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Static and Dynamic FEM Simulation of Packaging Tray Cup Pad for Korean Pears

  • Choi, Dong-Soo;Son, Jea-Yong;Kim, Jin-Se;Kim, Yong-Hoon;Park, Chun-Wan;Jung, Hyun-Mo;Hwang, Sung-Wook
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF PACKAGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.89-94
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    • 2019
  • Among the many packaging materials used in cushion packaging, there is a lack of optimum design for the tray cup pad used in fruit packaging for export and domestic distribution. It causes over-packaging due to excessive material input, and this could be solved by applying various parameters needed to optimize the design of the tray cup pad considering the packaging material and the quantity of fruits in the box. In the case of a tray cup for fruits, the economic efficiency of material and thickness should be considered. Therefore, it is possible to design a tray cup pad depending on the packaging material used by applying appropriate design parameters. The static and dynamic characteristics of the materials used for packaging of pears were analyzed by using the FEM (finite element Method) simulation technique to derive the optimal design parameters. And by applying the appropriate design parameters considering the quantity of fruit and distribution environment, it is possible to design an appropriate fruit tray cup pad. In this study, as a result of simulating the contact stresses between the fruit and the tray cup for the PP, PE, and PS materials used in the fruit tray cup, the material with the lowest contact stress was PP and the value was found to be 398 Pa. The contact displacement between fruit and tray cup using this material was about 0.0463 mm, which was the lowest value compared with other materials. Also the resonance frequency band of tray cup made of PP material was below 36.81 Hz, and the strain energy was below 12.20 J. The resonant frequency band of the pear is more than 80 Hz and it could be applied to all the tray cup materials as compared with the resonance band of 38.81 Hz or less which is the resonance band of all tray cup pads for packaging. Finally, PP is the most suitable material for the tray cup pad.

Development of a Moisture Content Sensor for Rapeseed as Biodiesel Raw Material (바이오디젤 원료용 유채 함수율 센서 개발)

  • Lee, Choung-Keun;Choi, Yong;Jun, Hyun-Jong;Jung, Kwang-Sik
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2009
  • This study was conducted to develop a moisture sensor for rapeseed, a bio-diesel material. A typical rapeseed, SUNMANG, was used as a raw material. The rapeseed moisture content sensor consists of three components, such as upper and bottom electrodes, a test material dish, and a fixing housing. To evaluate the performance, a data acquisition system was equipped with the rapeseed moisture sensor, computer, printer, and main board. The findings of this study were: 1) the rapeseed moisture content was inversely proportional to electric resistance, and 2) values of electric resistance were recorded in a range of $10{\sim}100\;M{\Omega}$, depending upon a change of the moisture content. The determination of coefficient ($R^2$) and standard error between rapeseed moisture content and electric resistance were 0.9921 and ${\pm}0.289$, which indicated a highly correlative relationship. The response of rapeseed moisture sensor to temperature change was also observed for further performance test. Satisfying results were obtained, such as the determination of coefficient ($R^2$) of 0.9918, predicted standard error of ${\pm}0.373%$, deviation of 0.103%, measurement error of $0.14{\sim}0.48%$, standard deviation of $0.01{\sim}0.22%$, and measurement time of 28.3 s per point, respectively.

Development of the Personal Disaster Evacuation Apparatus in Case of the Life Damage by the landslide (I) - Focusing on the Load Weight and Material Test - (산사태로 인한 인명피해 대비 개인용 재난대피기구 개발 (I) - 재하하중 및 재료시험 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Jung Meyon;Hwang, Dea Won;Park, Sung Yong;Lim, Chang Su;Yeon, Kyu Seok;Kim, Yong Seong
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.58 no.5
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 2016
  • The houses are formed in the lower part of the mountain slope face in most agricultural areas of Korea, and old residents accounting for a large portion of the agricultural populations cannot respond to the evacuation quickly when the landslide happens, and the possibility the life damage occurs is high. Therefore, it is urgent to arrange the measure on this. This study is intended to develop the personal disaster evacuation apparatus that can be installed in the house to minimize the life damage by the landslide and to develop the self-initiative evacuation apparatus. This study suggested the load applicable to the personal disaster evacuation apparatus by quantitatively analyzing the effect of the load of rockslides and avalanches caused by the landslide on the structure. Also, the material property of materials was calculated through the tension and bending intensity test after making the specimen of glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) member. The load weight and material property drawn from this study can be used as the basic material for the stability analysis of the personal disaster evacuation apparatus.

