The conventional research trend on spent fuel was safety analysis based on mechanical perspective. Analysis of spent fuel cladding is based on the temperature of cladding and pressure inside cladding. To improve fuel cladding analysis, precise and accurate thermal safety evaluation is required. In this study a database which is about thermal conductivity and emissivity for the thermal modeling was established for a long-term safety analysis of spent fuel. As a result, we confirmed that the thermal conductivity of zirconium hydride was not accounted in conventional model such as FRAPCON and MATPRO. The conductivity of zirconium and its oxide was evaluated only as a function of temperature. However, the behavior of heat conductivity and emissivity is determined by the change of the material properties. The material properties depend on the microstructural characteristic. It can be seen that this conventional approach does not consider the microstructure change behavior according to vacuum drying process or burn-up induced degradation phenomena. To improve the thermal properties of spent nuclear fuel cladding, the measurement experiments of heat conduction and emissivity are required according to spent fuel experience and status such as the number of vacuum drying, cooling rate, burn up, hydrogen concentration and oxidation degree. In previous domestic reports and papers, we found that relative data between thermal properties and spent fuel experience and status does not exist. Recently, in order to understand the failure mechanism of hydrogen embrittlement, many studies have been conducted by accounting and spent fuel experience and status in a mechanical perspective. If microstructure information could be obtained from these studies, the modeling of thermal conductivity and emissivity will be possible indirectly. According to a recent abroad paper, it was confirmed that the thermal conductivity decreased by about 30% due to irradiation damage. The radiation damage effects on thermal conductivity also has not been studied in zirconium oxide and hydride. These un-revealed phenomena will be considered for the thermal safety model of spent fuel.

온실에서 겨울철 야간에는 열손실을 줄이기 위한 목적으로, 여름철 주간에는 차광을 위한 목적으로 스크린을 사용하고 있다. 온실의 냉난방 에너지 절감효과에 큰 영향을 미치는 스크린의 장파복사 방사율과 흡수 율은 온실에 설치할 적절한 스크린을 선택하는데 있어서 중요한 요소가 되며 이러한 특성값들을 정확하게 측 정할 수 있는 방법이 필요하다. 외부 환경조건에서 스크린의 장파복사 특성의 측정과 관련된 연구가 일부 수 행된 바 있지만 모든 종류의 스크린에 적용할 수 있는 방법은 아니고 공극이 있는 스크린 자재에만 적용이 가능한 방법이다. 본 연구에서는 순복사계 및 야간복사계를 사용하여 온실 스크린의 장파복사 흡수량과 방사량을 측정하고, 방사율, 흡수율 및 투과율을 결정하는 새로운 방법을 제시하였다. 특성값의 측정은 공극이 0인 4가 지 종류의 스크린 자재에 대하여 수행하였다. 모든 자재가 장파복사 방사량이 흡수량보다 높게 나타났다. PE, LD-13, LD-15 and PH-2의 장파복사 방사율은 각각 0.439±0.020, 0.460±0.010, 0.454±0.004, and 0.499±0.006 범위로 나타났다.

이 연구에서는 Earth Observing System Terra 위성에 탑재된 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 협대역 방출율(채널 29, 30, 31) 자료와 다중선형회귀모형을 이용하여 지표면 광대역 방출율을 추정하였다. 다중선형회귀모형 도출 및 검증을 위한 분광 방출율 자료는 MODIS University of California, Santa Barbara와 Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer spectral library 의 307종(토양 123종, 식생 32종, 물 19종, 인위적 재료 43종, 바위 90종)을 사용하였다. 도출된 다중선형회귀모형의 결정계수(R 2 )는 0.95 (p< .001)로 높 게 나타났고 또한 이 모형 결과와 이론적 광대역 방출율 값의 평균제곱근오차(Root Mean Square Error)는 0.0070이었다. 그리고 이 연구 결과에 따라 계산된 지표면 광대역 방출율을 선행 연구 Wang et al. (2005)의 결과와 비교하였다. 그 결과 아시아, 아프리카, 오세아니아 지역에서 이 연구와 Wang et al. (2005)의 결과에 대한 1월 평균 지표면 광대역 방출율의 평균제곱근오차는 0.0054이었고 최소와 최대 편차는 각각 0.0027과 0.0067이었으며 이러한 통계 값은 8월에 도 유사하였다. 이 연구에서 다중선형회귀모형에 의하여 계산한 지표면 광대역 방출율은 Wang et al. (2005)의 값과 큰 차이가 없이 비교적 정확하게 산출되었으나 산출 정확성 향상을 위해서는 토지피복특성에 따른 차별화된 회귀모형 적 용 필요성이 제기된다.

Due to rapid development of infrared guided weapon, survivability of armored vehicle is severely threatened. Hence, reduction of susceptibility by lowering infrared signature level is essential to enhance survivability of the vehicle. For this purpose, numerical analysis is conducted to analyze time and spatial characteristics of infrared signature of the vehicle when surface emissivity changes in this study. The analysis shows that the emissivity which produces minimum contrast radiant intensity is significantly altered by time and detecting position. Based on the result, it is concluded that the controlled structures which have different emissivity should be adopted at different region of the vehicle to effectively decrease infrared signature level.

