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Variations of Air Temperature, Relative Humidity and Pressure in a Low Pressure Chamber for Plant Growth (식물생장용 저압챔버 내의 기온, 상대습도 및 압력의 변화)

  • Park, Jong-Hyun;Kim, Yong-Hyeon
    • Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.200-207
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    • 2009
  • This study was conducted to analyze the variations of air temperature, relative humidity and pressure in a low pressure chamber for plant growth. The low pressure chamber was composed of an acrylic cylinder, a stainless plate, a mass flow controller, an elastomer pressure controller, a read-out-box, a vacuum pump, and sensors of air temperature, relative humidity, and pressure. The pressure leakage in the low pressure chamber was greatly affected by the material and connection method of tubes. The leakage rate in the low pressure chamber with the welding of the stainless tubes and a plate decreased by $0.21kPa{\cdot}h^{-1}$, whereas the leakage in the low pressure chamber with teflon tube and rubber O-ring was given by $1.03kPa{\cdot}h^{-1}$. Pressure in the low pressure chamber was sensitively fluctuated by the air temperature inside the chamber. An elastomer pressure controller was installed to keep the pressure in the low pressure chamber at a setting value. However, inside relative humidity at dark period increased to saturation level.. Two levels (25 and 50kPa) of pressure and two levels (500 and 1,000sccm) of mass flow rate were provided to investigate the effect of low pressure and mass flow rate on relative humidity inside the chamber. It was concluded that low setting value of pressure and high mass flow rate of mixed gas were the effective methods to control the pressure and to suppress the excessive rise of relative humidity inside the chamber.

A Simple Power Management Scheme with Enhanced Stability for a Solar PV/Wind/Fuel Cell Fed Standalone Hybrid Power Supply using Embedded and Neural Network Controller

  • Thangavel, S.;Saravanan, S.
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.1454-1470
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    • 2014
  • This paper propose a new power conditioner topology with intelligent power management controller that integrates multiple renewable energy sources such as solar energy, wind energy and fuel cell energy with battery backup to make best use of their operating characteristics and obtain better reliability than that could be obtained by single renewable energy based power supply. The proposed embedded controller is programmed for maintaining a constant voltage at PCC, maximum power point tracking for solar PV panel and WTG and power flow control by regulating the reference currents of the controller on instantaneous basis based on the power delivered by the sources and load demand. Instantaneous variation in reference currents of the controller enhances the controller response as it accommodates the effect of continuously varying solar insolation and wind speed in the power management. The power conditioner uses a battery bank with embedded controller based online SOC estimation and battery charging system to suitably sink or source the input power based on the load demand. The simulation results of the proposed power management system for a standalone solar/WTG/fuel cell fed hybrid power supply with real time solar radiation and wind velocity data collected from solar centre, KEC for a sporadically varying load demand is presented in this paper and the results are encouraging in reliability and stability perspective.

A Study on the Flow Characteristics of Sirocco fan (씨로코팬의 유동특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Duck-Gu;Kim, Geon-Il;Jung, Han-Byul;Sul, Jael-Lim;Lee, Heang-Nam;Park, Gil-Moon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.200-204
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    • 2005
  • The sirocco fan is used to get low noise, and it has been applied to a lot of industry field like the heat engine, the fluid instrument power plant, the food industry, environment industry etc... because there are not any problem even it is mixed with a any kind of liquid, gas, and solid. The flow characteristics in sirocco fan are investigated by PIV. The experiment using PIV measurement for Test section's flow characteristics acquired velocity distribution, .Condition : when sirocco fan in automobile air controller maximum 1450RPM, and a revolution is a variation (1)950RPM, (2)1100RPM, (3)1250RPM. The agreement a experiment shows the validity of this study and the results of this study would be useful to the engineers who design for the flow systems for heating, ventilation and air conditioning.

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OpenFlow Network Performance Evaluation under Heterogeneous Traffic (혼합트래픽 환경에서 Open Flow 네트워크 성능 평가)

  • Yeom, Jae Keun;Lee, Chang-Moo;Choi, Deok Jae;Seok, Seung Jun;Song, Wang Cheol;Huh, Jee-Wan
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.12 no.12
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    • pp.46-53
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    • 2012
  • The traffic in research network for the new structure of the network and new service research has the various properties. From the perspective of a specific traffic point of view, transmission of traffic with different requirements using a single routing protocol is an obstacle to satisfy requirements. In this study, we classify the properties of the traffic into two types. We propose the way that we can get the overall optimization effect, the experiment proves it by providing independent multiple forwarding path by applying optimized algorithm by types. In order to distinguish each type of traffic we use the ports on the switch and in order to implement independent path we apply OpenFlow system. In other words, we present the measure that can be implemented to improve the satisfaction of the traffic by making multiple paths by OpenFlow controller according to the type of traffic and by enforcing in Forwarder.

