• Carbon letters
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2016

Lignocellulosic biomass conversion to biofuels such as ethanol and other value-added bio-products including activated carbons has attracted much attention. The development of an efficient, cost-effective, and eco-friendly pretreatment process is a major challenge in lignocellulosic biomass to biofuel conversion. Although several modern pretreatment technologies have been introduced, few promising technologies have been reported. Microwave irradiation or microwave-assisted methods (physical and chemical) for pretreatment (disintegration) of biomass have been gaining popularity over the last few years owing to their high heating efficiency, lower energy requirements, and easy operation. Acid and alkali pretreatments assisted by microwave heating meanwhile have been widely used for different types of lignocellulosic biomass conversion. Additional advantages of microwave-based pretreatments include faster treatment time, selective processing, instantaneous control, and acceleration of the reaction rate. The present review provides insights into the current research and advantages of using microwave-assisted pretreatment technologies for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars in the process of cellulosic ethanol production.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.98-106
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• 2005

The chemical conversion film formed on magnesium alloy was investigated by using the colloidal silica with some parameters such as solution pH. temperature, solution conditions, and treatment time. Moreover. the solutions consisted of colloidal silica titanium sulfate, and cobalt ions were used for the colloidal silica film to having a good corrosion resistance and adhesion properties. It was thought that the film at 298K was made with combination of Si-O. The quantity of film formed at high temperature such as 333K and 353K is smaller than dissolved quantity during chemical conversion treatment. Adding $CoSO_4$ to the colloidal silica solution enhanced the adhesion force between the silica film and magnesium substrate, The optimum conditions for the chemical conversion treatment solution were PH 2.90 s treatment, and 298K.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.261-276
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• 2001

The purpose of this research is to review how Korean KM companies are applying information technology to their operations from the four perspectives of knowledge conversion (KC) and to suggest ideas for introducing appropriate knowledge management implementation methodology through the case studies of Korean KM companies that have adopted knowledge management strategy using information technology. This research was conducted focusing on the cases of companies that are carrying out knowledge management by applying information technology and the result shows that Korean KM companies place high value on the application of information technology in introducing knowledge management. However, the use of information technology is not common to all kind of companies in four kinds of knowledge conversion.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.113-114
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• 2006

In this paper, dual-gate mixer has been designed and optimized to have variable conversion gain for WiBro and WLAN applications and to save power. With the LO power of 0dBm and RF power of -50dBm, the mixer shows 15dB conversion gain. When RF power increases from -50dBm to -20dBm, the conversion gain decreases to -2dB with bias change. The variable conversion gain can reduce the high dynamic range requirement of AGC burden at IF stage. Also, it can save the dc power dissipation of mixer up to 90%.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.30 no.A
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• pp.69-73
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• 2010

In this paper, we designed the RF-DC converter used in wireless power transmission system and studied how to design the RF-DC converter of high conversion efficiency. The RF-DC converter operate at 2.45GHz and the diode is connected with series. The RF-DC converter uses shorted stub for DC loop and matching. We can divide the RF-DC converter circuit into four blocks. The reflection coefficients between the blocks were optimized for the maximum conversion efficiency at 0 dBm input power and $1300{\Omega}$ load impedance. The final design of the RF-DC converter has a 52 percent conversion efficiency.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.535-541
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• 2003

This paper describes numerical analysis of the impulse turbine with fixed guide vanes, a high performance hi-directional air turbine having simple structure for wane energy conversion. A 3-dimensional incompressible viscous flow numerical analysis based on the full Reynolds-averaged Wavier-Stokes equations was made to investigate the internal flow behavior Numerical results ate compared with experimental data. As a result, a suitable choice for the one of design factors has been clarified.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.757-760
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• 1999

Depending upon the existence of the battery, transponder is divided into active and passive transponder. The passive transponder operates without battery and so has no limitation in its operating range and life time. But it needs the RF-DC conversion circuit. In this paper, the analysis and design of the RF-DC conversion circuit in passive transponder operated in high frequency is presented and is confirmed by simulation and experiment.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.676-679
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• 1999

In this paper, we presents a method to control prosody of the synthetic speech using sampling rate conversion technique. In prosody control, the conventional methods perform overlap and add. So the synthetic speech has a distortion and the voice quality is not satisfied. Using sampling rate conversion technique, we can get high Qualify of the synthetic speech. Also we can control various talking speeds according to speaker's patterns.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.31-36
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• 1994

We present a structure of a reflective Fabry-Perot etalon with nonlinear Kerr material (Kerr FP etalon), and report the polarization conversion and the optical bistability of polarization conversion. A device proposed has high polarization conversion ratio, 100% or so, and good/broad optical bistablity for input pump intensity.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.80-86
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• 2005

In this study, we investigated the characteristics of the conversion efficiency and the effect of ageing Diesel Oxidation Catalyst (DOC). The DOC was composed of Warm-up Catalytic Converter (WCC) and Underbody Catalytic Converter (UCC). As the result, the conversion efficiency of THC was 10$\~$50$\%$ on WCC and 30$\~$40$\%$ on UCC .The conversion efficiency of CO was 80$\~$90$\%$ on WCC and remained 10$\~$20$\%$ of CO was purified on UCC. The WCC shows high conversion efficiency on CO. After 20 hours aging process of engine bench, conversion efficiencies of THC and CO were improved a little, because it was activated catalyst surface by 20 hours aging. In case of 80 hours aging, the conversion efficiencies of THC and CO were decreased on WCC. However, the UCC was not affected by aging process .