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Air Pollution Risk Prediction System Utilizing Deep Learning Focused on Cardiovascular Disease

  • Lee, Jisu;Moon, Yoo-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.27 no.12
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    • pp.267-275
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    • 2022
  • This paper proposed a Deep Neural Network Model system utilizing Keras for predicting air pollution risk of the cardiovascular disease through the effect of each component of air on the harmful virus using past air information, with analyzing 18,000 data sets of the Seoul Open Data Plaza. By experiments, the model performed tasks with higher accuracy when using methods of sigmoid, binary_crossentropy, adam, and accuracy through 3 hidden layers with each 8 nodes, resulting in 88.92% accuracy. It is meaningful in that any respiratory disease can utilize the risk prediction system if there are data on the effects of each component of air pollution and fine dust on oil-borne diseases. It can be further developed to provide useful information to companies that produce masks and air purification products.

Properties of Cement Matrix using Carbon Black (카본블랙을 혼입한 시멘트 경화체의 특성)

  • Lee, Jeon-Ho;Lee, Chang-Woo;Lee, Sang-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2021.05a
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    • pp.217-218
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    • 2021
  • With the prolonged Covid-19 epidemic, movement restrictions such as social distancing are prolonged, and as people stay indoors for a longer time, interest in indoor air pollution is increasing. Indoor air quality is not easily purified unlike outdoors. Among indoor building materials, paints and flooring contain formaldehyde that causes sick house syndrome and VOCs that contain carcinogenicity and harmfulness. For modern people who spend a lot of time living indoors for more than an hour, the occurrence of these harmful substances can be said to be fatal. In response to these risks, in July 2019, the government reinforced the standards for indoor air quality to protect the public's health by raising the detection standards for fine dust, ultrafine dust, and formaldehyde in indoor multi-use facilities. People use machines such as air purifiers to improve indoor air quality, or make efforts such as periodic ventilation. In order to reduce or support these other ancillary efforts more effectively, to reduce the generation of pollutants in the building itself, or to adsorb or purify pollutants in the air, use carbon black as an admixture to make a cement hardened body, and to grasp basic physical properties and adsorption capacity. And the result is as follows. As a result of the experiment to determine the appropriate amount of carbon black, it was confirmed that the more the amount of carbon black was added, the better it was in the formaldehyde emission test, but the tendency was not clear when measuring the flexural strength, so a further experiment to improve this is needed.

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Properties of Harmful Substances Absorption Eco-friendly Artificial Stone Containing Basalt Waste Rock (현무암 폐석을 첨가한 유해물질 흡착 친환경 인조석재의 특성)

  • Pyeon, Su-Jeong;Gwon, Oh-Han;Kim, Tae-Hyun;Lee, Sang-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.431-438
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    • 2016
  • Recently, Both rapid economic growth and high-quality native finishing materials demand in buildings such as local infrastructure facilities and cultural facilities have increased along with local quarries. So, increasing local quarries and environmental pollution occurred in quarries get the eyes to damaged area of the surroundings. As an example, carcinogen such as solid formed to fixing asbestos and dust have damaged to local resident. Especially, Radon gas released from asbestos can exist everywhere on earth, released soil and rock as radioactive substances, can be caused lung cancer followed by a smoking. When pollution source to indoor air quality that lacking ventilation rate of the residential building moved in a cycle, human responses such as headache, dizziness, etc. get appear, so on it threatened resident's physical condition. Thus, we need to urgent attention to reduction harmful substance. In the case of radon gas of the pollution source to indoor air quality in housing, it has characteristic that keep on going through half-life released from source, we need to control radon gas source than source removal. We set on vermiculite addition ratio to 10% which has harmful substances adsorption performance, proceed experiment to basalt waste rock addition ratio 50, 60, 70, 80(%). The result of an experiment, based on 'KS F 4035, precast terrazzo', we can be obtainable in the best terrazzo at basalt waste rock addition ratio 70%.

