• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.231-240
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• 2018

Automobile industry is facing a variety of risks, including the rise of international oil price and the increase of car prices. In addition to the government's deregulation, efforts should be made to improve management aiming at higher production efficiency. In this study, we established a model for evaluating the procurement logistics based on the Fuzzy-AHP-TOPSIS by using the factors that are actually used in real companies aimed at the improvement of procurement logistics. A total of three automobile factories of Company G were chosen as the evaluation subject. In the result of the Fuzzy-AHP analysis that was conducted on a sample of three car factories, solving the long-term quality problems, minimizing the stop time due to the shortage of materials, preventing the of equipment accident, and solving the short-term quality problems were proven to be the most important factors. TOPSIS analysis result indicated that Factory B had the best procurement logistics. Our study has significance that it can contribute to the improvement of efficiency in the automobile industry as the evaluation model suggested in this study can be used for regular evaluation related to the procurement logistics in the future.

• Korean Journal of Poultry Science
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.177-182
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• 2008

This studies were conducted to investigate the effect of holding time of broiler at slaughter house on chicken meat quality. Short holding time ($1{\sim}2hrs $) increased chicken meat quality compared to long holding time ($14{\sim}15 hrs$), which resulted in 14% higher grade $1^+$ chicken. In portioned meat, short holding time ($1{\sim}2 hrs$) resulted in 15% higher incidence of grade $1^+$ chicken breast. Also, long holding time occurred higher PSE incidence of chicken breast. pH value of the chicken meat with short holding time was similar to that with long holding time, and that with medium holding time showed the lowest. $L^*$ (lightness) value of the chicken meat was lower with medium holding time than with short holding time, but that in muscle and skin showed increasing tendency with long holding time. Holding time showed no effect on $a^*$ (redness) of the chicken meat, but longer holding time decreased $b^*$ (yellowness) value. This indicated that long holding time adversely affected chicken meat quality.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.762-767
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• 2009

In this study, the feasibility of using vegetable oil extracted from tropical crop seed as a biodiesel feedstock was investigated by producing biodiesel and analysing the quality parameters as a transport fuel. In order to produce biodiesel efficiently, two step reaction process(pre-treatment and transesterificaion) was required because the tropical crop oil have a high content of free fatty acids. To determine the suitable acid catalyst for the pre-esterification, three kinds of acid catalysts were tested and sulfuric acid was identified as the best catalyst. After constructing the experimental matrix based on RSM and analysing the statistical data, the optimal pre-treatment conditions were determined to be 26.7% of methanol and 0.982% of sulfuric acid. Trans-esterification experiments of the pre-esterified oil based on RSM were carried out, then discovered 1.24% of KOH catalyst and 22.76% of methanol as the optimal trans-esterification conditions. However, the quantity of KOH was higher than the previously established KOH concentration of our team. So, we carried out supplemental experiment to determine the quantity of catalyst and methanol. As a result, the optimal transesterification conditions were determined to be 0.8% of KOH and 16.13% of methanol. After trans-esterification of tropical crop oil, the produced biodiesel could meet the major quality standard specifications; 100.8% of FAME, 0.45 mgKOH/g of acid value, 0.00% of water, 0.04% of total glycerol, $4.041mm^2/s$ of kinematic viscosity(at $40^{\circ}C$).