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Mobile Sensor Velocity Optimization for Chemical Detection and Response in Chemical Plant Fence Monitoring (사업장의 경계면에서 화학물질 감지 및 대응을 위한 이동식 센서 배치 최적화)

  • Park, Myeongnam;Kim, Hyunseung;Cho, Jaehoon;Lulu, Addis;Shin, Dongil
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.41-49
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    • 2017
  • Recently, as the number of facilities using chemicals is increasing, the amount of handling is rapidly increasing. However, chemical spills are occurring steadily, and if large quantities of chemicals are leaked in time, they are likely to cause major damage. These industrial complexes use information obtained from a number of sensors to detect and monitor leaking areas, and are used in industrial fields by applying existing fixed sensors to robots and drones. Therefore, it is necessary to propose a sensor placement method at the interface for rapid detection and response based on various leaking scenarios reflecting leaking conditions and environmental conditions of the chemical handling process. In this study, COMSOL was used to analyze the actual accident scenarios by applying the medium parameter to the case of chemical leaks. Based on the accident scenarios, the objective function is selected so that the velocity of each robot is calculated by attaching importance to each item of sensor detection probability, sensing time and sensing scenario number. We also confirmed the feasibility of this method of reliability analysis for unexpected leak accidents. Based on the above results, it is expected that it will be helpful to trace back the leakage source based on the concentration data of the portable sensor to be applied later.

Single-Strand Conformation Polymorphism Analysis by Microchip Electrophoresis for the Rapid Detection of Point Mutation in Human Obesity Gene

  • Kang, Seong-Ho;Jang, Soo-Young;Park, Sang-Kyu
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.27 no.9
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    • pp.1346-1352
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    • 2006
  • We describe an effective method of microchip electrophoresis (ME) based on single strand conformation poly-morphism (SSCP) analysis to rapidly detect the point mutation, Leu72Met, in a human obesity gene. The 207-bp dsDNA in the Leu72Met region, an estimate of the child obesity DNA mutant, was amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and submitted to a conventional glass microchip analysis with a sieving matrix of 1.75% poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (Mr 1 300 000), 1.0% poly(ethyleneoxide) (Mr 600 000) and 5.0% w/w glycerol. When combined with base stacking (BS) with hydroxide ions, the SSCP-ME provided rapid analysis as well as sensitive detection. The detection sensitivity was effectively enhanced in the OH- concentration range of 0.01-0.025 M NaOH. The sensitivity and speed of this ME-based SSCP methodology for the rapid detection of Leu72Met point mutations makes this an attractive method for diagnosing childhood obesity in a clinical diagnostic laboratory.

Separation and Detection of Nonchromophore Aliphatic Compounds by Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography using Ultraviolet-Absorbing Reagent (자외선 흡수물질을 이용한 역상 액체 크로마토그라피에 의한 비흡수 지방족 화합물들의 검출과 분리)

  • Lee Seung-Seok;Kang Sam-Woo;Oh Hae-Beom
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.397-404
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    • 1991
  • Nonchromophore compounds such as aliphatic acids, alcohols and tetraalkylammonium salts could be detected by indirect photometric detection on the revered-phase liquid chromatography. Benzyltriethylammonium bromide(BTEAB) was used as a detection reagent. Also, the retention mechanism and response of samples were investigated to the several factors such as pH, temperature, and concentration of MeOH as well as concentration of detection reagents in mobile phase. And some mixture of samples were able to be separated under optimum condition.

