• 센서학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2024

This study aims to suggest the partition ratio (Q-factor) of healthy Koreans and the comparison results of breath alcohol concentration (BAC) measurements using two methods (photoacoustic and electrochemical methods) for developing breath alcohol ignition interlock devices (BAIIDs). Given the relationship between BACs and BrACs and the Q-factor, the alcohol metabolism of healthy Koreans (96 males and 91 females) is revealed for understanding the digestion of alcohol and surveying the fundamental data of alcohol-related problems, CO₂ concentrations vs. alcohol concentrations, and the performance of alcohol sensors in the marketplace. The average Q-factor of healthy Korean males and females are 1,913 (95% confidence interval from 1,889-1,937) and 1,991 (95% confidence interval from 1,945-2,036). Photoacoustic measurements could be applied to predict the BACs of drinkers, which is confirmed by the Bland-Altman plots presented in this study. The biases based on the partition ratios (Q=1,913 and Q=1,991) in the Bland-Altman plots were -0.0004% (95% CI from -0.0011 to +0.0003% for males) and -0.0017% (95% CI from -0.020 to +0.017% for females).

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.121-132
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• 1982

Engine torque, specific fuel consumption and MBT spark advance of a domestic automotive engine fueled with methanal-gasoline blends or straight methanal were studied under steady state condition and compared to those obtained with gasoline. The effects of adding methanal to gasoline on engine performance were studied with or without any carburetor modification. At first, the engine was operated without any modification. Next, the diameters of metering orifices in carburetor were modified to give the same excess air factor regardless of fuel type under each fixed engine operating condition. Finally, the diameters of metering orifices in carburetor were modified to give the same excess air factor for 15% mixture of methanal in gasoline by volume as for gasoline with standard metering orifices in carburetor. The effects of adding methanal to gasoline on engine torque, specific energy consumption and MBT spark advance can be explained on the basis of change in stoichiometry caused by the addition of methanal to gasoline.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.73-86
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• 2009

The problem of thermal stability of an exothermic reactive viscous fluid between two parallel walls in the plane Poiseuille and Couette flow configurations is investigated for different thermal boundary conditions. Neglecting reactant consumption, the closed-form solutions obtained from the momentum equation was inserted into the energy equation due to dissipative effect of viscosity. The resulting energy equation was analyzed for criticality using the variational method technique. The problem is characterized by two parameters: the Nusselt number(N) and the dynamic parameter($\Lambda$). We observed that the thermal and dynamical boundary conditions of the wall have led to a significant departure from known results. The influence of the variable pre-exponential factor, due to the numerical exponent m, also give further insight into the behavior of the system and the results expressed graphically and in tabular forms.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.311-324
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• 2017

To certificate change in the geochemical characteristics of surface sediments in the main stream of the Nakdong River, surface sediments from 12 sampling sites during the first and second half year (total 24 sampling sites) were collected and analyzed for grain size, ignition loss, total organic carbon and heavy metal content. Surface sediments mainly composed of sand (coarse and medium sand) and fining changed from the first half to the second half of the year. Ignition loss, total organic carbon and heavy metals content increased in the second half of the year. Some heavy metals (Zn, Ni and Cu) were found to be at the lowest effect levels according to Ontario sediment quality guidelines. Additionally, most heavy metals were found to be at the non polluted level and level I according to USEPA sediment quality standards and National Institute of Environmental Research sediment pollution evaluation standard, respectively. The enrichment factor (< 1) and index of geoaccmulation (< 0) were non polluted in the study area. The correlation analysis results showed that ignition loss, total organic carbon and heavy metal content were highly correlated with grain size. Regarding changes in geochemical characteristics of surface sediments in the study area, grain size fine and organic matter and heavy metal content increased in the second half year. Nonetheless these results indicated pollution levels that did not adversely affect the benthos.

