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A Study on the Applicability of the Conventional TTX Propulsion System on the High-speed Propulsion System for a Deep-underground GTX

  • Park, Chan-Bae;Lee, Byung-Song;Lee, Ju
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.54-59
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    • 2010
  • In order to develop the deep-underground GTX (Great Train eXpress) in domestic, the running performance analysis of the propulsion system by a variety of route condition must be carried out before studying the specification and the development of the high-speed propulsion system with inverter and traction motor. Then it is necessary to study the running resistance properties of the high-speed traction system for the variety of tunnel type and vehicle organization method at first. In addition, the properties of the power requirement of the traction motors needed to maintain the balanced speed of the high-speed traction system are next studied. We need to study properties of the emergency braking distance caused by the highest operation speed of the high-speed traction system and present the fundamental design technologies to develop the high-speed traction system for the deep-underground GTX. Finally, the paper analyzes the applicability of the conventional Korean Tilting Train eXpress (TTX) propulsion system on the high-speed propulsion system for the deep-underground GTX.

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Investigation of Water Droplet Behaviour on GDL Surface and in the Air Flow Channel of a PEM Fuel Cell under Flooding Conditions (플러딩 조건 하에서의 고분자전해질형 연료전지 GDL 표면과 공기극 유로 채널에서의 물방울 유동 특성 고찰)

  • kim, Hansang;Min, Kyoungdoug
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.476-483
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    • 2012
  • Proper water management is crucial for the efficient operation of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell. Especially, for automotive applications, A novel water management that can avoid both membrane dry-out and flooding is a very important task to achieve good performance and efficiency of PEM fuel cells. The aim of this study is to investigate the liquid water behavior on the gas diffusion layer (GDL) surface and in the cathode flow channel of a PEM unit fuel cell under flooding conditions. For this purpose, a transparent unit fuel cell is devised and fabricated by modifying the conventional PEM fuel cell design. The results of water droplet behavior under flooding conditions are mainly presented. The water distributions in the cathode flow channels with cell operating voltage are also compared and analyzed. Through this work, it is expected that the data obtained from this fundamental study can be effectively used to establish the basic water management strategy in terms of water removal from the flow channels in a PEM fuel cell stack.

A Numerical Investigation of Hydrogen Absorption Reaction Based on ZrCo for Tritium Storage (I) (삼중수소 저장을 위한 ZrCo 저장재에서의 수소 흡장에 대한 수치해석적 연구 (I))

  • Yoo, Haneul;Yun, Seihun;Chang, Minho;Kang, Hyungoo;Ju, Hyunchul
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.448-454
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, a three-dimensional hydrogen absorption model is applied to a thin double-layered annulus ZrCo hydride bed and validated against the temperature evolution data measured by Kang et al. The present model reasonably captures the bed temperature evolution behavior and the 99% hydrogen charging time. The equilibrium pressure expression for hydrogen absorption on ZrCo is derived as a function of temperature and the H/M atomic ratio based on the pressure-composition isotherm data given by Konishi et al. In addition, this present model provides multi-dimensional contours such as temperature and H/M atomic ratio in the thin doublelayered annulus metal hydride region. This numerical study provides fundamental understanding during hydrogen absorption process and indicates that efficient design of the metal hydride bed is critical to achieve rapid hydrogen charging performance. The present three-dimensional hydrogen absorption model is a useful tool for the optimization of bed design and operating conditions.

Visualization of Water Droplets in the Simple Flow Channel and Rib Geometry for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) (고분자전해질형 연료전지의 단순 채널 리브 형상에서의 물방울 가시화 연구)

  • Choi, Min Wook;Kim, Han-Sang
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.386-392
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    • 2014
  • The effective water management in a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is one of the key strategies for improving cell performance and durability. In this work, an ex situ measurement was carried out to understand the water droplet behavior on the surface of gas diffusion layer (GDL) as a fundamental study for establishing novel water management. For that purpose, simplified cell including one rib and two flow channels was designed and fabricated. Using this ex situ device, the water droplet emergence through the GDL of the PEMFC was emulated to understand liquid water transport through the porous diffusion medium. Through the visualization experiment, the emergence and growth of water droplets at the channel/GDL interface are mainly observed with the surface characteristics of GDL (SGL 10BA, 24BA) and rib when the liquid water passes through the GDL and is expelled to the flow channel. It is expected that the results obtained from this study can contribute to the better understanding on the water droplet behavior (emergence and removal) in the flow channels of PEMFC.

Adsorption Technology for Bacteria-Based Concrete Coating (박테리아 기반 콘크리트 코팅재 개발을 위한 박테리아 흡착기술 연구)

  • Jeong, Jae-Eun;Yang, Keun-Hyeok;Yoon, Hyun-Sub
    • Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.140-145
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    • 2015
  • This study focused on the development of a fundamental technology for coating of concrete surface using slime produced from bacteria. To assign self-purification ability and improve durability performance of concrete, Rhodobater capsulatus that generates slime were selected and absorption technology for the selected bacteria was then examined. From the production of slime and growth activity of the bacteria, the optimum medium for Rhodobater capsulatus can be recommended as maltose. Furthermore, image analysis showed that high porous resin powder is more effective for absorption of the Rhodobater capsulatus than the other materials tested.

