• Membrane Journal
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.409-415
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• 2023

Apart from developing better membranes, a clever reconfiguration of membrane cascade process can improve the solute selectivity and minimize solvent consumption. In this work, solvent resistant cellulose nanofiltration membranes were fabricated and the solute rejection performance in various organic solvents were tested. Interestingly, cellulose membranes exhibited unique negative rejection profile in non-polar solvents. Such trend could be exploited to yield reverse selectivity, which showed that low molecular weight solute could be concentrated in the retentate. It was found that more than 3-fold solvent saving could be achieved at the same final purity.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.104-113
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• 2016

This study analyzes correlation between methane gas production and injection of food waste water to motivate to expand renewable energy as a way of GHG (Green House Gas) mitigation to achieve the national GHG target proposed for the climate agreement in Paris last year. Pretreatment of food waste water was processed with pH 6 at $35^{\circ}C$ and used the fixed-bed upflow type reactor with the porous media. As a result of operation of pilot-scaled bioreactor with food waste water, the methane gas production was 6 times higher than the methane gas production of control group with rain water. The average production of methane was $56{\ell}/day/m^3$ which is possible to produce $20m^3$ of methane in $1m^3$ of landfill. As a way of energy source, when it is applied to the landfill over $250,000m^3$, it is also able to achieve financial feasibility along with GHG reduction effect. GHG reductions of $250,000m^3$ scale landfill were assessed by registered CDM project and the annual amount of reductions was 40,000~50,000 $tCO_2e$.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.374-379
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• 2002

In this paper, a nobel method to reduce noise using voice/unvoice classification is proposed. Voice and unvoice are an important feature of speech and the proposed method processes noisy speech differently for each voice/unvoice part. Speech is classified into voice/unvoice using zero-crossing rate and energy, and a modified speech/noise dominant-decision is proposed based on voice/unvoice classification. The proposed method was tested on conditions of white noise and airplane noise, and on the basis of comparing segmental SNR with the existing method and listening to the enhanced speech, a performance of the proposed method was superior to that of the existing method.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.46-58
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• 1984

본 논문은 한국어 음성 인식을 위한 유성음, 무성음, 묵음 식별에 관한 연구이다. 주어진 음성 구간을 3가지 음성 신호 부류로 식별하기 위하여 패턴 인식 방법을 사용하였다. 여기에 사용한 분석 파 라메타는 음성 신호의 영교차율, 대수 에너지, 정규화 된 첫 번째 자동 상관 계수, 선형 예측 분석에서 얻은 첫 번째 예측 계수, 그리고 예측 오차의 에너지이다. 한편 측정된 파라메타들이 다차원 가우스 확 률 밀도 함수에 따라 분산되었다는 가정하에서 어어진 최소 거리 법칙에 기본을 두고 음성 구간을 결정 하였다. 측정된 파라메타들을 여러 가지 방법으로 조합하여 식별한 결과 영교차율, 첫 번째 예측계수, 예측 오차의 에너지를 측정 파라메타로 사용했을 때 1%보다 적은 식별 오차율을 얻었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.356-362
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• 2009

In modern society, most people of the world are densely populated in cities so that the traffic sound has a very significant meaning. people tend to classify traffic sound as a noise pollution while they are likely to categorize most nature sound as positive. In this paper, we applied various forms of FFT filters into white noise belonged in nature sound to find frequency characteristics of white noise which preferred by people and confirm its correlation with nature sound. In addition, we conducted an analysis through the comparison of various traffic and nature sound waveforms and spectra. As a result of analysis, the traffic sound have characteristics which sound energy had concentrated on specific frequency bandwidth and point of time compared to nature sound. And we confirmed the fact that these characteristics had negative elements to which could affect to people. Lastly, by letting the subjects listen directly to both traffic and nature sound through brainwave experiment using electrode, the study measured the energy distribution of alpha waves and beta waves. As a result of experiments, it has been noted that urban sound created a noticeably larger amount of beta waves than nature sound; on the contrary, nature sound generated positive alpha waves. These results could directly confirm the negative effects of traffic sound and the positive effects of nature sound.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.143-151
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• 2023

In this paper, a method for evaluating the measurement uncertainty is proposed when measuring of floor impact sound insulation of buildings using standard heavy impact source. In addition to the effect of repeated measurements, several other factors such as measurement location, impact location, equipment used for sound pressure measurement, and heavy impact source, were considered. A mathematical model for the average maximum impact sound level and the uncertainty evaluation method for each factor were proposed. The present proposed method was applied to measurement results to evaluate the average maximum impact sound pressure level and the measurement uncertainty.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2017.01a
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• pp.201-202
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• 2017

