• 제목/요약/키워드: Consumption utility

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유틸리티 절감을 위한 미반응 스티렌 모노머 회수공정의 설계 (Process Design for Recovery of Unreacted Styrene Monomer for Utility Saving)

  • 봉주영;나수진;이광순
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • 제55권1호
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    • pp.54-59
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    • 2017
  • ABS 중합공정 중 잔류 모노머 회수 공정의 유틸리티 사용량 절감을 위한 공정의 개선을 수행하였다. ABS 폴리머 생산 과정 중 잔류 모노머 회수 공정은 제품의 품질 향상을 위해 반드시 필요하다. 잔류 모노머의 회수를 위한 다양한 방식이 있으나, 본 연구에서 대상으로 한 것은 스팀 스트리핑 공정이다. 기존의 스팀 스트리핑은 많은 양의 스팀과 냉각수가 사용되고 있으나, 본 연구를 통해 유틸리티 사용을 절감하는 새로운 방안을 찾고자 하였다. 스트리핑 후 모노머와 함께 배출되는 스팀의 잠열을 진공상태의 수증기로 회수하고, 압축으로 온도를 상승시켜 스트리핑 스팀으로 재사용하도록 함으로써 스팀의 사용을 획기적으로 절감하였다. 또한 모노머 최종 회수 과정에서 발생되는 물을 모노머 응축에 냉각수로 활용함으로써 용수에 대한 사용량도 감소 시킬 수 있었다.

Anti-seismic behavior of composite precast utility tunnels based on pseudo-static tests

  • Yang, Yanmin;Tian, Xinru;Liu, Quanhai;Zhi, Jiabo;Wang, Bo
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • 제17권2호
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    • pp.233-244
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    • 2019
  • In this work, we have studied the effects of different soil thicknesses, haunch heights, reinforcement forms and construction technologies on the seismic performance of a composite precast fabricated utility tunnel by pseudo-static tests. Five concrete specimens were designed and fabricated for low-cycle reciprocating load tests. The hysteretic behavior of composite precast fabricated utility tunnel under simulated seismic waves and the strain law of steel bars were analyzed. Test results showed that composite precast fabricated utility tunnel met the requirements of current codes and had good anti-seismic performance. The use of a closed integral arrangement of steel bars inside utility tunnel structure as well as diagonal reinforcement bars at its haunches improved the integrity of the whole structure and increased the bearing capacity of the structure by about 1.5%. Increasing the thickness of covering soil within a certain range was beneficial to the earthquake resistance of the structure, and the energy consumption was increased by 10%. Increasing haunch height within a certain range increased the bearing capacity of the structure by up to about 19% and energy consumption by up to 30%. The specimen with the lowest haunch height showed strong structural deformation with ductility coefficient of 4.93. It was found that the interfaces of haunches, post-casting self-compacting concrete, and prefabricated parts were the weak points of utility tunnel structures. Combining the failure phenomena of test structures with their related codes, we proposed improvement measures for construction technology, which could provide a reference for the construction and design of practical projects.

Optimal Hourly Scheduling of Community-Aggregated Electricity Consumption

  • Khodaei, Amin;Shahidehpour, Mohammad;Choi, Jaeseok
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • 제8권6호
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    • pp.1251-1260
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    • 2013
  • This paper presents the optimal scheduling of hourly consumption in a residential community (community, neighborhood, etc.) based on real-time electricity price. The residential community encompasses individual residential loads, communal (shared) loads, and local generation. Community-aggregated loads, which include residential and communal loads, are modeled as fixed, adjustable, shiftable, and storage loads. The objective of the optimal load scheduling problem is to minimize the community-aggregated electricity payment considering the convenience of individual residents and hourly community load characteristics. Limitations are included on the hourly utility load (defined as community-aggregated load minus the local generation) that is imported from the utility grid. Lagrangian relaxation (LR) is applied to decouple the utility constraint and provide tractable subproblems. The decomposed subproblems are formulated as mixed-integer programming (MIP) problems. The proposed model would be used by community master controllers to optimize the utility load schedule and minimize the community-aggregated electricity payment. Illustrative optimal load scheduling examples of a single resident as well as an aggregated community including 200 residents are presented to show the efficiency of the proposed method based on real-time electricity price.

Optimal Retirement Time and Consumption/Investment in Anticipation of a Better Investment Opportunity

  • Shim, Gyoocheol
    • Management Science and Financial Engineering
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    • 제20권2호
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    • pp.13-25
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    • 2014
  • We investigate an optimal retirement time and consumption/investment policy of a wage earner who expects to find a better investment opportunity after retirement by being freed from other work and participating fully in the financial market. We obtain a closed form solution to the optimization problem by using a dynamic programming method under general time-separable von Neumann-Morgenstern utility. It is optimal for the wage earner to retire from work if and only if his wealth exceeds a certain critical level which is obtained from a free boundary value problem. The wage earner consumes less and takes more risk than he would without anticipation of a better investment opportunity.

