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A study on Trend Analysis of Housing Design in the Model House (최근 모델하우스에 나타난 주거디자인 경향분석;판교 신도시 모델하우스를 중심으로)

  • Baek, Hye-Young;Kim, Kook-Sun
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.480-483
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the spatial composition and characteristics of model houses that have recently opened in Pangyone ara. Site visit and content analysis were adopted in this study. and the studied model houses developed by nine housing were of particular interest. The major findings indicated that convenience and safety through high tech-related features, environmentally friendly features in response to the growing attention of consumers to indoor air quality, aesthetic building facade and its various floor plan, and a wide range of consumers choice for interior finishes and materials. The new trends provides a flexible wall which makes it possible to manipulate the number of rooms according to the family preference.

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Room temperature-processed TiO2 coated photoelectrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells

  • Kim, Dae-gun;Lee, Kyung-min;Lee, Hyung-bok;Lim, Jong-woo;Park, Jae-hyuk
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.61-65
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    • 2020
  • The depletion of fossil fuels and the increase in environmental awareness have led to greater interest in renewable energy. In particular, solar cells have attracted attention because they can convert an infinite amount of solar energy into electricity. Dye-sensitize solar cells (DSSCs) are low cost third generation solar cells that can be manufactured using environmentally friendly materials. However, DSSC photoelectrodes are generally produced by screen printing, which requires high temperature heat treatment, and low temperature processes that can be used to produce flexible DSSCs are limited. To overcome these temperature limitations, this study fabricated photoelectrodes using room-temperature aerosol deposition. The resulting DSSCs had an energy conversion efficiency of 4.07 %. This shows that it is possible to produce DSSCs and flexible devices using room-temperature processes.

A Study on the Safety and Comfort of Pedestrians according to the Type of Sidewalk Pavement (보도포장의 종류에 따른 보행자의 안전성 및 쾌적감에 대한 연구)

  • Choi, Jae Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.66-71
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    • 2015
  • Safety, resilience and comfort of pedestrian were assessed by the British Pendulum Test and SB/GB factor test at 8 kinds of sidewalk pavement. Sidewalk paving materials were normal concrete, porous concrete, concrete block, soil concrete, asphalt, rubber chip/resin mixture, wood chip/resin mixture and floor tile. In addition, a survey was conducted to investigate the perception of pedestrians on the sidewalk paving material. As a result, while the skid resistance value was measured in the most 60BPN above, the floor tile showed a low value of about 30BPN. The ratios of SB factor to GB factor of the elastic pavements(rubber/resin mixture and wood chip/resin mixture) appeared to be relatively large when compared with those of the conventional sidewalks. The survey showed that respondents perceived as more safe and comfortable elastic pavements compared to conventional pavements. Approximately 50% of respondents answered that hardened soil pavement was the most environmentally friendly.

Dairy wastewater treatment using microalgae for potential biodiesel application

  • Choi, Hee-Jeong
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.393-400
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    • 2016
  • The aim of this study was to evaluate the biomass production and dairy wastewater treatment using Chlorella vulgaris. The results indicated that the maximum percentages of biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus removed were 85.61%, 80.62%, 29.10%, 85.47%, and 65.96%, respectively, in dairy effluent at 10 d. A maximum of 1.23 g/L dry biomass was obtained in 7 d. The biomass productivity was strongly influenced by the nutrient reduction in the dairy effluent. The biodiesel produced by the C. vulgaris in the dairy effluent was in good agreement with the American Society of Testing and Materials-D6751 and European Standards 14214 standards. Therefore, using dairy effluent for microalgal cultures could be a useful and practical strategy for an advanced, environmentally friendly treatment process.

Electrochemical Biosensors based on Nanocomposites of Carbon-based Dots

  • Ngo, Yen-Linh Thi;Jana, Jayasmita;Chung, Jin Suk;Hur, Seung Hyun
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.58 no.4
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    • pp.499-513
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    • 2020
  • Among the many studies of carbon-based nanomaterials, carbon-based dots (CDs) have attracted considerable interest owing to their large surface area, intrinsic low-toxicity, excellent biocompatibility, high solubility, and low-cost with environmentally friendly routes, as well as their ability for modification with other nanomaterials. CDs have several applications in biosensing, photocatalysis, bioimaging, and nanomedicine. In addition, the fascinating electrochemical properties of CDs, including high active surface area, excellent electrical conductivity, electrocatalytic activity, high porosity, and adsorption capability, make them potential candidates for electrochemical sensing materials. This paper reviews the recent developments and synthesis of CDs and their composites for the proposed electrochemical sensing platforms. The electrochemical principles and future perspective and challenges of electrochemical biosensors are also discussed based on CDs-nanocomposites.

