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Security of Upland Irrigation Water through the Effective Storage Management of Irrigation Dams (관개용 댐의 효율적 저수관리를 통한 밭 관개 용수 확보)

  • Lee Joo-Yong;Kim Sun-Joo;Kim Phil-Shik
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.13-23
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    • 2006
  • In Korea, upland irrigation generally depends on the ground water or natural rainfall since irrigation water supplied from dams is mainly used for paddy irrigation, and only limited amount of irrigation water is supplied to the upland area. For the stable security of upland irrigation water, storage level of irrigation dams was simulated by the periods. A year was divided into 4 periods considering the irrigation characteristics. Through the periodical management of storage level, water utilization efficiency in irrigation dams could be enhanced and it makes available to secure extra available water from existing dams without new development of water resources. Two study areas, Seongju and Donghwa dam, were selected for this study. Runoff from the watersheds was simulated by the modified tank model and the irrigation water to upland crops was calculated by the Penman-Monteith method. The analyzed results showed that relatively sufficient extra available water could be secured for the main upland crops in Seongju area. In case of Donghwa area, water supply to non-irrigated upland was possible in normal years but extra water was necessary in drought years such as 1998 and 2001.

Effects of Stocking Density on the Blind-side Hypermelanosis of Cultured Olive Flounder Paralichthys olivaceus

  • Kang, Duk-Young;Kim, Hyo-Chan;Chang, Young-Jin
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.123-129
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    • 2011
  • To determine whether rearing density affects the hypermelanosis on the blind side (ambicoloration) of olive flounders Paralichthys olivaceus, we reared fry with an unpigmented non-eyed (blind) side in duplicate at densities of 150 individuals/$m^2$ (commercial production density: control) and 450 individuals/$m^2$ (high density group) for 90 days in 1-t dark-green fiberglass reinforced plastics (FRP) tank. We recorded feed intake, feed conversion efficiency (FE), growth and survival, and measured the ratios of staining blind-side area (staining area) and ambicolored fish every 30 days. Daily feed intake (DFI), feed conversion efficiency (FE), growth rate, condition factors, and survival rate were calculated at the end of the experiment. Although the FE was higher in the high-density compared to the control, the two density groups showed similar feed intakes, growth, and survival. The ratio of staining area as well as the ratio of ambicolored fish significantly were significantly higher in the high-density group than in the control from days 30 to 60, but significantly increased and evened out by the end of the experiment (P<0.05). In conclusion, we determined that rearing density is not the main cause of the blind-side hypermelanosis, but found that increasing the rearing density can accelerate the ambicoloration in olive flounders.

Pollution of Heavy Metals in Paddy Soils Around the Downstream Area of Abandoned Metal Mine and Efficiency of Reversed Soil Method as Its Remediation (폐금속광산 하부 농경지 토양의 중금속오염과 그 복구방법으로서 반전객토의 효율성)

  • Na, Choon-Ki;Lee, Mu-Seong;Chung, Jae-Il
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.123-135
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    • 1997
  • In order to investigate the dispersion patterns and contamination level of heavy metals in the soil-ecosystem and to evaluate the efficiency of soil remediation by reversed soil method, soils and plants were collected from the Dongjin Au-Ag-Cu mine area and analysed for heavy metals. The dispersion patterns of heavy metals in soils and plants show that heavy metal pollutions caused by waste rump around Dongjin mine are mainly found in the vicinity of the waste rump and in the southward slanting of mine. Toxic metallic pollutants from the mine influence heavy metal contents in paddy soils in downstream area, and may be a potential sources of heavy metal pollution on crop plants. Soil samples collected from the remediated rice farming field by reversed method show similar levels of heavy metal content to those from the polluted rice farming field, but topsoil enrichment of heavy metals are not found. Heavy metal contents of the rice plants collected from remediated rice farming field are significantly lower than those from polluted rice farming field, and it suggests that the reversed soil method is effective for the reduction of bioavailability of heavy metals.

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Reconfigurable FIR Filter Design Using Partial Reconfiguration (부분 재구성 방법을 이용한 재구성형 FIR 필터 설계)

  • Choi, Chang-Seok;Lee, Han-Ho
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.97-102
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    • 2007
  • This paper presents our implemented, synthesized and tested on demand and partial reconfiguration approaches for FIR filters using Xilinx Virtex FPGAs. Our scope is implementation of a low-power, area-efficient autonomously reconfigurable digital signal processing architecture that is tailored for the realization of arbitrary response FIR filters on Xilinx Virtex4 FPGAs. The implementation of design addresses area efficiency and flexibility allowing dynamically inserting and/or removing the partial modules to implement the partial reconfigurable FIR filters with various taps. This partial reconfigurable FIR filter design shows the configuration time improvement, good area efficiency and flexibility by using the dynamic partial reconfiguration method.

Performance of Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) Reactor Depending on Reactor Configuration and Sludge Bed Fluidization (반응조 형태 및 슬러지층 유동화 특성에 따른 Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) 반응조의 운전효율)

  • Jeong Byung-Gon
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.32 no.2 s.89
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    • pp.179-185
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    • 2006
  • Effect of organic loading rate on UASB performance was evaluated under the renditions of some surface area/reactor volume ratio and different reactor diameter. At the low leading rate of 0.4 kg $COD/m^3{\cdot}d$, reactor performance was not affected by reactor diameter. At the organic loading rate of 6 kg $COD/m^3{\cdot}d$, however, volatile acid accumulation and low COD removal efficiency is observed in reactor having 6.4 cm diameter, while volatile acid is not accumulated at all and high COD removal efficiency is observed in reactor having 3 cm diameter. Such a difference of reactor performance depending on reactor diameter can be explained that sludge bed can be fluidized by evolved gas bubble in narrow reactor, while sludge bed ran not be fluidized by evolved gas bubble only in wide reactor. At a high organic loading rate of 20 kg $COD/m^3{\cdot}d$, it can be judged that there is no relation between reactor configuration and reactor performance because all reactors showed very low COD removal efficiencies regardless of reactor diameter. Narrow and tall type reactor is favorable condition for making sludge bed fluidization at a constant surface area/reactor volume ratio. Thus, it can be judged that reactor configuration and sludge bed fluidization have great influence to reactor performance.

