• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.7-12
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• 2020

Astragalus uliginosus L.-stems as a by-product of oriental medicine are produced largely in a northern area of Chungbuk province. These by-products do not have any demand and thus usually discarded into the fields as a waste. In this work, a biochar was prepared from the Astragalus uliginosus L.-stem waste for recycling. The biochar was used to investigate the removal characteristics of cadmium and manganese ions dissolved in water. When adsorption equilibrium experiments were performed to treat 50 and 100 mg/L of cadmium ions, the removal efficiencies of cadmium were 100 and 95%, respectively. In addition, the maximum of adsorption amount for manganese ions in 5 h at an initial concentration of 50 and 100 mg/L was found to be as 36.1 and 37.9 mg/g, respectively. Based on the experimental results, it was found that the adsorption amount of Astragalus uliginosus L.-stem biochar for the removal of both cadmium and manganese ions was four times higher than that of the activated carbon. The surface analysis of both biochar and activated carbon samples using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis showed that the oxygen content and O/C ratio of biochar was 2.1 and 2.4 times higher than that of the activated carbon, respectively. In order to enhance the removal capability of manganese, 50 and 100 mg/L of manganese ions were operated at different temperatures. It was observed that these equilibrium was attained in 4 h under 45 ℃ and removal efficiencies were 92 and 53%, respectively. Consequently, the experimental results can be utilized as a new removal technology for eco-friendly and economically treating cadmium and manganese ions dissolved in water.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.37-45
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• 2007

A lot of conventional algorithms has tried to cancel the Residual Frame Synchronization Error (RFSE), which causes the performance degradation of channel estimation when using interpolation in lattice-type pilot-aided Time Division Duplex (TDD) OFDM systems. Among them, a pre- and post-compensation method has been attractive to eliminate the effects of RFSE, providing good performance but requiring high computational complexity. In this paper we propose a new method which lowers computational costs by adjusting the starting point of TDD OFDM systems' FFT window in order to compensate for the RFSE. For the performance verification, we apply the proposed method to IEEE 802.16e standard and also estimate additionally required computational power of it compared to the pre- and post-compensation method. Simulation and implementation results show that the proposed algorithm has performance similar to the conventional method and is very efficient with low power implementation, requiring only 4.9 % of the power which the conventional method needs additionally.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.1000-1009
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• 2011

Image interpolation is a technique which estimates the non-allocated pixel values on image scale-transform. It requires minimum computational complexity and minimum image quality degradation on the interpolated resultant images. In this paper we propose an image interpolation method using iterative error estimation. The proposed method consists of the following five steps: loss-information computational step, loss-information estimation step, loss-information application step, error computation step, and error application step. The experimental results obtained show that the average PSNR is increased by 3.3dB, subjective image quality is enhanced and the minimum computation complexity is decreased by 83%. The proposed image interpolation algorithm may be helpful in various applications such as image reconstruction and enlargement.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.12
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• pp.1039-1044
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• 2013

We propose a cancellation algorithm based on Alamouti coded OFDM to mitigate ICI due to Frequency Offset (FO) between distributed antennas in the frequency selective fading channel. In the cancellation algorithm, the interference signal is estimated by using the initial detection symbol and then the estimated interference signal is subtracted from the received signal. As the accuracy of initial symbol increases, ICI cancellation becomes more significant. Therefore, the accuracy of the initial detection symbols is very important in the cancellation algorithm. The proposed scheme improves the accuracy of the initial detection symbol by employing an ICI self-cancellation scheme. The proposed cancellation scheme with only one iteration achieves better performance compared to the conventional cancellation schemes with many times iterations based on the conventional Alamouti coded OFDM.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07d
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• pp.2995-2997
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• 2005

통신망에서 최적 적응 반향제거기(Echo Canceller; EC)는 반향성분이 길게 존재하는 환경에서도 실시간으로 동작할 수 있도록 알고리즘이 간결하여야 하며, 시간에 따라 빠르게 변하는 동특성의 반향경로에서도 동작을 보장할 수 있도록 빠른 수렴특성을 갖아야 한다. 또한, 전화망에서 수십 [ms] 이상의 지연이 발생 할 경우에도 반향제거 성능이 우수해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 조건을 만족시키기 위해 오차의 크기에 따라 수렴속도를 가변시키는 오차적응 NLMS(Error-Adaptive NLMS) 알고리즘을 제안하였으며, 시뮬레이션을 통해 일반적으로 사용되는 LMS(Least Mean Square) 알고리즘과 이를 개선한 NLMS(Normalized LMS) 알고리즘과 성능을 비교하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2009.03a
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• pp.344-349
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• 2009

