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Operating Parameters and Performance of Biotrickling Filtration for Air Pollution Control (대기오염물질 제어를 위한 생물살수여과법의 운전인자와 성능평가)

  • Won, Yang-Soo
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.474-484
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    • 2005
  • Biological treatment is a promising alternative to conventional air pollution control methods. Bioreactors for air pollution control have found most of their success in the treatment of dilute and high flow waste air streams containing volatile organic compounds and odor compounds. They offer several advantages over traditional technologies such as incineration or adsorption. These include lower treatment costs, absence of formation of secondary pollutants, no spent chemicals, low energy demand and low temperature treatment. The most widely used bioreactor for air pollution control is biofilter, but it has several limitations. In the past years major progress has been accomplished in the development of vapor phase bioreactor, in particular biotrickling filters. Biotrickling filters are more complex than biofilters, but are usually more effective, especially for the treatment of compounds which are difficult to degrade or compounds that generate acidic by-products. While the level of understanding of biotrickling filtration process for VOCs still remains limited, the evident success of biotreatment of VOC in air stimulated the pursue of acitve research. This paper presents fundamental and theoretical/practical aspect of air pollution control in biotrickling filter. Special emphasis is given to the operating parameters and the factors influencing performance for air pollution control in biotrickling filter.

Analysis of Factors Influencing the Construction Business Management Success (건설기업의 재무적/비재무적 요인이 경영성과에 미치는 영향분석)

  • Han, Jin-Taek
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.46-54
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    • 2013
  • This research outlined the factors influencing the business management success via analyzing a survey of business principles. The research process has been tested in comparison of both financial factors, which come out of objective data and non-financial factors so relevantly prioritized by combining these factors. In order to specify the factors, a check-list and analyzed essential features of category have been done with interviews and surveys. As consequently proceeding, the authors could deduce that non-financial but analytic factors such as business do-able, technician workability, compensation and benefits etc. play major roles in construction sector. The outcomes consider a construction business as fundamental human labor job as opposed to a manufacture business. On reasoning necessarily more objective research works to be done as developing this research's outcome, it is meaningful in suggesting the pivotal factors influencing the construction business management. Therefore, this research is expected to guide the direction to induce the improvement of business management to be done by further exemplary researches.

High Efficiency GaN HEMT Power Amplifier Using Harmonic Matching Technique (고조파 정합 기법을 이용한 고효율 GaN HEMT 전력 증폭기)

  • Jin, Tae-Hoon;Kwon, Tae-Yeop;Jeong, Jinho
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.53-61
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we present the design, fabrication and measurement of high efficiency GaN HEMT power amplifier using harmonic matching technique. In order to achieve high efficiency, harmonic load-pull simulation is performed, that is, the optimum load impedances are determined at $2^{nd}$ and $3^{rd}$ harmonic frequencies as well as at the fundamental. Then, the output matching circuit is designed based on harmonic load-pull simulation. The measurement of the fabricated power amplifier shows the linear gain of 20 dB and $P_{1dB}$(1 dB gain compression point) of 33.7 dBm at 1.85 GHz. The maximum power added efficiency(PAE) of 80.9 % is achieved at the output power of 38.6 dBm, which belongs to best efficiency performance among the reported high efficiency power amplifiers. For W-CDMA input signal, the power amplifier shows a PAE of 27.8 % at the average output power of 28.4 dBm, where an ACLR (Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio) is measured to be -38.8 dBc. Digital predistortion using polynomial fitting was implemented to linearize the power amplifiers, which allowed about 6.2 dB improvement of an ACLR performance.

Development of Analytical Model to Predict the Inelastic Moment Capacity of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Shear Wall (전단벽 구조물의 모멘트 저항능력에 관한 비탄성 해석모델개발)

