small storms and different trends of simulated water quality from measured ones for some periods.

Aero-elastic wind tunnel test of a high lighting pole

  • Luo, Yaozhi;Wang, Yucheng;Xie, Jiming;Yang, Chao;Zheng, Yanfeng
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.1-24
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    • 2017
  • This paper presents a 1:25 multi-freedom aero-elastic model for a high lighting pole at the Zhoushan stadium. To validate the similarity characteristics of the model, a free vibration test was performed before the formal test. Beat phenomenon was found and eliminated by synthesis of vibration in the X and Y directions, and the damping ratio of the model was identified by the free decay method. The dynamic characteristics of the model were examined and compared with the real structure; the similarity results were favorable. From the test results, the major along-wind dynamic response was the first vibration component. The along-wind wind vibration coefficient was calculated by the China code and Eurocode. When the peak factor equaled 3.5, the coefficient calculated by the China code was close to the experimental result while Eurocode had a slight overestimation of the coefficient. The wind vibration coefficient during typhoon flow was analyzed, and a magnification factor was suggested in typhoon-prone areas. By analyzing the power spectrum of the dynamic cross-wind base shear force, it was found that a second-order vortex-excited resonance existed. The cross-wind response in the test was smaller than Eurocode estimation. The aerodynamic damping ratio was calculated by random decrement technique and the results showed that aerodynamic damping ratios were mostly positive at the design wind speed, which means that the wind-induced galloping phenomenon is predicted not to occur at design wind speeds.

Non-point Source Pollution Modeling Using AnnAGNPS Model for a Bushland Catchment (AnnAGNPS 모형을 이용한 관목림지의 비점오염 모의)

  • Choi Kyung-Sook
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.47 no.4
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    • pp.65-74
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    • 2005
  • AnnAGNPS model was applied to a catchment mainly occupied with bushland for modeling non-point source pollution. Since the single event model cannot handle events longer than 24 hours duration, the event-based calibration was carried out using the continuous mode. As event flows affect sediment and nutrient generation and transport, the calibration of the model was performed in three steps: Hydrologic, Sediment and Nutrient calibrations. The results from hydrologic calibration for the catchment indicate a good prediction of the model with average ARE(Absolute Relative Error) of $24.6\%$ fur the runoff volume and $12\%$ for the peak flow. For the sediment calibration, the average ARE was $198.8\%$ indicating acceptable model performance for the sediment prediction. The predicted TN(Total Nitrogen) and TP(Total Phosphorus) were also found to be acceptable as the average ARE for TN and TP were $175.5\%\;and\;126.5\%$, respectively. The AnnAGNPS model was therefore approved to be appropriate to model non-point source pollution in bushland catchments. In general, the model was likely to result in underestimation for the larger events and overestimation fur the smaller events for the water quality predictions. It was also observed that the large errors in the hydrologic prediction also produced high errors in sediment and nutrient prediction. This was probably due to error propagation in which the error in the hydrologic prediction influenced the generation of error in the water quality prediction. Accurate hydrologic calibration should be hence obtained for a reliable water quality prediction.