• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.304-306
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• 2003

본 논문은 제철소 원료공장에서 선박으로부터 철광석, 석탄 등의 원료를 언로다 내부의 벨트 컨베이어로 이송 시, 선박과 부두와의 공간이 발생하여 이 공간으로 원료가 낙광 하여 해양오염이 발생하고 원료의 유실 등의 문제점을 해결하기 위한 낙광방지 시스템 개발에 관한 연구이다. 초음파 센서를 이용한 선박과의 거리인식 및 PLC제어기를 이용한 자동 제어 방법을 제시한다. 언로다 본체에 낙광방지판과 이를 구동하는 에어실린더형태의 구동기와 낙광방지판을 연결하는 링크부로 구성되는 시스템에 있어서, 거리 감지 센서 3 대로부터 선박과의 최소 거리를 구하고 이를 PLC 제어기를 이용하여 목표 거리와의 오차를 구한 다음, 오차의 증감에 따라 구동기인 에어 실린더의 이동량을 구하여 낙광방지판을 선박과 최대한 밀착시켜 하역 작업을 하고, 떨어진 낙광을 자동으로 회수하는 시스템에 관한 논문이다.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.165-168
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• 1975

The grade and recovery rate and its sulphur content of iron concentrate compared respectively as varied with redcued size using the Crocket Magnetic Separator and the Wet-Drum-Magnetic Separator in the magnetic separation test of iron ore from Yangyang mine. The content of sulphur was decreased distinctly as the size was finer. In case of the sample of -100 mesh, using the Crocket Magnetic Separator, the sulphur content of iron ore was decreased to 0.10% and its grade increased to 67.0%, but the recovery rate was no more than 85.1%. In the Wet-Drum type, the grade and the recovery rate of concentrate was better than those in the Crocket Magnetic Separation, but the content of sulphur was more than that in the Crocket Magnetic Separation. The Crocket type is suitable for less sulphur content while the Wet-Drum Magnetic Separator is suitable for better the grade recovery rate of the magnetic concentrate.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.17-30
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• 2020

In the shipping industry, it is essential to engage in the preemptive prediction of freight rate volatility through market monitoring. Considering that freight rates have already started to fall, the loss of shipping companies will soon be uncontrollable. Therefore, in this study, factors affecting the freight rates of bulk carriers, which have relatively large freight rate volatility as compared to container freight rates, were quantified and analyzed. In doing so, we intended to contribute to future shipping market monitoring. We performed an analysis using a vector error correction model and estimated the influence of six independent variables on the charter rates of bulk carriers by Handy Size, Supramax, Panamax, and Cape Size. The six independent variables included the bulk carrier fleet volume, iron ore traffic volume, ribo interest rate, bunker oil price, and Euro-Dollar exchange rate. The dependent variables were handy size (32,000 DWT) spot charter rates, Supramax 6 T/C average charter rates, Pana Max (75,000 DWT) spot charter, and Cape Size (170,000 DWT) spot charter. The study examined charter rates by size of bulk carriers, which was different from studies on existing specific types of ships or fares in oil tankers and chemical carriers other than bulk carriers. Findings revealed that influencing factors differed for each ship size. The Libo interest rate had a significant effect on all four ship types, and the iron ore traffic volume had a significant effect on three ship types. The Ribo rate showed a negative (-) relationship with Handy Size, Supramax, Panamax, and Cape Size. Iron ore traffic influenced three types of linearity, except for Panamax. The size of shipping companies differed depending on their characteristics. These findings are expected to contribute to the establishment of a management strategy for shipping companies by analyzing the factors influencing changes in the freight rates of charterers, which have a profound effect on the management performance of shipping companies.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.391-400
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• 2015

Korea is a global steel producer and a major consumer while iron ore producing is very low compared to the demand. On the other hand, North Korea holds tremendous amount of iron reserves and, however, its producing rate is limited. Moreover, the data regarding mineral resources of North Korea is very limited and uncertain because of political isolation. This study estimated the amount of iron ore resource and production amount for the Musan Iron mine, the world-known open-pit mine of North Korea, using satellite imagery(Landsat MSS, ASTER) and digital maps between 1976 to 2007. As a result, the mining area of Musan mine was increased by $6.1km^2$ during the 30 years and the mining sector was estimated as $4.9km^2$. We estimated the iron resources and production amount of 0.7 and 0.2 billion metric tons, respectively based on 3D modeling and average iron ore density of Anshan formation in China. This amount indicates 8.1 million tons of annual average production and it coincides well with previous reports. We expect this study would be utilized significantly on inter-Korean exchange programs by providing trustable preliminary data.

