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Operation of a Networked Virtual Manufacturing System using Quasi-Procedural Method

  • Noh, Sang-Do;Sheen, Dong-Mok;Hahn, Hyung-Sang;Lee, Kyoil
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1999.10a
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    • pp.177-180
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    • 1999
  • Nowadays, one of the major technical issues in manufacturing is to create an environment to promote collaboration among diverse engineering activities. Collaborative engineering is an innovative approach integrating widely distributed engineering activities through promoting information sharing and actual collaboration. It requires close interactions among developers, suppliers and customers, and consideration of entire product life cycle from concept to disposal. A carefully-designed operating system is crucial for successful collaboration of many different activities in a Networked Virtual Manufacturing System(NVMS). High extensibility, flexibility and efficiency ale the key characteristics requested of an operating system to handle the complexity of the NVMSs. In this paper, we propose a model of the operating system for collaborative engineering using concurrent quasi-procedural method(QPM). QPM is a goal-driven data management technique for distributed and parallel computing environments. It is to be applied to the evaluation of activities to be executed, validities of input data, execution path of activities for a needed output, and expected to greatly improve the productivity of operations by preventing redundant evaluations. Collaboration among many different engineering activities in NVMSs is to be performed by the network of agents that encapsulate the capabilities of both users and their tools.

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Holistic Approach to Multi-Unit Site Risk Assessment: Status and Issues

  • Kim, Inn Seock;Jang, Misuk;Kim, Seoung Rae
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.49 no.2
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    • pp.286-294
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    • 2017
  • The events at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March 2011 point out, among other matters, that concurrent accidents at multiple units of a site can occur in reality. Although site risk has been deterministically considered to some extent in nuclear power plant siting and design, potential occurrence of multi-unit accident sequences at a site was not investigated in sufficient detail thus far in the nuclear power community. Therefore, there is considerable worldwide interest and research effort directed toward multi-unit site risk assessment, especially in the countries with high-density nuclear-power-plant sites such as Korea. As the technique of probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) has been successfully applied to evaluate the risk associated with operation of nuclear power plants in the past several decades, the PSA having primarily focused on single-unit risks is now being extended to the multi-unit PSA. In this paper we first characterize the site risk with explicit consideration of the risk associated with spent fuel pools as well as the reactor risks. The status of multi-unit risk assessment is discussed next, followed by a description of the emerging issues relevant to the multi-unit risk evaluation from a practical standpoint.

Goal-driven Optimization Strategy for Energy and Performance-Aware Data Centers for Cloud-Based Wind Farm CMS

  • Elijorde, Frank;Kim, Sungho;Lee, Jaewan
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.1362-1376
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    • 2016
  • A cloud computing system can be characterized by the provision of resources in the form of services to third parties on a leased, usage-based basis, as well as the private infrastructures maintained and utilized by individual organizations. To attain the desired reliability and energy efficiency in a cloud data center, trade-offs need to be carried out between system performance and power consumption. Resolving these conflicting goals is often the major challenge encountered in the design of optimization strategies for cloud data centers. The work presented in this paper is directed towards the development of an Energy-efficient and Performance-aware Cloud System equipped with strategies for dynamic switching of optimization approach. Moreover, a platform is also provided for the deployment of a Wind Farm CMS (Condition Monitoring System) which allows ubiquitous access. Due to the geographically-dispersed nature of wind farms, the CMS can take advantage of the cloud's highly scalable architecture in order to keep a reliable and efficient operation capable of handling multiple simultaneous users and huge amount of monitoring data. Using the proposed cloud architecture, a Wind Farm CMS is deployed in a virtual platform to monitor and evaluate the aging conditions of the turbine's major components in concurrent, yet isolated working environments.

An Optimal Installation Strategy for Allocating Energy Storage Systems and Probabilistic-Based Distributed Generation in Active Distribution Networks

  • Sattarpour, Tohid;Tousi, Behrouz
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.350-358
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    • 2017
  • Recently, owing to increased interest in low-carbon energy supplies, renewable energy sources such as photovoltaics and wind turbines in distribution networks have received considerable attention for generating clean and unlimited energy. The presence of energy storage systems (ESSs) in the promising field of active distribution networks (ADNs) would have direct impact on power system problems such as encountered in probabilistic distributed generation (DG) model studies. Hence, the optimal procedure is offered herein, in which the simultaneous placement of an ESS, photovoltaic-based DG, and wind turbine-based DG in an ADN is taken into account. The main goal of this paper is to maximize the net present value of the loss reduction benefit by considering the price of electricity for each load state. The proposed framework consists of a scenario tree method for covering the existing uncertainties in the distribution network's load demand as well as DG. The collected results verify the considerable effect of concurrent installation of probabilistic DG models and an ESS in defining the optimum site of DG and the ESS and they demonstrate that the optimum operation of an ESS in the ADN is consequently related to the highest value of the loss reduction benefit in long-term planning as well. The results obtained are encouraging.

Performance improvement of countercurrent-flow membrane gas absorption in a hollow fiber gas-liquid membrane contactor

  • Ho, Chii-Dong;Sung, Yun-Jen;Chen, Wei-Ting;Tsai, Feng-Chi
    • Membrane and Water Treatment
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.35-50
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    • 2017
  • The theoretical membrane gas absorption module treatments in a hollow fiber gas-liquid membrane contactor using Happel's free surface model were obtained under countercurrent-flow operations. The analytical solutions were obtained using the separated variable method with an orthogonal expansion technique extended in power series. The $CO_2$ concentration in the liquid absorbent, total absorption rate and absorption efficiency were calculated theoretically and experimentally with the liquid absorbent flow rate, gas feed flow rate and initial $CO_2$ concentration in the gas feed as parameters. The improvements in device performance under countercurrent-flow operations to increase the absorption efficiency in a carbon dioxide and nitrogen gas feed mixture using a pure water liquid absorbent were achieved and compared with those in the concurrent-flow operation. Both good qualitative and quantitative agreements were achieved between the experimental results and theoretical predictions for countercurrent flow in a hollow fiber gas-liquid membrane contactor with accuracy of $6.62{\times}10^{-2}{\leq}E{\leq}8.98{\times}10^{-2}$.