  • 홍원기;이호범;변근주
    • Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.123-134
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    • 1993
  • A rapid progress has been made over last decade in the state-of-the-art earthquake structura1 engineering towards a better understanding of both the earthqauke ground motion and structural response. These efforts seek to ensure that there will be no serious injury or loss of life in the event of earthquake, and that structures can be built at minimum cost. The design of structures in general, concrete structures in particular, to resist strong ground input motions is not a simple matter, and analytical models for such structures must be developed from a design perspective that accounts for the complexities of the structural responses. The primary obj ective of earthquake structural engineering research is to ensure the safety of structures by understanding and improving a design methodology. Ideally, this would require the development of an analytical model related to a design methodology that ensures a ductile performance. For the accurate assessment of the adequacy of analytically developed model, experiments conducted to study the inplane inelastic cyclic behavior of structures should verify the analytical approach. The fundamental goal of this paper is to present and demonstrate experimentally verified analytical methods that provide the adequate degree of safety and confidience in the behavior of reinforced concrete structural components. This study further attempts to extend the developed modeling techruque for use by practicing structural engineers for both the analysis and design.Plication of the relaxed diaphragm through left thoracotomy was done and result was excellent as seen on Fig. 5. Cause of eventration of the left hemidiaphragm was due to paralysis of the left phrenic nerve which was tested during thoracotomy.

A Relationship study between the internal marketing-related organizational factors in construction companies and corporate performance - Surveyed by executives and employees in Contractor - (건설기업 내부마케팅 구성요인과 기업성과 간의 관계 연구 - 시공사 임직원을 대상으로 -)

  • Lee, Jong-Sun;Park, Soon-Kyu
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.65-77
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    • 2013
  • Recent economic slump is making the construction industry's overall construction business environment worse. Contractors which are under the legal management and/or walk out are to the brink of 25 companies according to the Construction association of Korea released in 2011. It means that existing construction companies are required to transform the fundamental ideology of existing operation framework, and besides, existing companies should be transformed to service industry in order to proceed further into the developing future industries. In this study, it will be chosen the internal marketing related factor like 'Satisfying employees, internal customer, are the first thing to do in order to satisfy external customer.' which is about existing service industry field before its implementation in construction companies. In addition, appropriateness test will be performed including both interactions between each of the factors affect mutually and looking into any management improvement effects on contractors. And also, this proposal is suggested by approaching with internal marketing strategy which is both paradigm shift for customers by construction company members and another internal communication way as a means of overcoming the crisis of overall construction industry under currently happening.

Advanced Lane Change Assist System for Automatic Vehicle Control in Merging Sections : An algorithm for Optimal Lane Change Start Point Positioning (고속도로 합류구간 첨단 차로변경 보조 시스템 개발 : 최적 차로변경 시작 지점 Positioning 알고리즘)

  • Kim, Jinsoo;Jeong, Jin-han;You, Sung-Hyun;Park, Janhg-Hyon;Young, Jhang-Kyung
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.9-23
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    • 2015
  • A lane change maneuver which has a high driver cognitive workload and skills sometimes leads to severe traffic accidents. In this study, the Advanced Lane Change Assist System (ALCAS) was developed to assist with the automatic lane changes in merging sections which is mainly based on an automatic control algorithm for detecting an available gap, determining the Optimal Lane Change Start Point (OLCSP) in various traffic conditions, and positioning the merging vehicle at the OLCSP safely by longitudinal automatic controlling. The analysis of lane change behavior and modeling of fundamental lane change feature were performed for determining the default parameters and the boundary conditions of the algorithm. The algorithm was composed of six steps with closed-loop. In order to confirm the algorithm performance, numerical scenario tests were performed in various surrounding vehicles conditions. Moreover, feasibility of the developed system was verified in microscopic traffic simulation(VISSIM 5.3 version). The results showed that merging vehicles using the system had a tendency to find the OLCSP readily and precisely, so improved merging performance was observed when the system was applied. The system is also effective even during increases in vehicle volume of the mainline.

Fundamental Study on the Strength Development of Cement Paste using Hardening Accelerator and High-Early-Strength Cement (경화촉진제와 조강시멘트를 사용한 시멘트 페이스트의 강도발현에 대한 기초적 연구)

  • Min, Tae-Beom;Cho, In-Sung;Lee, Han-Seung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.407-415
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this research is to verify the performance of hardening accelerator in cement paste through mechanical performance evaluation and micro structure analysis on hardening accelerator for development of super high early strength concrete. The research results showed that hardening accelerator produced $Ca(OH)_2$ when hydrated with cement, enhancing the degree of saturation of Ca ion by using differential thermal analysis. Moreover, porosity was reduced rapidly as capillary pores were filled by hydration products of $C_3S$. According to the experiment using hydration measurement testing, when 1% and 3% of accelerator were mixed, hydration rate increased toward the second peak point compared to high early strength cement, before the first peak point disappeared. It turned out that adding accelerator accelerated the hydration rate of cement, especially $C_3S$. The shape of C-S-H is shown depending on the amounts of accelerator added and the production and age of $Ca(OH)_2$ by using SEM to observes hydration products. Therefore, it's evident that hardening accelerator used in this research increases amounts of $Ca(OH)_2$ and accelerates $C_3S$, it is effective for the strength development on early age.