• 한국재난정보학회 논문집
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.583-597
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• 2014

난방기기에 의한 화재는 다양한 난방기기의 종류처럼 그 원인도 다양하고. 매년 계속되는 전통재래시장에서의 난방기기에 의한 화재사고가 빈번히 발생하여 인명 및 재산상의 손실을 초래하고 있다. 일반주택이나 아파트 등 대부분의 주거시설은 난방용 보일러가 보급되어 난방기기로 인한 화재가 그리 많지 않으나 식당, 시장의 점포와 사무실, 체육관, 공장, 작업장 등에서는 여전히 석유난로, 전기난로 등 난방기기를 사용 하고 있어 화재의 위험성에 노출되어 있다. 또한 난방용 기기의 발생건수를 살펴보면 가정용보일러, 목탄난로, 석유난로, 가스난로/스토브, 전기스토브/히터 순으로 발생한 것으로 분석되었으며, 인명피해 별 건수는 가스난로/스토브, 석유난로 /곤로, 전기히터/스토브, 연탄/석탄난로 순으로 분석되었다. 또한 가스 및 석유관련 난방용기기가 발생빈도(frequency)는 낮지만 화재강도(intensity)가 높은 것으로 분석 되었다. 따라서 본 연구의 목적은 다중이용시설인 전통재래시장에서 아직도 많이 사용되고 있고, 실제 화재발생사례가 많은 석유난로와 전기스토브에 의한 발화 위험성 즉 최소발화온도, 탄화 정도와 그에 따른 열유속을 정상상태와 비정상상태 하에서의 가연물의 접촉 및 전도로 인한 화재 발생 가능성을 재연하여 검토해 봄으로서 보다 과학적인 화재조사 및 감식 접근방법을 강구하고자 하였다. 재연실험 결과 실험체 2종(석유난로/전기스토브) 모두 양호한 축열 조건이 만들어지지 않는 한 발화위험성은 극히 적은 것으로 나타났지만 탄화의 상태는 각 부위별로 진행되는 것으로 분석되었다. 결국 화재로의 전이는 축열에 의한 발화이므로 최소한 화재장소의 축열 온도조건이 $500^{\circ}C$ 이상일 때 발화되는 것으로 분석되었다. 특히 전기스토브의 발열체인 석영관인 경우 가장 짧은 시간 내(10sec)에 $600^{\circ}C$ 이상의 온도로 급 가열 되어 이때의 열유속은 6.26kW/m2으로 나타나 이는 보온된 PVC케이블이 손상과 함께 인체에는 2도 화상을 입히는 결과를 나타내는 것으로 분석 되었다. 아울러 온도 조건 이외에 거리변화에 따른 열량의 감소분을 나타내는 형태계수(Geometric View Factor)와 화재하중(Fire Load)에 따른 온도 변화도 고려되어야 할 중요한 변수임 알았다. 따라서 이에 관한 세심한 화재조사 및 감식의 매뉴얼이 있어야 할 것으로 사료되며 이러한 실험에 의한 과학적이고 합리적인 노력들이 향후 화재조사 및 감식에 대한 매뉴얼 작성과 이론적 토대를 세우는데 기여하기를 기대한다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.80-87
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• 2002

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is used in spark ignition (SI) engines. Fuel injection rate of an injector is affected by fuel temperature and pressure in LPG liquid injection systems for either a multi-point-injection (MPI) or a direct injection (DI) engine. Even fuel injection conditions are varied, the air-fuel ratio should be accurately controlled to reduce exhaust emissions. In this study, a correction factor fur the fuel injection rate of an injector is derived from density ratio and pressure difference ratio. A compensation method of injected fuel amount is proposed for a fuel injection control system. The experimental results for the LPG liquid injection system in a SI engine show that this system works well fur a full range of engine speed and load condition, and the air-fuel ratio is accurately controlled by the proposed correction factor.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.409-412
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• 2008

