• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.893-906
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• 2011

The effect of ultrasound pretreatment on sludge degragability was investigated at different condotions: ultrasonic frequency(28, 40, 50kHz), intensity(10, 25, 50W), sonication time(10, 20, 30, 60min). Total suspended solid(TSS) and soluble chemical oxygen demand(SCOD) concentration were measured for the evaluation of pretreatment efficiency. The pretreated sludge was used as the feedstock for anaerobic digestion process. Biogas production and volatile suspended solid(VSS) removal were determined for evaluating the process performance. 1. TSS concentration of the sludge decreased at a constant rate as sonication operation was applied. The degradation rate of TSS increased when ultrasound frequency was decreased from 50kHz to 28kHz and intensity was increased from 10W to 50W. Efficiency of TSS degradation per input energy increased as ultrasonic frequency and intensity were decreased. At the frequency of 28 and 40kHz, SCOD concentration rapidly increased during the initial 30min of sonication time, and then it gradually increased. At 50kHz, SCOD concentration constantly increased for 60min of the sonication time. The SCOD production rate increased with increasing intensity under all ultrasound frequencies. 2. The optimum condition of ultrasound treatment was 28kHz, 50W and 60min for maximizing the biogas production, methane fraction, VSS removal. The highest values in biogas production, methane fraction in biogas, VSS removal were 370ml, 70%, 2.45g, respectively. Methane production rate per input energy increased at ultrasonic frequency and intensity decreased. 3. When raw sludge was pretreated at the condition of ultrasonic frequency of 28 and 40kHz in series, sequential-frequency sonication, intensity of 50W and 60min, biogas production, methane fraction, VSS removal were about the same that of 28kHz single-frequency sonication. When sequential-frequency sonication of 28 and 50kHz was applied in series, biogas production, methane fraction, VSS removal were 356 ~ 423ml, 69 ~ 71%, 2.41 ~ 2.78g, respectively. The pretreatment efficiency of 28-50kHz sequential-frequency sonication which sonication time of 28kHz and 50kHz was 40min and 20min was higher than that of 28kHz single-frequency sonication.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.10
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• pp.233-239
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• 2012

The harmonic frequency occurred in a power system causes errors and failures of equipments such as motors, and an unnecessary power consumption. The fundamental countermeasure for the harmonic frequency is to eliminate the cause of the harmonic frequency. This paper describes about making the device to figure out the cause in real time, verifying the operation of the device, and utilizing it to various power quality measurements. The power usually has the line frequency between 45Hz and 66Hz. In this research, the number of the harmonic frequencies which can be analysed inside the 2.8kHz bandwidth, the filter bandwidth of ADE7880, is 2800/f, and the maximum is 2800/45 = 63. The maximum order of the harmonic frequency in Korea, which has the line frequency of 60Hz, was measured as 2800/60 = 46th. Also, the accuracy of the voltage, current, and power measurement had the error within 0.1%, confirming that it is very precise.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.197-201
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• 1983

Underwater ambient noise level was measured at two points near the Youngil Bay. The environmental characteristics depend upon oceanographic conditions of sound propagation ana its implication on the source of ambient noise. Some noise sources were estimated, and the effect of the oceanographic conditions on the noise level variation had been considered. The results were as follows : 1) At the nearshore station of Youngil Bay, the ambient noise level in the near bottom(45m) was lower than that of the near surface(10m) by 15dB. This difference was due to spherical spreading from the upper to the lower layer. 2) At the open sea station which is located outside of the thermal front existing near the Youngil Bay, the ambient noise level of the upper layer(20m) was higher than that of the lower layer (100m) by $8{\sim}12dB$ below 50Hz and $15{\sim}23dB$ above 50Hz. 3) Above 60Hz the ambient noise level at the nearshore station was higher than that of the open sea station, while below 60Hz, the result was reverse. It appears that a boundary layer existed between the two stations.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.105-110
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• 2013

Respiratory signal is one of the important physiological information indicating the status and function of the body. Recent studies have provided the possibility of being able to estimate the respiratory signal by using a change of PWV(pulse width variability), PRV(pulse rate variability) and PAV(pulse amplitude variability) in the PPG (photoplethysmography) signal during daily life. But, it is not clear whether the respiratory monitoring is possible even during sleep. Therefore, in this paper, we estimated the respiration from PWV, PRV and PAV of PPG signals during sleep. In addition, respiration rates of the estimated respiration signal were calculated through a time-frequency analysis, and errors between respiration rates calculated from each parameter and from reference signal were evaluated in terms of 1 sec, 10 sec and 1 min. As a result, it showed the errors in PWV(1s: $36.38{\pm}37.69$ mHz, 10s: $36.53{\pm}38.16$ mHz, 60s: $30.35{\pm}38.72$ mHz), in PRV(1s: $1.45{\pm}1.38$ mHz, 10s: $1.44{\pm}1.37$ mHz, 60s: $0.45{\pm}0.56$ mHz), and in PAV(1s: $1.05{\pm}0.81$ mHz, 10s: $1.05{\pm}0.79$ mHz, 60s: $0.56{\pm}0.93$ mHz). The errors in PRV and PAV are lower than that of PWV. Finally, we concluded that PRV and PAV are more effective than PWV in monitoring the respiration in daily life as well as during sleep.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.1149-1150
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• 2013