공명은 외부에서 진동계를 진동시킬 수 있는 힘을 가했을 때 그 고유진동수와 외부에서 가해주는 힘의 진동수가 같으면 그 진동은 심해지고 진폭도 커진다. 진동체가 서로 연결되어 있는 경우, 양쪽 진동수가 같으면 공명에 의해 에너지를 서로 교환하는 현상이다. 본 논문에서는 경남 사천에 소재하는 백천사의 사찰 마당에 있는 청동 대야를 사람이 손잡이를 문지를 때 발생하는 파동 현상을 고찰한 연구이다. 청동 대야에서 발생하는 진동수는 3가지 성분이다. 이 음은 복합음의 일종으로 볼 수 있다. 복합음의 기본 특성은 기본음이 배음보다 음압이 크다. 철제에서 생성되는 음압의 형태와 단조로운 순음인 경우가 많다. 청동 대야의 음압은 맥놀이 특성을 나타내고 있어 진폭변조의 포락선을 형성하고 있다.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.11-17
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• 2015

This study performed acid fermentation pre-treatment to improve production efficiency of methane that is produced as a product in case of anaerobic fermentation by using food waste leachate, and attempted to confirm the acid fermentation optimum through the BMP test by using pre-treated food waste leachate to increase the yield of methane. As a result of the BMP experiment by using acid fermented food waste leachate, the highest yield of methane of 0.220 L/g VS was confirmed in the HRT three-day condition, and in the initial BMP test by pH, pH 6 was 19,920 mg/L that the highest VFA and acetic acid/TVFA(76.2%) were shown. At this time, it was confirmed that the yield of methane was mostly within 10 days that was reduced to around one-third compared to the general methane fermentation (within 30 days). As the yield of methane was 0.294 L/g VS, it showed a high efficiency of around 1.3 times compared to the control group.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.281-294
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• 2011

Physics-based sound synthesis usually requires high computational costs and this results in a restriction of its use in real-time applications. This motivates us to implement the sound synthesis algorithm of plucked-string instruments using multi-core processor architectures and determine the optimal processing element (PE) configuration for the target instruments. To determine the optimal PE configuration, we evaluate the impacts of a sample-per-processing element (SPE) ratio that is defined as the amount of sample data directly mapped to each PE on system performance and both area and energy efficiencies using architectural and workload simulations. For the acoustic guitar, the highest area and energy efficiencies are achieved at a SPE ratio of 5,513 and 2,756, respectively, for the synthesis of musical sounds sampled at 44.1 kHz. In the case of the classical guitar, the maximum area and energy efficiencies are achieved at a SPE ratio of 22,050 and 5,513, respectively. In addition, the synthetic sounds were very similar to original sounds in their spectra. Furthermore, we conducted MUSHRA subjective listening test with ten subjects including nine graduate students and one professor from the University of Ulsan, and the evaluation of the synthetic sounds was excellent.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.451-454
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• 2000

실의 음향성능을 규명하기 위하여 많은 음향인자가 개발되어지고 제시되어 왔다. 음향인자 중 확산은 실의 전반적인 음향성능에 매우 유용한 것으로 여겨져 왔다. 본 연구는 장방형의 형태를 가지고 체적과 마감재료가 같은 2종류의 축척모델을 제작하여 각각의 모델에서 RT, EDT, SPL, C, IACC 등을 측정하여 확산체의 유$\cdot$무에 따른 실의 실내음향 성능을 알아보고자 한다 실험결과 실내 표면의 확산성의 차이에 따라 표면의 확산성이 좋은 공간에서 초기음장에서 음에너지가 집중되고 분산되는 것을 입증하였다. 즉 확산성이 좋은 모델에서 잔향시간(RT)은 더 짧으나 초기감쇠시간(EDT)이 더 길게 나타남으로 인하여 음에너지의 분포가 실의 확산상태에 의하여 음의 발생이후 짧은 시간내에 집중하여 전달되고 있음을 증명하였다. 또한 실의 확산상태가 좋은 공간의 명료도가 확산이 되지 않은 실에 비하여 훨씬 더 좋은 결과를 보이고 있음을 나타냈다. 이상의 결과를 종합하여 볼 때 실내 표면의 확산성이 전반적인 실내 음장의 향상에 크게 기여하고 있음을 밝혀 냈다.