• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.43 no.12
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• pp.1906-1912
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• 2014

To evaluate the effect of freezing temperature on quality of blueberries, blueberry fruit was frozen at -20, -45, and $-70^{\circ}C$ immediately after harvest. After 24 hr of freezing, frozen blueberries were stored at $-20^{\circ}C$ for 2 months. Blueberries were thawed at $4^{\circ}C$ or $25^{\circ}C$ and subjected to subsequent analyses of drip ratio, fruit hardness, pH of juice, color, and sugar content. Frozen berries at all three temperatures did not show any significant difference in pH or sugar content compared with fresh berries. The drip ratio of berries decreased as the freezing temperature decreased. Thawing conditions significantly affected the drip ratio of berries frozen at $-20^{\circ}C$. Hardness of berries was significantly reduced after freeze-thawing. Freezing and thawing reduced total aerobic bacteria and yeast/mold numbers by more than 2 log regardless of freezing or thawing temperature ($4^{\circ}C$ or $25^{\circ}C$). Cross-section of blueberries did not show different shapes by freezing temperature. Further studies such as sensory evaluation are needed to determine the optimum freezing temperature regarding quality and cost.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.344-351
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• 2019

In this work, the mechanism of contraction and expansion noise generation is investigated, and effective methods are proposed to reduce the occurrence frequency of noise during operation of the refrigerator. First, the frequency spectrum analysis was made by using the sound pressure signal measured in an anechoic chamber to investigate the characteristic of noise and the frequency of occurrence. Second, a thermal deformation analysis was conducted to predict the location of noise source. It is found from the analysis that the biggest thermal deformation occurs in the middle of the left inner case in the freezer room. Following the investigation made, a noise reduction method is proposed. The method is proposed to reduce the contraction and expansion noise by reducing the thermal deformation through increasing ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) thickness in the center of refrigerator.

• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.332-340
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the viability of periodontal ligament cell in rat teeth using slow cryopreservation method with magnetic field through MTT assay and TUNEL test. For each group, 12 teeth of 4 weeks old white female Sprague-Dawley rat were used for MTT assay, and 6 teeth in TUNEL test. The Maxillary left and right, first and second molars were extracted as atraumatically as possible under tiletamine anesthesia. The experimental groups were group1 (immediately extraction), group 2 (cold preservation at 4$^{\circ}C$ for 1 week), group 3 (rapid cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen), group 4 (slow cryopreservation with magnetic field of 1 G), and group 5 (slow cryopreservation). F medium was used as preservation medium and 10% DMSO as cryoprotectant. After preservation and thawing, the MTT assay and TUNEL test were processed. One way ANOVA and Scheffe method were performed at the 95% level of confidence. The value of optical density obtained after MTT analysis was divided by the value of eosin staining for tissue volume standardization. In both MTT assay and TUNEL test, it had showed no significant difference among group 3, 4, and 5. And group 3 had showed higher viability of periodontal ligament cell than group 2. From this study, slow cryopreservation method with magnetic field can be used as one of cryopreservation methods.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.282-287
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• 2016

Recently in order to protect the ocean environment and to reduce energy consumption, shipbuilders have been developing highly economized ships. This research analyzed the possibility of adopting the onshore absorption refrigerator to offshore ships having a cooling system with refrigerant by using the waiste heat of the engine jacket cooling water instead of compression refrigerators. The results showed that R236fa could be a suitable medium for absorbing the heat of the absorber and condenser in an absorption refrigerator. The cooling system using R236fa achieved a high COP of 0.798, which is 15% and 5% higher than an air cooling system with a cooling tower and a water cooling system with a heat exchanger, respectively. The cooling system with R236fa achieved high efficiency with a 25% reduction in flow rate of LiBr solution and only 15.7% flow rate of cooling medium as compared to the water cooling system. The heating of sea water by the engine jacket water flowing out from the generator can prevent the crystallization of LiBr solution due to the low temperature of sea water.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.277-281
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• 2008

This paper presents the development of a high efficiency transport refrigeration system for sliced-raw fish transportation. The refrigeration system is equipped with heat storage for reverse cycle-hot gas defrost (the stored heat is used during defrost cycle of the system). System performance and container operating conditions are analyzed during experimental investigation on a $3,225{\times}1,740{\times}1,640\;mm$ full-scale refrigerated container under cooling and defrosting conditions. The prototype system indicates better performance in terms of shorter cooling-down time, shorter defrost time and smaller fluctuations of refrigerated container's temperature.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.341-346
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• 2013

Refrigerated warehouse inventory management program which manages the logistics of shipping&receiving and inventory quickly and accurately is a costly and labor-intensive maintenance because it is operated in the legacy system on a closed client-server environment. There are no services available for consignees who are the consumers of refrigerated warehouses except fax or phone for orders which makes the business process inefficient and creates many problems such as error and inaccuracy. In this paper, we design and implement a mobile framework with a legacy system supporting various services to the consignees for solving problems of outdated legacy systems and no services to use. The system supports promptness and accuracy which give the users improved satisfaction by providing orders and queries of inventory for the consignees on mobile devices.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.38 no.7
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• pp.828-833
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• 2014

In this paper, the performance characteristics for newly developed ejector refrigeration system, which is that the part of saturated vapor from liquid-vapor separator after ejector expansion process is entrained in ejector, and the saturated liquid flows in the evaporator and compressed with the rest of vapor in separator, is studied. The reasons of the performance improvement of refrigeration system are that the refrigeration capacity is increased due to quality reduction after iso-entropic expansion process by ejector and the compression work is reduced because of the relatively high pressure of vapor refrigerant before compression process. The comparison results of the ejector system entraining expansion gases with the present residential freezer show that the COP increases to 27.8% maximum in case of the pressure drop to 65% of high pressure of freezer, and to 40.1% for 75% pressure drop of refrigerant R401A. The COP improvement rate with 20%~60% pressure lift in diffuser of ejector is only 2.6%~3%.

