• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.155-155
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• 2017

최근 애플망고 스마트 농가에 에너지 사용량이 증가됨에 따라 에너지 절감을 위한 대책들과 화석연료를 대체하는 다양한 신재생에너지 도입에 대한 요구들이 늘고있다. 본 연구에서는 애플망고 스마트 농가에 여러 에너지원들을 혼합하여 사용할 수 있도록 실증시험 모델을 구축하고 운영함으로써 그 효용성을 검토하고자 하였다. 우선 애플망고 특성을 고려한 비닐온실의 최대 냉난방부하량과 에너지모델을 분석하여 신재생 에너지원들의 혼합 및 기존 공조설비와의 연계를 계산하였다. 애플망고 시험 농지로는 재배에 적합한 제주도 서귀포를 선정하였으며, 기존의 경유 난방기를 사용하는 비교시험 하우스, 기존의 경유와 태양광, 지하 공기 히트펌프 난방기를 혼합하여 사용하는 실증시험 하우스, 경유와 지하공기 히트펌프 난방기를 사용하는 대조시험 하우스를 10~11월 두 달간 운영하여 그 결과들을 평가하였다. 온실 내외부에 온도, 습도, CO2를 측정할 수 있는 6점의 센서부들을 설치하였고, 적산 전력계와 유량계를 설치하여 데이터를 수집하였으며, 모든 시험 데이터는 모바일 원격으로 제어 및 모니터링이 가능하도록 구성하였다. 시험 결과, 각 하우스들에서 수확한 과실의 수량과 품질은 유사하게 평가되었지만, 실증시험 하우스의 난방비가 비교시험 하우스보다 절감되었다. 하지만 실증시험 하우스의 경우 높은 시설유지비로 인해 이를 고려한 사용료는 비교시험 하우스보다 더 비싸게 평가되었다. 본 연구를 통해 생산된 잉여전력을 매전할 때 이로 인한 이용비는 비교시험 하우스보다 더 경제적임을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 기존의 경유와 지하공기 히트펌프 난방기를 혼합한 대조시험 하우스의 난방비용이 경제성에서 더 유리함을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 본 연구를 통해 애플망고 스마트 농가에 적합한 에너지-믹스 모델을 구축할 수 있었으며, 다양한 신재생에너지들의 효용성들을 검토할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Appropriate Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.136-145
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• 2020

Agriculture is the backbone of the economy of most developing countries. In these countries, agriculture or farming is mostly done manually with little integration of machinery, intelligent systems and data monitoring. Irrigation is an essential process that directly influences crop production. The fluctuating amount of rainfall per year has led to the adoption of irrigation systems in most farms. The absence of smart sensors, monitoring methods and control, has led to low harvests and draining water sources. In this research paper, we introduce a 433 MHz Radio Frequency and 2G based Smart Irrigation Meter System and a water prepayment system for rural areas of Tanzania with no reliable internet coverage. Specifically, Ngurudoto area in Arusha region where it will be used as a case study for data collection. The proposed system is hybrid, comprising of both weather data (evapotranspiration) and soil moisture data. The architecture of the system has on-site weather measurement controllers, soil moisture sensors buried on the ground, water flow sensors, a solenoid valve, and a prepayment system. To achieve high precision in linear and nonlinear regression and to improve classification and prediction, this work cascades a Dynamic Regression Algorithm and Naïve Bayes algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.732-739
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• 2016

In Korea, the summer is hot and humid, and much electricity is consumed for air conditioning. Thus, the simultaneous usage of an indirect evaporative cooler and a common air conditioner could reduce the sensible heat and save electricity. This study developed a U-type cross-counter flow indirect evaporative cooler (IEC) made of plastic and paper. The efficiencies were compared with those of a cross-flow IEC. The specimen was $500mm{\times}500mm{\times}1000mm$. the results show that the indirect evaporation efficiencies of the cross-counter flow sample were 6-21% higher than those of the cross-flow sample. The pressure drops of the cross-counter sample were 51-66% higher. Thermal analysis based on the -NTU method predicted the experimental data within 10%. The electrical energy saved by the use of the cross-counter flow IEC was larger than that of the counter flow IEC, and the difference increases with the velocity. However, the the cross-counter IEC is two times larger than the cross-flow IEC, which may increase the material cost and water usage.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.371-375
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• 2010

