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The Effects of Micro-Environmental Factors on the House Dust Mite

  • Jo, Wan-Je;Sohn, Jang Yeul
    • Architectural research
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.37-45
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    • 2007
  • The proliferation of the House Dust Mite(HDM) is affected by temperature, humidity, ventilation, etc. Measuring temperature and humidity was performed at the very location where dust samplings take place and where they live in reality together with temperature and humidity of the ambient of the room. There has been discussion over the key environment factor of HDM survival; absolute humidity or relative humidity. It seems that relative humidity is the more important determinant for the mite's survival through the analysis of previous studies. Temperature, humidity, ventilation rate and Der P1 were measured in 4 flats in London. Mite allergen was detected in every house. Levels of Der P1 varied between <100ng/g and 22,778ng/g. Flats with high relative humidity(>50%) and poor ventilation(<0.5ach) showed higher levels of mite allergen than flats with lower humidity and adequate air change rate. Questionnaire survey was conducted and the result helped to confirm the findings from monitoring of environmental factors and the dust sampling.

Effects of Suction Air Humidity on the Combustion and Exhaust Emissions Characteristics in Diesel Engine (디젤기관에 있어서 흡기습도 변화가 연소 특성과 배기배출물 특성에 미치는 영향)

  • 임재근;김동호
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.421-426
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    • 2000
  • A study on the combustion and exhaust emissions characteristics of diesel engine with various suction air humidity is performed experimentally. In this paper, suction air humidity is changed from RH 50% to RH 90%, the experiments are performed at engine speed 1800rpm, and main measured parameters are cylinder pressure, fuel consumption rate, CO, HC, NOx and Soot emissions etc. Increase of suction air humidity from RH 50% to RH 90% does not effect specific fuel consumption, decreases maximum pressure in cylinder, ratio of maximum pressure rise and net heat release, and delays ignition timing. Also, that increases CO and HC emissions, decreases NOx emissions, but does not constant in changing tendency on emission.

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Computational fluid dynamics analysis on the effect of inlet humidity for the performance of PEMFC with serpentine flow-fields (입구 가습량이 고분자 전해질 연료전지의 성능에 미치는 영향에 대한 CFD 해석연구)

  • Oh, Gyu-Hwan;Lee, Kyu-Jin;Nam, Jin-Hyun;Kim, Charn-Jung
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2008.11b
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    • pp.2828-2833
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    • 2008
  • Water management is one of many operating parameters, which influences the performance and stability of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). Local humidity condition including liquid water saturation has profound impacts on the distributions of overpotentials, current density, and membrane water content. Computational fluid dynamics simulations were conducted to investigate the effect of the inlet humidity variation on the performance of a PEMFC of $9\;cm^2$ active cell area with serpentine flow fields. The results showed that the performance of the simulated PEMFC remained at an almost same level when the cathode inlet humidity was changed from 100% to 60%, while reaching its maximum at air humidity of 80%. However, further decrease in the cathode inlet humidity below 40% started to significantly deteriorate the performance of the PEMFC. The variations of overpotentials, membrane water content, etc. due to the change in the cathode inlet humidity were also discussed.

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Oceanography in the Waters Adjacent to Kamchatka and Kurile islands in the Northwestern Pacific - II (북서태평양 명태 어장의 해황 - 2 . 기후의 특성 -)

  • Han, Young-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.17-25
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    • 1977
  • For four calender years (1971-1974), daily observations of weather conditions (air temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, cloud amount, fog, precipitation etc.) at six stations in the north western Pacific Ocean are used to calculate mean monthly values and to check extra-conditions. At Petropavlosk and Miko'skoe, where indicate the characteristics of modified continental climate, the temperature and humidity are high in summer, and Iow in winter. At A Dak and She Mya, where indicate the characteristics of warm current type maritime climate, humidity is high in all season and annual range of air temperature is nearly negligible. At Simusir and Vasi!' eva, where indicate the characteristics of cold current type maritime climate, humidity is high in all season and annual range of air temperature is $15^{\circ}C.$ As dry cooling power is relatively high in winter, working condition on deck is bad. Most of fogs are advection fog in the area of cold current type climate in summer.

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The Study on Cooling Load Forecast of an Unit Building using Neural Networks

  • Shin, Kwan-Woo;Lee, Youn-Seop
    • International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.170-177
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    • 2003
  • The electric power load during the summer peak time is strongly affected by cooling load, which decreases the preparation ratio of electricity and brings about the failure in the supply of electricity in the electric power system. The ice storage system and heat pump system etc. are used to settle this problem. In this study, the method of estimating temperature and humidity to forecast the cooling load of ice storage system is suggested. The method of forecasting the cooling load using neural network is also suggested. The daily cooling load is mainly dependent on actual temperature and humidity of the day. The simulation is started with forecasting the temperature and humidity of the following day from the past data. The cooling load is then simulated by using the forecasted temperature and humidity data obtained from the simulation. It was observed that the forecasted data were closely approached to the actual data.

