• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.547-550
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• 2011

We have developed a laser-based needle-free liquid drug-injection device. A laser beam is focused inside the liquid contained in the rubber chamber of a micro-scale. The focused laser beam causes explosive bubble growth, and the sudden volume increase in a sealed chamber drives a microjet of liquid drug through the micronozzle. The exit diameter of a nozzle is less than 100 ${\mu}m$, and we verify that the injected microjet is fast enough to penetrate soft human tissue. In the experiment, the microjet penetrated a 5% gelatin-water solution that replicates the human thrombus and pork-fat tissue.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.27-35
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• 2021

Recently, as a solution to the sharp drop in "power reserve ratio", it is being converted to a microgrid that enables bi-directional transmission and distribution. A microgrid is composed of a small-scale distributed power supply and a load. As a representative technology of distributed power generation, there is a Micro Combined Heat and Power system applied to homes and buildings. In this study, a safety standard was developed by dividing the power generation system, cooling system, lubrication system, and exhaust system to derive safety standards for a small gas engine power generation system with a gas consumption less than 232.6kW (200,000 kcal/h). In the case of the power generation system, a filter was installed and the system was stopped by detecting gas leakage and abnormalities in engine speed or output and the cooling system is stipulated to stop the system in case of insufficient cooling water or overheating. The lubrication system monitors the pressure and temperature of the lubricating oil and stops the system when an abnormality occurs, and the exhaust gas emission concentration regulation value was specified in accordance with domestic and foreign standards. Through the results of this study, it is judged that the safety of the gas engine power generation system can be improved and it can contribute to the commercialization of products.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.10
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• pp.1493-1498
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• 2010

This paper present the characteristics of micro- and meso-scale milling processes in which compressed cold air, minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) and $MoS_2$ nanofluid MQL are used. For process characterization, the microand meso-scale milling experiments are conducted using desktop meso-scale machine tool system and the surface roughness is measured. The experimental results show that the use of compressed chilly air and nanofluid MQL in the micro- and meso-scale milling processes is effective in improving the surface finish.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.241-241
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• 2010

적외선 센서는 빛의 유무에 관계없이 물체 또는 인체에서 발산하는 적외선을 감지한다. 이러한 센서를 전자 및 디스플레이 시스템과 연동하면 열영상 시스템이 되는데, 이는 전방 감시, 플랜트 감시, 보안, 방범용으로 많이 사용되며, 특히 자동차 야간 운전자 보조용으로 사용되어 최첨단, 고부가가치를 지니고 있는 핵심부품이다. 비냉각형 적외선 센서인 마이크로볼로미터는 상온에서 작동하므로 극저온 Cooler가 불필요하며, 무게와 부피가 작아 각종 시스템에 부착가능하다. 특히 볼로미터형 적외선 센서는 용량이 적은 TE cooler로 상온으로 안정화를 시키며, 진공으로 유지되는 금속 또는 세라믹 패키지를 사용하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 마이크로 볼로미터용 진공패키지를 제작하여 패키지 조립 및 측정기술에 대해 조사하였다. 패키지는 금속재질인 kovar를 사용하여 제작되었고, 내부에 TE Cooler와 장수명 진공유지를 위한 getter, 그리고 온도센서 및 볼로미터 센서 칩을 장착하여 조립하였다. 패키지 Cap ass'y와 base envelop의 솔더링 공정은 약 $200^{\circ}C$에서 수행하였으며, evacuation system을 이용하여 5일 동안 패키지 bake-out 공정을 수행하였다. 이 후 getter를 활성화시키고, seal-off 공정으로 진공 기밀을 유지하였다. 진공 패키지의 기밀성은 $6{\times}10^{-9}\;std.cm^3/sec$로 기밀성을 유지하였다. 볼로미터 센서의 반응도는 $10^2\;V/W$ 이상을 나타내었으며, 탐지도는 $2{\times}10^8\;cm-Hz^{1/2}/W$를 나타내었다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.52 no.6
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• pp.826-833
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• 2014

