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Engineering Cellulose Fibers for High-Value Added Products for Pulp & Paper Industry

  • Ko, Young Chan;Park, Jong-Moon
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.47 no.6
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    • pp.22-40
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    • 2015
  • Cellulose fibers is one of the most abundant in nature. It has many distinctive features: abundant in nature, biodegradable, non-toxic, eco-friendly, sustainable, easy to fabricate, hydrophilic, and cost-effective. Cellulose fibers, known as pulp, is produced from cellulose-containing materials by the pulping process. As the raw material, wood has been most commonly used while recycled pulp has been also used to some degree. Thus, pulp usually refers to wood pulp. Generally, the pulp and paper industry is regarded as the commodity market where the cost should be much more important than the quality. It also belongs to a mature market where the growth is slow, or even in decline. Accordingly, technological development has been rather stagnant for the industry. Recently, however, the pulp and paper industry has faced very serious challenges. First, due to digital technology, there has been a steady decline in the need for pulp and paper products. The digital industry has continuously replaced printed products such as books, newspapers, and magazines. Second, there has been a trend initiated by developed countries to limit the use of wood as the raw material for the sake of environmental protection. This forces the industry to find a more efficient use of wood pulp as well as finding alternative, non-wood sources. Third, as an individual becomes wealthier and more conscious of health-care, the quality of a product becomes more important than the cost. Thus, a paradigm shift is needed from the cost-conscientious to the quality conscientious. The objective of this article is to review the technologies aimed at engineering cellulose fibers for producing high-value added paper products.

A Study on Job Stress of Workers at Distribution Industry (유통업 종사자의 직무 스트레스에 관한 연구)

  • Yoon, Hoon-Yong;Park, Jung-Ju
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the job stress factors that were related to the general characteristics, work characteristics, and health characteristics of the workers at distribution industry. The survey of job stress measurement scale for Korean employee which was developed by KOSHA and OSHRI in 2003 was used for this study. Three hundred and fifty workers at distribution industry participated in this study, and among them 326 responses were analyzed for this study due to the unreliability and insincerity of responses. Eight job stress factors like physical environment, self-control for the job, job unsecure, organization system, workplace culture, compensation for the job, relationship to the superior, and job requirement were analyzed. The results showed that the stress because of self control for the job was relatively higher than that of other industry workers. However, the stress because of physical environment, job requirement, job unsecure, organization system and compensation for the job was relatively lower than that of other industry workers. The female workers felt more stress than male workers in compensation for the job and workplace culture factors at distribution industry. The delivery and carrying job workers were more stressful than those of other jobs at distribution industry because of physical environments and self-control for the job. The non-regular job workers were more stressful than regular job workers in many stress factors like self-control for the job, job unsecure, organization system and compensation for the job.

Suggestions for the competitiveness of the Port-Logistics industry in Busan port area - Focus on the port transport industry and port transport related industry -

  • Lim, Dong-Seok;Kwak, Kyu-Seok;Nam, Ki-Chan
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.35 no.7
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    • pp.597-604
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    • 2011
  • An environment of world marine port today is rapidly changing. Importance of a hub port is being maximized along with appearance of a large container ship, and Busan port is also growing with the goal as a hub port of Northeast Asia. Busan port currently has competitive power as the 5th top port in the world, but increase rate of transportation quantity, is low compared to Shanghai port in China and other ports in Northeast Asia. For a port to obtain competitiveness, investment on infrastructures of a port is necessary and also it has close relation with an intraregional port logistics industry. However, a port logistics industry in Busan area has a hard time avoiding a small size due to the government support on major companies. Therefore, this study will analyze difficulties of small port logistics companies and the related companies as to vitalize port logistics industry in Busan area in hopes to help vitalizing regional economy.

Trend Study on Image of Construction Industry and Its Improving Strategy (건설업 이미지 변화 비교 분석 및 개선 전략)

  • An, Sung-Hoon;Gwon, Je-Joong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.471-477
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    • 2016
  • The construction industry is very important to supply the facilities and infrastructure in Korea. However, the images of construction industry are negative in actual. In addition, the studies to improve the images of construction industry up to now have a limitation to research the images about that time. So, in this study, the authors examined and analyzed the peoples' trend changes of the images of construction industry with time. The results showed that the positive images of construction industry about the contribution to national economy and the future prospect are diminished. And it is revealed that the negative images of construction industry about the morality are decreased, too. The authors proposed the strategies to improve the images of construction industry by the based on these results.

A Study of Establishment on the Compressed-Air Foam System (압축공기포 시스템 성능시험 연구)

  • Lim, Woo-Sub;SaKong, Seong-Ho;Lee, Jang-One;Jeong, Jae-Han;Nam, Jun-Seok;Nam, Dong-Gun;Na, Yong-Un;Park, Kyung-Hwan;Lee, Nae-Hun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.506-509
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    • 2011
  • 압축공기 포는 공기포혼합기를 사용하여 약제와 물 그리고 압축공기를 혼합하여 방출하는 방식으로, 물의 확보가 곤란한 장소라도 소화 효율을 높이는 시스템으로서 주목되고 있으며, 현재 해외 선진국에서는 이미 개발되어 상용화 되어있다. 본 연구에서는 국제적 기준에 따른 압축공기포소화설비의 성능평가시험을 위해 미국, 캐나다 등에서 채택한 UL-162 시험방법을 적용하여 시험을 수행하였으며, 그 결과 기존의 포소화시스템과 압축공기포소화시스템의 성능비교시험을 통해 압축공기포가 기존의 포소화방식 보다 소화성능이 우수한 것으로 나타났다.

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