The Rearch of Stress Route for Concrete Structure using Advanced Progressive Optimization (개선된 점진적 구조 최적화 기법을 이용한 콘크리트 구조물의 응력경로 탐색)

  • Kim, Shi-Hwan;Yoon, Seong-Soo;Park, Jin-Seon;Jeon, Jeong-Bae
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.53 no.6
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    • pp.153-163
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    • 2011
  • This research describe improved algorithm that is able to decide terminal criterion of Evolutionary Structural Optimization (ESO), reducing load of calculation to search load path of concrete beam, and apply to agricultural facilities. The ESO method is that make to discrete structure, structural analyze each element stress through FEM. And repeat generation with next material condition to become for most suitable composing. Individual element introduces concept of zero stiffness, but zero stiffness decisions are gone to direction of exclusion. In this stduy, improve algorithm to be convergence by 'Rule of Alive or Die' in arrival because is most suitable. Also, existing terminal criterion lack consistency because that used depend on experience of researcher. This research procedure is fellowed. First, all modulus of elasticity assume a half of elasticity modulus of material, Second, structural analysis by FEM, Third, apply to the remove ratio and restoration ratio for the 'rule of alive or die'. Forth, reconstruct the element and material conditions. And repeat the first to forth process. The terminal time of evolutional procedure is the all elastic modulus of element changed to blank value or elasticity modulus value of original. Therefore, in this study, consist the algorithm for programming, and apply to the agricultural facilities with concrete.

Dilute Acid Pretreatment for Conversion the Agricultural Residue into Bioenergy (농산부산물의 바이오에너지 전환을 위한 묽은산 전처리)

  • Won, Kyung-Yoen;Jeong, Tae-Su;Choi, Won-Il;Oh, Kyeong-Keun
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.511-511
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    • 2009
  • Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant organic material on earth and also promising raw material for bioenergy production. Agricultural residues in the process of bio-oil extraction, is an abundant and low-cost lignocellulosic material. The technology for conversion of lignocellulosic biomass resources to fuels and chemicals, such as ethanol, has been under development for decades. One of the well-studied technologies that are currently being commercialized is to use a dilute acid-catalyzed pretreatment followed by enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation to produce ethanol. In this work, the dilute-acid hydrolysis of agricultural residues was optimized through the utilization of statistical experimental design. Evaluation criteria for optimization of the pretreatment conditions were based on high xylose recovery and low inhibitor contents in the hydrolyzates. The purpose of this study was to gain a more accurate understanding of the quantities of acid required for effective hydrolysis and the reactivity trade-offs with reaction time and temperature that will enable overall process optimization.

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An Application of PTA Method for the Endurance and Wear Surface Characteristics of Agricultural Implements (농업기계의 내마모 특성 개선을 위한 PTA 표면 개질법의 적용)

  • 김창수;최중섭
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.473-478
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    • 1999
  • Recently, it is necessary fir surface materials to be low cost and to keep well endurable and wear in machinery field. Since most good materials with endurance and wear are expensive, they are being studied hard to modify to surface materials with endurance and wear, which overlay with the surface membrane completely. One of them is PTA(Plasma Transferred Arc Overlaying Process) method, which gets into the spotlight. It is thought to be an optimum method, since this method of overlays properly materials with about 3∼5cm surface membrane. It is necessity for the modified materials with endurance and wear to improve within the agricultural environment. Therefore, this research was used the PTA method to endure and wear a material. This method proved to be a reliable method for overlaying the membrane on the materials of an economical agricultural machinery.