Study of Building Standard System Requirement DB of City Train (도시철도 표준화시스템 요구사항 DB구축 연구)

  • Lee, Woo-Dong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.07b
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    • pp.1093-1094
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    • 2006
  • City Train Technology that is large and complex system and consists of mechanical, electronic, electric, materials, computer, communication, civil/track etc. is very important area of railway industry, national fundamental industry. The standardization of city train system as a public transportation method and foundation of national economy is very important in order to do effective operation and to get fundamental technology, and the information system of the standards is required to operate the city train system effectively. By building data base of city train system design knowledge using computer-aided system engineering tool-Cradle, the system development issues and the design solutions are used by all engaged persons, and are managed by modeling and documentation. And this system will support architecture design consistently and effectively by applying this system to formalize early development process, to system requirements and configuration management, to system interface analysis and management and to system behavior analysis etc.. This study is for construction of data base of system design knowledge through making data base of many kinds of standards using CASE tool based on System Engineering Process, and introduces a model to support concurrent engineering for all engineers involved in system development allowing access to standard DB through Web from anywhere and at anytime.

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Design of the Java-based Call Control System for CTI(Computer Telephony Integration) Service (컴퓨터 통합형 전화서비스를 위한 Java 기반의 호제어 시스템 설계)

  • 유창열;복혁규;최재원
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.97-102
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    • 2003
  • In this paper it Is to suggest that beyond the Previous communication concept of exchange, transmission mounting. and terminal , the call control system function should be added to the call control exchange server, to make an external telephone call available through the internet by connecting the interior line and the Internet. The function evaluation of call control system is found to become stable when the callers are 10 rather than 20 above, as a result of the more than ten times repeated concurrent calls. Furthermore, the evaluation shows that the program responds Quickly within a second, even when there are more than 100 callers as well as secures a stable system operation and mutual inter-feasibility due to a fast connectivity and a superb function.

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Thoracoscopic Radical Esophagectomy in Cervico-Thoracic Esophageal Cancer (경구경계부식도암에서 흉강경을 이용한 근치적 식도암적출술)

  • 박재길;이선희
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.681-688
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    • 1996
  • Most patients with carcinoma of the cervico-thoracic esophagus present with locally advanced disease. For this reason, therapeutic efforts have been largely palliative, focused on eradicating locoregional dis- ease, and have been attended by high morbidity rates. A 61 year old man was diagnosed to advanced cervicothoracic esophageal cancer(Type 1) and reli ved concurrent chromo-radiotherapy for 2 months in St. Mary's Hospital. And then he underwent transhiatal subtotal esophagectomy and radical dissection of cervical and superior mediastinal Iymph nodes with thoracoscopy. The histologic diagnosis was early esophageal cancer(Type 0-llb, SM2) and the curability of operation was calculated to highly curative(Clll). And the postoperative course was unevenful.

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Substrate Effects on Biological Excess Phosphorus Removal (유기물질이 인제거 특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Jun, Hang-Bae;Lee, Eyung-Taek;Shin, Hang-Sik
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.25-34
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    • 1994
  • In this research, investigations were made on the effect of type and load of organic substrate on phosphorus release. Reactors of three different sizes were operated, being fed on five kinds of organic substrates. The quantitative analyses were made on phosphorus release and substrate utilization under anaerobic condition. The molar ratios of the uptaken organic substrate to the released phosphorus were 0.5 with acetate, 0.6 with glucose, 0.8 with glucose/acetate, and 1.2 with glucose/acids, respectively. The phosphorus release was inhibited at the higher organic load than the normal at stead state. Both acetate and acids/glucose enhanced phosphorus release- as well as uptake-rate, however, the complete phosphorus removal was achieved after the microbial adaptation to the new environment. In case with acetate, operation was hampered by the poor sludge settleability and phosphorus uptake was not enough although the phosphorus release was active. But with milk/starch, the phosphorus release and uptake was well developed even though phosphorus release was not comparatively high. From this study, it was concluded that organic substrates, such as glucose seemed to be converted fatty acids after fast bio-sorption, followed by concurrent uptake of these acids by excess phosphorus removing bacteria.

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An Efficient Parallel Evaluation Algorithm for Fast Fault Simulation (고속 고장 시뮬레이션을 위한 효율적인 병렬 평가 알고리듬)

  • Min Sup Kang
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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    • v.31A no.6
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    • pp.169-176
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    • 1994
  • This paper describes an efficient parallel evaluation algorithm for accelerating fault simulation, which can be applied to combinational circuits. The method is based on a combination of all the advantages in parallel, deductive and concurrent schemes in terms of evaluation and propagation of fautly gates for achieving high performance and handling multi-valued signal. We also propose a new fault grouping procedure to increase parallel operation of fault bits by packing active faults which occur in the same signal line densely into the same fault group. The algorithm has been implemented in C language on a Sun 3/260, and experimental results for ISCAS'85 benchmark circuits have been shown that this algorithm is 2.6 to 8.2 times faster than the conventional cocurrent fault simulation algorithm.

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