• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.43-49
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• 2010

In the present study, optimization of throttle margin for high pressure turbine to be retrofitted or partially modified for power uprating or life extension in nuclear power plant, has been performed to increase the electrical output. Throttle margin for high pressure turbine is required to maintain all the time the rated power by opening more of governor valves whenever inlet pressure is decreased due to the tube plugging of steam generator. If throttle margin of high pressure turbine is too much compared to remaining lifetime, loss of electrical output due to pressure drop of governor valves is inevitable. On the contrary, if it is too little, the rated power operation can not be accomplished when inlet pressure of high pressure turbine is dropped after many years operation. So, throttle margin for high pressure turbine in nuclear power plant is compromised considering for the degradation of steam generator, governor valve capacity, manufacturing tolerance of high pressure turbine, future plan of power uprating, and remaining lifetime of power plant.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.251-254
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• 2008

Issues and themes concerned with nuclear power plant uprating are examined. Attention is brought to the fact that many candidate nuclear power plants for uprating have anyway been operated below their rated power for a significant part of their operating life. The key issues remain safety and reliability in operation at all times, irrespective of the nuclear power plant's chronological or design age or power rating. The effects of power uprates are discussed in terms of material aspects and expected demands on the systems, structures and components. The impact on operation and maintenance methods is indicated in terms of changes to the ageing surveillance programmes. Attention is brought to the necessity checking or revising operator actions after power up-rating has been implemented.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 2005년도 추계학술발표회
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• pp.582-583
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• 2005

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.392-399
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• 2009

The paper concerns the description of the step by step development process of the new fixed blade runner called "Mixer" suitable for the uprating of the Francis turbines units installed at the older low head hydropower plants. In the paper the details of hydraulic and mechanical design are presented. Since the rotational speed of the new runner is significantly higher then the rotational speed of the original Francis one, the direct coupling of the turbine to the generator can be applied. The maximum efficiency at prescribed operational point was reached by the geometry optimization of two most important components. In the first step the optimization of the draft tube geometry was carried out. The condition for the draft tube geometry optimization was to design the new geometry of the draft tube within the original bad draft tube shape without any extensive civil works. The runner blade geometry optimization was carried out on the runner coupled with the draft tube domain. The blade geometry of the runner was optimized using automatic direct search optimization procedure. The method used for the objective function minimum search is a kind of the Nelder-Mead simplex method. The objective function concerns efficiency, required net head and cavitation features. After successful hydraulic design the modal and stress analysis was carried out on the prototype scale runner. The static pressure distribution from flow simulation was used as a load condition. The modal analysis in air and in water was carried out and the results were compared. The final runner was manufactured in model scale and it is going to be tested in hydraulic laboratory. Since the turbine with the fixed blade runner does not allow double regulation like in case of full Kaplan turbine, it can be profitably used mainly at power plants with smaller changes of operational conditions or in case with more units installed. The advantages are simple manufacturing, installation and therefore lower expenses and short delivery time for turbine uprating.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 2004년도 추계학술발표회 발표논문집
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• pp.553-554
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• 2004

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2011

국내 천연가스 주배관의 가스공급 최대허용운전압력이 6.86 MPa로 제한된 현재 상황에서 배관 관말압력저하를 해소하기 위해서는 배관을 증설 할 수밖에 없는데 이 경우 상당한 비용이 수반된다. 따라서 기존 배관과 설비를 활용한 해결 방안으로 송출압력을 더 높여 배관 운전압력을 상향 조정하여 공급하는 방법을 검토하였다. 배관에 대한 건전성 검토결과, 현재 시공된 배관은 7.85 MPa까지의 운전압력에서도 사용 가능하며, 연성파괴에 대한 저항성을 나타내는 충격흡수에너지는 ASME B31.8에서 요구하는 수치보다 더 높은 값을 가지고 있으며, 외부충격손상시 배관 변형을 위한 소요 하중은 배관 내압 증가에 따라 증가하였다. 그러나 배관의 운전압력이 증가함에 따라 가스 폭발 시 피해범위는 증가한다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제54권11호
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• pp.527-532
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• 2005

During the last ten years the new interruption techniques, which use the arc energy itself to increase the pressure inside a chamber by the PTFE nozzle ablation, have displaced the puffer circuit breakers due to reduced driving forces and better maintainability. In this paper, we have investigated the thermal flow characteristics inside a thermal puffer type gas circuit breaker by solving the Wavier-Stokes equations coupled with Maxwell's equations for considering all instabilities effects such as turbulence and Lorentz forces by transient arc plasmas. These relative inexpensive computer simulations might help the engineer research and design the new interrupter in order to downscale and uprating the GIS integral.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.417-424
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• 2011

핵연료집합체는 상단고정체, 하단고정체, 지지격자체, 제어관/계측관과 핵연료봉의 5 가지 주요 구성품으로 이루어져 있다. 여기서 상/하단고정체는 다른 구성품과 달리 ASME, Section III, Division 1 - Subsection NB 의 운전조건 A, B 에서의 stress intensity limits 를 만족하여야 한다. 이중냉각 핵연료집합체는 집합체당 출력을 증가시키기 위해서 기존의 가압경수로용 핵연료집합체에서 핵연료봉의 배열과 위치를 변화시켰는데 이로 인하여 핵연료봉 내/외부유로로 냉각수가 잘 흐를 수 있도록 상/하단고정체의 유로판의 형상을 수정하여야 한다. 본 논문에서는 설계하중조건에 대하여 수정된 상단고정체 유로판의 건전성평가를 위해 수행한 응력선형화과정을 자세히 설명하고 평가결과에 대하여 기술하였다.