Development of Ozone Generator with using DC Voltage for Swinery (돈사 적용용 DC전압을 이용한 오존발생장치 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 문승일;채재우;이대엽;장기현;정태균
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.77-84
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    • 2003
  • HS, Ammonia, CH$_4$, VOCs, Microorganism, Bacteria etc produced from swineries or henhouses are known to prevent the growth of livestock. Moreover, they give an unpleasant feeling to the workers. In this study, a methodology to remove odors and toxic gases by oxidation of ozone was thus accomplished. However, most ozone generators which use the atmospheric surrounding air have problems of contamination of electrode for discharge. Therefore in this work, a wire-cylinder type plasma reactor with DC voltage has been used both in a laboratory scale test and in the real swinery to solve the existing problems. About 6 cm of electrode gap could decrease the attachment of dusts, humid aerosols and other polymers, which are contained in the air. This compact designed device could produce ozone to oxidize and remove the air pollutants. But the amount of ozone was not large enough to be harmful to human Health. Also, the concentration of ozone was able to be varied by the input voltage. which makes it available for the proposed system to be installed in various kinds of pig houses. With this device, at maximum 43 mg/㎥ (20 ppm) of ozone could be produced at 40 ㎸ input voltage (consumed energy was 0.1 Wh/㎥). A program was also made in this work to calculate the optimum parameters for design of a plasma reactor in wide range of conditions.

A Study on the Environment Conscious Machining Process Using Compressed Dry Cooling Air (건식 저온 압축 공기를 이용한 절삭유 대체형 가공 공정 방식에 관한 연구)

  • 강재훈;송준엽;박종권;노승국
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.06a
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    • pp.129-132
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    • 2003
  • Used cutting fluid from machining processes is harmful to both environment and human health. Chemical substances that provide the lubrication function in the machining process are toxtc to the environment if the cutting fluid is released to soil and water and caused serious health problems to workers who are exposed to the cutting fluid in both liquid and mist form. Recently. cost of using cutting fluid is increasing as the number and the extensiveness of environmental protection laws and regulations increase. Therefore, the use of cutting fluid in machining processes place an enormous burden on manufacturing companies to cover the additional costs associated with their use and protection of our environment. Current trends in manufacturing are focused on minimizing or eliminating the use of metalworking fluids in machining processes. And the increased costs for the disposal of waste products (swarf, coolants and lubricants), especially in industrially developed countries, has generated interest in dry machining. A variety of new techniques are testimony that new technology has rationalized further efforts to research and implement dry machining processes. This paper presents the developed equipment, the process optimization and the applications in the field of surface grinding for the new cryogenic dry machining using a compressed cooling air. The investigated new machining process method shows many advantages compared to conventional techniques with cutting fluid.

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A study on power source characteristic of a dust collector for power factor compensating (역률보상형 전기집진기 전원장치 특성연구)

  • Lee, Dong-Gil;Hong, Ji-Tae;Kim, Ho-Sung;Son, Min-Kyu;Lee, Kyoung-Jun;Kim, Jong-Rak;Kim, Hee-Jea
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2008.07a
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    • pp.1326-1327
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    • 2008
  • Recently, the air pollution is supposed is to be the most serious environmental problem. Therefore, a small air cleaner is asked to make comfortable indoor environment for the moderns who have frequent indoor activity. In this study, without generating of the second pollution source, dust in the air and harmful microorganisms can be removed by the electric dust collecting technology which has high reliability and efficiency to be able to remove the impurities even though it is just 0.01${\mu}m$. Accordingly, power sources of the dust collector use, it is not inefficiency and offering to dust collector unstable. In order to overcome the point at issue, a this study, for power factor compensating use the PFC circuit, for removing the noise use EMI filter and for generating the hight voltage use the Cockcroft Walton Circuit. And we study power source on characteristic and improvement.

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The Effect of Ventilation on VOCs Emission rate during the Bake-out Procedure in Newly Constructed Apartments (신축 공동주택에서 베이크 아웃 시 환기 조건에 따른 마감재에서의 방출량 저감 효과)

  • Park, Dong-Sun;Sohn, Jang-Yeul
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.708-713
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    • 2008
  • Various kinds of contaminant are generated from many kinds of interior construction materials, furniture and life articles. People of today living indoor most of the time are exposed to these kinds of contaminant. In this connection, people are exerting their efforts to reduce the occurrence of contaminant from the interior finish materials. And it is the actual condition that research is being actively made on the method of reducing contaminant by performing bake-out for newly constructed housings. Bake-out is the method of temporarily increasing the generation of the harmful contaminant quantity including VOCs and Formaldehyde emitting from construction materials or finish materials by increasing the interior temperature of the newly constructed buildings or improved or repaired buildings, and then removing it by mobilizing ventilation system. In this study, the researcher measured the effect of reduced concentration according to ventilation or non-ventilation of the newly constructed but not yet resident public housings during the bake-out in order to grasp the effect of reduced interior air contaminant according to the elapse of timeat the time of bake-out.