적외선을 이용한 무기체계의 발달로 인해 항공기의 생존은 큰 위협에 직면해 있다. 따라서 항공기의 생존성 향상을 위해 서 적외선 스텔스 기술이 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 수치해석을 통해 실제 비행환경에서의 항공기 표면온도 및 주위 배 경에 따른 적외선 신호를 분석하고 이를 바탕으로 적외선 스텔스를 위한 항공기 표면 구조체 방사율의 가이드라인을 제시하 고 그 성능을 검증하고자 한다. 수치해석 결과, 주위 배경에 따라서 항공기 표면 방사율을 최적화한다면 항공기와 배경간의 복사대비강도를 감소시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다.

We study the relationships between the thermal emissivity of nuclear graphites (IG-110, PCEA, IG-430 and NBG-18) and their surface structural change by oxidation using scanning electron microscope and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The nonoxidized (0% weight loss) specimen had the surface covered with glassy materials and the 5% and 10% oxidized specimens, however, showed high roughness of the surface without glassy materials. During oxidation the binder materials were oxidized first and then graphitic filler particles were subsequently oxidized. The 002 interlayer spacings of the non-oxidized and the oxidized specimens were about 3.38~3.39a. There was a slight change in crystallite size after oxidation compared to the nonoxidized specimens. It was difficult to find a relationship between the thermal emissivity and the structural parameters obtained from the XRD analysis.

Inorganic oxide colloids dispersed in alcohol were applied to a stainless steel substrate to produce oxide coatings for the purpose of minimizing emissive thermal transfer. The microstructure, roughness, infrared emissive energy, and surface heat loss of the coated substrate were observed with a variation of the nano oxide sol and coating method. It was found that the indium tin oxide, antimony tin oxide, magnesium oxide, silica, titania sol coatings may reduce surface heat loss of the stainless steel at 300˚C. It was possible to suppress thermal oxidation of the substrate with the oxide sol coatings during an accelerated thermal durability test at 600˚C. The silica sol coating was most effective to suppress thermal oxidation at 600˚C, so that it is useful to prevent the increase of radiative surface heat loss as a heating element. Therefore, the inorganic oxide sol coatings may be applied to improve energy efficiency of the substrate as the heating element.

Thermal emissivity of nuclear graphite was measured with its oxidation degree. Commercial nuclear graphites (IG-110, PECA, IG-430, and NBG-18) have been used as samples. Concave on graphites surface increased as its oxidation degree increased, and R value (Id/Ig) of the graphites decreased as the oxidation degree increased. The thermal emissivity increased depending on the decrease of the R (Id/Ig) value through Raman spectroscopy analysis. It was determined that the thermal emissivity was influenced by the crystallinity of the nuclear graphite.

Thermal emissivity of commercial nuclear graphites (IG-110, PCEA, IG-430 and NBG-18) following changes in oxidation degrees were examined. Specimens were oxidized to 0%, 5%, and 10% in air flow of 5l/min at 600℃ using a furnace, and the thermal emissivities were measured using an infrared spectrum analyzer. The measuring temperatures for the thermal emissivity were 100℃, 200℃, 300℃, 400℃ 500℃. Also density and porosity of the specimens were observed to compare with thermal emissivity. Results showed that emissivity increased with oxidation, and the 10% oxidized NBG-18 showed the highest emissivity (0.890) which value is larger for 24% than the value of as-received specimen. Investigation of factors affecting the emissivity revealed that increases in the surface roughness and porosity due to oxidation were responsible for the increase in emissivity after oxidation.

Graphite for the nuclear reactor is used to the moderator, reflector and supporter in which fuel rod inside of nuclear reactor. Recently, there are many researches has been performed on the various characteristics of nuclear graphite, however most of them are restricted to the structural and the mechanical properties. Therefore we focused on the thermal property of nuclear graphite. This study investigated the thermal emissivity following the oxidation degree of nuclear graphite with IG-11 used as a sample. IG-11 was oxidized to 6% and 11% in air at 5 l/min at 600˚C. The porosity and thermal emissivity of the sample were measured using a mercury porosimeter and by an IR method, respectively. The thermal emissivity of an oxidized sample was measured at 100˚C, 200˚C, 300˚C, 400˚C and 500˚C. The porosity of the oxidized samples was found to increase as the oxidation degree increased. The thermal emissivity increased as the oxidation degree increased, and the thermal emissivity decreased as the measured temperature increased. It was confirmed that the thermal emissivity of oxidized IG-11 is correlated with the porosity of the sample.