SSD is a storage medium based on NAND Flash memory. Because of its short latency, low power consumption, and resistance to shock, it's not only used in PC but also in server computers. Most SSDs use FTL to overcome the erase-before-overwrite characteristic of NAND flash. There are several types of FTL, but page mapped FTL shows better performance than others. But its usefulness is limited because of its large memory footprint for the mapping table. For example, 64MB memory space is required only for the mapping table for a 64GB MLC SSD. In this paper, we propose a novel caching scheme for the mapping table. By using the mapping-table-meta-data we construct a fully associative cache, and translate the address within O(1) time. The simulation results show more than 80 hit ratio with 32KB cache and 90% with 512KB cache. The overall memory footprint was only 1.9% of 64MB. The time overhead of cache miss was measured lower than 2% for most workload.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.15A no.6
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• pp.325-334
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• 2008

Flash memory is widely used as a storage medium for mobile devices such as cell phones, MP3 players, PDA's due to its tiny size, low power consumption and shock resistant characteristics. Additionally, some computer manufacturers try to replace hard-disk drives used in Laptops or personal computers with flash memory. More recently, there are some literatures on developing a flash memory-aware $B^+$-tree index for an efficient key-based search in the flash memory storage system. They focus on minimizing the number of "overwrites" resulting from inserting or deleting a sequence of key values to/from the $B^+$-tree. However, in addition to this factor, the size of a physical page allocated to a node can affect the maintenance cost of the $B^+$-tree. In this paper, with diverse experiments, we compare and analyze the costs of construction and search of the $B^+$-tree and the space requirement on flash memory as the node size increases. We also provide sorting-based or non-sorting-based algorithms to be used when inserting a key value into the node and suggest an header structure of the index node for searching a given key inside it efficiently.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.522-522
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• 2016

우리나라의 488개 유인도 중 강수량 부족 혹은 지하수의 수질문제 등으로 상습적 식수난을 겪고 있는 도서지역은 237개에 이르고 있다. 이들 도서지역은 생활용수를 우물, 간이상수도, 운반급수 등에 의존하고 있지만 이중 47%의 도서는 간이급수시설이 전무한 실정이다. 2015년에는 인천시 옹진군의 소청도, 대청도에 장기간 지속된 가뭄으로 식수원이 고갈되어 3일에 1시간으로 급수를 제한하였고 이로 인해 식수난 문제 외 관광산업의 소득저하 등의 문제가 발생되어 원활한 물공급문제가 해결되지 않으면 도서지역의 위기는 심각할 것으로 우려된다. 도서지역의 기본권인 먹는 물 문제를 해결하기 위해 정부 및 지자체에서는 소규모 유인도서에 해수담수화시설을 설치하여 유지관리 및 운영을 위한 인력을 배치하고 수동으로 조작하거나 단순 자동운전에 의해 운영 및 관리되고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 해수담수화시설의 안정적이고 효율적인 운영을 위해 지능적 수운영 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 제어시스템, 감시시스템, 계측시스템 등의 ICT 기술과 연계하여 수요를 정확히 예측하고, 실시간 전력비용과 저류량, 사용량 등을 통합적으로 고려하였으며 적시정량을 생산하여 저장 및 공급하며, 목표수질과 수량을 원활하고 안정적으로 공급할 수 있도록 제어 및 감시를 통한 지능적 수운영을 목적으로 연구하였다. 데이터의 수집과 전송, 분석, 제어, 감시 활동이 유기적으로 결합되어 용수의 생산과 분배, 공급활동을 자동화함으로 운영상의 리스크를 줄여주며, 필요시 통합운영센터에서의 의사결정을 지원할 수 있도록 개발하였다. 향후, 해수담수화시설뿐이 아닌 일반 상수도 수운영에 있어서의 취수, 도수, 정수, 배수지관리, 송수, 관망관리까지 자동화된 시스템을 개발하여 지능적 운영관리가 가능하도록 알고리즘 모델 및 프로그램을 제시하고자 한다.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.631-644
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• 2022

