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Life-Cycle Assessment of Technological Processes

  • Graedel, T.E.
    • Clean Technology
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.44-50
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    • 1996
  • "Pollution prevention" is an important and appropriate part of efforts to minimize the environmental impacts of industrial processes, but it is only a part. Even more important is to assess the environmental characteristics of processes across all stages of their lives. This paper presents a formalism for evaluating the environmental implications of processes at each life stage(a procedure termed "life-cycle assessment").

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Low Cycle Fatigue Life Prediction of HSLA Steel Using Total Strain Energy Density (전변형률 에너지밀도를 이용한 고강도 저 합금강의 저주기 피로수명 예측)

  • Kim, Jae-Hoon;Kim, Duck-Hoi
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.166-175
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    • 2002
  • Low cycle fatigue tests are performed on the HSLA steel that be developed for a submarine material. The relation between strain energy density and numbers of cycles to failure is examined in order to predict the low cycle fatigue life of HSLA steel. The cyclic properties are determined by a least square fit techniques. The life predicted by the strain energy method is found to coincide with experimental data and results obtained from the Coffin-Manson method. Also the cyclic behavior of HSLA steel is characterized by cyclic softening with increasing number of cycle at room temperature. Especially, low cycle fatigue characteristics and microstructural changes of HSLA steel are investigated according to changing tempering temperatures. In the case of HSLA steel, the $\varepsilon$-Cu is farmed in $550^{\circ}C$ of tempering temperature and enhances the low cycle fatigue properties.

Life Cycle Analysis and Feasibility of the Use of Waste Cooking Oil as Feedstock for Biodiesel

  • Gahlaut, Aradhana;Kumar, Vasu;Gupta, Dhruv;Kumar, Naveen
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.162-178
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    • 2015
  • Petroleum based fossil fuels used to power most processes today are non-renewable fuels. This means that once used, they cannot be reproduced for a very long time. The maximum combustion of fossil fuels occurs in automobiles i.e. the vehicles we drive every day. Thus, there is a requirement to shift from these non-renenewable sources of energy to sources that are renewable and environment friendly. This is causing the need to shift towards more environmentally-sustainable transport fuels, preferably derived from biomass, such as biodiesel blends. These blends can be made from oils that are available in abundance or as waste e.g. waste cooking oil, animal fat, oil from seeds, oil from algae etc. Waste Cooking Oil(WCO) is a waste product and so, converting it into a transportation fuel is considered highly environmentally sustainable. Keeping this in mind, a life cycle assessment (LCA) was performed to evaluate the environmental implications of replacing diesel fuel with WCO biodiesel blends in a regular Diesel engine. This study uses Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to determine the environmental outcomes of biodiesel from WCO in terms of global warming potential, life cycle energy efficiency (LCEE) and fossil energy ratio (FER) using the life cycle inventory and the openLCA software, version 1.3.4: 2007 - 2013 GreenDelta. This study resulted in the conclusion that the biodiesel production process from WCO in particular is more environmentally sustainable as compared to the preparation of diesel from raw oil, also taking into account the combustion products that are released into the atmosphere as exhaust emissions.

Corporate cash holdings and life-cycle (기업현금과 라이프사이클)

  • Jo, Kyeong Je;Song, Joon Hyup
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.1109-1123
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    • 2017
  • This paper examines there is any differences among determinants of cash holdings and marginal value of cash depending on the life-cycle of firm. To accomplish these objective, we collect financial and market data of KRX listing firms for a period of 2001-2013. We present evidence of significant effect of life-cycle on the cash holdings determinants and marginal value of cash. Specially, the effect of investment opportunity related variable are varies through life-cycle. The results also suggest that marginal values of cash in the introduction stage and exit stage is higher than those in other stages. Overall, this means that the motive of cash holdings in Korean firms is weak. and shareholders place different value on a firm's cash holdings depending on the life-cycle.

A Study on Cost Avoidance and Total Life Cycle Cost to Analysis of Effectiveness of the Management of DMSMS (부품단종관리 효용성 분석을 위한 회피비용 및 총수명주기비용에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Si-Ok;Paik, Won-Chul;Kim, Dong-Gil;Kim, Heung-Geun
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.791-798
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    • 2020
  • The share of advanced technology in modern weapon systems are gradually increasing, and life cycle of components are shortened due to the rapid speed of technological development. On the other hand, the weapon systems have a characteristic that takes a long time in the requirement stage of weapon to the operation and maintenance stage. Due to inevitably, obsolescence of the main components for parts occurs in the acquisition phase. The obsolescence parts could cause delays in mass production schedules, and further adversely affects operational availability due to poor supply of repair parts during in the maintenance phase. However, business managers are obliged to maximize the performance while minimizing the cost of the total life cycle of the design, production, and operation stages. It is necessary to establish and implement an appropriate components and parts of life cycle management plan. In this research, we analyzed the effectiveness of parts obsolescence management through cost avoidance and total life cycle cost that can be reduced through proper parts obsolescence management.