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Fluorimetric Determination of Dichloroacetamide by RPLC with Postcolumn Detection

  • Choi, Yong-Wook;Reckhow, David A.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.900-906
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    • 2004
  • An RPLC-postcolumn detection method has been developed for the fluorimetric determination of dichloroacetamide (DCAD) in water. After ammonia and DCAD were separated on a $C_{18}$ nonpolar stationary phase with 2.5% methanol-0.02 M phosphate buffer at pH 3, the column eluant was reacted with post column reagents, o-phthaldialdehyde (OPA) and sulfite ion at pH 11.5, to produce a highly fluorescent isoindole fluorophore, which was measured with a fluorescence detector ( ${\lambda}_{ex}$ = 363 nm, ${\lambda}_{em}$ = 425 nm). With the optimized conditions for RPLC and the postcolumn derivatization, the calibration curve was found to be linear in the concentration ranges of 0.5 and 20 ${\mu}$M for DCAD, and the detection limit for DCAD was 0.18 ${\mu}$M (23${\mu}$g/L). This corresponded to 18 pmol per 100 ${\mu}$L injection volume for a signal-to-noise ratio of 3, and the repeatability and reproducibility of this method were 1.0% and 2.5% for five replicate analyzes of 2 ${\mu}$M DCAD, respectively. The degradation yields DCAD to ammonia were 94 and 99%, and the percent recoveries of DCAD from 4 and 6 ${\mu}$M DCAD-spiked tap water were shown mean more than 97%.

Biosensor System for the Detection and Assessment of Safety in Milk and Dairy Products (우유 및 유제품의 안전성 평가를 위한 바이오센서의 이용)

  • Kim, Hyoun-Wook;Han, Sang-Ha;Ham, Jun-Sang;Seol, Kuk-Hwan;Jang, Ae-Ra;Kim, Dong-Hun;Oh, Mi-Hwa
    • Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.51-57
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    • 2011
  • Milk and dairy products are nutritionally one of the most important food in human health and the quality of raw milk is significantly important to ensure safety of dairy products. However, milk and dairy products are commonly related with chemical and microbial contaminations. Therefore, rapid and reliable detection of hazardous (e.g. pathogenic bacteria, pesticides, antibiotics, microbial toxins) in milk and dairy products is essential to ensure human health and food safety. Conventional methods for detection of food hazardous are mostly time-consuming to yield a results. Recently, biosensors have been focused as its rapidity and high sensitivity to analyse chemical and microbial hazardous from a variety of foods and environments. This study reviewed the recent trends and applications of biosensors as rapid detection method of hazardous in milk and dairy products.

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Improved fast neutron detection using CNN-based pulse shape discrimination

  • Seonkwang Yoon;Chaehun Lee;Hee Seo;Ho-Dong Kim
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.11
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    • pp.3925-3934
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    • 2023
  • The importance of fast neutron detection for nuclear safeguards purposes has increased due to its potential advantages such as reasonable cost and higher precision for larger sample masses of nuclear materials. Pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) is inevitably used to discriminate neutron- and gamma-ray- induced signals from organic scintillators of very high gamma sensitivity. The light output (LO) threshold corresponding to several MeV of recoiled proton energy could be necessary to achieve fine PSD performance. However, this leads to neutron count losses and possible distortion of results obtained by neutron multiplicity counting (NMC)-based nuclear material accountancy (NMA). Moreover, conventional PSD techniques are not effective for counting of neutrons in a high-gamma-ray environment, even under a sufficiently high LO threshold. In the present work, PSD performance (figure-of-merit, FOM) according to LO bands was confirmed using a conventional charge comparison method (CCM) and compared with results obtained by convolution neural network (CNN)-based PSD algorithms. Also, it was attempted, for the first time ever, to reject fake neutron signals from distorted PSD regions where neutron-induced signals are normally detected. The overall results indicated that higher neutron detection efficiency with better accuracy could be achieved via CNN-based PSD algorithms.

Acousto-Optic Detection for Photoacoustic Spectroscopy (광음향 분광학의 광학적 측정)

  • 최중길
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.50-56
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    • 1991
  • This paper describes several optical microphones, "optophone", where a low-power He-Ne laser beam is deflected by a reflecting diaphragm mounted on a photoacoustic cell. A comparision of an acousto-optic detection to a conventional microphone shows comparable sensitivities for the photoacoustic detection. The greatest application of these detections may be found where small volume spectro-phone cells are employed, or where conventional microphones cannot be employed because of high or low temperature or chemical corrosion problems. problems.

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