OFEX Controller to Improve Queueing and User Performance in Multi-bottleneck Networks

  • Liu, Jungang;Yang, Oliver W.W.
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.396-406
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    • 2014
  • We have designed and investigated a new congestion control scheme, called optimal and fully explicit (OFEX) controller. Different from existing relatively explicit controllers, this new scheme can provide not only optimal bandwidth allocation but also a fully explicit congestion signal to sources. It uses the congestion signal from the most congested link instead of the cumulative signal from the flow path. In this way, it overcomes the drawback of relatively explicit controllers exhibiting bias toward multi-bottlenecked users and significantly improves their convergence speed and source throughput performance. Furthermore, our OFEX-controller design considers a dynamic model by proposing a remedial measure against the unpredictable bandwidth changes in contention-based multi-access networks. Compared with former works/controllers, this remedy also effectively reduces the instantaneous queue size in a router and thus significantly improves queuing delay and packet loss performance. We have evaluated the effectiveness of the OFEX controller in OPNET. The experimental comparison with the existing relatively explicit controllers verifies the superiority of our new scheme.

Design of Robust FPID Controller and Control Characteristics for Load Frequency Control in Power System (전력시스템의 부하주파수제어를 위한 강인한 FPID제어기의 설계와 제어특성)

  • Moon, Young-Moon;Kim, Hae-Jae;Ahn, In-Mo;Joo, Seok-Min
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1999.11a
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    • pp.28-30
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    • 1999
  • This paper proposes a robust FPID(Fuzzy Proportional Integral Derivative) controller for the LFC(load frequency control) of 2-area power system. The PID gain parameters of the proposed robust FPID controller are self-tuned by PSGM(Product Sum Gravity Method) which is very similiar to human's inference procedures. As the results of simulation, the proposed FPID controller against various load disturbances shows that it is superior to the conventional control techniques such as optimal, PID and fuzzy control in the response characteristics of frequency and tie line power flow.

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A study on EPD(End Point Detection) controller on plasma teaching process (플라즈마 식각공정에서의 EPD(End Point Detection) 제어기에 관한 연구)

  • 최순혁;차상엽;이종민;우광방
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1996.10b
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    • pp.415-418
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    • 1996
  • Etching Process, one of the most important process in semiconductor fabrication, has input control part of which components are pressure, gas flow, RF power and etc., and plasma gas which is complex and not exactly understood is used to etch wafer in etching chamber. So this process has not real-time feedback controller based on input-output relation, then it uses EPD(End Point Detection) signal to determine when to start or when to stop etching. Various type EPD controller control etching process using EPD signal obtained from optical intensity of etching chamber. In development EPD controller we concentrate on compensation of this signal intensity and setting the relative signal magnitude at first of etching. We compensate signal intensity using neural network learning method and set the relative signal magnitude using fuzzy inference method. Potential of this method which improves EPD system capability is proved by experiences.

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a study on UPFC Controller for enhancing the Multi-machine Power System Dynamic Stability (다기 전력 시스템 동적 안정도 향상을 위한 UPFC 제어기에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Hyun;Jung, Chang-Ho;Kim, Jin-O
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2002.07a
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    • pp.93-95
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents the design of a Unified Power Flow Controller(UPFC) for enhancing the small signal voltage stability in the multi-machine power systems. Recently a lot of attention has been paid to the subject of dynamic stability. The paper deals with analysis of eigenvalue sensitivities with respect to parameters of UPFC Controller. The series branch of the UPFC is designed to damp the power oscillation during transients, while the shunt branch aims at maintaining the bus voltage. Comprehensive time-domain simulation studies using Pss/E show that the proposed robost UPFC controller can enhance the small signal stability efficiently in spite of the variations of power system operating conditions.

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Multi-factors Bidding method for Job Dispatching in Hybrid Shop Floor Control System

  • Lee, Seok--Hee;Park, Kyung-Hyun;Bae, Chang-Hyun
    • International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.124-131
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    • 2000
  • A shop floor can be considered as and importand level to develop a Computer Integrated Manufacturing system (CIMs). The shop foor is a dynamic environment where unexpected events contrinuously occur, and impose changes to planned activities. The shop floor should adopt an appropriate control system that is responsible for scheduling coordination and moving the manufacturing material and information flow. In this paper, the architecture of the hybrid control model identifies three levels; i.e., the shop floor controller (SFC), the cell controller(CC) and the equipment controller (EC). The methodology for developing these controller is employ an object-oriented approach for static models and IDEF0 for function models for dispatching a job. SFC and CC are coordinated by employing a multi-factors bidding and an adapted Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) prove applicability of the suggested method. Test experiment has been conducted by with the shopfloor, consisting of six manufacturing cells.

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