The Design and fabrication of Capacitive Humidity Sensor Having Interdigital Electrodes and Its Signal Processing Circuit (빗살전극형 정전용량형 습도센서와 그 신호처리회로의 설계 제작)

  • Kang, Jeong-Ho;Lee, Jae-Yong;Kim, Woo-Hyun
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.55 no.1
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    • pp.26-30
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    • 2006
  • For the purpose of developing capacitive humidity sensor having interdigital electrodes, interdigital electrode was modeled and simulated to obtain capacitance and sensitivity as a function of geometric parameters like the structural gap and thickness. For the development of ASIC, switched capacitor signal processing circuits for capacitive humidity sensor were designed and simulated by Cadence using $0.25{\mu}m$ CMOS process parameters. The signal processing circuits are composed of amplifier for voltage gain control, and clock generator for sensor driving and switch control. The characteristics of the fabricated sensors are; 1) sensitivity is 9fF/%R.H., 2) temperature coefficient of offset(TCO) is $0.4%R.H./^{\circ}C$, 3) nonlinearity is 1.2%FS, 4) hysteresis is 1.5%FS in humidity range of $3%R.H.{\sim}98%R.H.$. The response time is 50 seconds in adsorption and 70 seconds in desorption. Fabricated process used in this capacitive humidity sensor having interdigital electrode are just as similar as conventional IC process technology. Therefore this can be easily mass produced with low cost, simple circuit and utilized in many applications for both industrial and environmental measurement and control system, such as monitoring system of environment, automobile, displayer, IC process room, and laboratory etc.

The Design and Fabrication of Capacitive Humidity Sensor Having Interdigit Electrodes and its Signal Conditional Circuitry (빗살형 전극을 가지는 정전용량형 습도센서와 그 신호처리회로의 설계와 제작)

  • Park, Se-Kwang;Kang, Jeong-Ho;Park, Jin-Su
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.144-148
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    • 2001
  • For the purpose of developing capacitive humidity sensor having interdigit electrodes, interdigit electrode was modeled and simulated to obtain capacitance and sensitivity as a function of geometric parameters like the structural gap and thichness. For the development of ASIC, switched capacitor signal conditioning circuits for capacitive humidity sensor were designed and simulated by cadence using 0.25um CMOS process parameters. The signal conditioning circuits are composed of amplifier for voltage gain control, and clock generator for sensor driving and switch control The characteristics of the fabricated sensors are; 1) sensitivity is 9fF/%R.H., 2) temperature coefficient of offset(TCO) is 0.4%R.H./$^{\circ}C$, 3) nonlinearity is 1.2%FS, 4) hysteresis is 1.5%FS in humidity range of 3%R.H. ${\sim}$ 98%R.H.. The response time is 50 seconds in adsorption and 70 seconds in desorption. Fabricated process used in this capacitive humidity sensor having interdigit electrode are just as similar as conventional IC process technology. Therefore this can be easily mass produced with low cost, simple circuit and utilized in many applications for both industrial and environmental measurement and control system, such as monitoring system of environment, automobile, displayer, IC process room, and laboratory etc..

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Design of an Compound Environment Sensing Platform for Sharing Environment Information between Smart Devices (스마트 기기 간의 정보 공유를 위한 복합 환경센서 플랫폼 설계)

  • Song, Byoung-chul;Lim, Seung-ok;Seo, Jeongwook
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2014.10a
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    • pp.543-544
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we present the design of a compound sensing platform to share environment information with other smart devices such as a gateway, a phone, a pad, etc. The proposed compound sensing platform is designed as a single-board hardware to support air temperature and humidity, soil temperature and humidity, solar visible radiation, etc. It sends the measured information to a smart gateway which shares the information with smart phones and pads by Twitter.

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Investigation on Conservation Environment of the Seokguram Grotto (National Treasure No. 24) (국보 제24호 석굴암의 보존환경)

  • Hong, Jung-Ki;Eom, Doo-Sung
    • 보존과학연구
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    • s.24
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    • pp.169-184
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    • 2003
  • Yearly mean temperature and relative-humidity of the Seokguram Grotto was measured $19~23^{\circ}C$, 40~44% from May, 1998 to December,2002. The measurement has little differences comparing to the optimum guideline (temperature : $20^{\circ}\pm2^{\circ}C$, relative-humidity : $50^{\circ}\pm5%$). It is necessary to increase humidity in the Seokguram Grotto during winter because of heating and decrease the temperature during summer because of a higher temperature of outside. In addition, the diurnal range keep in $4^{\circ}C$ of temperature and in 10% of relative-humidity. Yearly mean concentration of $CO_2$(carbon dioxide) was measured538~658ppm that is higher than concentration of normal atmosphere(360 ppm). The $CO_2$ has an cumulative effect on the surface of stone cultural properties as a form of carbonic acid($H_2CO_3$) after reaction with water. HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) system should be operated to maintain ideal state for the preservation according to the optimum guideline. Also, the entrance into the Seokguram Grotto should be controlled to prevent a sudden fluctuation of humidity and temperature. Human could carry small particles like a microdust, microbe, etc., into the Seokguram Grotto and also could damage the surface by a direct touch.

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Experimental Study on Cooling Load Forecast Using Neural Networks (신경회로망을 이용한 일일 냉방부하 예측에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Shin, Kwan-Woo;Lee, Youn-Seop;Kim, Yong-Tae;Choi, Byoung-Youn
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2001.11c
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    • pp.61-64
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    • 2001
  • The electric power load during the peak time in summer is strongly affected by cooling load. which decreases the preparation ratio of electricity and brings about the failure in the supply of electricity in the electric power system. The ice-storage system and heat pump system etc are used to settle this problem. In this study, the method of estimating temperature and humidity to forecast the cooling load of ice-storage system is suggested. And also the method of forecasting the cooling load using neural network is suggested. For the simulation, the cooling load is calculated using actual temperature and humidity. The forecast of the temperature, humidity and cooling load are simulated. As a result of the simulation, the forecasted data approached to the actual data.

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