• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제74권4호
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• pp.521-532
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• 2020

A floating dry dock is an advanced structure that can provide a solution for dry dock space shortages. The critical point in floating dock operation is compensating the deflection caused by a heavy payload by adjusting the water level in the ballast system. An appropriate ballasting plan warrants safe and precise construction on a floating dock. Particularly, in the case of a 2D floating dock, ballasting plan evaluation is crucial due to complex deformation modes. In this paper, we developed a method to calculate the optimal ballasting plan for accurate and precise construction on a 2D floating dock. The finite element method was used for considering the flexibility of the floating dock as well as the construction blocks. Through a gradient-based optimization algorithm, the optimal ballasting plan for the given load condition was calculated in semi-real time (5 min). The present method was successfully used for the actual construction of an offshore structure on the 2D floating dock.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.576-585
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• 2020

본 연구는 기존 선박에 자외선 (UV) 평형수처리장치(BWMS)를 설치 한 경우, 수치 계산을 통해 평형수 처리시간의 증가를 정량적으로 조사하였다. 계산 결과 배수량 55,000톤 가스 운반선의 평형수 처리시간은 UV BWMS 미설치 및 유량 제어 기능 없이 2.152 시간이었다. 평형수 처리시간은 UV BWMS 설치 후 14.2 % 증가했으며, 유량 제어 기능까지 고려 시 20.4 % 증가했습니다. 실제 조건들을 고려하면 UV BWMS 설치 후 평형수 처리시간은 기존 평형수처리시간 대비 최소 30 % 정도 증가할 것으로 예상됩니다. 따라서 업계 관계자는 평형수 처리시간 증가로 인한 선박 운영 손실을 최소화하기 위하여 UV BWMS 선정시 본선의 실제 평형수펌프 용량과 UV BWMS의 유동 에너지 손실을 충분히 고려하는 것이 좋습니다. 또한 BWMS 설치 후 평형수 처리시간 증가를 최소화하기 위해서는 더 큰 용량의 BWMS, 더 큰 파이프 및 내부 코팅이 있는 파이프 등의 사용을 고려할 수 있습니다.

• 한국기계연구소 소보
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• 통권15호
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• pp.117-125
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• 1985

It is usual practice to ballast a sip to maintain requires operational safety at sea. However, excessive ballasting may reduce the operational economy of a ship. Therefore, The determination of the optimal location and quantity of ballast water is one of the important works at the preliminary design stage. To provide a convenient tool to ship designers the program for the determination of the optimal location and program the effect of the change of ballast water quantity in each tank on some characteristics of a ship, such as trim, initial stability and heel, is investigated and the minimum quantity of ballast water for each tank which satisfies the operational safety requirements is calculated.

• 한국조명전기설비학회지:조명전기설비
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.220-220
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• 1999

This paper describes the high efficiency inverter ballast circuit using very cheap microprocessor, which has been developed by the author. A variety of soft-switching techniques have been proposed to reduce the switching losses and EMI problems that occur with higher switching frequencies in switched inverter ballast. The inverter ballast circuit, which employs a temperature sensing circuits has been also proposed to improve starting performance of the fluorescent lamps. That is, the inverter ballast circuit, which employs a soft-starting circuit and soft-switching techniques to implement the power factor correction and to mitigate of power-loss and increase a life time of the fluorescent lamps, has become an attractive performance for ballasting the fluorescent lamps. In this paper, the operation and the control of the inverter ballast are described in detail and experimental results are presented. As the experimental results, when environment temperature is at -40℃, the inverter ballast circuit has low THD(4.8%) of the input current and large power factor(98%) of the lamp current. The proposed improved ballast circuit appears to be a good performance for ballasting fluorescent lamps.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.485-493
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• 2010

