• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.384-389
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• 2008

Three prototype chestnut harvesters were constructed and evaluated their chestnut collection ability and field efficiency. Air-lock paddle system successfully picked up all loose material, and pick up efficiency was about 56 kg/h. Power required to operate this system was evaluated to be 8.7 kW with an air flow rate of $32.6\;m^3/min$. A radial blade type blower with 0.41 m impeller diameter was considered to be a minimum size for this system. For the auger system, air was sucked into the cylinder as the hinged flat cover began to be opened by the material pushed by the auger, and the empty burrs flew back to the container through the space between auger flights and collected in the bottom of the container. It was considered to add a device to prevent air from flowing back or to use the back flowing air for separation of burrs and nuts inside the container. The venturi system could not pick up chestnuts, as they only carried part way up to the suction hose. Consideration was given to an idea that the venturi could be used as a cleaning and separation mechanism for containers filled with both empty burrs and good nuts. A minimum vacuum of 129 mm wg was required to pick up chestnuts, and the corresponding inlet air velocity was 19.3 m/s. 104 mm of vacuum, which was about 81 % of that required for nuts, was enough to pick up burrs with nuts inside. Also, empty burrs with higher moisture content recorded the same pressure as for the burrs with nuts.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.552-558
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• 2011

A 50 kW class rotating body type wave energy converter consisted of two floating bodies and a PTO (Power Takeoff) unit is studied. As an wave energy extractor, the body is designed to have a VLCO (Variable Liquid-Column Oscillator) having a liquid filled U-tube with air chambers. Owing to the oscillation of the liquid in the U-tube caused by the air spring effect of the air chambers, the amplitude of response of the VLCO becomes significantly amplified for a target wave period. The PTO converts the rotational moment introduced from the relative motion of the hinged bodies to an hydraulic power by means of a cylinder. A high pressure accumulator, hydraulic motor and a generator are equipped in the PTO to convert the hydraulic power to electric power. A control law for adjusting the oscillation period of the VLCO is proposed for the efficient operation of the VLCO with various wave conditions. It is found that the effect of the air spring has an important role to play in making the oscillation of the VLCO match with the ocean wave. In this way, the wave energy converter equipped with the VLCO provides the most effective mode for extracting energy from the ocean wave.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국연소학회 1998년도 제17회 KOSCI SYMPOSIUM 논문집
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• pp.31-36
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• 1998

An experimental study has been performed to characterize fundamental aspects of VOCs removal using non-thermal palsma technique. The removed VOCs in the present study are toluene ($C_6H_5CH_3$), ethene ($C_2H_4$), propene ($C_3H_6$) which are typical air pollutants generated from industry and automobile engines. The non-thermal plasma used in the present experiments has been produced in a wire-cylinder reactor with pulsed corona or a packed-bed reactor filled with ceramic bead. These differently generated non-thermal plasma have been visualized with an intensified CCD. The images of non-thermal plasma have been used for optimal design of a corona reactor used in the present study. The experimental results show that the removal efficiencies of VOCs with non-thermal plasma are dependant on the reactivity of VOCs with OH, O, and $O_3$. The results also show that the removal efficiencies of VOCs decrease significantly when VOCs are treated with NO that is also oxidized in the presence of OH, O, and $O_3$.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2004

고선량률 근접치료는 저선량률 근접치료와 비교하여 짧은 시간에 많은 선량이 조사되며, 치료를 위한 최적화가 물리적 요인, 방사선 파라미터, 최적화 알고리즘 같은 여러 복잡한 요인들과 연관되어 있으므로 정확한 선량 전달을 위해서는 정확한 검증 과정을 필요로 한다. 본 연구에서는 앞선 연구에서 제작하였던 선량 검증용 팬톰의 단점을 보완하고 CT나 MRI 시스템에서도 이용할 수 있는 구조를 추가시켜 고선량률 근접 치료의 위치 및 선량 검증을 위한 새로운 자궁경부암용 팬톰을 개발하였다. 또한, 개발된 팬톰을 이용하여 고선량률 근접치료에서의 기존의 필름에 기반한 orthogonal 방법의 위치 확인에 대한 점증을 수행하였다. 위치 확인에 대한 철증은 CT 시스템에서의 좌표를 비교, 분석함으로써 수행되었다. 제작된 팬톰은 자궁경부암 환자를 대상으로 환자의 해부학적 구조를 모사하여 제작하였기 때문에 방광과 직장을 모사한 구와 원기둥의 구조물을 포함하고 있으며, C-arm과 CT 영상을 정확하게 획득하기 위한 localizer를 포함하고 있다. 또한, C-arm 및 CT 좌표 비교 수행을 위하여 알고리즘에 기반한 재구성 프로그램을 직접 IDL 5.5를 이용, window 환경에서 개발하였다. 좌표 비교를 수행한 결과, CT의 좌표가 정확한 좌표라고 가정했을 때 필름에 기반한 방법은 모든 점에서 1.0 mm 이내에서 일치함을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구를 바탕으로 우리는 현재 사용하고 있는 Plato (Nucletron, Netherlands) 근접치료 기기의 위치 확인 알고리즘에 대한 검증을 자체적으로 수행할 수 있었다. 이번 연구에서 새롭게 제작된 팬톰과 소프트웨어는 근접치료의 Qual Assurance (OA) 분야에서 효율적이고 강력한 QA 도구로 자리 잡을 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.