Driven by both environmental and economic reasons, the development of small to medium scale GTL(gas-to-liquid) process for offshore applications and for utilizing other stranded or associated gas has recently been studied increasingly. Microchannel GTL reactors have been prefrered over the conventional GTL reactors for such applications, due to its compactness, and additional advantages of small heat and mass transfer distance desired for high heat transfer performance and reactor conversion. In this work, multi-microchannel reactor was simulated by using commercial CFD code, ANSYS FLUENT, to study the geometric effect of the microchannels on the heat transfer phenomena. A heat generation curve was first calculated by modeling a Fischer-Tropsch reaction in a single-microchannel reactor model using Matlab-ASPEN integration platform. The calculated heat generation curve was implemented to the CFD model. Four design variables based on the microchannel geometry namely coolant channel width, coolant channel height, coolant channel to process channel distance, and coolant channel to coolant channel distance, were selected for calculating three dependent variables namely, heat flux, maximum temperature of coolant channel, and maximum temperature of process channel. The simulation results were visualized to understand the effects of the design variables on the dependent variables. Heat flux and maximum temperature of cooling channel and process channel were found to be increasing when coolant channel width and height were decreased. Coolant channel to process channel distance was found to have no effect on the heat transfer phenomena. Finally, total heat flux was found to be increasing and maximum coolant channel temperature to be decreasing when coolant channel to coolant channel distance was decreased. Using the qualitative trend revealed from the present study, an appropriate process channel and coolant channel geometry along with the distance between the adjacent channels can be recommended for a microchannel reactor that meet a desired reactor performance on heat transfer phenomena and hence reactor conversion of a Fischer-Tropsch microchannel reactor.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.1100-1106
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• 2010

LED(Light Emitting Diode) has the defects of low efficiency and reducement of life cycle as its temperature increases. This research is about an efficient temperature control of the LED. For LED temperature control, it is shown that a heat sink, fan, a one-chip microprocessor and the PID control algorithm are a good cooling system through experiments. Finally. by using the fan as a cooling device and controlling it appropriately, it is proved that the intensity of illumination and the desired temperature can be achieved with consumption of only 2% of the driving power of the LED system through control experiments.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.540-551
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• 2008

Today's microprocessor designs are not free from temperature as well as power consumption. As processor technology scales down, an on-chip circuitry increases power density, which incurs excessive temperature (hotspot) problem. To tackle thermal problems cost-effectively, Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) has been suggested: DTM techniques have benefits of thermal reliability and cooling cost. However, they require trade-off between thermal control and performance loss. This paper proposes a dual integer register file structure to minimize the performance degradation due to DTM invocations. In on-chip thermal control, the most important functional unit is an integer register file. It is the hotspot unit because of frequent read and write data accesses. The proposed dual integer register file migrates read data accesses by adding an extra register file, thus reduces per-unit dynamic power dissipation. As a result, the proposed structure completely eliminates localized hotspots in the integer register file, resulting in much less performance degradation by average 13.35% (maximum 18%) improvement compared to the conventional DTM architecture.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1120-1121
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• 2008

This paper is proposed cooling system of BIPV(Building Integrated Photovoltaic) by micro-controller. The output power of PV generation system is not systematically tracked and influenced by various factors; solar irradiance, solar cell temperature. The temperature of solar module should be minimized to increase electrical output. Therefore, it is proposed that micro-controller cools to decrease temperature of solar module using thermoelement. The validity of this paper is proved by comparing solar module temperature of cooling system and un-cooling system.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.35 no.7
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• pp.354-360
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• 2008

Power-related issues have become important considerations in current generation microprocessor design. One of these issues is that of elevated on-chip temperatures. This has an adverse effect on cooling cost and, if not addressed suitably, on chip reliability. In this paper we investigate the general trade-offs between temporal and spatial hot spot mitigation schemes and thermal time constants, workload variations and microprocessor power distributions. By leveraging spatial and temporal heat slacks, our schemes enable lowering of on-chip unit temperatures by changing the workload in a timely manner with Operating System (OS) and existing hardware support.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.117-125
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• 2008

With increase of concern about the Ubiquitous application, the necessity of the computer system which is miniaturized is becoming larger. The ARM processor is showing a high share from embedded system market. In this paper, ideal method for RTD-1000 controller construction and development is described using ARM microcontroller. Existing RTD-1000 measures distance of disconnection or defect of sensing casket by measuring receiving reflected wave which was sent via copper wire inside the leaking sensing rod. Using this RTD-1000, leakage and breakage of water and oil pipe can be sensed and it reports damage results to the networks. But, existing RTD-1000 wastes hardware resources much and costs a great deal to installation. Also, it needs a cooling device because the heating problem, and has some problem of the secondary memory unit such as the hard disk. So, long tenn maintenance has some problems in the outside install place. In this paper, for the resolving the problem of RTD-1000, RTD-1000A embedded system based on ARM is proposed and simulated.