• Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.13-20
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• 2022

An effective capacitive deionization process termed membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) is newly designed and experimentally tested for seawater desalination. By preventing co-ions to be expelled, MCDI can improve the ion removal performance, but there is a trade-off between blocking co-ion transfer and increasing contact resistance. The conventional MCDI uses 2D-shaped films which increase contact resistance and reduce desalination performance in the trade-off. In this paper, with the 3-D shape of Nafion coated activated carbon cloth, the mentioned problems are expected to be solved making the desalination performance better. We visualized ion concentration and fluid flows with half-MCDI cell that can measure only efficiency of cathode. We found the optimal number of coatings which have the better efficiency than CMX, commercial cation exchange membrane in fixed current conditions of 100uA.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.564-572
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• 2012

A terpolymer of vinylbenzyl chloride-co-ethyl methacrylate-co-styrene (VBC-EMA-St) was prepared for membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) by radical polymerization and amination reaction of various amination times. Nonfluoro aminated VBC-EMA-St anion-exchange membranes were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometry. Molecular weight, polydispersity and thermal stability were obtained by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The basic properties such as water uptake, ion exchange capacity, electrical resistance and CDI charge-discharge current were measured. The optimal values of ion exchange capacity, water uptake, electrical resistance and molecular weight of synthesized anion-exchange membrane were 1.69 meq/g, 23.7%, 1.61 ${\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ and $3.4{\times}10^4$ g/mol, respectively. As compared with conventional membrane, the pattern of cyclic charge-discharge current of synthesized anion-exchange membrane indicated efficient electrosorption and desorption.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.474-479
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• 2012

Possibility of the selective removal of $Ca^{2+}$ ions from a mixed solution of $Na^{+}$ and $Ca^{2+}$ ions using membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) was investigated. Adsorption equilibrium experiments were conducted to determine the selectivity of the CMX cation-exchange membrane toward $Ca^{2+}$ ions. In addition, desalination experiments for a mixed solution (5 meq/L NaCl + 2 meq/L $CaCl_{2}$) were performed using an MCDI cell. The adsorption equilibrium of CMX membrane showed that the equivalent fraction of $Ca^{2+}$ ions in the solution and the CMX membrane were 28.6 and 87.2%, respectively, which indicates the CMX membrane's high selectivity toward $Ca^{2+}$ ions. Desalination experiments were performed by applying a constant current to the MCDI cell until the cell potential reached 1.0 V. The amount of ions adsorbed did not significantly change as the applied current was changed. However, the equivalent fractions of $Ca^{2+}$ ions among the adsorbed ions were inversely proportional to the applied currents: 81.4, 78.4, 77.0, and 74.5% at 200, 300, 500, and $700\;A/m^{2}$ of applied current density, respectively. This result is attributed to the increased fraction of $Ca^{2+}$ ions adsorbed by the CMX membrane at lower applied current densities.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.406-414
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• 2015

In this study, partially fluorinated cation exchange membranes were prepared by direct sulfonation of Poly(VDF-co-hexafluoropropylene) copolymers (PVDF-co-HFP) followed by a casting method for application in the Membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI). The structure of sulfonated PVDF-co-HFP (SPVDF) was confirmed by Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) and $^1H$ Nuclear magnetic resonance ($^1H$ NMR) analysis. For quantitative analysis of the chemical composition, the X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) was used. The membrane properties such as water uptake, ion exchange capacity and electrical resistance were measured. It was suggested that the optimum direct sulfonation condition of PVDF-co-HFP ion exchange membranes was $60^{\circ}C$ and 7 hours for temperature and duration of sulfonation, respectively. The water uptake of the SPVDF ion exchange membrane was 21.5%. The ion exchange capacity and electrical resistance were 0.89 meq/g and $3.70{\Omega}{\cdot}cm^2$, respectively. It was investigated that if it is feasible to apply these membranes in MCDI at various cell potentials (0.9~1.5 V) and initial flow rates (10~40 mL/min). In the MCDI process, the maximum salt removal rate was 62.5% in repeated absorption-desorption cycles.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.332-339
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• 2014