The drought index has been developed, based on a 8.6μm surface emissivity in the 8-12μm MODIS channels over the African Sahel region (10-20 N, 13 W-35 W) and the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA: 37.2-37.7 N, 126.6-127.2 E). The emissivity indicates the SiO2 strength and can vary interannually by vegetation, water vapor, and soil moisture, as a potential indicator of drought conditions. In a well-vegetated region close to 10 N of the Sahel, the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) showed high sensitivity, while the emissivity did not. On the other hand, the NDVI experienced negligible variability in a poorly vegetated region near 20 N, while the emissivity reflected sensitively the effects of atmospheric water vapor and soil moisture conditions. Seasonal variations of the emissivity (0.94-0.97) have been examined over the SMA during the 2003-2004 period compared to NDVI (or Enhanced Vegetation Index; EVI). Here, the dryness was more severe in urban area with less vegetation than in suburban area; the two areas corresponded to the north and south of the Han river, respectively. The emissivity exhibiting a significant spatial correlation of ∼0.8 with the two indices can supplement their information.

This is a proposal to probe local part of the interplanetary dust (IPD) cloud complex and retrieve mean volume emissivity of the local IPDs at mid-infrared wavelengths. This will be done by monitoring, with Infrared Camera (IRC) aboard the ASTRO-F, the annual modulation of the zodiacal emission. In pointing mode of the ASTRO-F mission the spacecraft can make attitude maneuvering over approximately ±1 ̊ range centered at solar elongation 90 ̊ in the ecliptic plane. The attitude maneuvering combined with high sensitivity of the IRC will provide us with a unique opportunity observationally to take derivatives of the zodiacal emission brightness with respect to the solar elongation. From the resulting differential of the brightness over the ±1̊ range, one can directly determine the mean volume emissivity of the local IPDs with a sufficient accuracy to de-modulate the annual emissivity variations due to the Earth's elliptical motion and the dis-alignment of the maximum IPD density plane with respect to the ecliptic. The non-zero eccentricity (e⊕= 0.0167) of the Earth's orbit combined with the sensitive temperature dependence of the Planck function would bring modulations of amplitude at least 3.34% to the zodiacal emission brightness at mid-infrared wavelengths, with which one may determine the IPD temperature T(r) and mean number density n(r) as functions of heliocentric distance r. This will in turn fix the power-law exponent δ in the relation T(r) = T_o(r/r_o)-δ for the dust temperature and v in n(r) = n_o(r/r_o)-v for the density. We discuss how one may de-couple the notorious degeneracy of cross-section, density, reference temperature To and exponent δ.

하부 대류권의 대기물현상과 마이크로파 표면 방출율를 전구적으로 조사하기 위하여 1981-93년 기간의 MSU 채널1 밝기온도와 대기대순환 모델(GCM) 재분석 월평균 자료를 사용하였다. 모델재분석 채널1 자료의 평균값이 MSU 채널1 가중함수를 기초로 하여 세 종류의 모델(NCEP ECMWF, GEOS) 재분석에서 온도장을 이용하여 재구성되었다. 모델재분석 채널1 온도는 하부 대류권의 열적 상태를 주로 반영하기 때문에, 해양과 육지에서 계절에 관계없이 각 반구 여름철에 최대값을 나타내었다. MSU 채널1 밝기온도는 해양에서 대기물현상으로 인해 열대 및 남태평양 수렴대들 에서 극대값을 보였다. 또한 이 밝기온도는 빙하/눈 방출율 효과로 인하여 고위도 해양에서 증가하는 반면에, 고위도육지에서는 감소하였다. 열대 및 남태평양 수렴대들의 계절적 이동은 GCM과 MSU 사이의 채널1 온도 차의 분포에서 체계적으로 나타났다. 이러한 온도차의 극소값 위치에서 추정할 때, 열대 수렴대는 가을에 9N까지 북상하였고, 남태평양 수렴대는 북반구 가을과 겨울에 12S까지 남하하였다. 고위도 경우에는 해빙이 각 반구의 겨울에 북반구에서 53N까지 남하하고, 남반구에서는 58S까지 북상하였다 복사전달 결과를 이용하여 MSU 채널1 밝기온도에 대한 대기물현상과 표면 방출율의 부분적인 기여도를 분리하여 조사하였다. ITCZ지역에서 4-6K의 밝기온도 상승은 1-1.5mm/day의 대기물현상 증가에, 그리고 고위도 해양에서의 10-30K의 상승은 0.6-0.9값의 해빙 방출율의 기여에 해당하였다.

Effects of surface conditions (temperature and roughness) of test specimens, when measuring emissive power of far-infrared ray, have been investigated using FT-IR spectrometer. Element metal zinc (Zn) was selected in this study as representative specimen of materials consisting of simple element. The zinc specimens were heated to four temperatures, i.e., 333K, 353K, .373K, and also their surface was finished with SiC abrasive papers of 100, 220, 360, 400, 600, 800, and 1000 mesh in size. The results shows that the emissive power (W/㎡) of the far-infrared ray increases with temperature for a given roughness and its relationship may be expressed by the following equations: Yη=1.0=0.142.T-0.937 for η=1.0, and Yη=10=0.016.T-1.286 for η=10. The emissive power is also known to increase with surface roughness for a given temperature. Their relationship can be represented by the following equations: YT=313K=0.234.ln(η)+3.53, at 313K, YT=353K=0.234.ln(η)+4.02 at 353K and YT=393K=0.243.ln(η)+4.62 at 393K.