• Archives of design research
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• v.14
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• pp.1-7
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• 1996

Designers often hesitate to decide the shape, size, and layout of a product. Though ergonomic principles and data are absolutely needed in this process, they don have enough guidelines to refer. For the refrigerator designers, they also are not convinced of their decision: the vertical position of the freezing and refrigerating rooms, the height of shelves, the shape of door-handle, etc. To support the refrigerator design, we applied several ergonomic methods to the evaluation of refrigerator. EMG was measured to evaluate the load of users lumbar muscle. Based upon the experimental EMG data, we developed a model to estimate the relative load corresponding to the height of refrigerator shelves. Two different layouts of a refrigerator, R/F and F/R styles, were compared with the model. A three-dimensional motion analysis method was used to evaluate the users motion of using a refrigerator. Ten door-handles with the different shapes and positions were evaluated by tracking the rotations of the users arm. Video protocol analysis was used to evaluate the user interface of a control panel in a refrigerator. Finally, we suggested several ergonomic design guidelines based on the facts found in this research and the anthropometric data of the Korean adults. The results of this study can be applied to the ergonomic design of refrigerators

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.577-582
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• 2015

This paper is the fundamental study for the application of cold storage system to the transportation equipment by sea and land. This numerical study presents the solid-liquid phase change phenomenon of calcium chloride solution of 30wt %. The governing equations are 1-dimensional unsteady state heat transfer equations of $1^{st}$ order partial differential equations. This type of latent heat storage material is often usable in fishery vessel for controlling the temperature of container with constant condition. The governing equation was discretized with finite difference method and the program was composed with Mathcad program. The main parameters of this solution were the initial temperature of heat storage material, ambient temperature of cold air and the velocity of cold air. The data of boundary layer thickness becomes thin with the increasing of cold air flowing velocity and also the heat storage completion time become shorten.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.02a
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• pp.118-118
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• 2012

Cryopump는 반도체 임플란타 공정, OLED분야, 신소재 개발, 표면분석 및 처리, 의료분야, 입자가속기, 핵융합 등 다양한 진공분야에 응용되는 고진공용 극저온펌프이다. 특히 향후로의 산업구조는 디스플레이, 반도체, IT 산업분야로 집중 재편될 것이기에, 이에 따른 핵심제조장비인 고진공 펌프의 수요가 급증할 것으로 판단된다. 그리고 이를 위한 핵심부품과 장비들의 국산화가 시급한 실정이다. 기술적인 측면에서 보자면 GVT는 미국의 Varian과 일본Ebara의 Cryopump 제조기술을 원천으로 한 회사로써 현재는 국내 유일의 G-M 냉동기와 Cryopump 제조기술을 보유한 업체이다. 그리고 최근 오랫동안 정체되었던 관련 기술을 발전시켜 최적화된 한국형 G-M 냉동기 및 이를 장착한 다양한 사이즈의 고성능 Cryopump를 출시하게 되었다. 가장 큰 수확은 Cryopump의 성능을 크게 향상시켰으며 무엇보다 고객맞춤형으로 디자인할 수 있을 정도의 기술력을 확보하게 되었다는 점이다. Cryopump의 성능은 장착되는 Cryocooler (G-M냉동기)의 성능과 밀접한 관련이 있기 때문에 일차로 Cryocooler의 성능을 개선하고 이차로 이를 장착한 Cryopump의 성능을 개선하였다. 본 연구는 일차로 진행된 HP Series 2단 Cryocooler 4가지 모델 중 가장 범용인 HPM 모델과 HPS모델에 대한 제작과 성능시험에 관한 것이다. 이는 각각 기존의 ICP Series 펌프에 장착되던 Expander 535 모델 및 Expander 855 모델에 대한 설계 최적화의 결과물로써 내용은 Cryocooler에 대한 'Typical Performance Test(1st STG와 2nd STG의 온도가 각각의 Stage에 인가되는 Heat Load에 의해 그물망 형태의 그래프가 되도록 수행하는 시험법)'의 절차를 따라 수행되었다. HPM Cryocooler의 성능은 2nd STG Temp. 20K와 1st STG Temp. 80K를 Heat Load기준으로 하였을 경우, 각각 8.2W, 55.0W의 성능을 나타내었고 HPS Cryocooler의 성능은 2nd STG Temp. 20K 와 1st STG Temp. 72K를 Heat Load기준으로 하였을 경우, 각각 14.0W, 90.0W의 성능을 나타내었다. 1st STG Temp.를 72K로 정한 이유는 Power Supply의 용량 한계로 인해 90W이상의 Heat Load를 인가할 수 없었기 때문이다. 만약 성능 그래프의 경향성을 고려하여 1st STG Temp. 80K로 가정한다면, 각각 약 13W, 100W 정도의 성능을 가질 것으로 추정된다. 단, 본 시험에 사용된 Compressor는 GVT의 HC80Plus 모델로 내부에는 Helium용 5HP급 Scroll Type의 Compressor가 장착되어 있으며, 봉입압력 250Psig에 저압 100Psig기준, 65scfm의 유량을 가지는 압축기이다. 압축기와 Cryocooler의 조합은 1:1이었고 시험방법은 Cryocooler에 대한 GVT 자체규정에 따라 진행되었으며 밤과 낮 및 공장전체의 부하변동에 따른 냉각수 온도변화에 따른 펌프의 성능변화는 고려되지 않았다.