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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GAS-TO-LIQUID (GTL) AS AN ALTERNATIVE FUEL USED IN A DIRECT INJECTION COMPRESSION IGNITION ENGINE

  • Wu, T.;Huang, Z.;Zhang, W.G.;Fang, J.H.
    • International Journal of Automotive Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.421-428
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    • 2007
  • This paper investigates the combustion and emission characteristics of a compression ignition engine fueled with neat and blended Shell's gas-to-liquid (GTL) fuel, which was derived from natural gas through the Fischer-Tropsch process. The experiments were conducted in a 6-cylinder DI diesel engine with pump timing settings of $6^{\circ},\;9^{\circ}\;and\;12^{\circ}$crank angle before TDC over ECE R49 and US 13-mode cycles separately and compared to a conventional diesel fuel. The results show that GTL exhibited almost the same power and torque output, improved fuel economy and effective thermal efficiency. It was found that GTL displayed lower peak in-cylinder combustion pressure and maximum heat release rate (HRR), the timings of the peak pressure and the maximum HRR were generally delayed, and the combustion durations were almost equivalent for diesel and GTL under the same speed-load condition. The results also indicate that, compared to diesel fuel, GTL blends showed a trend forward decreasing four regulated emissions simultaneously and a higher GTL fraction in blends contributing to further reductions in the emissions. In particular and on average, neat GTL significantly reduced HC, CO, NOx and PM by 16.4%, 17.8%, 18.3% and 32.4%, respectively, for all cases.

Band-pass Filter based Artificial Filter Bank for Structural Health Monitoring (구조 건전도 모니터링을 위한 대역통과필터 기반 인공필터뱅크)

  • Heo, Gwanghee;Jeon, Joonryong;Jeon, Seunggon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.25 no.12
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    • pp.843-855
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    • 2015
  • This study developed a band-pass filter based artificial filter bank(BAFB) based on that in order to efficiently obtain the significant dynamic responses. The BAFB was then optimized about the El-centro earthquake wave which was often used in the construction research, and the software implementation of BAFB was finally embedded in the wireless unified management system(WiUMS). For the evaluation of the developed BAFB, a real time dynamic response experiment was performed on a cable-stayed bridge model, and the response of the cable-stayed bridge model was measured using both the traditional wired system and the developed BAFB-based WiUMS. The experiment results showed that the compressed dynamic response acquired by the BAFB-based WiUMS matched significantly with that of the traditional wired system while still carrying sufficient modal information of the cable-stayed bridge. Finally, the developed BAFB was able to reconstruct or re-sample the dynamic response wholly from the compressed response signal, and it can be applied as a new kind of measurement system for a wireless sensor networks based structural health monitoring system that secures both economy and efficiency.

Lessons from the Design of Innovation Systems for Rural Industrial Clusters in India

  • Abrol, Dinesh
    • Journal of Technology Innovation
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.67-97
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    • 2004
  • Practical experience with technology implementation of the upgrading of very small village industries in India suggests that innovation failures are not merely a result of the lack of proper interaction between the users and suppliers of technologies under implementation, but also a result of adoption of the primitive conception of competitiveness in their practice of technology development. The approach of promoting the small producers to become individually competitive by using labour intensive, small-scale intermediate technologies is proving to be totally inadequate for the achievement of technological efficiency in a dynamic sense. Guided by a primitive notion of competitiveness, the suppliers of intermediated technologies are thus being led into limiting their technological efforts in the sectors of direct interest to the rural industrial clusters to the transitional objectives of mainly poverty alleviation. Consequently they have not been able to target the small producers of these village industries for the objectives of business growth. This paper posits that under competitive conditions the self-employed small producer has not only to come together for access to resources, but also has to emerge as a multi-sectoral collective of producers, co-operating in production. With the aim to draw lessons that are generic and have policy implications for the development of innovation systems for local economy based rural industrial clusters and value chains, the author analyses in this paper the experience of innovation in technological systems for the sectors of leather, fruits and vegetable processing and agro processing by the People's Science Movement with the help of the Ministry of Science and Technology and other sectoral ministries in India where rural poor were required to pool the resources and capabilities for raising the scale and scope of their collective production organization.