A Conceptual Model Study For J.I.T(Just In Time) Construction Managemaent On High-rise Building-Concerned On Resource Life Cycle Of Concrete Construction- (고층건축공사 적시생산을 위한 관리모델 사례 -콘크리트 자재의 Life Cycle을 중심으로-)

  • Song Young-Suk;Lim Hyung-Chul;Choi Yun-Ki
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.2 no.4 s.8
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    • pp.127-134
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    • 2001
  • Effectiveness of Just in time managing system can be obtained by removing unexpected lead-time and maintaining consistency on the physical transportation of construction resource. Construction resource management is essential on checking on load data from production of shop to field, and it is based on building resource life cycle information. In this study, production, transportation, and assembly disciplines of concrete construction should real time communications exchanging information related to shop-field with each other, Establishing information support system is an important initial step for promoting active cooperations among these resource life cycle on data flow. To achieve this, on suitable using management point, we suggest a concrete construction control model.

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An Approach on Life Cycle Based Efficiency Measurement in Construction Industry (건설 생산의 Life Cycle을 고려한 효율성 측정방안)

  • Jung Soon-Oh;Yoon Su-Won;Chin Sangyoon;Kim Yea-Sang;Park Ji-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.608-611
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    • 2004
  • Efficiency of the construction process is one of the most important factors to project success. However efficiency is not well defined or measured in construction projects in general. More importantly, efficiency of the construction should be viewed through the life-cycle of the whole production system not in a single phase of the construction process. Therefore, this study defines the concept of efficiency and suggests the efficiency measurement model in construction. As a case study, the suggested model was applied to the curtain wall construction process of the high rise buildings as well.

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Life-cycle estimation of HVDC full-bridge sub-module considering operational condition and redundancy (HVDC 풀-브리지 서브모듈의 동작 조건과 여유율을 고려한 수명예측)

  • Kang, Feel-soon;Song, Sung-Geun
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.1208-1217
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    • 2019
  • The life-cycle prediction of the sub-module which is the unit system of MMC is very important from the viewpoint of maintenance and economic feasibility of HVDC system. However, the life-cycle prediction that considers only the type, number and combination of parts is a generalized result that does not take into account the operating condition of the sub-module, and may significantly differ from the life-cycle of the actual one. Therefore, we design a fault tree for the purpose of reflecting the operation characteristics of the full-bridge sub-module and apply the MIL-HDBK-217F to the failure rate of the basic event to predict the life-cycle of the full-bridge sub-module. It compares the life-cycle expectancy of the conventional failure rate analysis with the proposed fault-tree analysis and compares the lifetime according to whether the redundancy of the full-bridge sub-module is considered.

The Pattern of Clothing Export in Leading Countries (세계 주요 의류수출국의 의류수출 패턴)

  • Ji, Hye-Kyung;Rhee, Eun-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.56 no.3 s.102
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    • pp.81-90
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    • 2006
  • The objective of the study is to review trends of clothing export in important countries of the world and thus to know the present stage of clothing export in Korea. For the purpose, changes of export amount, competitiveness and product life cycle were analysed in the countries from the 1960's to the 1990's. The results are as following: First, on the aspect of export amount, industrialized countries lost the lead to newly industrializing countries from the 1960's. Developing countries, as China, win the lead. Second, on the competitiveness aspect, industrialized countries lost competitiveness to newly industrializing countries before the 1960's. And newly industrializing countries were outpaced by China in the export competitiveness from the early 1990's. Third, on the aspect of product life cycle, industrialized countries go first through each period of product life cycle, introduction, growth, maturity and decline, and they all, excluding Japan, sustained period of Maturity for a long time. newly industrializing countries and developing countries go orderly through each period of product life cycle after industrialized countries. As to Korea, duration of each period was short. Specially characteristics of decline period appeared partly in the early 1990's. From the results, the theory of product life cycle, helping to explain changes in production and trade in new product lines, estimated to applicable to clothing export. The phenomena, Italy, Hong Kong and America sustain high competitiveness in the world clothing market for a long time, is needed to be studied carefully. The study about strong points in their clothing industries and competitiveness drive program be to influence Korean export policy in the future.