In this study, an anion-exchange ionomer solution was developed by employing poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) (PPO) as the base material for the improvement of the capacitive deionization (CDI) performances. It was found that prepared quaternized PPO (QPPO) exhibited excellent ion conductivity superior to that of a commercial anion-exchange membrane (AMX, Astom Corp., Japan) and also the electrochemical properties were shown to be comparable with each other. The CDI tests were conducted by employing the porous carbon electrode coated with the ionomer solution and the result showed the high salt removal efficiency of about 94.9%. By comparing the desalination efficiencies in conventional CDI, membrane CDI (MCDI) with a commercial anion-exchange membrane, and coated CDI (CCDI) employing the porous carbon electrode coated with QPPO, it was confirmed that CCDI shows the high salt removal performance improved by 52.1% and 18.3% compared with those of conventional CDI and MCDI, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.5
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• pp.56-69
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 움직임 보상 차영상 ( motion compensated difference image; MCDI)을 대역 분할한 뒤, 움직임 정보를 이용하여 에너지가 큰 부분만을 선택하여 적응적으로 벡터 양자화를 행함으로써 효율적으로 동영상을 부호화 할 수 있는 기법을 제안하였다. 제안한 기법에서는 MCDI의 특성들을 고려하여 에너지가 낮은 부분은 부호화를 행하지 않고, 에너지가 높은 부분에 대하여서만 움직임 벡터의 크기에 따라 클래스를 분류한 뒤 각 클래스에 맞는 코드북을 설계하여 벡터 양자화를 행한다. 이를 위해서는 부호화 되는 에너지가 높은 부분에 대한 정보와 클래스 부분에 대한 정보가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 부가 정보의 양을 움직임 벡터를 이용하여 최소화함으로써 비트율을 크게 줄이면서도 우수한 화질의 복원 영상을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.239-239
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• 2003

연구목적 : 본 연구의 목적은 청각장애 아동들이 실제적으로 소리를 듣는 능력과 말소리를 이해하고 표현하는 언어 능력과 어떠한 관계가 있는가에 대해서 알아보고자 하는데 있다. 일반적으로 청각통합 능력은 청각장애 아동의 듣기 능력을 측정할 수 있는 대표적인 검사도구이며, MCDI-K는 부모가 언어능력을 평가할 수 있는 도구이다. 이 두 가지 모두 부모가 평가할 수 있는 도구이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 청각통합 능력, 언어이해능력, 언어표현능력이 연령과 교육받은 시기와 어떠한 관계가 있는 가 알아보기 위해서 실시하였다. (중략)

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.15-20
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• 2000

In this paper, we presents a new MCDI(motion compensated difference image) coding method using CVQ(classifled vector quantization) whoes MCD(motion compensated difference) block is classified by proposed classifier using motion vector and compensated block The variance of MCD block is closely related with the magnitude of motion vector as well as the variance of compensated block, so using this property, we propose a new classifier. This scheme has no side information of the classifier what sub-codebook is selected, and simulation results show that the proposed method exhibits a good performance even when compared with a conventional method that requires classification bits.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.74-79
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• 2016

The effects of scale formation of hardness material caused by electrode reactions on the desalination performance of the membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) were investigated. During the repeated adsorption and desorption process for the influent containing $Ca^{2+}$ ion, changes in effluent concentration and cell potential with respect to the number of adsorption were analyzed. It was found that $OH^-$ generation at the cathode was initiated at about 0.8 V or more of cell potential. In addition, the scale of $Ca(OH)_2$ was formed on the surface of cathode carbon electrode by combining adsorbed $Ca^{2+}$ ions and $OH^-$ ions generated from electrode reaction. As the scale was forming, the electrical resistance of carbon electrode was increasing, which resulted in the decrease of the adsorption amount. In the case of the operation at 1.5 V cell potential, the adsorption was reduced to 58% of the initial adsorption amount due to the scale formation.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.52-59
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• 2012

Children develop their language skill rapidly between age 3 and 5. To meet the child's language development through a variety of experiences, it is necessary to develop age-appropriate contents. So it needs to develop various contents using speech interface for children, but there is no speech database of korean children. In this paper, we develop speech database of 3 to 5 years old children in korean. For collecting accurate children's speech, child education experts examine in the speech database development process. The words for database are selected from MCDI-K in two stage and children speak a word three times. Such collected speech are tokenized by child and word and stored in database. This speech database will be transferred through web and, hopefully, be the foundation of development of children-oriented contents.