• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권8호
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• pp.2879-2888
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• 2023

In fusion environments, large scales of helium (He) atoms are produced by a radical transformation along with structural damage in structural materials, resulting in material swelling and degradation of physical properties. To understand its irradiation effects, this paper investigates the stability, electronic structure, energetics, charge density distribution, PDOS and TDOS, and diffusion processes of He impurities in 6HSiC materials. The formation energy indicates that a stable, favorable position for interstitial He is the HR site with the lowest energy of 2.40 eV. In terms of vacancy, the He atom initially prefers to substitute at pre-existing Si vacancy than C vacancy due to lower substitution energy. The minimum energy paths (MEPs) with migration energy barriers are also calculated for He impurity by interstitial and vacancy-mediated diffusion. Based on its calculated energy barriers, the most possible diffusion path includes the exchange of interstitial and vacancy sites with effective migration energies ranging from 0.101 eV to 1.0 eV. Our calculation provides a better understanding of the stabilization and diffusion behaviors of He impurities in 6H-SiC materials.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.45-52
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• 2005

Interrupted creep tests for investigating the structural degradation during creep were conducted for a Mod.9Cr-1Mo steel in the range of stress from 71 to 167 MPa and temperature from 873 to 923 K. The change of hardness and tempered martensitic lath width was measured in grip and gauge parts of interrupted creep specimens. The lath structure was thermally stable in static conditions. However, it was not stable during creep, and the structural change was enhanced by creep strain. The relation between the change in lath width and creep strain was described quantitatively. The change in Vickers hardness was expressed by a single valued function of creep LCR(life consumption ratio). Based on the empirical relation between strain and lath width, a model was proposed to describe the relation between change in hardness and creep LCR. The comparison of the model with the empirical relation suggests that about 65% of hardness loss is due to the decrease of dislocation density accompanied by the movement of lath boundaries. The role of precipitates on subboundaries was discussed in connection with the abnormal subgrain growth appearing in low stress regime.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권12호
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• pp.4422-4430
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• 2022

Studying the effects of gamma radiation on the instrumentation and control (I&C) system of a nuclear power plant is critical to the successful and reliable operation of the plant. In the accidental scenario, the adverse environment of ionizing radiation affects the performance of the I&C system and it leads to inaccurate and incomprehensible results. This paper reports the effects of gamma radiation on the AT89C51RD2, a commercial-off-the-shelf 8-bit high-performance flash microcontroller. The microcontroller, selected for the device under test for this study is used in the remote terminal unit for a nuclear power plant. The custom circuits were made to test the microcontroller under different gamma doses using a ⁶⁰Co gamma source in both ex-situ and in-situ modes. The device was exposed to a maximum dose of 1.5 kGy. Under this hostile environment, the performance of the microcontroller was studied in terms of device current and voltage changes. It was observed that the microcontroller device can operate up to a total absorbed dose of approximately 0.6 kGy without any failure or degradation in its performance.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제33권10호
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• pp.723-730
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• 2011

본 연구는 토양이나 지하수 원위치 화학적 산화법(In-Situ Chemical Oxidation, ISCO)에서 사용할 수 있는 산화제 Persulfate를 상온에서 활용할 수 있도록 RDX를 처리대상물질로 연구하였다. Persulfate로 RDX를 처리한 결과, 반응은 유사1차반응으로 나타났으며 온도가 증가함에 따라 분해속도도 증가하였고, 이 때 활성화에너지(Activation energy)는 $1.14{\times}10^2kJ/mol$으로 산정되었다. Persulfate에 의한 RDX의 분해반응속도는 pH에 비례하여 증가하였으며, pH값이 4, 6, 8일 때 반응속도의 변화가 크지 않았다. 그러나 pH 10에서는 13배 이상 증가하였는데, persulfate에 의한 산화가 아니라 alkaline hydrolysis로 나타났다. Persulfate에 의한 RDX의 분해반응속도는 persulfate/RDX의 몰 비율에 따라 선형적으로 증가하였으며, $70^{\circ}C$에서 측정한 비례상수는 $4{\times}10^{-4}$ ($min^{-1}$/몰 비율)이었다. 용액 내 천연유기물(NOM) 농도가 증가함에 따라 persulfate에 의한 RDX 분해속도 선형 감소하였으며 $70^{\circ}C$, persulfate/RDX 몰비 10/1에서 측정한 비례상수는 $1.21{\times}10^{-4}$ ($min^{-1}{\cdot}L/mg-NOM$)이었다. 반응속도의 감소는 NOM 첨가량에 선형적으로 비례하였다. NOM 20 mg/L을 첨가한 반응의 Ea값은, 무첨가 반응에서 산정된 Ea값과 3.3% 오차에 불과하였는데, 이는 NOM의 첨가가 본래의 산화반응을 변화시키지는 않음을 의미한다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.571-582
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• 1992

