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Travel Demand and Transportation Cost of Household According to Accessibility to Public Transport and to Service Facilities (대중교통시설과 근린시설의 접근도에 따른 교통이용행태 및 교통비용)

  • Kim, Seong-Gil
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.24 no.6 s.92
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    • pp.65-74
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    • 2006
  • The costs of owning car are accepted as a subscription fee for participating in car-oriented society and only direct out-of-pocket costs of driving are mostly considered, so that the efficient location with better accessibility to service facilities is often under-appreciated. The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of accessibility to public transport and other service facilities on travel demand and transportation cost of household. The residential areas in Hamburg are categorized into 8 types according to level of public transport and other service facilities. The costs of owning and operating car in each residential area are calculated on the base of the household automobile ownership and usage analysed through the actual survey The result of this analysis shows that the transportation cost of household is decreased In proportion to the level of Public transport and other service facilities. This analysis finds the structure of residential area, which economize energy consume and makes household actual transportation cost saying Possible. The result of the analysis can be used as a tool for influencing home locaion choice towards Public transportaion corridors.

Impulse Based TOA Estimation Method Using Non-Periodic Transmission Pattern in LR-WPAN (LR-WPAN에서 비주기적 전송 패턴을 갖는 임펄스 기반의 TOA 추정 기법)

  • Park, Woon-Yong;Park, Cheol-Ung;Hong, Yun-Gi;Choi, Sung-Soo;Lee, Won-Cheol
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.33 no.4A
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    • pp.352-360
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    • 2008
  • Recently Task Group (TG) 4 of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.15a has been recommended a system with ranging capability in existence of multiple Simultaneous operating piconets (SOPs) as well as low-cost, low-power. According to the ranging service, coherent and non-coherent based ranging schemes using ternary code have been adopted as a standard. However it is hard to estimate an accurate time of arrival (TOA) in case of using direct sequence based TOA estimation method because pulse repetition interval (PRI) offered by TG is more limited than the maximum excess delay (MED) of channel. To mitigate inter pulse interference (IPI) problem, this paper proposes a non-coherent TOA estimation scheme using non-periodic transmission (NPT) pattern. The proposed receiver is based on a non-coherent energy detection considering with motivation of low rate wireless personal area network (LR-WPAN). TOA information is estimated via proper comparison with a prescribed threshold after the sliding correlation and search back window (SBW) process for reducing TOA error. To verify the performance of proposed ranging scheme, two distinct channel models approved by IEEE 802.15.4a TG are considered. According to the simulation results, we could conclude that the proposed scheme have performed better performance than the conventional method on the existence of multiple SOPs.

High Throughput Parallel Design of 2-D $8{\times}8$ Integer Transforms for H.264/AVC (H.264/AVC 를 위한 높은 처리량의 2-D $8{\times}8$ integer transforms 병렬 구조 설계)

  • Sharma, Meeturani;Tiwari, Honey;Cho, Yong-Beom
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.49 no.8
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, the implementation of high throughput two-dimensional (2-D) $8{\times}8$ forward and inverse integer DCT transform for H.264 is presented. The forward and inverse transforms are represented using simple shift and addition operations. Matrix decomposition and matrix operation such as the Kronecker product and direct sum are used to reduce the computation complexity. The proposed design uses integer computations and does not use transpose memory and hence, the resource consumption is also reduced. The maximum operating frequency of the proposed pipelined architecture is 1.184 GHz, which achieves 25.27 Gpixels/sec throughput rate with the hardware cost of 44864 gates. High throughput and low hardware makes the proposed design useful for real time H.264/AVC high definition processing.

Electrical properties of n-ZnO/p-Si heterojunction photovoltaic devices

  • Kang, Ji Hoon;Lee, Kyoung Su;Kim, Eun Kyu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2016.02a
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    • pp.306.1-306.1
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    • 2016
  • ZnO semiconductor material has been widely utilized in various applications in semiconductor device technology owing to its unique electrical and optical features. It is a promising as solar cell material, because of its low cost, n-type conductivity and wide direct band gap. In this work ZnO/Si heterojunctions were fabricated by using pulsed laser deposition. Vacuum chamber was evacuated to a base pressure of approximately $2{\times}10^{-6}Torr$. ZnO thin films were grown on p-Si (100) substrate at oxygen partial pressure from 5mTorr to 40mTorr. Growth temperature of ZnO thin films was set to 773K. A pulsed (10 Hz) Nd:YAG laser operating at a wavelength of 266 nm was used to produce a plasma plume from an ablated a ZnO target, whose density of laser energy was $10J/cm^2$. Thickness of all the thin films of ZnO was about 300nm. The optical property was characterized by photoluminescence and crystallinity of ZnO was analyzed by X-ray diffraction. For fabrication ZnO/Si heterojunction diodes, indium metal and Al grid patterns were deposited on back and front side of the solar cells by using thermal evaporator, respectively. Finally, current-voltage characteristics of the ZnO/Si structure were studied by using Keithly 2600. Under Air Mass 1.5 Global solar simulator with an irradiation intensity of $100mW/cm^2$, the electrical properties of ZnO/Si heterojunction photovoltaic devices were analyzed.

