• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.20-25
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• 2009

Low explosion limits of flammable liquid mixtures can be calculated with the appropriate use of the fundamental laws of Raoult, Dalton, Le Chatelier and activity coefficient models. In this paper, Raoult's law, van Laar equation and Wilson equation are shown to be applicable for the prediction of the lower explosion limits for ethylacetate+ethanol and ethanol+toluene systems. The calculated values based on Raoult's law were found to be better than those based on van Laar and Wilson equations.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.5-15
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• 2017

In this study, the liquid and plastic limit tests were conducted on Paju clay with Casagarande method (dynamic) and the fall cone test method (static) to find out the effects of test methods and testers on their values. Six testers, who already have the experience of test, participated. As a results of liquid limit tests, the fall cone test method showed 4% smaller liquid limit compared to the value determined by Casagrande method. As the number of tests increased, the fall cone test method showed less variation between testers and the variation range of level of proficiency was also more stable. In the case of one point method, the liquid limit determined by the fall cone test method varied with smaller range compared to the Casagrande. Consequently, the fall cone test provided more stable liquid limit value than that of Casagrande method. For the results of plastic limit tests, there were no difference between Casagrande method and the fall cone test unlike liquid limit test results. In other words, both methods showed that plastic limit reached the average value as the number of tests increased, and the tendency level of proficiency also showed to get better.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.68-79
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• 2018

An examination of the characteristics of the ground material in is very important in a ground investigation. Casagrande classified soil using the material properties of soils. The liquid-plastic limit test is useful for obtaining basic information of soil, and is an effective method for classifying silt and clay, as well as the material properties, such as shear strength, shrinkage, and expansion. Unlike the liquid limit test, the plasticity limit test is due to the ambiguity of the test procedure. Many geotechnical engineers and scholars have questioned the test results. In this study, a new plasticity limit method was used to compare with the thread rolling method with kaolinite, ilite and bentonite at a certain ratio, and samples were collected from the west coast of Korea. As a result of the comparison, the test value of the new test method showed high reproducibility because the error range of the test value of the conventional thread rolling test was only 10% but the error range of the new test values decreased to 2%. The difference in the slope of the existing plasticity test values was 0.1519 ~ 0.1925, and the results of the test were similar or coincided with each other. Aone - point method was proposed to make it easier to apply the new test method.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.587-598
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• 2015

We examined various existing threshold methods for the determination of the first arrival time of acoustic emission (AE), and developed a new variable threshold method that could determine the first arrival time of AE more accurately and more quickly than existing methods. The new method, a modification of an existing threshold method, does not fix the threshold, but applies variable thresholds for the AE signals according to noise analysis. Two- and three-dimensional models were established to test the effectiveness of the new method. It could determine source locations of AE in a two-dimensional model 38.3% more accurately than the pre-existing threshold methods. Its accuracy improvement over the existing methods in a three-dimensional model was about 15.2%. A practical test involved measuring the source locations of AE during three-point bending tests of granite cores. The new method placed the sources closer to the fracture plane than did the pre-existing methods, indicating its superior (and quicker) ability to determine the source locations of AE.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2002.02a
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• pp.186-191
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• 2002

실시간 온라인 계측에 의한 순환식 양액조제 알고리즘을 위해서 이온센서를 사용하였다. 이온센서의 내구성이 약하고 배양액 내에는 이온센서의 정확한 계측의 방해요인인 이온성분들이 포함되어 있기 때문에 매번 정확한 측도 설정을 수행 해줌으로써 계측값의 신뢰도를 높일 수 있었고 이온센서를 이용한 온라인계측의 가능성을 확인할 수 있었다. 그러나 배양액 속에 장시간 넣어둔 상태로 사용하였을 경우 4시간 이상 경과하면 센서에서 나오는 신호가 지속적으로 상승하는 경향을 보였다. 장시간 동안 배양액에 노출되었던 센서는 측도설정이 불가능한 수준으로 일정농도의 용액 내에서 일정한 값을 나타내지 못하고 계측값이 지속적으로 상승하던가 하강하여 한계값 까지 이르렀다. 이러한 이유로 연구용이 아닌 실제 장치에 적용하여 실용화하기 위해서는 내구성이 강하고 계측하고자 하는 이온에 대해 영향을 주는 방해이온 속에서도 정확도를 유지 할 수 있는 센서의 개발이 선행되어야 한다. 또한 정확한 퇴액 성분의 측정을 위해서는 측도 설정이 선행되어야 하는데 계측이 필요할 때마다 측도 설정을 자동으로 해줄 수 있는 자동 측도 설정 모듈의 개발도 수행되어야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.10 no.1 s.30
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• pp.19-25
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• 2006

Explosion limit is one of the major physical properties used to determine the fire and explosion hazards of the flammable substances. Explosion limits are used to classify flammable materials according to their relative flammability. Such a classification is important for the safe handling, storage, transportation of flammable substances. In this study, the lower explosion limits(LEL) of the flammable mixtures predicted with the appropriate use of the vapor composition and the heat of combustion of the individual components which constitute mixture. The values calculated by the proposed equations were a good agreement with literature data within a few percent. From a given results, It is to be hoped that this methodology will contribute to the estimation of the explosive properties of flammable mixtures with improved accuracy and the broader application for other flammable substances.