피복의 소비행동과 가정 배경에 관한 실태조사 (A survey on the clothing consumption activity and the home background)

  • 남이경
    • 대한가정학회지
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    • 제25권2호
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 1987
  • The purpose of the study is to researdch clothing consumer behavior of men and women over age of 20 years and to find out the reasonable maximum utility on clothing behavior. The factors are eight distinguished parts such as sex, age, monthly income, occupation, floor space, number of room, number of family and place of residence. A common questionaire is introduced to survey the clothing consumption activity and the home background. Sources to measure them are gathered in the whole country including major cities. The questionaire of 915 correspondents of 368 males and 547 females is investigated for this research. Some of the data are analyzed by correlation, frequency, percentage, mean, and S.D. Others are investigated by ANOVA Test, x2-Test, and Multiple Range Test. The results from the survey are as followings: 1. Only four factors such as sex, monthly income, occupation, and floor space have a significance in the clothing consumption activity. 2. This survey reveals that many cloths have been kept in dead storage and concerns of utility have risen high. 3. This survey has shown that the correspondents have deep concerns about using colthing exchange store, clothing lending store, and trunk room to utilize dead storage clothing efficiently.

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공공임업투자(公共林業投資)에 대한 사회경제적(社會經濟的) 분석(分析)(I) - 사회적(社會的) 할인율(割引率)의 추정에 대하여 - (Socioeconomic Analysis of Public Forestry Investment(I) - On the Estimation of Social Discount Rate -)

  • 장철수
    • 한국산림과학회지
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    • 제81권3호
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    • pp.280-286
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    • 1992
  • 공공임업투자분석(公共林業投資分析)에 있어서 사회적 비용-편익분석법을 사용할 경우 적정 할인율의 선택은 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 공공경제학 부문에서 토론 되고 있는 사회적(社會的) 할인율(割引率)이 소개되며 그의 한가지 척도로서 사회적(社會的) 시간선호율(時間選好率)이 우리나라에 대하여 추정되어졌다. 사용된 모델은 소비에 대한 사회적(社會的) 한계효용탄력성(限界效用彈力性) 계수(係數)와 실질 소비성장율(消費成長率)등 두가지 변수에 기초를 두고 있다. 적용 결과 우리나라의 사회적(社會的) 시간선호율(時間選好率)은 6.2%이며 소비에 대한 사회적(社會的) 한계효용(限界效用) 탄력성계수(彈力性係數)는 -1.38로 나타났다. 이러한 결과들은 합리적인 자원배분정책을 수립하는데 유용한 기초자료로 이용 될 수 있을 것이다.

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Load-Balancing Rendezvous Approach for Mobility-Enabled Adaptive Energy-Efficient Data Collection in WSNs

  • Zhang, Jian;Tang, Jian;Wang, Zhonghui;Wang, Feng;Yu, Gang
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • 제14권3호
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    • pp.1204-1227
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    • 2020
  • The tradeoff between energy conservation and traffic balancing is a dilemma problem in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). By analyzing the intrinsic relationship between cluster properties and long distance transmission energy consumption, we characterize three node sets of the cluster as a theoretical foundation to enhance high performance of WSNs, and propose optimal solutions by introducing rendezvous and Mobile Elements (MEs) to optimize energy consumption for prolonging the lifetime of WSNs. First, we exploit an approximate method based on the transmission distance from the different node to an ME to select suboptimal Rendezvous Point (RP) on the trajectory for ME to collect data. Then, we define data transmission routing sequence and model rendezvous planning for the cluster. In order to achieve optimization of energy consumption, we specifically apply the economic theory called Diminishing Marginal Utility Rule (DMUR) and create the utility function with regard to energy to develop an adaptive energy consumption optimization framework to achieve energy efficiency for data collection. At last, Rendezvous Transmission Algorithm (RTA) is proposed to better tradeoff between energy conservation and traffic balancing. Furthermore, via collaborations among multiple MEs, we design Two-Orbit Back-Propagation Algorithm (TOBPA) which concurrently handles load imbalance phenomenon to improve the efficiency of data collection. The simulation results show that our solutions can improve energy efficiency of the whole network and reduce the energy consumption of sensor nodes, which in turn prolong the lifetime of WSNs.

모바일 패션 쇼핑몰에서 소비가치에 따른 충동구매행동 연구 (The Study of Impulse Buying Behavior according to Consumption Value in Mobile Fashion Shopping Mall)

  • 강은미
    • 한국의류산업학회지
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    • 제17권3호
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    • pp.372-381
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    • 2015
  • This study investigates differences in fashion products attributes, mobile shopping mall attributes, impulse buying behavior, and satisfaction according to mobile shoppingconsumption value. The findings provide new information on marketing strategy for mobile shopping malls. A total of 283 usable questionnaires were obtained from college students. Data were analyzed by frequency analysis, factor analysis, and ANOVA using SPSS 21.0 for Windows. The results were as follows. First, according to the consumption value, consumer were classified into 3 groups: social/functional oriented, indifference and epistemic/emotional oriented. Second, the conspicuous-functional pursuit group considered utility and exhibition more important in regards to fashion products attributes for the consumption value group, the personality pursuit group also considered aesthetics and utility more important than other groups. Third, conspicuous-functional pursuit group considered continuous management more importantin regards to the importance ofmobile shopping mall attributes for the consumption value group, the personality pursuit group considered informationexchange more important than the other groups. Fourth, the conspicuous-functional pursuit group and Personality pursuit group considered impulse purchase behavior more important than the emotionalpursuit group. The conspicuous-functional pursuit group considered satisfaction after impulse purchase behavior more important than other groups.