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.1179-1180
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• 2013

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.904-905
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• 2008

In this paper, a novel 60kV, 300A, 3kHz pulsed power supply based on IGBT stacks is proposed. Proposed scheme consists of series connected 9 power stages to generate maximum 60kV output pulse and 15kW series resonant power inverter to charge DC capacitor voltage. Each power stages are configured as 8 series connected power cells and each power cell generates up to 830VDC, 300A pulses. Finally pulse output voltage is applied using total 72 series connected IGBTs. The synchronization of gating signal is important of series operation of IGBTs. For gating signal synchronization, full bridge inverter and pulse transformer generates on-off signals of IGBT gating and specially designed gate power circuit was used.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.314-321
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• 2000

In order to obtain the fundamental data on the auditory thresholds of fishes for catching method using low frequency sound, the auditory thresholds of coralfish Chromis notatus were measured in the presence of masking noise in the spectrum level range of 73~83dB re l$\mu$Pa/√Hz by heartbeat conditioning technique using pure tones coupled with a delayed electric shock. Critical ratios were about 23~41dB at measurement frequency, The critical ratio increased almost linearly with increasing frequency from 500Hz. The noise spectrum level at the start of masking was about 60~65dB. This suggests that hearing of coralfish is masked in the natural environment with the noise spectrum level above 60dB. The sound pressure level of which the signal sound of 300Hz is recognized by coralfish under the ambient noise is above 88dB and the critical ratio of them is above 23dB. The hearing index of coralfish with ambient noise was 81.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.180-183
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• 1999

A proto-type seismic measurement system with a reference was developed to improve S/N (signal-to-noise ratio) of seismic data, especially in noisy urban areas. Two pairs of correlation measurements (the one for microphone and geophone, and another for electromagnetic (EM) loop and geophone) were carried out near Kimpo Airport and at Kimje. The spectrum analyses were also performed to investigate the correlation of two pairs of time series; one for microphone and geophone, and another for EM loop and geophone. The sound waves measured with the microphone and the geophone are highly correlated. However, differences in the reponses are readily identifiable across 200 Hz; in the vicinity of 100 Hz, the spectral energy for geophone is 20 dB higher than that for microphone, and at near 500 Hz, the spectral energy for microphone is 30 dB higher than that for geophone. Overall, the spectral energy appears concentrated on the frequency window below 600 Hz for geophone. It contrasts with the observation of dominant frequency at the range of above 200 Hz for microphone. The wave forms of EM noise (due to an ACDC inverter) measured with EM loop and geophone are consistently and highly correlated each other. The power spectrum of the EM noise for EM loop shows that the spectral energies at odd harmonic frequencies of 60 Hz are higher than those at even harmonic frequencies of 60 Hz. It is compared to the power spectrum for geophone; the spectral energies at odd harmonics are nearly same as those at even harmonic frequencies.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06b
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• pp.181-184
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 600Hz 무선 LAN 시스템에 탑재를 위한 600㎓ 대역 전력증폭기 모듈을 개발 하였다. 600㎓ 대역 전력증폭기 모듈에 실장된 600㎓ 대역 전력증폭기 MMIC는 ETRI에서 설계 및 제작한 것으로 칩의 크기는 2.80 × 1.75㎟이며, on-wafer측정을 하여 얻은 결과는 동작 주파수 58~620Hz에서 소신호 이득은 12.4dB이고, 최대 소신호 이득은 59~60G보z에서 ISdB이며, 출력전력(Pldn)은 16.3~16.7dBm을 얻었다. 이와 같은 특성을 갖는 전력증폭기 MMIC를 사용하여 모듈을 제작하였으며, RF feed line을 위해 Rogers 사의 R03003 기판을 사용하였다. 모듈의 입출력은 동작 주파수 대역에 적합한 WRl5라는 waveguide 형태를 사용하였고, DC 바이어스 공급을 위해 3.5㎜ K-connector를 사용하였다 제작한 모듈의 크기는 40 × 30 × 15㎣이며, 최적의 성능을 얻고자 tuning bar를 상하로 이동하여 최적점을 찾았으며 나사로 고정하여 상태를 유지하도록 하였다. DC 바이어스 및 RF feed line과 칩의 연결은 본딩에 의한 인덕턴스를 최소화하기 위하여 3mil 두께의 리본 본딩을 하였다 전력증폭기 모듈을 측정한 결과, 동작주파수 600㎓ 대에서 소신호 이득은 6dB 이상, 입력 정합은 -lOdB 이하, 출력 정합은 -4dB 이하로 측정되었긴, 출력전력은 SdBm 이상으로 측정되었다. 동국대에서 제작한 600Hz 무선 LAN 시스템에 전력증폭기 모듈을 시스템 송신부에 탑재 시험한 결과, 동영상을 실시간으로 전송하는데 성공하였다.