• Composites Research
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.10-25
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• 1999

A new evaluation method for the interfacial properties of fibrous composites based on a fragmentation technique is proposed by using the gradual multi-fiber composite, in which the inter-fiber spacing is gradually changed. The results showed that as the inter-fiber distance increased, the aspect ratio of broken fibers decreased while the interfacial shear strength between the fiber and matrix increased. When the reciprocal of the inter-fiber destance was taken for the above relations, both the aspect ratio and interfacial shear strength showed a saturated value. This means that the gradual multi-fiber composite indicates an upper bound in aspect ratio and an upper bound in interfacial shear strength. It was concluded that this fragmentation test could be a new method for composite evaluation, since reducing a difference between these two bounds is effective for composite strengthening. In addition an elastoplastic finite element analysis was carried out to relate the above results with fiber stress a distribution around fiber breaks. It was proved that the bound obtained in the gradual multi-fiber composite test is closely related to stress concentrations caused by a group of multi-fiber breaks.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.94-94
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• 2017

지속적인 수질의 모니터링과 관리가 어려운 개발도상국의 경우, 모델링을 통한 병원균의 예측이 중요하다. Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)은 유역 모델로 병원균의 거동을 모의하는데 널리 활용된다. 하지만 SWAT이 모의하는 in-stream 모듈의 경우, 소멸, 부유, 퇴적의 단계만을 고려하여 정확도가 부족하다. 따라서 본 연구는 기존 모듈에 hyporheic exchange와 생장 단계를 추가하여 모듈의 성능 개선 및 열대 산지 유역에서의 병원균의 거동을 모의하였다. 본 연구는 몬순 기후 및 산지 지형을 가진 라오스의 Houay Pano 유역을 대상으로 대장균 (Escheichia coli, E.coli)의 거동을 2011년부터 2013년까지 일 단위로 모의하였다. 기존의 SWAT 박테리아 모듈의 경우, 소멸 단계만을 가지고 보정하였을 때 모델은 대부분 0의 값을 가졌고, 부유 및 퇴적 단계가 추가 된 후에는 우기시 대부분의 모델값이 관측값의 95% 신뢰 구간에 포함되었으나 건기에는 농도가 여전히 낮게 모의됨을 확인 할 수 있다. 건기 시 낮게 모의된 농도를 증가시키기 위해, 온도에 따른 생장 단계를 추가하였으며, 이때 생장 속도는 설정된 최소-최대 생장 온도 사이에서 최대값을 가진다. 하지만 온도에 따른 생장은 열대 기후의 특성상 전 기간에 걸쳐 동시에 증가하여 건기에만 낮게 모의된 농도를 보완하는 데는 한계가 있었다. Hyporheic exchange는 강바닥에 임시로 저장된 박테리아의 양이 특정 유량에 의해서 수계로 유입되는 현상으로, 본 연구에서는 일정한 양의 hyporheic flow를 가정하여 모의하였다. 결과적으로 Hyporheic exchange를 통해 유입되는 적은 양의 E.coli는 기존에 타당하게 모의된 우기의 농도는 그대로 유지하되, 건기에 낮게 모의된 농도는 증가시켜 기존 SWAT 모듈의 한계점을 잘 보완한 것을 확인 하였다. 결론적으로, 기존의 SWAT 모델은 건기 시 낮은 농도의 E.coli를 모의하기에 한계를 보였으며, 전 기간에 걸쳐 높은 온도를 유지하는 열대 기후에서 생장 단계는 이러한 한계를 보완하기에 적합하지 않은 것으로 판단되었다. 그러나 적은 양이 전 기간에 걸쳐 동일하게 유입되는 hyporheic exchange의 경우, 건기에 낮게 모의된 농도를 증가시켜 기존의 한계를 보완할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.77-83
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• 2007

This study is conducted on spontaneous ignition temperature and activation energy of Hydroxypropyl Methyl Cellulose(HMC) powder. HMC is a kind of cellulose derivative and used as additives for building material, surface coating, printing ink, adhesives, cosmetics and medical supplies. So this material has been widely used as important additive in the chemical industry fields and a mount of production has increased year by year. Therefore, it is very important to find out the thermal ignition characteristics of its danger and the critical ignition temperature. This study was performed by the Spontaneous Ignition Tester(SIT) and so on. Based on the data of the SIT-II, the critical ignition point of HMC is about $186^{\circ}C$ which is slightly lower than normal cellulose.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.231-234
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• 2000

To evaluate the effect of frying times on the oxidative stability of soybean oil and shortening, they were reused up to 10 times and measured by thiobarbituric acid(TBA) value, acid value(AV), peroxide value(POV) and sensory evaluation. As the reusing time was increased, TBA value of "battered pork" fried with shortening showed more sharply increased than that with soybean oil, while the value of shortening, itself, showed more decreased than that of soybean oil. In frying fat, AV and POV increased with the increase of reusing times. Compared with soybean oil, shortening had rapidly increased for POV as reusing time was increased. Among the sensory analyses TBA of "battered pork" with soybean oil and shortening exhibited the highest correlation with flavor and texture, respectively. For the "batgtered pork" fried with soybean oil and shortening, reusing shelf-lives predicted were approximately 9 and 8 times, respectively.