This paper presents the effects of excess air factors(0.84${\sim}$0.90) and opened throttle area ratios(AR=0.15${\sim}$0.25) on the emission and performance of a small spark-ignition gasoline engine. The engine used in this paper was a single cylinder, diaphragm carburetor, two-stroke, air-cooled 26cc engine for brush cutter. The rpm, torque, fuel consumption and CO emission were measured under the four different excess air factors and three different opened area ratios conditions on the engine loads respectively. The results showed that the rpm was decreased and torque was increased at increasing load, the maximum power and minimum fuel consumption could be obtained critical rpm on each throttle opened area ratios and brake specific fuel consumption was decreased 13${\sim}$17%, CO emissions was decreased 21${\sim}$38% at excess air factor 0.90 than 0.84.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.211-219
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• 1996

In a small high-speed D. I. diesel engine, the injected fuel spray into the atmosphere of the high temperature is burnt by go through the process of break up, atomization, evaporation and process of ignition. These process are important to decide the emission control and the rate of fuel consumption and out put of power. Especially, in the case of injected fuel spray impinging on the wall of piston cavity, the geometry of piston cavity gives great influence the ignitability of injected fuel and the flame structure. Ordinary, the combustion chamber of driving engine have unsteady turbulent flow be attendant on such as the change of temperature, velocity and pressure. So the analysis of spray behavior is difficult. In this study, the spray was impinged on the wall of 3 types of piston cavity such as Dish, Toroidal, Re-entrant type, in order to analyze the combustion process of impinging spray precisely and systematically. And hot wire probe was used for analyze non-steady flow characteristics of impinging spray, and to investigate the behavior of spray, the aspects of concentration c(t), standard deviation σ(t) and variation factor(vf) was measured with the lapse of time.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2001

This paper presents further investigation into the effect of over-expansion cycle in a spark-ignition engine. On the basis of the results obtained in previous studies, several combinations of late-closing (LC) of intake valve and expansion ratio were tested using a single-cylinder production engine. A large volume of intake capacity was inserted into the intake manifold to simulate multi-cylinder engines. With the large capacity volume, LC can decrease the pumping loss and then increase the mechanical efficiency. Increasing the expansion ratio from 11 to 23.9 with LC application can produce about 13% improvement of thermal efficiency which was suggested to be caused by the increased cycle efficiency. The decrease of compression ratio from 11 to 5.5 gives little effect on the thermal efficiency if the expansion ratio could be kept constant. Thus, the expansion ratio is revealed to be a determining factor for cycle efficiency, while compression ratio is no more important, which suggests the usefulness of controlling the intake charge with intake valve closure timing. These were successfully explained by simple thermodynamic calculation and thus the mechanism could be verified by the estimation.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.170-177
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• 2006

Hydrogen can extend the lean misfire limit to a large extent when it is mixed with conventional fuels for a spark ignition engine. In this study, hydrogen-enriched gaseous fuels by reforming process were simulated according to their proportions of $H_2$, CO, $CO_2$ and $N_2$ gases. Pure hydrogen and two different hydrogen-enriched gaseous mixtures(A-, B-composition) were tested for their basic effects on the engine performances and emissions in a single cylinder research engine. A- and B-composition showed different results from 100% $H_2$ addition because air/fuel mixtures were more diluted by their additions. Even though the energy fraction of reformed gases was increased, combustion stabilities and lean misfire limits were not sensitively improved. It means that combustion augmentation by $H_2$ addition was offset by the charge dilution of $N_2$ and $CO_2$. In addition, the low flammability of CO gas deteriorated thermal efficiencies. CO emission was drastically increased with B-composition which included higher CO component. However, $NO_x$ was reduced as energy fraction($X_e$) rised except for the case of 100% $H_2$ addition at $\lambda=1.2$ and was, for A-composition, lowered to a factor of ten when compared with that of $H_2$ addition. HC emissions were largely influenced by $COV_{imep}$ due to misfire and partial burns.