• Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.61-66
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• 2011

The integrity of the SG(Steam Generator) tubes has been challenged by numerous factors such as flaws, operation, atmosphere, inherently degraded materials, loose parts and even human errors. Of the factors, loose parts(or foreign materials) on the secondary side of the tubes can bring about volumetric defects and even leakage from the primary to the secondary side in a short period of time. More serious concerns about the loose parts are their unknown influx path and rapid growth rate of the defects affected by the loose parts. Therefore it is imperative to detect and characterize the foreign materials and the defects. As a part of the measures for loose part detection, TTS(Top of Tubesheet) MRPC(Motorized Rotating Pancake Coils) ECT has been carried out especially to the restricted high probability area of the loose part. However, in the presence of loose parts in the other areas, wide range loose part detection techniques are required. In this study, loose part standard tube was presented as a way to accurately detect and characterize loose part signals. And the SG tube ECT bobbin coil and MRPC ISI(In-service Inspection) data of domestic OPR-1000 and Westinghouse Model F(W_F) were reviewed and consequently, comprehensive loose part detection technique is derived especially by applying bobbin coil signals

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.831-834
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• 2002

Several companies in the world are marketing superconducting wires, films and bulks. High-Tc superconducting systems using these superconductors are begun to commercialize. For the successful realization or commercialization of superconducting system used Bi-2223 wires, the database on the degradation of critical current is essentially needed. In this paper, the electrical degradation of a Bi-2223 wires is measured. The electrical degradation rate was measured after the certain time of continuous current transportation. Specimens have the length of 190cm and double-pancakes coil have the length of 10m were tested. Tested Bi-2223 wires are commercialized product has 115A of Ic. When the transportation current was 95% of Ie, the degradation of Ic was appeared after 5 hours of transportation time. When the transferred current is enough larger than Ic, Bi-2223 double pancake is damaged seriously.

• 한국초전도학회:학술대회논문집
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• v.9
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• pp.373-377
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• 1999

HTS magnet operated at 20${\sim}$40 K was fabricated using three pieces of 100 m Bi-2223 high temperature superconductors fabricated by powder-in-tube process. It was composed of 6 double pancakes with 75 ID. and 113 OD. connected by lab splice. Coil I$_c$ of each DP.(double pancake) obtained for a 140 turn, fabricated using react and wind procedure was 6${\sim}$8 A at 77 K, self field. The maximum field was measured 0.06 T at lop = 5 A, 77 K. The joint resistance due to lap splice of HTS tapes affect badly to operate HTS magnet with persistent current mode, total effective magnet resistance included lap splice was 55 ${\mu}$ ${\omega}$ at 77 K.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.68-72
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• 1999

Since the discovery of high Tc superconductors, great efforts have been focused to develop high performance HTS magnets for the ultimate applications to power system devices. Magnet designers, however, have had difficulties in the estimation of the maximum operating current of the designed magnet from the tested short sample data, due to the degradation of the critical current density in the magnet. Similar story applies to the HTS electrical bus bar. It has been found that the critical current of Bi-2223 stacked tapes is much less than the total summation of critical currents of each tape, which is mainly attributed to the self magnetic fields. Furthermore, since the critical current degradation of Bi-2223 tape is greater in the normal magnetic field (to the tape surface) than in the parallel one, detailed magnetic field configurations are required to reduce the self field effects. In this paper, we calculate the self field effects of a stacked conductor, defining self field factors of normal and parallel magnetic fields to the tape surface. Finally, the critical current degradations in the HTS magnet are explained by the introduced self field factors of the stacked conductor.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.34-39
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• 2008

Steam Generator(SG) tubes are classified as one of the key components in nuclear power plants, and they should be periodically examined by the intensified management program for the assurance and diagnosis of their structural integrity. In this study, we use the optimum analysis technique to draw the detection and categorization of bowing(BOW) signals; abnormal tube-to-tube proximity in the SG upper bundle free span area. The locations in which BOW signals are detected likely have latent degradation of ODSCC(Outer Diameter Stress Corrosion Cracking). For the sake of timely and correct detection of BOW signals and diagnosis of ODSCC, we carried out the experimental demonstrations using a reduced mock-up. And we validated the MRPC(Motorized Rotating Pancake Coil) analysis technique is better than the bobbin. Hence, it comes to conclusion that the optimum analysis technique can be a good alternative for the reliable SG tube examination.

• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.31-34
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• 2005

There are many kinds of high temperature superconducting (HTS) application using Bi-2223 tape which is the most commercialized HTS material. Also, resistive superconducting fault current limiters (SFCLs) have been developed using many kinds of superconducting material such as YBCO thin film, Bi-2212 bulk and so on. However, SFCL using Bi-2223 tape has never been developed. This paper deals with the feasibility study on SFCL using Bi-2223 wire. The over-current behaviors of Bi-2223 short-length sample were measured. To make the resistive SFCL, two small-scale bifilar winding modules using 7m Bi-2223 wire were fabricated; i.e. solenoid type bifilar coil and pancake type one. The short-circuit tests of the coils were successfully performed up to 16 V$_{rms}$ From these tests, the current limiting capabilities of Bi-2223 bifilar coils were confirmed and current limiting performances between two winding types were compared. In addition, the feasibility of resistive SFCL using another HTS wire, i.e. YBCO coated conductor, was also investigated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2003.08a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2003

Fault current limiters (FCL) are extensively needed to suppress fault currents, especially for trunk power systems heavily connected to high voltage/large current transmission lines. Due to its ideal electrical behavior, high-temperature superconductor fault current limiter (HTSFCL) becomes one of the most important developing trends of limiters in power system. This paper describes the result of an investigation of the dielectric characteristics of turn-to-turn insulation for pancake and solenoid type reactor coil in liquid nitrogen. The influence of thickness in a variety length, on AC, DC and impulse surface flashover has been investigated. Also, the relationships between the number of turn and breakdown characteristics were clarified. The information gathered in this test series should be helpful in the design of liquid nitrogen filled DC reactor type HTSFCL.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07b
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• pp.869-870
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• 2006

일반적으로 초전도선재를 이용한 코일의 전자기력에 의한 스트레스 계산에 있어서는 코일의 전류밀도분포와 자속밀도분포의 선형적인 관계를 이용하나 아직까지 초전도체 특유의 비선형적인 특성을 이용한 스트레스의 계산은 미비하다. 본 논문에서는 13턴의 소형 싱글팬케이크 코일을 초전도의 특성을 적용해 해석하고 인가전류가 $0.3I_c,\;0.5I_c,\;0.8I_c$ 인 경우에 대해서 전자기력에 의한 코일의 스트레스를 유한요소법으로 계산하였다. 계산 결과 코일의 radial stress와 hoop stress는 모두 코일의 자속밀도분포와 유사한 모습을 나타내었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.51 no.7
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• pp.1784-1790
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• 2019

Accurate and consistent characterization of defects in steam generator tubes (SGT) in nuclear power plants is one of the key issues in the field of nondestructive testing since the large number of signals to be analyzed in a time-limited in-service inspection causes a serious problem in practice. This paper presents an effective approach to this difficult task of automated classification of motorized rotating pancake coil (MRPC) eddy current flaw acquired from tube specimens with deliberated defects using deep neural networks (DNN). This approach consists of five steps, namely, the data acquisition using the MRPC probe in the tube, the signal preprocessing to make data more suitable for training DNN, the data augmentation for boosting a training performance, the training of DNN, and finally demonstration of the trained DNN for discriminating the axial and circumferential defects. The high performance obtained in this study shows that DNN is useful for classification of defects in tubes from the MRPC eddy current signals even though the number of signals is very large.

• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.28-31
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• 2010

A magnetic field calculation method for toroidal type winding which has circular section was developed. At first, the equation for magnetic field by single filament coil was extended using numerical integration to estimate the entire interesting region of solenoid, especially winding region itself. And then, the magnetic field by toroidal arrangement of solenoids was computed with a coordinate transformation of vector fields. The superconducting magnet with toroidal arrangement can be made up of several tens of solenoid type double pancake windings for some applications such as superconducting magnetic energy storage system(SMES). In this system, the field calculation on the high-Tc superconducting(HTS) tape itself is very important because the entire system can be reached to a fault by magnetic stress of conductor or the critical current of superconducting tape can be dramatically reduced under its self field condition. To make matters worse, 3-dimensional analysis is indispensable for this type of magnet and the most of commercial programs with finite element method can be taken too much time for analysis and design. In this paper, a magnetic field calculation method for toroidal type winding with circular section was induced.