Enhancement of DNA Microarray Hybridization using Microfluidic Biochip (미세유체 바이오칩을 이용한 DNA 마이크로어레이 Hybridization 향상)

  • Lee, H.H.;Kim, Y.S.
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.387-392
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    • 2007
  • Recently, microfluidic biochips for DNA microarray are providing a number of advantages such as, reduction in reagent volume, high-throughput parallel sample screening, automation of processing, and reduction in hybridization time. Particularly, the enhancement of target probe hybridization by decrease of hybridization time is an important aspect highlighting the advantage of microfluidic DNA microarray platform. Fundamental issues to overcome extremely slow diffusion-limited hybridization are based on physical, electrical or fluidic dynamical mixing technology. So far, there have been some reports on the enhancement of the hybridization with the microfluidic platforms. In this review, their principle, performance, and outreaching of the technology are overviewed and discussed for the implementation into many bio-applications.

A New Rectification Scheme for Uncalibrated Stereo Image Pairs and Its Application to Intermediate View Reconstruction

  • Ko, Jung-Hwan;Jung, Yong-Woo;Kim, Eun-Soo
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.26-34
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, a new rectification scheme to transform the uncalibrated stereo image pair into the calibrated one is suggested and its performance is analyzed by applying this scheme to the reconstruction of the intermediate views for multi-view stereoscopic display. In the proposed method, feature points are extracted from the stereo image pair by detecting the comers and similarities between each pixel of the stereo image pair. These detected feature points, are then used to extract moving vectors between the stereo image pair and the epipolar line. Finally, the input stereo image pair is rectified by matching the extracted epipolar line between the stereo image pair in the horizontal direction. Based on some experiments done on the synthesis of the intermediate views by using the calibrated stereo image pairs through the proposed rectification algorithm and the uncalibrated ones for three kinds of stereo image pairs; 'Man', 'Face' and 'Car', it is found that PSNRs of the intermediate views reconstructed from the calibrated images improved by about 2.5${\sim}$3.26 dB than those of the uncalibrated ones.

A fundamental Study on the Performance Improvement of Hwangto plaster (황토미장재 성능개선을 위한 실험적 연구)

  • Hwang, Hey-zoo;Lee, Jong-kuk;Kang, Nam-yi
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.49-56
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    • 2005
  • Recently the Volatile Organic Compound, HCHO, a harmful object spout from the construction materials is made an issue of social problem. Also the appearance of the building where the confidentiality is high was interior air pollution and it was brought about a huge problem. The government research facility and a relation industry sector conducts a many effort to improves like this actual condition. The Diverse ability building material which contains the natural material of the jade, the charcoal and the hwangto instead of the finish material which contains the harmful chemical material, is becoming development and utility. Hereupon the study have carried out research on hwangto plaster that was composed of hwangto and rice straw. The result of test that is deduced by basic proportion is properly appeared with suitable ratio of the hwangto and the sand to 4:6~5:5 by the compressive strength and crack control, workability. The result of test, that adds the rice straw to basic blending for a crack control, appeared with the fact that it is most suitable 3%to add the rice straw that has a length of 0.5cm~2cm. The result of test that plaster over the large size to compare a cement plaster with a hwangto plaster show a similar efficiency by workability. Also it controlled the crack and peeling off actual condition which is discovered from the hwangto plaster of existing perfectly.

Delay Tolerant Information Dissemination via Coded Cooperative Data Exchange

  • Tajbakhsh, Shahriar Etemadi;Sadeghi, Parastoo
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.133-144
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we introduce a system and a set of algorithms for disseminating popular content to a large group of wireless clients spread over a wide area. This area is partitioned into multiple cells and there is a base station in each cell which is able to broadcast to the clients within its radio coverage. Dissemination of information in the proposed system is hybrid in nature: Each base station broadcasts a fraction of information in the form of random linear combinations of data blocks. Then the clients cooperate by exchanging packets to obtain their desired messages while they are moving arbitrarily over the area. In this paper, fundamental trade-offs between the average information delivery completion time at the clients and different parameters of the system such as bandwidth usage by the base stations, average energy consumption by the clients and the popularity of the spread information are studied. Moreover different heuristic algorithms are proposed to control and maintain a balance over these trade-offs. Also, the more complicated case of multiple sessions where each client is interested in an arbitrary subset of sessions is considered and two variants of the basic dissemination algorithm are proposed. The performance of all the proposed algorithms is evaluated via extensive numerical experiments.

Extended Equal Service and Differentiated Service Models for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

  • Zhang, Jianwei;Wang, Yongchao;Xing, Wei;Lu, Dongming
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.228-239
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    • 2013
  • Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have proved the most effective and popular file sharing applications in recent years. Previous studies mainly focused on equal service and differentiated service strategies when peers have no initial data before their downloads. For an upload-constrained P2P file sharing system, we model both the equal service process and the differentiated service process when the initial data distribution of peers satisfies some special conditions. Moreover, we show how to minimize the time required to distribute the file to any number of peers. The proposed fluid-based models can reveal the intrinsic relations among the initial data amount, the peer set size, and the minimum last finish time. The closed-form expressions derived from the extended models can closely approximate chunk-based models and systems, especially for relatively large files. As an application of the extended models, we show how to provide differentiated service efficiently to multiple peer sets. Since no limits are imposed on the upload bandwidth of peers or the size of each peer set, we believe that our analytic process and the results achieved can provide not only fundamental insights into bandwidth allocation and data scheduling but also a helpful reference for both improving system performance and building an effective incentive mechanism for P2P file sharing systems.