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The effect of feeding high fat diet to beef cattle on manure composition and gaseous emission from a feedlot pen surface

  • Gautam, Dhan Prasad;Rahman, Shafiqur;Borhan, Md Saidul;Engel, Chanda
    • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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    • v.58 no.6
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    • pp.22.1-22.15
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    • 2016
  • Background: Dietary manipulation is a common practice to mitigate gaseous emission from livestock production facilities, and the variation of fat level in the diet has shown great influence on ruminal volatile fatty acids (VFA) and enteric methane generation. The changes in dietary fat levels influence rumen chemistry that could modify manure nutrient composition along with odor and gaseous emissions from manure management facilities. Methods: A field experiment was carried out on beef cattle feedlots to investigate the effect of four levels of dietary fat concentrations (3 to 5.5 %) on the manure composition and gaseous emissions (methane-$CH_4$, nitrous oxide-$N_2O$, carbon dioxide-$CO_2$ and hydrogen sulfide-$H_2S$) from the feedlot pen surface. The experiment was carried out over a 5-month period from June to October during North Dakota's summer-fall climatic condition. Air and manure sampling was conducted five times at a 20-30 day intervals. Results: Overall, this research indicated that fat levels in diet have no or little effect on the nutrient composition of manure and gaseous emission from the pens with cattle fed with different diet. Though significant variation of gaseous emission and manure composition were observed between different sampling periods, no effect of high fat diet was observed on manure composition and gaseous emission. Conclusions: It can be concluded that addition of fat to animal diet may not have any impact on gaseous emission and manure compositions.

Algorithm for Gaseous Object Segmentation on an Image Plane (기체의 영상 분할 알고리즘)

  • 김원하
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2001.06d
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    • pp.85-88
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    • 2001
  • Unlike rigid objects or This paper developes the algorithm for segmenting gaseous objects on an image plane. Unlike rigid objects or solid non-rigid objects, gaseous objects vary in density even within single-object regions and the edge intensity differs at different locations. So, an edge detector may detect only strong edges and detected edges may be an incomplete parts of an whole object's boundary. Due to this property of gaseous objects, it is not easy to distinguish the real edges of gaseous objects from the noisy-like edges such as leaves. Our algorithm uses two criteria of edge intensity and edge's line connectivity, then applies fuzzy set so as to obtain the proper threshold of the edge detector

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Measurement of Dry Deposition of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Jeoniu (전주지역에서 다환방향족 탄화수소의 건식 침적 측정)

  • Kim, Hyoung-Seop;Kim, Jong-Guk;Ghim, Young-Sung
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.242-249
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    • 2007
  • Deposition fluxes of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were measured at the Chonbuk National University located in Jeonju between June and November 2002. Fluxes of gaseous and particulate PAHs were separately obtained using a water surface sampler (WSS) and a dry deposition plate (DDP). Most of PAHs were deposited in the gaseous form since the low molecular weight PAHs dominates in the atmosphere. The deposition velocity of particulate PAHs was higher than that of gaseous PAHs when the molecular weight was low, but substantially decreased as the fine particle fraction increased with molecular weight. The deposition velocity was generally higher at high wind speeds. However, increase in the deposition velocity in unstable atmospheric conditions was also observed for gaseous PAHs of intermediate molecular weight.

Turbulence Enhancement by Ultrasonically Induced Gaseous Cavitation in the $CO_2$Saturated Water

  • Lee, Seung-Youp;Park, Young-Don
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.246-254
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    • 2002
  • Recent primary concern for the design of high performance heat exchanger and highly integrated electronic equipments is to develop an active and creative technologies which enhance the heat transfer without obstructing the coolant flows. In this study, we found through the LDV measurement that the gaseous cavitation induced by ultrasonic vibration applied to the CO$_2$saturated water in the square cross-sectioned straight duct flow enhances the turbulence much more than the case of non-ultrasonic or normal ultrasonic conditions without gaseous cavitation does. We also found that gaseous cavitation can enhance effectively the turbulent heat transfer between the heating surfaces and coolants by destructing the viscous sublayer.

Sorbent Thermal Desorption/Gas Chromatography/Mass Selective Detection Method for Determination of Gaseous Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Indoor Air

  • Dai, Shugui;Zhang, Lin;Zhu, Tan
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.753-758
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    • 1995
  • Thermal desorption/gas chromatography/mass selective detection method using Tenax cartridges for the determination of gaseous polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons(PAH) is described. Glass fiber filter can collect only PAH in particulate. Gaseous PAH may penetrate the filter. Glass cartridge packed Tenax-GC was uses fur adsorption of gaseous PAH. The air of inhalation zone was collected fur 2-10 hours. Cartridges were thermally desorbed in the reverse direction to sample flow. The desorption conditions were as follows; desorption temperature; $300^{\circ}C$; desorption time; 20min; column head pressure; 30psi; inlet split vent; closed during desorption.

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Estimation of Inlet Air Mass Flow for Air-Fuel Raito Control of Gaseous-Fuel Engines (기체연료 엔진에서 공연비제어를 위한 흡입공기량 추정)

  • 심한섭;이강윤;선우명호;송창섭
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.131-139
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    • 2001
  • Highly accurate control of the air-fuel ratio is important to reduce exhaust gas emissions of the gaseous-fuel engines. In order to achieve this purpose, inlet air mass flow must be measured exactly, and precise engine models are necessary to design engine control systems. In this paper, the effects of water vapor and gaseous fuel that change the air mass flow are studied. The effective air mass ratio is defined as the air mass flow divided by the mixture mass flow, and also it is applied to the estimation of the inlet air mass flow. The presence of the gaseous fuel and the water vapor in the mixture reduces the air partial pressure and the effective air mass ratio of the gaseous-fuel engines. The Experimental results for an LPG engine show that the estimation of the inlet ai mass flow based upon the effective air mass ratio is more accurate than that of the normal air mass flow.