• Korean Journal of Heritage: History & Science
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.148-165
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• 2015

Iron was one of the most influential factors for formation and development of ancient countries. The diffusion of ironware had increased agricultural productivity and brought about military technical revolution. Needless to say, the rise and fall of the countries depended on the possession of stable iron production. Raw materials and fuels are the key factors for mass production of iron and a transportation route is essential to supply the goods. Jungwon area satisfies the three factors. There are many iron manufacture sites such as Jincheon Seokjang-ri Gusan-ri, and Chunju Chilgeum-dong Tangeumdae earthen ramparts in the Jungwon area. In order to study the ancient iron manufacture technique, reconstitution experiment was carried out using restored furnace which was made based on the Jincheon Seokjang-ri B-23 furnace. Some notable results were identified with the experiment as in the followings. Firstly, a roasting process has a connection with the decrease of hardness of the iron ore. Secondly, melting of the blast pipe as well as the formation of product within the furnace had a crucial effect on the cessation of the experiment. Thirdly, reduced iron in various locations within the furnace prove that there was enough reducing environment during the working. Not only melting point but also properties of iron can vary depending on the carbon contents. For the reason, formation of approximate environment in which iron can react to the chalcoal is the most important factor in terms of iron manufacture.

• Korea Trade Review
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.125-145
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• 2018

The Baltic Shipping Exchange is reporting the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) which represents the average charter rate for bulk carriers transporting major cargoes such as iron ore, coal, grain, and so on. And the current BDI index is reflected in the proportion of capesize 40%, panamax 30% and spramax 30%. Like mentioned above, the capesize plays a major role among the various sizes of bulk carriers and this study is to analyze the influence of the factors influencing on charter rate of capesize carriers which transport iron ore and coal as the major cargoes. For this purpose, this study verified causality between variables using Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) and tried to derive a long-run equilibrium model between the dependent variable and independent variables. Regression analysis showed that every six independent variable has a significant effect on the capesize charter rate, even at the 1% level of significance. Charter rate decreases by 0.08% when capesize total fleet increases by 1%, charter rate increases by 0.04% when bunker oil price increases by 1%, and charter rate decreases by 0.01% when Yen/Dollar rate increases by 1%. And charter rate increases by 0.02% when global GDP increases by one unit (1%). In addition, the increase in cargo volume of iron ore and coal which are major transportation items of capesize carriers has also been shown to increase charter rates. Charter rate increases by 0.11% in case of 1% increase in iron ore cargo volume, and 0.09% in case of 1% increase in coal cargo volume. Although there have been some studies to analyze the influence of factors affecting the charterage of bulk carriers in the past, there have been few studies on the analysis of specific size vessels. At present moment when ship size is getting bigger, this study carried out research on capesize vessels, which are biggest among bulk carriers, and whose utilization is continuously increasing. This study is also expected to contribute to the establishment of trade policies for specific cargoes such as iron ore and coal.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.5_1
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• pp.495-505
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• 2023

The Musan mine, situated in Musan County, Hamgyong Province, North Korea, stands as a prominent open-pit iron mine on the Korean Peninsula. This study focuses on estimating the mining and dumping activities within the Musan mine area by analyzing digital elevation model (DEM) changes. To calculate the long-term volume changes in the Musan mine, we digitized and converted the 1:200,000-scale third topographic map of the Joseon published in 1918 and compared with interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) DEMs, including Shuttle Radar Topography Mission DEM (2000) and Copernicus DEM (2011-2015). The findings reveal that over a century, Musan mine yielded around 1.37 billion tons of iron ore, while approximately 1.06 billion tons of waste rock were dumped. This study is particularly significant as it utilizes a historical topographic map predating the full-scale development of Musan mine to estimate a century's mining production and waste rock deposition. It is expected that this research provides valuable insights for future investigation of surface change of North Korea where the acquisition of in situ data remains challenging.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.283-290
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• 2005