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Numerical Analysis on the Increasing Temperature Characteristics of Vaporizer Fin for Liquefied Natural Gas with Super Low Temperature (초저온 액화 천연 가스용 기화기 핀의 승온 특성에 관한 수치 해석)

  • Yi, C.S.;Kong, T.W.;Lee, H.D.;Jeong, H.M.;Chung, H.S.
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.81-87
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    • 2005
  • This study is numerical analysis on the increasing temperature characteristics of vaporizer fin for liquefied natural gas with super low temperature. Existing LNG vaporizers use the direct contact heat transfer mode where the extreme super low temperature LNG of $-162^{\circ}C$ flows inside of the tubes and about $20^{\circ}C$air flows on outside of the fin. Recently, the vaporizers with great enhanced performance compared to conventional type have been developed to fulfill these requirements. The vaporizing characteristic of LNG vaporizer with air as heat source has a fixed iced. These characteristic cause a low efficiency in vaporizer, total plant cost and installing space can be increased. The vaporizing characteristics of LNG via heat exchanger with air are analytically studied for an air heating type vaporizer. This study is intended to supply the design data for the domestic fabrication of the thickness and angle vaporizer fin. Governing conservation equations for mass, momentum and energy are solved by STAR-CD based on an finite volume method and SIMPLE algorithm. Calculation parameter is fin thickness, setup angle and LNG temperature. If the vaporization performance of the early stage and late stage of operating is considered, the case of ${\phi}=90^{\circ}$ was very suitable. In this paper was estimated that the heat transfer was most promoted in case of THF=2mm.

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Perception and action plans for school breakfast program by school nutrition teachers and dietitians in Gyeongbuk province (학교 아침급식에 대한 경북지역 영양(교)사의 인식 및 시행방안에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Hyang;Chung, Hae-Rang;Choi, Young-Sun
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.45 no.4
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    • pp.362-371
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    • 2012
  • This study aimed at investigating the perception and action plans of the school breakfast program (SBP) proposed by nutrition teachers and dietitians at elementary, middle, and high schools in Gyeongbuk province. The survey was carried via questionnaires throughout April to May 2010. Two hundred ten questionnaires were returned (52.5%) and out of the total, 194 were used for analysis. Of the respondents, 73% disagreed and 27% agreed to the implementation of SBP, although most respondents agreed to the importance of eating breakfast in children. The percentage of disagreement was higher among subjects with working experience of 15 years and more, age of 40 years and more, and those who were employed at elementary schools. The primary reasons of disagreement were 'eating breakfast with family is better' and 'it increases the cost of school foodservice'. The respondents preferred students' optional participation (62.9%) over universal participation (37.1%) of SBP. Action plans of SBP, which were proposed by nutrition teachers and dietitians, included direct operating system by the school, food delivery schedule prior to the day of serving, 2-3 hours of preparation time, serving food 50 minutes before the start of classes, and convenient style menu served at the school cafeteria. Efforts to lessen foodservice employees' workload as well as support from school principals and the Office of Education were suggested as prerequisites for a successful SBP implementation.

A High Voltage Poorer Supply for Electrostatic Precipitator with Superimposing Voltage Pulse on DC Source (펄스 및 직류 중첩형 전기집진기용 고전압 전원장치 개발 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Soo;Rim, Geun-Hie;Lee, Sung-Jin;Kim, Seung-Min;Cho, Chang-Ho
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.50 no.12
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    • pp.624-630
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    • 2001
  • The trend of the regulations on environmental issues are getting tight. Responding to this trend new technologies such as moving electrodes, wide pitch and pulsed power supply are also introduced in the electrostatic precipitator(EP) systems. The introduction of wide pitch and moving electrodes enhances the system performance of the EPs by improving air-flow and by improving the ash reentrainment on rapping. The power supplies for the EPs developed up to date include thyristor-based dc or intermittent type, SMPS(switching mode power supply) type and the pulsed-power supply type. The use of the pulsed ones is known to improve dust-collecting efficiency of high resistivity ash and reduces back corona occurrence in the collecting plate. There are two kinds of pulsed-power supplies; one with pulsed transformers and the other with direct dc switching devices. The latter uses rotary spark gap switches or semiconductor switches. Both have the merits and demerits: the spark gap switches are simple and robust but has short life time, hence, high maintenance cost, whereas the semiconductor switches have long life time but are costly. In this study, A high voltage power supply with superimposing voltage pulse on dc source was developed for EPs. This study describes circuit topology, operating principle of the scheme, and analysis of experimental results on Dong-Hae Power Plant. The pulsed power supply consists of a variable dc power supply with ratings of 60kV, 800mA and pulse generator which is made of high voltage thyristor-diode switch strings, an LC resonant tank and a blocking inductor. The pulse generator generates variable pulse-voltage up to 70kV using a high frequency resonant inverter with a variable dc source. Two prototypes were built and tested on 250MW DongHae power plant to verify the possibility of the commercial use and the normal operation in the transient states.