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Combustion of PMMA in Liquid Oxygen Flow

  • Mitsutani, Toru;Ro, Takaaki;Yuasa, Saburo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.03a
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    • pp.180-185
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    • 2004
  • Our previous study showed that although the hybrid rocket engine with swirling gaseous oxygen had high performance, a direct injection of LOX with swirl into the combustion chamber of the hybrid rocket engine lowered the performance of the engine, compared to that with gaseous oxygen. In order to clarify this reason, combustion tests of a small PMMA combustor with an inner port diameter of 2 mm were conducted in liquid oxygen flow by comparison with gaseous oxygen flow. Although the oxygen mass fluxes of LOX were about two orders of magnitude larger than those of gaseous oxygen, the fuel regression rate of LOX were remarkably smaller than those of gaseous oxygen. For both liquid and gaseous oxygen, diffusion flames in the port of the grain controlled the combustion process of PMMA in oxygen flow. These results may be explained by the fact that only small amount of LOX vaporized and consumed in the combustion with PMMA while flowing through the port due to relatively larger latent heat of injected liquid oxygen compared to the heat of release by combustion which depended on the burning surface area of PMMA.

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A Study on Percent Agent in Pipe as a Criterion to Evaluate Limitations and Performance of Gaseous Fire Extinguishing Systems (가스계 소화설비의 제한사항 및 성능평가를 위한 배관 내 약제비율에 관한 연구)

  • Son, Bong-Sei;Kim, Hee-Woo
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2007
  • This study aims to investigate, review, and summarize the definition, development, and applications of "percent agent in pipe", "percent of agent in pipe" which is used as a key factor in testing and evaluating the performance of gaseous fire extinguishing agents, including Halon 1301 and $CO_2$. This study also analyzes and compares the local and international standards on testing and evaluating the performance of gaseous fire extinguishing systems, as well as the results of system performance tests conducted as a part of performance evaluation and approval programs for gaseous fire extinguishing systems, especially, Korean Gaseous Fire Extinguishing System Performance Approval Program called KFI Approval. Percent agent in pipe was defined first in NFPA 12A, Standard on Halon 1301 Fire Extinguishing Systems, dating back to the 1970's. After the phaseout of Halon 1301 systems in 1994 in the developed countries, the percent agent in pipe has been widely used in Halon 1301 alternative clean agent fire extinguishing systems, both halocarbon clean agent systems and inert gas clean agent systems, as an essential criterion to assure the system design accuracy, determine the limitations and performance of a system, and to predict the system performance results accurately, especially, in association with their system flow calculations. Underwriters Laboratories has their own standards such as UL 2127 and 2166 applying percent agent in pipe in testing and evaluating the performance of clean agent fire extinguishing systems. As a part of a system performance test and approval program called KFI Approval System, Korea also has started to apply the percent agent in pipe as a key factor to test, evaluate, and approve the performance of gaseous fire extinguishing systems, including both high and low pressure $CO_2$ systems, from the early 2000's. This study outlines and summarizes the relevant UL and KFI standards and also describes the actual test resultant data, including the maximum percents of agent in pipe for gaseous fire extinguishing systems. As evidenced in lots of tests conducted as a part of the system performance test and approval programs like KFI Approval System, it has been proven that the percent agent in pipe may work as a key factor in testing, evaluating, and determining the limitations and performance of gaseous fire extinguishing systems, especially compared with the hydraulic flow calculations of computer design programs of gaseous fire extinguishing systems, and will remain as such in the future. As one thing to note, however, there are some difficulties in using the unified percent agent in pipe to determine the maximum lengths of pipe networks for gaseous fire extinguishing systems, because the varying definitions used by some of the flow calculations (not in accordance with NFPA 12A definition) make it impossible to do any direct comparison of pipe lengths based on percent agent in pipe.

Application of Gaseous Ozone for Cleaning Biological Weapon Agent Contaminated Building (생물테러시 실내제독을 위한 효율적인 오존가스의 적용 방법)

  • Yoon, Je-Yong;Jeong, Woo-Dong;Mun, Sung-Min;Cho, Min
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.101-108
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    • 2008
  • This study attempted to develop the technology by gaseous ozone for decontaminating building affected by a model of biological weapon agent(Bacillus subtilis spores) instead of Bacillus anthracis spore. The use of ozone is attractive method from a practical point of view of decontamination procedure since it has strong oxidation power but no residue after application. We examined the disinfection efficiency of gaseous ozone to Bacillus subtilis spores which suspension was sprayed on different material surfaces and dried. Three different types of gaseous ozone was applied : dry ozone, dry ozone with humidified air, and water bubbled wet ozone. Dry ozone(1500ppm) failed to achieve any significant inactivation for 2hrs. However, six log reduction of B. subtilis spore was achieved within 30min by 1500ppm of water bubbled wet ozone. This result shows the noticeable inactivation efficiency by gaseous ozone compared with previous studies. Good performance by wet ozone was also found for military material surface.(i.e. : gas mask hood, protective garments, army peinted metal surface).