The Recent Tendency of Environmentally-friendly Tackifiers

  • Sakurai, Yoshihiro
    • Journal of Adhesion and Interface
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.28-33
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    • 2007
  • It is a main trend not to use organic solvents in the adhesive industry from the recent environmental and safe points of view. For example, water-based, hot-melt, or UV curable adhesives are being investigated. Several different kinds of tackifiers that are formulated in the adhesives in order to give them more functional properties like initial tack and higher adhesion, etc., have been proposed to meet the recent trend. Firstly, the characteristics and fundamental properties of the respective materials are presented. In Japan, the trend to develop the water-based adhesives is most remarkable. While the environmental regulations are getting harder, Arakawa Chemical has been spending a lot of energy for the research, and developed toluene-free and solvent free tackifier dispersions that are presented precisely.

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A Study on the Energy System for Ecological Architecture (생태건축과 에너지시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Si-Woong;Lim, Sang-Hoon
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.23-31
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest an environmentally friendly energy system of ecological architecture, with the reference to foreign cases, judge feasibility of it. The ecological architecture is very similar to the natural ecosystem. There is growing international scientific consensus that human activities are having a discernible effect on the global climate. Therefore, with a precise understanding of the concept of ecological approach and concrete perception of the necessity it, an establishment of planning which recognizes the ecological architecture as a organism a same time, ensures diversity, stability and cycling stemmed from the ecosystem to various activities through a ecological structure shall bring the introduction of substantial ecological architecture into domestic realm. As a result, in this Age of industrial science, We are proposing useful materials and suggestion regarding the ecological architecture planning of korean cities, by preestimating the characteristics of a city heading toward the Age of the new ecological environment.

Green Technology in Concrete Industry : Geopolymer Concrete

  • Nguyen, Khoa Tan;Le, Tuan Anh;Ahn, Namshik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.115-116
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    • 2011
  • TNowadays, the global warming is the most serious problem in the world and the cement industry is one of the factors which are responsible for it. Therefore, the development of new binders with enhanced environment and durability performance is needed. In this regard, the geopolymer technology is one of the breakthrough developments as an alternative to the portland cement. This paper shows some points of view on the development of geopolymers by reviewing previous researches including historical background, constituents of geopolymers, process of geopolymerization and several applications of geopolymer. Hence, the author proposes two research trends which are finding the best combination between the source materials and alkali liquid then, evaluating the corrosion for the metal bars.

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Current Scenario of Gas Scavenging Systems Used in Active Packaging - A Review

  • Gaikwad, Kirtiraj K.;Lee, Youn Suk
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF PACKAGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.109-117
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    • 2017
  • Due to the rise of customer's alertness about fresh foods to health, in the past few years, the consumption of fresh food has increased sturdily. The use of gas scavengers is the most appropriate packaging technologies for fresh, fresh-cut produces and in ready to eat products. The gas absorber/scavenger has ability to protect or stabilize the wanted properties and shelf life of food. The success of gas absorbers in food depends on many parameters such as types of foods, storage temperature, relative humidity, initial gas concentration, and the characteristics of package materials. In this review article, we focus on the most recent research trends in gas scavenging systems used in food packaging, future trends. Intense research from industry and engineers remains important to the development of gas scavenging package that fulfill consumer requirements, enhance product quality, and offer environmentally friendly design and cost-effective application.

Surface Discharge Characteristics in Different Media (이종절연재의 연면절연특성)

  • Shin, Sung-Ha
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.49-54
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    • 2012
  • With the improvement of industrial society, the high quality electrical energy, simplification of operation and maintenance, ensuring reliability and safety are being required. This paper reviews a basic data of the surface discharge characteristics for teflon resin in not only pure $N_2$, $N_2:O_2$ mixture gas and Dry-Air as being focused on environmentally friendly insulating Gas also $SF_6$. Used electrodes are Knife to Knife. With the changing distance of electrodes and pressure, we can find it, surface discharge voltages and surface dielectric strengths, respectively. Surface discharge Voltages of $N_2:O_2=80:20$ mixture gas are more higher than the $N_2:O_2$ Mixture gases.