Soybeans were dry extruded at three different temperatures (125, 135 and $145^{\circ}C$) for 30 s. Four lambs fitted with cannulae in the rumen and abomasums were used in a balanced $4{\times}4$ Latin square design. Lambs were fed at 2 h intervals for 12 times a day with automatic feeder to maintain steady state conditions in digestive tract. A dual-phase marker system was used to estivate ruminal flow rate of both liquid and solid digesta. Objectives of this study were to determine the effect of extrusion temperature of raw soybean on the ruminal liquid and solid dilution rate, nitrogen digestion and flow at the abomasum and availability of amino acid in lambs. There were no significant effects of extrusion on liquid and solid dilution rate, and liquid volume. Ruminal liquid flow rate was not influenced by extrusion and ranged from 389 to 435 ml/hr. Extrusion had no influence on ruminal OM digestion and flow rate to the abomasums. Dietary N flow to the abomasums increased (p < 0.05) as extruding temperature increased. Extruding temperature had a significant effect (p < 0.05) on flow of N escaping ruminal degradation and ranged from 34.91 to 57.38%. Microbial N synthesized/kg OMTDR ranged from 27 to 37 g and highest with $145^{\circ}C$ ESB diet. Extrusion decreased the amount of degradable amino acid in the rumen and increased the supply of amino acid to the lower gut, especially with 135 and $145^{\circ}C$ ESB diets.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.1110-1117
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• 2001

Responses of the rumen fungus, Neocallimastix frontalis RE1, to long chain fatty acid (LCFA) were evaluated by measuring gas production, filter paper (FP) cellulose digestion and polysaccharidase enzyme activities. LCFA (stearic acid, $C_{18:0}$; oleic acid, $C_{18:1}$; linoleic acid, $C_{18:2}$ and linolenic acid, $C_{18:3}$) were emulsitied by ultrasonication under anaerobic condition, and added to the medium. When N frontalis RE1 was grown in culture with stearic, oleic and linoleic acid, the cumulative gas production, gas pool size, FP cellulose digestion and enzymes activities significantly (p<0.05) increased at some incubation times(especially, exponential phases of fungal growth, 48~120 h of incubation) relative to that for control cultures. However, the addition of linolenic acid strongly inhibited all of the investigated parameters up to 120 h incubation, but not after 168 and 216 h of incubation. These results indicated that stearic, oleic and linoleic acids tended to have great stimulatory effects on fungal cellulolysis, whereas linolenic acid caused a significant (p<0.05) inhibitory effects on the cellulolysis by the rumen fungus. These results are the first report of the effect of LCFAs on the ruminal fungi. Further research is needed to identify the mode of action of LCFAs on fungal strains and to verify whether or not ruminal fungi have ability to hydrate unsaturated LCFAs to saturated FAs. There was high correlation between cumulative in vitro gas production and fungal growth (94.78%), FP cellulose degradation (96.34%), CMCase activity(90.86%) or xylanase activity (87.67%). Thus measuring of cumulative gas production could be a useful tool for evaluating fungal growth and/or enzyme production by ruminal fungi.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.349-354
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• 1996

생물학적 난분해성 물질인 폴리비닐 알콜(PVA : Polyvinyl alcohol)을 탄소원 및 에너지원으로 이용하는 Xanthomonas campestris J2Y로부터 PVA oxidase를 생산하여 정제하기 위하여 PVA가 탄소원으로 첨가된 배지에서 진탕배양한 배양액을 원심분리한 후 상등액을 10 mM phosphate buffer(pH 7.5)로 평형시킨 DEAE -cellulose를 통과시켜 얻은 분획을 사용하여 DEAE-cellulose와 Sephadex G-150을 이용한 Gel filtration을 통하여 PVA oxidase를 정제하였다. 정제된 PVA oxidase는 polyacrylamide gel 전기영동으로 단일밴드로 확인되었으며 SDS-polyacrylamide gel 전기영동과 Sephadex G-150 column chromatography를 통해 측정한 결과 55,000 daltons 이었다. PVA oxidase의 최적 pH는 7이고 최적온도는 $37^{\circ}C$였다. 열 안정성은 $50^{\circ}C$까지는 70% 이상의 안정성을 나타내었고, pH에 대한 안정성은 5-11에서 비교적 안정하였다. 금속이온에 대한 영향은 $Ag^{2+},\;Hg^{2+},\;Sn^{2+}$ 등에서는 아주 강한 저해를 받았고, $Co^{2+},\;Fe^{2+},\;Zn^{2+},\;Pb^{2+}$에서는 50% 정도의 저해를 받았다. 반면에 $Mn^{2+},\;Cu^{2+}$는 효소활성을 증가시켰다. PVA에 정제 PVA oxidase의 Km치는 $7.04{\times}10\;^2mmol/{\ell}$이었다.