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Study on the Biological Effects of TSP Collected from the Subway Station with Tradescantia Bioassay (지하철 시설내 부유먼지에 함유된 돌연변이원의 생물학적 영향 평가)

  • Kim, Jin-Kyu;Shin, Hae-Shik;Lee, Jeong-Joo;Kim, Kyun;Lee, Jin-Hong
    • Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.245-252
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    • 2002
  • Airborne pollutants in the subway facilities can be potentially harmful to the health of passengers. This study was designed to examine whether the suspended particulates have mutagenic or carcinogenic effect on the plant cell systems. Total suspended particulates were collected with a high volume air sampler, in the entrance, the waiting room, and the platform of each subway station. The biological end -points in this experiment were the pink mutations in stamen hairs and micronuclei in the pollen mother cells of Tradescantia. The exudates were collected by shaking the filter papers from the sampler in distilled water for 24 hours. All the plant cuttings exposed to the exudates resulted in positive responses. The micronucleus assay proved more reliable and sensitive to the test than the stamen hair assay. The results indicate that the air particulates can give an adverse effect on the health of subway passengers.

Study on Fuel Specificity and Harmful Air Pollutants Factor of Agglomerated Wood Charcoal (시중에 유통되고 있는 성형목탄의 연료특성과 유해인자에 대한 연구)

  • JEOUNG, Taek Yong;YANG, Seung Min;KANG, Seog Goo
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.253-266
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    • 2020
  • This study selected three types of agglomerated wood charcoal (Agglomerated wood charcoal with charcoal powder, Carbonized wood briquette, Ignition-type of perforated charcoal) that are in circulation in Korea among fuel-type wood products and analyzed the fuel characteristics, harmful substance content, and emissions of air pollutants generated by combustion. The first results showed that charcoal-grilled carbon, which is the raw material of charcoal, produced higher CO than saw-billed carbon. The second result is that the emission standards of air pollutants generated by the combustion of molded wood coal are not up to the emission standards of nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides in the entire product, compared with the emission criteria of the atmospheric environment preservation method (based on 2019, carbon monoxide: 200 ppm, nitrogen oxides, 150 ppm sulfur oxides: 100 ppm), but the carbon dioxide moulding and carbon dioxide levels were not up. Based on the analysis of combustion gas generated during combustion derived from this study, future research is needed for comparing with the emission standards of pellets, which are wood products for fuel, among the existing biomass burning standards and for reducing carbon monoxide generated during incomplete combustion of agglomerated wood charcoal.

Domestic Status for Acceptance of Various International Conventions relating to Marine Environment Management (해양환경관리 관련 각종 국제협약의 국내 수용 현황)

  • Kim, Kwang-Soo
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.221-237
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    • 2006
  • Domestic laws such as Korea Marine Pollution Prevention Law which has been made and amended according to the conclusions and amendments of various international conventions, especially by MARPOL 73/78, were reviewed and compared with major contents of international conventions, and several alternative measures for legislating new laws or amending existing laws such as Korea Marine Pollution Prevention Law in accordance with new contents and recent amendments of existing and new international conventions were proposed. Annex VI of MARPOL 73/78 has been recently accepted in Korea Marine Pollution Prevention Law which should be applied to ships which are the moving point sources of air pollution at Sea rather than in Korea Air Environment Conservation Law which should be applied to automobiles and industrial installations which are the line and/or point sources of air pollution in land. International Convention for Ship's Ballast Water/Sediment Management should be accepted in Korea Marine Pollution Prevention Law or by a new law in order to prevent domes marine ecosystem and costal environment from the invasion of harmful exotic species through the discharge of ship's ballast water. International Convention for the Control of Harmful Anti-Fouling Systems on the Ships should be accepted in Korea Marine Pollution Prevention Law which should be applied to ships which are navigating in open sea and coastal waters rather than in Korea Noxious Chemicals Management Law. Basel Convention which shall regulate and prohibit inter-nations movements of noxious chemical substances should be accepted in Korea Marine Pollution Prevention Law in order to prevent the movement and transfer of scrap-purpose tanker ships containing bilge water of oil/water mixtures and chemicals remained on board from advanced countries to developing and/or underdeveloped countries and to conserve global marine environment after all.

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