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지적 영재유아 판별의 절차와 과제

  • 박혜원
    • Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.99-117
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    • 2001
  • This study looked at the validity of assessments of academic giftedness in young children, details of assessment procedures and tasks related to them. It has shown that academic giftedness in young children can be reliably observed and reported by parents and teachers through similar characteristics to older gifted children. But for young preschool children since the potentiality rather than the current performance level is more important to detect and children's abilities are not fully differentiated, more systematic and comprehensive assessments are needed. Parents'and/or teachers' referrals, behavior checklists for the gifted, tests for creativity, short or group forms of standardized tests and finally individualized tests can be used as a comprehensive battery but these methods can be used stepwise for the sake of efficiency and economy. Especially the variability of performance in young children during the rapid developmental phase as well as their vulnerability by situational factors ask for the repeated assessments as regular bases. In this study different measures for gifted young children, specialists' qualification, and procedural guidance were reviewed and the necessity for various screening tools for different programs for the gifted was discussed. Finally it was emphasized that early assessment and following educational arrangement are needed for gifted young children for their optimal development.

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A scheme to increase the speed at which special vehicles enter the expressway (특수차량의 고속도로 진입 속도를 향상시키기 위한 방안)

  • Qin, Zhicong;Pan, Young-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.59-67
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    • 2020
  • Expressway is the main link in promoting the national economic development, which plays a vital part in improving the regional economy and people's living standards, therefore, it is of great significance to accelerate the construction of expressways. However, because it is difficult for the existing system to identify the information of special vehicles quickly, leading to the cumbersome flow of special vehicles passing through the toll station of expressways [1], which brings a certain burden to the work of expressway administrators. The surge in the number of private cars also increased the traffic pressure of toll stations, especially the free expressways traffic policy implemented by the State during holidays, resulting in more frequent traffic jams at high-speed intersections. According to this situation, a intelligent system was created to ameliorate the difficult situation of special vehicle identification on expressways, reduce the congestion at high-speed intersections, and improve the efficiency of staff by data-based means.

Digital Evidence Acquisition Scheme using the Trusted Third Party in Smart Grid Infrastructure (스마트그리드 환경에서 공증기관을 이용한 디지털 증거 수집 기법)

  • Cho, Youngjun;Choi, Jaeduck;Kim, Sinkyu;Seo, Jungtaek
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.319-328
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    • 2013
  • Considerable number of major countries have put great efforts to leverage the efficiency of power consumption using Smart Grid in order to resolve the critical issues with drastical growing demands regarding electricity, the crisis of environmental pollution and so on. There has been increasing number of researches to construct Smart Grid in Korea as well. The threats of cyber terror attacks which might cause national crisises in terms of economy and society have been climbing up because of the fact that Smart Grid employs bi-directional communications embedding the cyber threats from existing/legacy communication networks. Consequently, it is required to build concrete response processes including investigation and analysis on cyber breaches into Smart Grid. However, the digital evidence acquisition techniques do not suffice to be deployed in Smart Grid systems despite of the fact that the techniques, against cyber breaches into well-known networks, have been studied in plenty of time. This work proposes a novel digital evidence acquisition scheme appropriate to Smart Grid systems through intensive investigation of the evidence acquisition requirements in Smart Grid and the historical evidence acquisition methods.