제철용 고로구조물의 안전성 위협 요인으로는, 고로자중이나 철광석 낙하 둥과 같은 기계하중 외에도 구조물 내부 온도가 최대 $1700^{\circ}C$에 이르는 고온 환경을 들 수 있다. 이러한 고온의 작업 환경은 고로 구성부재들의 크립손상, 열피로 문제 등을 야기시키기 때문에 이들 고열에 의한 영향평가는 고로의 안전성 평가에 있어 필수요소로 거론되고 있다. 일반적으로 고로의 단면을 구성하고 있는 내화재, 냉각판, 철피 등의 냉각시스템을 거치면서 내부의 고온 환경은 고로 외피에 이르는 동안 온도강하가 이루어진다. 급격한 온도강하는 나타나지 않지만 장기간 고로 가동에 있어 상시하중으로 작용하는 이 열원에 의해 고로 각 구부위에는 열응력이 발생하고 이 열응력과 나머지 기계적 하중의 조합에 의해 크립이나 열피로 등과 같이 고로 구조물 안전성 위해요인들이 발생한다고 분석되어 진다. 따라서 본 연구에서는, 고로 안전성 평가를 위한 첫 번째 단계로서 범용유한요소해석 프로그램인 ANSYS를 이용한 열응력 해석을 수행하여 잠재적인 안전성 위해요인으로 알려진 열응력 발생 특성을 분석하고, 고로 건전설계 및 보수 유지 관리지침으로 활용할 수 있는 기반기술을 개발한다.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.1-18
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• 2000

Lens shaped and stratiform titanomagnetite orebodies in the Boreumdo iron mine are closely associated with amphibolite which intruded into Precambrian metasediments. Mineralogical and petrochemical analyses of amphilbolite and titanomagnetite ores were carried out in order to interpret the origin of amphilbolite and the genesis of titanomagnetite ore deposits. Amphibolites belong to orthoamphilbolite interms of Niggli value and mineralogy, and are characterized by the occurrence of relict olivine. The amphilbolites responsible for titanomagnetite mineralization have extremely high content of $TiO_2$, ranging from 2.12 to 4.59 wt.% with the average value of 3.43 wt.%. Amphibole minerals in amphibolites are consist mainly of calcic amphiboles such as hornblende, ferroan pargasitic hornblende and tremolite. Most plagioclases belong to andesine ($An_{30-50}$\ulcorner). The metamorphic temperature and geobarometric pressure which are calculated by the calcic amphibole-plagioclase geothermometer and calcic amphilbole geobarometer are estimated to be 537$^{\circ}C$~579$^{\circ}C$(avg. 555$^{\circ}C$) and 2.9~6.6 kbar (avg. 4.5 kbars), respectively. It shows a typical amphibolite facies. Based on the mineral chemistry and petrochemisty of amphibolites and iron ores which are composed mainly of titanomagnetite and ilmenite in the Boreumdo iron mine, the titaniferous oxide melts could be immiscibly separatd from the titaniferous ultrabasic magma. The genesis of the Boreumdo titanomagnetite ore deposits are analogous to the Soyeonpyeongdo and Yonchon iron ore deposits in terms of their mineralogy, mineral chemistry and geologic setting.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.28 no.7
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• pp.747-754
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• 2004

Thermo-fluid characteristics in coke oven, sintering machine and blast furnace in iron-making facility are key processes related to the quality and productivity of the pig iron. Solid material in the processes usually forms a bed in a gas flow. For simulation of the processes by mathematical model, the solid beds are idealized to be a continuum and a reacting solid flow in the gas flow. Governing equations in the form of partial differential equations for the solid material can be constructed based on this assumption. Iron ore sintering bed is simulated and limited amount of parametric study have been performed. The results have a good agreement with the experimental results or physical phenomena, which shows the validity and applicability of the model.