Evaluation of Corrosion Protection Efficiency and Analysis of Damage Detectability in Buried Pipes of a Nuclear Power Plant with 3D FEM (3D FEM 모델링을 이용한 원전 매설배관의 방식성능 평가 및 결함탐지능 분석)

  • Chang, Hyun Young;Park, Heung Bae;Kim, Ki Tae;Kim, Young Sik;Jang, Yoon Young
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.61-67
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    • 2015
  • 3D FEM modeling based on 3D CAD data has been performed to evaluate the efficiency of CP system in a real operating nuclear power plant. The results of it successfully produced sophisticated profiles of electrolytic potential and current distributions in the soil of an interested area. This technology is expected to be a breakthrough for detection technology of damages on buried pipes when it comes into combining with a brand of area potential earth current (APEC) and ground penetrated radar (GPR) technologies. 2D current distribution and 2D current vectors on the earth surface from the APEC survey will be used as boundary conditions with exact 3D geometry data resulting in visualization of locations and extents of corrosion damages on the buried pipes in nuclear power plants.

Development of an R-based Spatial Downscaling Tool to Predict Fine Scale Information from Coarse Scale Satellite Products

  • Kwak, Geun-Ho;Park, No-Wook;Kyriakidis, Phaedon C.
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.89-99
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    • 2018
  • Spatial downscaling is often applied to coarse scale satellite products with high temporal resolution for environmental monitoring at a finer scale. An area-to-point regression kriging (ATPRK) algorithm is regarded as effective in that it combines regression modeling and residual correction with area-to-point kriging. However, an open source tool or package for ATPRK has not yet been developed. This paper describes the development and code organization of an R-based spatial downscaling tool, named R4ATPRK, for the implementation of ATPRK. R4ATPRK was developed using the R language and several R packages. A look-up table search and batch processing for computation of ATP kriging weights are employed to improve computational efficiency. An experiment on spatial downscaling of coarse scale land surface temperature products demonstrated that this tool could generate downscaling results in which overall variations in input coarse scale data were preserved and local details were also well captured. If computational efficiency can be further improved, and the tool is extended to include certain advanced procedures, R4ATPRK would be an effective tool for spatial downscaling of coarse scale satellite products.

Spectral Efficient SF Block Coded Relay Transmission System without Cyclic Prefix for a Shadow Area (음영 지역을 위한 주기적 프리픽스 없는 주파수 효율적인 주파수 공간 블록 부호화 중계기 전송 시스템)

  • Won, Hui-Chul
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.7456-7462
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    • 2015
  • This paper proposes a spectral efficient space-frequency(SF) block coded single carrier-frequency division multiple access(SC-FDMA) transmission system in a relaying multi-path shadow area. The cyclic prefix(CP) is not used in the proposed system in order to prevent a loss of spectral efficiency due to the use of CP. The destruction of channel cyclicity due to the lack of CP is recovered at the receivers of relays and a destination station. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed system without CP is almost same as that of the conventional system with full CP, thus increasing the spectral efficiency.

Design of Light Guide Plate to Improve Optical Characteristics for Large-Area Edge-lit LED Display (대면적 엣지형 LED 디스플레이의 광특성 향상을 위한 도광판설계)

  • Lee, Jae-Yong;Shin, Min-Ho;Kim, Jong-Sub;Kim, Young-Joo
    • Transactions of the Society of Information Storage Systems
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.10-16
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    • 2013
  • Through the rapid development of LED TV, a large-area edge-lit backlight unit is widely researched in the display industry for enhancing the optical efficiency, luminous uniformity and slim design. In addition, an edge-lit backlight unit includes many optical sheets such as reflection sheet, prism sheet and diffuser sheet. However the function can be replaced by the carefully patterned light guide plate (LGP). Micro patterns which located on the top and bottom surface of light guide plate was designed by ray-tracing optical simulation. The designed patterns improved the light characteristics of LGP, including optical extraction efficiency and intensity distribution uniformity. These results suggest that it is very effective method to design edge-lit LGP with micro-patterns on both sides for large-area display and to reduce the fabrication cost.

A Study on the Working space Lay-out for Working on Information in the Offices (정보성 업무특성 따른 업무공간 레이아웃(Lay-out)에 관한 연구)

  • 이상호;신동준
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • no.32
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    • pp.64-71
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    • 2002
  • Today, term of ‘industrial society’means the totally changing society by new technical innovation through the Industrial Revolution begun in England at the mid-nineteenth century and it made social structure centering agricultural culture change with industrial culture with expansion of goods by the massive production. Information working area has to bo a space not just for improving business efficiency in industrial society but for developing efficiency in working in harmony with the information and structural aspects based on computer and communication technology. There are two kinds of environmental elements of working space : the tangible ones are the area and the structure of working space, lights, network, layout and information machines in office, the intangible ones are a feeling of satisfaction of management and arrangement of office information machines capability of information delivery, common ownership of documents and their files, the security and connection between office workers, and harmony. According to the wave of information begun from the late twentieth century, structural layout of working area has become various by the working type through network of new developed information communication machines. But it is hard to apply them in actually.