• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.236-242
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• 1992

The characteristics of dynamic terms in the core overtemperature Delta-T trip function are investigated for various time constants and the effects on the trip setpoint are studied for the uncontrolled RCCA bank withdrawal at power event by using the NLOOP and the PUMA code. Based on this study, a procedure determining the optimal dynamic term is suggested and accordingly the optimum time constants are determined for the KORI 3&4 transition core. It reveals that the vessel average temperature-lead-lag term is the most sensitive in DNB trip setpoint and the optimized time constants are 21 seconds for lead and 4 seconds for lag.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.221-226
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• 1998

과잉온도 차온(Overtemperature $\Delta$T) 및 과잉출력 차온(Overpower $\Delta$T)트립에 쓰이는 온도 측정계통 총 지연시간은 6초로 구성되며 RTD 우회배관 제거시 4.5초의 RTD 응답시간(일차지연 상수로 가정)과 1.5초의 순수지연시간(전자회로 지연시간 + 그립퍼 풀림시간등)으로 구성된다. 그러나 RTD우회배관 제거전 사고분석을 일차지연상수를 3.5초, 순수지연을 2.5초로 모델링하였으므로 Simulink를 통한 영향분석과 Rack 응답시험 계단파 입력신호의 타당성을 평가하였다. RTD 응답시간은 전형적인 1차 지연요소로 나타내며 계전기나 제어봉 Gripper Release 시간 등은 순수 지연으로 가정하고 분석을 수행하고 기타 지연/지상 필터를 발전소와 동일하게 모델링하여 분석하므로써 발전소에서 일어나는 과도현상을 묘사할 수 있다는 점을 고려할 때 RTD우회배관 제거후 응답시간 지연상수가 바뀌더라도 안전하다는 결론에 도달했다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.45-57
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• 1990

A steady-state margin comparison study was performed between analog and digital protection systems. The systems compared are the thermal overpower and overtemperature delta T system of Westinghouse, and Core Protection Calculator System of Combustion Engineering, Inc. No dynamic offset was considered to eliminate the margin differences by different safety analysis methodologies. The result shows that the digital protection system has about 30% more rated power margin than the analog system in protecting against the fuel rod centerline melting. The digital protection system is shown to have almost same margin with the analog protection system in preventing the DNB at EOC (End of Cycle) even if the digital protection system has about 10% more margin at BOC(Beginning of Cycle).

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.55 no.8
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• pp.2952-2965
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• 2023

Advanced reactors, such as Small Modular Reactors or existing Nuclear Power Plants, often use Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based controllers in new Instrumentation and Control (I&C) system architectures or as an alternative to existing analog-based I&C systems. Compared to CPU-based Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), FPGAs offer better overall performance. However, programming functions on FPGAs can be challenging due to the requirement for a hardware description language that does not explicitly support the operation of real numbers. This study aims to implement the Reactor Trip (RT) functions of the existing analog-based Reactor Protection System (RPS) using FPGAs. The RT equations for Overtemperature delta Temperature and Overpower delta Temperature involve dynamic compensators expressed with the Laplace transform variable, 's', which is not directly supported by FPGAs. To address this issue, the trip equations with the Laplace variable in the continuous-time domain are transformed to the discrete-time domain using the Z-transform. Additionally, a new operation based on a relative value for the equation range is introduced for the handling of real numbers in the RT functions. The proposed approach can be utilized for upgrading the existing analog-based RPS as well as digitalizing control systems in advanced reactor systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.03a
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• pp.848-853
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• 2004

Regarding to the project SUAV (Smart Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) in KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute), several engine configurations has been evaluated. However it's not an easy task to collect all the necessary data of each engine for the analysis. Usually, some kind of modeling technique is required in order to determine the unknown data. In the present paper a qualitative method for reverse engineering is proposed, in order to identify some design patterns and relationships between parameters. The method can be used to estimate several parameters that usually are not provided by the manufacturer. The method consists of modeling an existing engine and through a simulation, compare its transient behavior with its operating envelope. In the simulation several parameters such as thermodynamics, performance, safety and mechanics concerning to the definition of operation-envelope, have been discussed qualitatively. With the model, all engine parameters can be estimated with acceptable accuracy, making possible the study of dependencies among different parameters such as power-turbine total inertia, TIT, take-off time and part load, in order to check if the engine transient performance is within the design criteria. For more realistic approach and more detailed design requirements, it will be necessary to enhance the compressor map first, and more realistic estimated values must be taken into account for intake-loss, bleed-air and auxiliary power extraction. The relative importance of these “unknown” parameters must be evaluated using sensitivity analysis in the future evaluation. Moreover, fluid dynamics, thermal analysis and stress analysis necessary for the resulting life assessment of en engine, will not be addressed here but in a future paper. With the methodology presented in the paper was possible to infer the relationships between operation-envelope and engine parameters.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.823-824
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• 2016

In general, distribution board, panel board and motor control center can be installed over a wide area such as residence of group, building, schools, factories, ports, airports, water service and sewerage, substation and heavy industries that are used to supply converts the voltages extra high voltage into optimal voltage. There are electrical accidents due to rise of contact temperature, loose contact of bus bar, deterioration of the contact resistance, overtemperatue of the bus bars. In this paper, we propose bus bar joints monitoring system with loose connection of bus bar, measuring the joint resistance of busbars and monitoring internal and external heat. The proposed system can be reduced the electrical accidents by maintenance of busbar joints and the temperature of the conductive contact surface of busbars.