Trend on the Recycling Technologies for the used Manganese Dry Battery by the Patent Analysis (특허(特許)로 본 폐망간전지 재활용(再活用) 기술(技術) 동향(動向))

  • Shon, Jeong-Soo;Kang, Kyung-Seok;Han, Hye-Jung;Kim, Tae-Hyun;Shin, Shun-Myung
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.76-84
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    • 2008
  • There are several kinds of battery such as zinc-air battery, lithium battery, manganese dry battery, silver oxide battery, mercury battery, sodium-sulphur battery, lead battery, nickel-hydrogen secondary battery, nickel-cadmium battery, lithium ion battery and alkaline battery, etc. These days it has been widely studied for the recycling technologies of the used battery from view points of economy and efficiency. In this paper, patents on the recycling technologies of the used manganese dry battery were analyzed. The range of search was limited in the open patents of USA (US), European Union (EP), Japan (JP), and Korea (KR) from 1986 to 2006. Patents were collected using key-words searching and filtered by filtering criteria. The trends of the patents were analyzed by the years, countries, companies, and technologies.

Trend on the Recycling Technologies for Silicon Sludge by the Patent and Paper Analysis (특허(特許)와 논문(論文)으로 본 실리콘 슬러지의 재활용(再活用) 기술(技術) 동향(動向))

  • Jang, Hee-Dong;Kil, Dae-Sup;Chang, Han-Kwon;Cho, Young-Ju;Cho, Bong-Gyoo
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.60-68
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    • 2012
  • Silicon wafer for making semiconductor devices and solar cell is used in the semiconductor and solar industry, respectively. Silicon wafer is produced by cutting with silicon ingot and sludge contains silicon occurs from cutting process. Generation of silicon sludge is increasing on developing all industry sectors which have need of semiconductor device. These days it has been widely studied for the recycling technologies of the silicon sludge from view points of economy and efficiency. In this paper, patents and paper on the recycling technologies of the silicon sludge were analyzed. The range of search was limited in the open patents of USA (US), European Union (EU), Japan (JP), Korea (KR) and SCI journals from 1982 to 2011. Patents and journals were collected using key-words searching and filtered by filtering criteria. The trends of the patents and journals was analyzed by the years, countries, companies, and technologies.

Trend on the Recycling Technologies for Spent Batteries by the Patent and Paper Analysis (특허(特許)와 논문(論文)으로 본 폐전지 재활용(再活用) 기술(技術) 동향(動向))

  • Shin, Shun-Myung;Joo, Sung-Ho;Kim, Soo-Kyung;Cho, Young-Ju;Cho, Bong-Gyoo
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.16-25
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    • 2012
  • There are several kinds of batteries such as zinc-air battery, lithium battery, Manganese dry battery, silver oxide battery, sodium-sulphur battery, lead acid battery, metal hydride secondary battery, nickel-cadmium battery, lithium ion battery, alkaline battery, etc. These days it has been widely studied for the recycling technologies of the used battery from view points of economy and efficiency. In this paper, patents and published papers on the recycling technologies of the used battery were analyzed. The range of search was limited in the open patents of USA (US), European Union (EU), Japan (JP), Korea (KR) and SCI journal articles from 1972 to 2011. Patents and journal articles were collected using key-words searching and filtered by filtering criteria. The trends of the patents and journal articles were analyzed by the years, countries, companies, and technologies.

A Successful Case of the 'Great Admiral Yisunsin Festival' that Integrates 'Chungmugong e-sports Competition' (충무공 해상대전 e-sports대회를 접목한 성웅 이순신 축제의 성공 사례)

  • Lee, Jung-Jun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.127-134
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    • 2011
  • A local festival is to be an essential element for the revival of regional economy and marketing since the management concept have introduced in the local government. Each local government is trying to achieve a maximum of efficiency at short period of time. But, most festival are each similar and common. In Asancity, it was holding the 'Great Admiral Yisunsin Festival' every year in April. It has grown into a representative historical figure festival nationally, but can't get over the limitation of historical figure festival. For differentiation from other festivals, The Asancity developed a online game in collaboration with hoseo university game engineering. The e-sports competition with this game was held, as a result, Many youths whose are a neglected class of people on the festival came in the festival and this e-sports competition has become benchmark for many local governments.