• 한국축산시설환경학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.105-112
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• 2008

돼지분뇨 특성에 따른 기계교반 퇴비화시설의 적정용적 산정을 위하여 돈분 및 톱밥에 함유되어 있는 수분투입량과 발효온도, 유기물 분해율 및 수분감소율 등의 변화를 조사하여 적정 용량을 산정하기 위하여 본시험을 실시하였으며 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 발효조내 온도는 발효조내 혼합물 투입 후 4일 이상 경과해야 발효온도가 $70^{\circ}C$ 이상 유지되었으며, 발효조내 투입되는 혼합물(돈분+톱밥)의 수분함량은 평균 72.9%로 추천치보다 높게 조사되었으나, 적정수분함량 조정은 발효조 27m 지점 즉, 투입후 $5{\sim}6$일후에나 적정 수분 함량이 되었다. 2. 투입되는 열량가는 현물상태에서 평균 1,127.3kca/kg이고 질소, 인산 가리성분은 각각 1.0%, 1.1, 및 0.38%로 조사되었으며 OM/N은 26.3로 조사되었으며 완제품의 수분 함량은 평균 65.3%였으나 겨울철과 나머지 계절간에는 유의적인 차이가 나는 것으로 조사되었다(p>0.05). 3. 퇴비화과정 중의 유기물 분해율은 평균 3.53%였으며, 계절별로는 봄철이 3.88%로 가장 높았고, 가을과 여름은 각각 3.47, 3.52%로 비슷한 경향을 보였다. 그러나 겨울철에는 3.23%로 봄철에 비하여 약 16.8% 정도 분해율이 낮아 퇴비화기간 동안의 수분감소 량의 경우 유의적인 차이가 나는 것으로 조사되었다(p>0.05). 4. 퇴비화시설의 용적 산정에 사용할 인자를 도출하기 위해 앞서 수행한 시험결과에 의거하여 돼지의 성장단계별 분뇨발생량, 계절별 수분증발량, 유기물 감소율, 용적 중 감소율, 톱밥수분량 및 계절별 수분발생량을 산출하였다. 양돈농가에서 돼지의 사육규모가 2000두를 기준으로 하여 용적을 산정시 슬러리 돈사의 경우 적정 퇴비화 용적은 여름철 $281m^3$, 겨울철 $260m^3$으로 약 7.5%($21m^3$) 차이가 났으며, 돈분뇨 및 세정수 등을 포함한 농가의 경우에는 여름철 $412m^3$, 겨울철 $359m^3$로 계절간에는 약 12.9%($53m^3$)의 차이가 나는 것으로 계산되었다. 5. 따라서 양돈농가에서의 기계교반 퇴비화 시설을 이용하여 돈분뇨를 퇴비화 하는 경우 계절별 수거되는 돈분의 수분 함량과 유기물 분해율 및 수분증발가능량 등을 고려하여 퇴비화 용량을 산정하는 것이 바람직하다고 생각된다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집A
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• pp.413-418
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• 2001

Fundamental failure mode in a laminated composite pinned-joint is proposed to assess damage resulting from stress concentration in the plate. The joint area is a region with stress concentrations thus a complicated stress state exists. The modeling of damage in a laminated composite pinned-joint presents many difficulties because of the complexity of the failure process. In order to model progressive from initial to final, finite element methods are used rather than closed form stress analyses. Failure analysis must be a logical combination of suitable failure criteria and appropriate material properties degradation rules. In this study, the material properties which were obtained in previous study, the preparing process of the bearing strength test for a pinned joint CFRP composite plate subjected to in-plane loading at low temperature, and the FEM result of progressive damage model using ANSYS program are summarized to assess the structural safety of CFRP plate used in the magnetic supporting post of KSTAR(Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research).

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.1495-1502
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• 2014

Metarhizium anisopliae is a widely studied model to understand the virulence factors that participate in pathogenicity. Proteases such as subtilisin-like enzymes (Pr1) and trypsin-like enzymes (Pr2) are considered important factors for insect cuticle degradation. In four M. anisopliae strains (798, 6342, 6345, and 6347), the presence of pr1 and pr2 genes, as well as the enzymatic activity of these genes, was correlated with their virulence against two different insect pests. The 11 pr1 genes (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, and K) and pr2 gene were found in all strains. The activity of individual Pr1 and Pr2 proteases exhibited variation in time (24, 48, 72, and 96 h) and in the presence or absence of chitin as the inductor. The highest Pr1 enzymatic activity was shown by strain 798 at 48 h with chitin. The highest Pr2 enzymatic activity was exhibited by the 6342 and 6347 strains, both grown with chitin at 24 and 48 h, respectively. Highest mortality on S. exigua was caused by strain 6342 at 48 h, and strains 6342, 6345, and 6347 caused the highest mortality 7 days later. Mortality on Prosapia reached 30% without variation. The presence of subtilisin and trypsin genes and the activity of these proteases in M. anisopliae strains cannot be associated with the virulence against the two insect pests. Probably, subtilisin and trypsin enzyme production is not a vital factor for pathogenicity, but its contribution is important to the pathogenicity process.