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Antitumor Components from Naematoloma fasciculare

  • Ding, Yan;Bao, Hai Ying;Bau, Tolgor;Li, Yu;Kim, Young-Ho
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.19 no.10
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    • pp.1135-1138
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    • 2009
  • The bioassay-guided fractionation of MeOH extract from Naematoloma fasciculare afforded a petroleum ether fraction (NFPF) and four known compounds, which showed good antitumor activities to inhibit MCF-7 cell line proliferation in vitro and tumor growth in $H_{22}$ implanted mice in vivo. In addition, a number of unsaturated aliphatic acids were identified in NFPF by GC analysis. These results showed that NFPF inhibits tumor growth through the activity of unsaturated aliphatic acids together with two active compounds, ergosterol peroxide (1: 62.17 mg/g in NFPF) and ergosterol (2: 3.13 mg/g in NFPF), and indicate the potential utility of NFPF as an antitumor drug.

Application of Recycled Gypsum on Alkali Soil for Improving Agricultural Productivity in China

  • Akio, Tokuumi;Tsureyasu, Yanagi;Sun, Yi;Gao, Yushan;Zhao, Xiezhe
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.102-105
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    • 2001
  • Gypsum has been known as a prominent material for improving alkali soil, and this material can be supplied easily in large scale by recycling waste gypsum plasterboard from construction and demolition sites in advanced countries. In April 2000, in the part of western Jilin Province in China, where alkali soil spread vastly, we conducted a cultivating experiment of corn and rice after treating with granule recycled waste gypsum at six alkali soil fields which total area were 14000$m^2$. We confirmed that pH of soil decreased in a short period and alkali soil changed soft a desirable condition for farm work, and furthermore, gypsum caused to accelerate the growth of a plant, both corn and rice.

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Analysis of Gear Rattle Using a Dynamic Load Model of Agricultural Tractor Driveline (동하중 모형을 이용한 트랙터 전동라인의 치타음 분석)

  • 류일훈;김경욱
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.371-380
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    • 2002
  • The objectives of this study were to analyze gear rattle in a power drive line using its dynamic model and to derive design guidelines to eliminate it. A 72 degrees of freedom model of power driveline of an agricultural tractor was developed and proved to be valid fer predicting the collision characteristics of gears in mesh, which may determine whether or not the gear rattle will occur. Using the model the effects on the rattle of drag torque, backlash, mass moment of inertia, transmitting torque were analyzed. Increasing drag torque or decreasing mass moment of inertia reduced gear rattle. The gears transmitting power do not develop rattles. It was also found that a large amount of rattle is likely to be developed by the change gears placed at the end of idle shafts. Increasing the drag torque to such change gears may be the most effective way of reducing the gear rattle in a tractor driveline.

Evaluation of Acute Toxicity of Plant Extracts, Lavender, Lemon Eucalyptus and Cassia Essential Oil (식물 추출물 라벤더, 레몬 유칼립투스 및 계피 오일의 급성독성평가)

  • Jeong, Mi-Hye;Kwon, Mi-Jeong;Park, Soo-Jin;Hong, Soon-Sung;Park, Kyung-Hun;Park, Jae-Eup;Yeon, Sung-Hum
    • The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.339-346
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    • 2010
  • The acute toxicity test of high bio-active plant essential oils was conducted with Lavender, Lemon eucalyptus and Cassia oils selected to develop environment-friendly insecticides. The results of acute oral toxicity using rats showed that $LD_{50}$ of over 2,000 mg/kg bw for Lavender, Lemon eucalyptus and Cassia oils. The calculated acute dermal $LD_{50}$ value of all testing materials was over 4,000 mg/kg bw. The Skin irritation test indicated that Lavender and Lemon eucalyptus oil have no irritation while Cassia oil has a moderate irritation. For the Eye Irritation test, the result showed no irritation for Lavender and Lemon Eucalyptus oil and irritation for Cassia oils. However, the irritation was not showed for Eye Irritationwashing test of Cassia oil. Consequently, the Lavender and Lemon eucalyptus oils were showed to be low in toxicity whereas Cassia oil indicated to cause a moderate irritation on the skin and eyes.