A study of Mechanical Properties of Hot Mix Asphalt for Developing of Quiet Pavement (저소음 포장체 개발을 위한 아스팔트 혼합물의 역학적 특성 연구)

  • Lee, Kwan-Ho;Jeong, Tae-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2009
  • Our domestic economy has been developed very rapidly after 1960's. Also, it is dramatically increasing traffic on road and surround environmental issues. Especially, rapid economic growth has been induced large construction of pavement, and bigger and higher traffic for transportation. These are making air pollution, traffic noise and vibration. The social requirement against the revealed road environment and traffic sound reduction is being demanded. Traffic noise of city zone is showed over the environmental specification more than 57%. In order to overcome these situations, the social attention is being increased. The quiet pavement is the same format of permeable pavement, but is not same for functional performance. In this research, it has been carried out to evaluate the fundamental-mechanical properties of hot mix asphalt for quiet pavement. Especially, couple of laboratory tests are conducted like marshall stability, resilient modulus, indirect tensile test, and compaction energy analysis with gyratory compaction curve. Also, two-layer pavement system has been adopted for developing of quiet pavement. The basic performance of hot mix asphalt of quiet pavement show a satisfaction of specification of hot mix asphalt.

Feature Extraction Algorithm for Distant Unmmaned Aerial Vehicle Detection (원거리 무인기 신호 식별을 위한 특징추출 알고리즘)

  • Kim, Juho;Lee, Kibae;Bae, Jinho;Lee, Chong Hyun
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.53 no.3
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    • pp.114-123
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    • 2016
  • The effective feature extraction method for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) detection is proposed and verified in this paper. The UAV engine sound is harmonic complex tone whose frequency ratio is integer and its variation is continuous in time. Using these characteristic, we propose the feature vector composed of a mean and standard deviation of difference value between fundamental frequency with 1st overtone as well as mean variation of their frequency. It was revealed by simulation that the suggested feature vector has excellent discrimination in target signal identification from various interfering signals including frequency variation with time. By comparing Fisher scores, three features based on frequency show outstanding discrimination of measured UAV signals with low signal to noise ratio (SNR). Detection performance with simulated interference signal is compared by MFCC by using ELM classifier and the suggested feature vector shows 37.6% of performance improvement As the SNR increases with time, the proposed feature can detect the target signal ahead of MFCC that needs 4.5 dB higher signal power to detect the target.

A Study on the Classification of Recreation Forests in Korea (한국의 자연휴양림 유형구분에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Ahn-Seong;Shin, Dong-Hun
    • International Area Studies Review
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.583-603
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    • 2011
  • This study was designed to comprehensively understand and separate the characteristics of recreation forests of Korea through the multi-variate analysis for the provision of fundamental materials for recreation forests development policies and planning, and attempted to evaluate on the validity of classification of recreation forests, which has never been performed before. According to analysis results, recreation forests could be divided into 4 types; type I(recreation forests whose ecological nature status is not good, but the risk of calamity is low and accessibility is good), type II(recreation forests whose the risk of calamity is low, but ecological nature status is not good, slope is steep, and accessibility is poor), type III(recreation forests that have charming vegetation and landscape, various rest opportunity, and a gentle slope, but poor accessibility), and type IV(recreation forests that ecological nature status is good, but have poor landscape, less rest opportunity, and a steep slope). Also, each type was adjusted as follows; type I($25{\rightarrow}24$ reviews), type II($25{\rightarrow}26$ reviews), type III($17{\rightarrow}16$ reviews), and type IV($25{\rightarrow}25$ reviews). This study can be said to show the usability of validation of classified types, which was not done before. It is clear that the classification of recreation forests increases the efficiency in policy making and performance. Furthermore, by validating the separated types, we could expect high efficiency in policy making and performance on planned recreation forests in the future.