동해의 SeaWiFS 클로로필-$\alpha$에서 나타나는 스펙클(speckle) 오차를 제거하고 Level-2에서 Level-3로의 자료합성을 실시하였다. 1998년부터 2007년까지 10년간 클로로필-$\alpha$의 시공간 변동성을 고려하여, 월 평균값으로 표준화된 공간적 표준 편차가 $7mg/m^3$ 이상 될 때를 경계 값으로 스펙클 제거기준을 설정하였다. 농도경사가 큰 전선지역과 연안으로부터 10-50 km 이내 지역은 제거 기준을 $12mg/m^3$ 이상으로 알고리즘을 구성하였다. 스펙클 제거 결과, 자료는 그대로 보존되고 스펙클이 존재하는 화소의 값만 줄어들었다. 특히 스펙클이 자주 발생하는 겨울철 클로로필 자료의 농도변화가 크게 나타났으며 스펙클이 많이 나타나는 시기에는 $5^{\circ}\times5^{\circ}$영역의 평균값이 10%이상 감소하는 결과를 보였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.1685-1690
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• 2014

This paper proposes a novel method to compensate for the measurement errors in detecting phase currents for vector-controlled inverter in real-time. The output torque equations for 3-phase induction motor are derived in terms of offset error and transducing gain error in current measurement circuits, and the equations shows that motor output torque has many ripples due to current measurement errors. Especially, if the proposed method is applied to vector-controlled inverter, the torque ripple by transducing gain error can be reduced in real-time at running state of motor. To verify the proposed method, it was applied to vector-controlled inverter for 3-phase induction motor of 200[W] and computer simulation and experimentation were carried out.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07d
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• pp.2570-2572
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 다중 경로 오차 제거를 위해, 4개의 상관값을 제공하는 가중 협대역 상관기(Weighted Narrow Correlator) 구조에 대해 제안한다. 가중 협대역 상관기는 서로 다른 칩 간격을 가지는 여러 상관값 출력에 가중치를 주어 다중경로 신호에 의한 코드 위상 측정 오차를 줄이는 방법이다. 우선 다양한 지연시간 및 신호 감쇄를 가지는 다중 경로 신호에 대하여, 가중치에 대한 수신기의 성능 변화를 분석하고 이를 통해 최적의 가중치를 선택하였다. 제안한 상관기는 일반 수신기와 동일한 신호 획득능력을 가지며, 협대역 상관기보다 개선된 다중경로 오차 제거 능력을 보인다. 가중 협대역 상관기의 성능은 시뮬레이션을 통한 의사거리 측정치의 비교를 통해 검증하였다.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.31 no.5 s.121
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• pp.409-414
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• 2007

The effect of multipath is especially serious in urban area and sea surface where buildings and water reflect GPS signal. Multipath brings about the performance degradation on many GPS application because the presence of multipath causes the diminution of pseudorange measurement accuracy in turn position accuracy. In this paper, a multipath mitigation named weighted correlation method is implemented on software GPS receiver, in which the asymmetric correlation function is compensated by modifying the late correlation value. Asymmetry compensation is obtained as weighted sum of two correlators which have different early-late chip spaces. This structure is adopted to lessen the computation load lower keeping up performance similar to that. The performance of implemented multipath mitigation technique is evaluated using GPS signal and multipath signal generated by GPS signal generator and software GPS receiver. The test results show that the weighted correlation method gives hefter performance than the standard correlator and the narrow correlator.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.90-95
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• 2022

In the present work, biochar was prepared using Achyanthes japonica stem as a by-product of herbal medicine. In order to apply the prepared biochar to water treatment process, the adsorption characteristics of zinc and iron ions dissolved in water were investigated. When the experiments were performed for 2 h to remove 70 and 100 mg/L of zinc ions, the adsorption amounts of 32.3 and 31.0 mg/g were obtained, respectively. It was also found that the adsorption amount of Achyanthes japonica stem biochar for the removal process of zinc ion was three times higher than that of the activated carbon. In addition, when the experiments were performed for 2 h to treat 70 and 100 mg/L of iron ions, high adsorption amounts of 50.1 and 54.3 mg/g were achieved, respectively. In order to further enhance the removal efficiency of zinc and iron ions, a steam activation process was performed on the biochar of Achyanthes japonica stem. As a result, the removal efficiencies of 70 and 100 mg/L of zinc ions increased to 80 and 60%, respectively. Also, the removal efficiencies of 70 and 100 mg/L of iron ions were improved to 100 and 82%, respectively. In addition, when the biochar of Achyanthes japonica stem with a steam activation was compared with the untreated biochar of Achyanthes japonica stem, the specific surface area increased 37.3 times, and the total and macroporpous pore volumes were improved by 28.4 and 136 times, respectively. Therefore, the results can be used for economically and practically adsorbing zinc and iron ions contained in water.