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A Study on the Demand of Development in the Villages of Rural Areas - Focused on the Analysis of Preliminary Plans about Rural Community Development Project - (농촌지역 마을의 개발수요에 관한 연구 -농촌마을종합개발사업 예비계획서 분석을 통해-)

  • Cho, won-seok;Yoo, Young-Mo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.21-28
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    • 2011
  • This paper was able to indicate to the results the following thing that attempted a required potential development demand, through the contents and cost analysis in Rural Community Development Project. Nowadays, Rural Areas comparatively have a lot of development demands related to improvements environmental of residence life and construction of Urban-Rural Exchange Facility, on the other and, there is comparatively a few facilities demands regarding agriculture production. Demand is cold storage facilities and agricultural products direct sale facilities expansion to be able to raise value added of agricultural products as facilities related comparatively a little agriculture production, and an improvement of residence life comparatively has a lot of repair environmental uninhabited house repair, river-front and the roadside, rest shelter creation demands. However, that should be forecasted so that aging of rural, population decrease and development demand is caused by a lot of issues such as maintenances operation of many Urban-Rural Exchange Facilities and a similar program and content has a lot of them in bilateral adjacent zones. Therefore, in the future plan shall attempt efficiency operating facilities and a program through characterization and network of zone so that facilities and program can have complementary relation in the adjacent zones. And item development and an investor are necessary regarding new labor force supply for continuous value maintenance of space and returning to the farm that there were the reverse agriculture production and Amenity which are an rural village. Furthermore, developmental plan of rural village is necessary through the demand analyses that a citizen wishing for things.

A Study on the Profile Design of Sweeping Auger for the Combined Grain Drying and Storage System (일체형 곡물 건조/저장 시스템 개발을 위한 나선형 배출기구의 가변 단면 형상 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Kab-Yong;Oh, Tae-Il;Shin, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.10 no.7
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    • pp.1473-1479
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    • 2009
  • This study have been carried out as a part of R&D project to develop a low cost high efficiency combined grain drying & storage system. The design of sweeping auger must meet the various conditions : capacity and dimensions of silo, discharging capacity of auger, operation conditions of auger such as revolution and rotation and density of grains and even the first-in & first-out of grains in the system. Through the experimental observations with the apparatus which enables the direct observation of discharging behavior of grains, the limitations of the performance of existing straight type auger was observed. Generalized mathematical model for the profile of new variable section sweeping auger was obtained, which ensures the uniform descending of grains and also meets various operating conditions. The experimental results with a prototype sweeping auger showed that the mathematical model for the variable section sweeping auger was quitely correct.

Improvement of the amplification gain for a propulsion drives of an electric vehicle with sensor voltage and mechanical speed control

  • Negadi, Karim;Boudiaf, Mohamed;Araria, Rabah;Hadji, Lazreg
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.661-675
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, an electric vehicle drives with efficient control and low cost hardware using four quadrant DC converter with Permanent Magnet Direct Current (PMDC) motor fed by DC boost converter is presented. The main idea of this work is to improve the energy efficiency of the conversion chain of an electric vehicle by inserting a boost converter between the battery and the four quadrant-DC motor chopper assembly. Consequently, this method makes it possible to maintain the amplification gain of the 4 quadrant chopper constant regardless of the battery voltage drop and even in the presence of a fault in the battery. One of the most important control problems is control under heavy uncertainty conditions. The higher order sliding mode control technique is introduced for the adjustment of DC bus voltage and mechanical motor speed. To implement the proposed approach in the automotive field, experimental tests were carried out. The performances obtained show the usefulness of this system for a better energy management of an electric vehicle and an ideal control under different operating conditions and constraints, mostly at nominal operation, in the presence of a load torque, when reversing the direction of rotation of the motor speed and even in case of battery chamber failure. The whole system has been tested experimentally and its performance has been analyzed.