This paper considers robust estimation of the sparse vector autoregressive model (sVAR) useful in high-dimensional time series analysis. First, we generalize the result of Xu et al. (2008) that the adaptive lasso indeed has robustness in sVAR as well. However, adaptive lasso method in sVAR performs poorly as the number and sizes of outliers increases. Therefore, we propose new robust estimation methods for sVAR based on least absolute deviation (LAD) and Huber estimation. Our simulation results show that our proposed methods provide more accurate estimation in turn showed better forecasting performance when outliers exist. In addition, we applied our proposed methods to power usage data and confirmed that there are unignorable outliers and robust estimation taking such outliers into account improves forecasting.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.51-62
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• 2003

This paper presents a novel survivor memeory management and decoding techniques with sequential backward state transition control in the trace back Viterbi decoder. The Viterbi algorithm is an maximum likelihood decoding scheme to estimate the likelihood of encoder state for channel error detection and correction. This scheme is applied to a broad range of digital communication such as intersymbol interference removing and channel equalization. In order to achieve the area-efficiency VLSI chip design with high throughput in the Viterbi decoder in which recursive operation is implied, more research is required to obtain a simple systematic parallel ACS architecture and surviver memory management. As a method of solution to the problem, this paper addresses a progressive decoding algorithm with sequential backward state transition control in the trace back Viterbi decoder. Compared to the conventional trace back decoding techniques, the required total memory can be greatly reduced in the proposed method. Furthermore, the proposed method can be implemented with a simple pipelined structure with systolic array type architecture. The implementation of the peripheral logic circuit for the control of memory access is not required, and memory access bandwidth can be reduced Therefore, the proposed method has characteristics of high area-efficiency and low power consumption with high throughput. Finally, the examples of decoding results for the received data with channel noise and application result are provided to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed method.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.197-204
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• 2023

Heat stress causes a decrease in immunity and disease occurrence in livestock, increasing mortality and impairing productivity. In particular, chickens are very vulnerable to high temperatures compared to other livestock species because their entire body is covered with feathers and sweat glands are not developed. Currently, air conditioning systems are essential in broiler houses to prevent high-air temperature damage to broilers, but conventional cooling facilities are greatly affected by the external environment, so there are limits to their use. In this study, to propose a cooling method, thermal insulation paint and a heat pump were apply in the broiler houses to evaluate the temperature reduction effect. The heat pump experiment was to analyze the cooling effect according to the change in ventilation rate and propose an appropriate. As a result of the experiment, the heat-insulating paint reduced the temperature of the broiler houses by maximum 1-2℃, and in the broiler houses where the heat pump was operated, the temperature decrease was the largest when the ventilation rate was the lowest. When the air temperature in the house is similar to or lower than the outside air temperature, it is considered to be most effective to use a heat pump while maintaining only the minimum ventilation rate.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.267-271
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• 2013

Test bed studies with highly efficient amine $CO_2$ solvent (KoSol-4) developed by KEPCO research institute were performed. For the first time in Korea, evaluation of post-combustion $CO_2$ capture technology to capture 2 ton $CO_2$/day from a slipstream of the flue gas from a coal-fired power station was performed. Also the analysis of solvent regeneration energy was conducted to suggest the reliable performance data of the KoSol-4 solvent. For this purpose, we have tested 5 campaigns changing the operating conditions of the solvent flow rate and the stripper pressure. The overall results of these campaigns showed that the $CO_2$ removal rate met the technical guideline ($CO_2$ removal rate: 90%) suggested by IEA-GHG and that the regeneration energy of the KoSol-4 showed about 3.0~3.2 GJ/$tCO_2$ which was, compared to that of the commercial solvent MEA (Monoethanolamine), about 25% reduction of regeneration energy. Based on these results, we could confirm the good performance of the KoSol-4 solvent and the $CO_2$ capture process developed by KEPCO research institute. And also it was expected that the cost of $CO_2$ avoided could be reduced drastically if the KoSol-4 is applied to the commercial scale $CO_2$ capture plant.