Chemical coagulation destabilizes colloidal particles so that particles grow to larger flocs. Solid particles are then removed by solid-liquid separation after typical precipitation. Rapid precipitation enhances the separation by reducing the precipitation time with larger and denser particles. Conventionally, polyelectolyte compounds (polymers) function as a flocculant aid by introducing a interparticle binding, which increases the particle size and density. And more recent ballasted flocculation adds a ballasting agent (microsand) to form denser particles with its high-density(sp gr=2.65). The current research was to evaluate the manner in which ballasted flocs are formed under different injection timings of microsand and to recognize the effects on floc formation. $FeCl_3$ as a coagulant, anionic polymer for a flocculation aid and microsand were used for the floc formation. Floc size (diameter) was widely ranged with the highest mean value when microsand was injected between $FeCl_3$ and polymer. Mean floc density was larger when the floc formed smaller. Settling velocity increased with larger floc size, whilst not significantly affected by the timing of microsand injection. The additional slow mixing on floc formation increased floc size to some extent.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.127-135
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• 2014

On lot of ships, Ballast Water Treatment Systems(BWTS) are in use, or the newly built ship should be mandatory installation by 2017. It is IMO(International Maritime Organization) regulations. Because the vessel is in long distance, It is managed this system only in the vessel and it may occur considerable cost of maintenance when a problem arises from BWTS. We describe in this paper how to monitor treated ballast water to make sure the ballast water and BWTS on a ship is in proper condition, but before the port entrance. In addition, analysing and forecasting trend signal to prevent failure. Also we can expect reduce the cost of BWTS maintenance. We can monitor the sensor data value's change which collected through satellite from BWTS. And we can observate the ballasting and de-ballasting state of the vessel easily.

• 한국조명전기설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국조명전기설비학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.130-132
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• 2008

In the gas discharge lamp, starting procedure is composed of several physical discharge phases. The detailed phenomena are different according to lamp characteristics and ballasting method. This paper reviews starting methods in fluorescent lamp, and the starting procedure of HID lamp are investigated based on reviewed various waveforms.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2007년도 7th International Meeting on Information Display 제7권1호
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• pp.475-478
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• 2007

A solution for carbon nanotube based field emission displays has been designed and built. The solution makes use of structure layout to control electron beam trajectories, uniformity by use of ballasting, emission anomalies eliminated by selective carbon nanotube growth and invisible spacers to maintain the vacuum gap.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2018년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.38-40
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• 2018

선박 침수사고 발생시, (De)Ballasting 작업은 기본적인 대응방안 중 하나이다. 16000톤급 여객선의 항해 중 탱크 변화량의 패턴을 분석하여 내항성 안전모듈 대응가이던스에서 정량적인 평가방법을 통해 침수사고 발생 시 최적탱크를 선정하여 제시할 수 있도록 실제 상황에 적용 가능한 알고리즘(안)을 개발하였다.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2004년도 학술대회지
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• pp.62-67
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• 2004

Many ships in voyage experience weight and buoyancy distribution change by various reasons such as change of sea water density and waves, weather condition, and consumption of fuel, provisions, etc . The weight and buoyancy distribution change can bring the ships out of allowable trim, heeling angle. In these case, the ships should adjust trim and heeling angle by shifting of liquid cargo or ballasting, deballasting of ballast tanks for recovery of initial state or for a stable voyage. But, if the adjustment is performed incorrectly, ship's safety such as longitudinal strength, intact stability, propeller immersion, wide visibility, minimum forward draft cannot be secured correctly. So it is required that the adjustment of trim and heeling angle should be planned not by human operators but by optimization computer algorithm. To make an optimized plan to adjust trim and heeling angle guaranteeing the ship's safety and quickness of process, Uk! combined mechanical analysis and optimization algorithm. The candidate algorithms for the study were heuristic algorithm, meta-heuristic algorithm and uninformed searching algorithm. These are widely used in various kinds of optimization problems. Among them, heuristic algorithm $A^\ast$ was chosen for its optimality. The $A^\ast$ algorithm is then applied for the study. Three core elements of $A^\ast$ Algorithm consists of node, operator, evaluation function were modified and redefined. And we analyzed the $A^\ast$ algorithm by considering cooperation with loading instrument installed in most ships. Finally, the algorithm has been applied to tanker ship's various conditions such as Normal Ballast Condition, Homo Design Condition, Alternate Loading Condition, Also the test results are compared and discussed to confirm the efficiency and the usefulness of the methodology developed the system.